Management Information Systems

191. Information systems that monitor the elementary activities and transactions of the organizations are:

  1. Management-level system
  2. Operational-level, system
  3. Knowledge-level system
  4. Strategic level system
Correct answer: (A)
Management-level system

192. Management information systems usually:

  1. Serve managers interested in weekly, monthly, and yearly results, not day-to-day activities.
  2. Help managers make decisions that are unique, rapidly changing, and not easily specified in advance.
  3. Provide managers with a generalised computing and telecommunications capacity that can be applied to a changing array of problems.
  4. Perform and record the daily routine transactions necessary to the conduct of business.
Correct answer: (A)
Serve managers interested in weekly, monthly, and yearly results, not day-to-day activities.

193. Materials into intermediate and finished products, and distributing the finished products to customers?

  1. Production Chain
  2. Primary Chain
  3. Supply Chain
  4. Distribution chain
Correct answer: (C)
Supply Chain

194. Customer numbers and their names would be an example of the ______________ component of an order management information system.

  1. software
  2. hardware
  3. data
  4. procedure
Correct answer: (C)
data

195. Data mining cannot be done if ______________

  1. operational data has not been archived
  2. earlier management decisions are not available
  3. the organisation is large
  4. all processing had been only batch processing
Correct answer: (A)
operational data has not been archived

196. Knowledge based system supports, ______________

  1. Knowledge of creation.
  2. Knowledge of support.
  3. Knowledge of Dissemination.
  4. All of the above.
Correct answer: (D)
All of the above.

197. The accounting system is ______________ whereas the demand forecasting system is ______________.

  1. deterministic, probabilistic
  2. probabilistic, deterministic
  3. open, close
  4. close, open
Correct answer: (A)
deterministic, probabilistic

198. ______________ e-commerce applications use EDI over the secure Virtual private network.

  1. C2C: (Customer to CusJomer)
  2. C2B (Customer to Business Organisation)
  3. B2C (Business Organisation to Customer)
  4. B2B (Business Organisation to Business)
Correct answer: (D)
B2B (Business Organisation to Business)

199. The-popular term for the software component that supports the collaborative efforts of a team is-

  1. videoconferencing software
  2. work flow automation software
  3. groupware
  4. none of above
Correct answer: (C)
groupware

200. The Management information System receives input from the:

  1. EIS.
  2. ES.
  3. DSS.
  4. TPS
Correct answer: (D)
TPS
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