MIDTERM EXAMINATIONSpring 2009

CS507- Information Systems (Session - 2)Question No: 1 A newspaper article is a primary source if it reports events, but a secondary source if it analyses and comments on those events.True FalseQuestion No: 2 Information technology is being used to overcome the business issues like, Marketing, Brand of the product, Quality of the product, Cost control, Organizational internal and external issues.True FalseQuestion No: 3 They represent Equations / Formulae representing relationship between two or more factors related to each other in a defined manner is called------------Graphical Model Mathematical Model Algebra Model Question No: 4 The departmental structures are --------------- in banking and financial sector.Different Same MixedQuestion No: 5 ---------------- helps in getting the right material and physical resources together at the right place and at the right time to meet the customer's requirements.BRP MRP CRPQuestion No: 6 Production subsystem needs to be linked with the marketing system to -------------- right amount of product. Produce Sale PurchaseQuestion No: 7 WaterFall model places emphasis on documentation (such as requirements documents and design documents) as well as source code.True FalseQuestion No: 8 BRP helps in getting the right material and physical resources together at the right place and at the right time to meet the customer’s requirementsTrue FalseMRP helps in getting the right material and physical resources together at the right place and at the right time to meet the customer’s requirements.Question No: 9 Decision procedures can be pre-specified, but not enough to lead to the correct decision are calledStructured Decisions Unstructured Decisions Semi Structured DecisionsQuestion No: 10 Which of the following phase of decision making process involves implementing the selected course of action?Intelligence Design Choice ImplementationQuestion No: 11 Devise a discount or training policy is an example of choice phase.TRUE FALSEDevise a discount or training policy is an example of design

Question No: 12 Source of information is generally categorize in primary, secondary and _______Proximity Initially TertiaryQuestion No: 13 Which of the following structure contains less number of management levels?Flat Structure Tall Structure Classical structureQuestion No: 14 _____ Information is just like feedback of organization image in public.Formal Informal External

Question No: 15 Which of the following model combines the elements of the waterfall model with thephilosophy of prototyping?Iterative Incremental RaidQuestion No: 16 RAID model combines the elements of the waterfall model with the philosophy of prototyping.True FalseIncremental model combines the elements of the waterfall model with the philosophy of prototyping.Question No: 17 ( Marks: 1 )What do you understand by Business environment?Question No: 18 ( Marks: 1 )What is information System?Question No: 19 ( Marks: 2 )Define Technical Feasibility?Technical Feasibility – is the available technology sufficient to support the proposed project? Can the

technology be acquired or developed?Question No: 20 ( Marks: 3 )What will be the results if we compare Incremental models with Iterative Models? Explain with any examplePage 97Question No: 21 ( Marks: 5 )Discuss information requirements at different levels of Management in Marketing information System?Page52Question No: 22 ( Marks: 10 )The difference between the manual and computerized environment arises due to the many reasons , discuss them in detail. Page102