...2002 PhD. Core Exam: Part 1 MIS Dept, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Tuesday, May 28, 2002 Venue: Room 214, McClelland Hall Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM INSTRUCTIONS: (Please read them carefully before you begin the exam) 1. The exam will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. and end promptly at 1:00 p.m. No extensions are allowed. 2. This exam consists of 6 questions. You are required to answer all of them. Please allocate roughly 30 minutes per question and leave some time for checking your answers. 3. Each question is worth 100 points. 4. For each question, state your assumptions clearly. 5. If you are writing by hand in a blue book, please answer each question in a separate blue book. If you are using a word processor, please make sure that you start each new question on a new page. You are allowed to use combinations of the blue book and a word processor file for answering questions. 6. At the top of each question that you answer, please identify two things: ▪ The number of the question that you are answering and ▪ The code name given to you at the beginning of the exam. Do not write your real name anywhere on the exam, and use only your code name. 7. Please make two (2) diskette copies of the files containing your answers if you are using a word processor. Please turn in both diskettes, along with your blue book answers and the exam questions, to the proctor at the end of the exam. 8. You are allowed to take a restroom or lunch break only if no one else is already...
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...Management Information System 2 Marks UNIT 1 MIS Introduction 1. Data: Raw facts such as an employee’s name and number of hours worked in a week, inventory part numbers or sales orders. Information: A collection of facts organized in such a way that they have additional value beyond the value of the facts themselves. Data Information Salesperson: J. Jones Sales Territory: Western Region. Current Sales: $147,000 Units = 147 Salesperson: J. Jones Sales Territory: Western Region. Current Sales: $147,000 Units = 147 Data Processing Data Processing $35,000 12 Units $12,000 J. Jones Western Region $100,000 100 Units 35 Units $35,000 12 Units $12,000 J. Jones Western Region $100,000 100 Units 35 Units 2. Management information systems: Def 1: Information system at the management level of an organization that serves the functions of planning, controlling, and decision making by providing routine summary and exception reports. Def 2: MIS provide information in the form of pre-specified reports and displays to support business decision making. Examples: sales analysis, production performance and cost trend reporting systems. Objectives: * Routine information for routine decisions * Operational efficiency * Use transaction data as main input * Databases integrate MIS in different functional areas. 3. Describe three levels of information in managerial level Management Support Systems provide information and support...
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...M I C R O S O F T T E C H N O L O G Y A S S O C I AT E Student Study Guide EXAM 98-364 Database Administration Fundamentals Preparing for MTA Certification for Cert ca n Certification MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATE (MTA TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATE (MTA) ECHNOLOGY C (MTA A) STUDENT STUDY GUIDE FOR DEVELOPERS UDY F DEVELOPERS 98-364 Database Administration Fundamentals Authors Peggy Fisher (Web Development and Database Administration). Peggy teaches computer science at a rural high school in central, Pennsylvania. Indian Valley High School offers courses in programming (C#, VB, and Java for the AP course), and Web design (Expression Web, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS). Peggy worked for a large insurance company outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, prior to leaving the corporate world to join the field of education. She has been at IVHS for the past eight years and truly enjoys her new career. Peggy also teaches part-time at Pennsylvania State University in the Continuing Education program. Her goal in teaching is to instill the love of learning so that her students will graduate and become lifelong learners. Peggy is the co-author of the Web Development Exam Review Kit in the MTA Exam Review Kit series. Patricia Phillips (Lead Author and Project Manager). Patricia taught computer science for 20 years in Janesville, Wisconsin. She served on Microsoft’s National K-12 Faculty Advisory Board and edited the Microsoft MainFunction website for technology teachers for two years...
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...student through the initial conception of the database. It covers gathering of requirements and business rules, the logical and physical design and the testing of the database. It does this through a continuous narrative that follows a student, Sharon, as she designs and constructs a database to track the tutoring program at her school. It shows some of her missteps as well as her successes. Students get hands-on experience by doing practices and developing scenarios that parallel the narrative. After completing this book students will have a good sense of what is involved in developing and creating a database. Below is a list of the book outcomes. A student who has completed this book will be able to give a general definition of a relational database to identify a variety of ways to gather database requirements to define business rules for a database to create an Entity design for a database 2 Hands ON Database to normalize a design up to third normal form to develop a database in a given DBMS to run SQL Queries against sample data to test requirements and business rules to define the general security context of a database and its users to document the process of database design and development The Scenario Approach The scenario...
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...do not want to increase your risk of heart disease or diabetes, then you need to change your eating habits. • What are the reference disciplines in information systems: o Computer Science- Computer Science is the discipline that seeks to build a scientific foundation for topics like computer design, computer programming, information processing, algorithmic solutions or problems, and the algorithmic process itself. o Management Science-The discipline using math and other analyzed methods to help make better decisions in business. Field includes- decision analysis, probability, and math modeling. • Management Science body of knowledge – uses quantitative approaches to decision making and is referred to as management science, operations research, and decisions science. • What do processors do: o A processor interprets computer program instructions and processes data. • Moore’s Law- Moore’s Law state that processor speeds will double every 18 months • The different kinds of storage memory are: kilobyte, megabyte, gugabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, and zeltabyte • The difference between a bit and a byte are: o A bit is a single numeric value either a 0 or 1. A byte is a sequence of bits, usually 8 bit=1 byte. For example 00110101 • What are the components of an information system? • An information system is a group of interdependent elements that transform data into information • Data, people, hardware,...
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...Topic 1 Generalizations about Behavior Happy workers are productive workers. Individuals more productive when boss is friendly- approachable. The best leaders are those that exhibit consistent behavior, regardless of the situations they face.. Everyone wants a challenging job. You have to scare people a little to get them to do their jobs. Everyone is motivated by money. Theories of Managers: These theories base leadership on a system of rewards and punishments. Managerial theories are often used in business; when employees are successful, they are rewarded; when they fail, they are reprimanded or punished - “Great Person” Theories According to this point of view, great leaders are simply born with the necessary internal characteristics such as charisma, confidence, intelligence, and social skills that make them natural-born leaders. assume that the capacity for leadership is inherent – that great leaders are born, not made. - Trait Theories assume that people inherit certain qualities and traits that make them better suited to leadership. Trait theories often identify particular personality or behavioral characteristics shared by leaders. For example, traits like extraversion, self-confidence, and courage are all traits that could potentially be linked to great leaders. - Behavior Theories based upon the belief that great leaders are made, not born. Consider it the flip-side of the Great Man theories. According to this theory, people can learn to become...
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...1PGDCA2 1PGDCA3 1PGDCA4(A) 1PGDCA4(B) Fundamentals of Computers & Information Technology Introduction to Operating Systems (Dos, Windows, Linux) PC Packages Elective - 1 Foxpro MS-Access 4 4 1 3 T P Theory Paper 80 80 Internal Evaluation 20 20 Practical Exams Total Marks 100 100 4 4 1 3 3 80 80 20 20 25 25 125 125 Semester Total 450 (*L-Lecture, T-Tutorial, P-Practical) SEMESTER –II Subject Code Subject Name Scheme L 2PGDCA1 2PGDCA2 2PGDCA3 2PGDCA4(A) 2PGDCA4(B) 2PGDCA5 System Analysis and Design Programming with Visual Basic.NET Internet & E-Commerce Elective - 2 OOPs & Programming with C++ Financial Accounting with Tally Project Work 4 4 4 4 T 1 P 3 3 3 Theory Paper 80 80 80 80 Internal Evaluation 20 20 20 20 Practical Exams Total Marks 100 125 100 125 25 1 25 4 100 Semester Total 550 General Instructions: 1. For passing the subject examination minimum 40% marks must be separately scored in Theory Paper, Practical Exams and Internal Evaluation in the subject. 2. For passing the semester, minimum aggregate marks must be 45% in the semester. Course : PGDCA Sub Code : 1PGDCA1 Semester: I Subject Name : Fundamentals of Computers & Information Technology Workshops Total Hours Field Visits Practical’s UNIT–I Brief History of Development of Computers, Computer System Concepts, Computer System Characteristics, Capabilities And Limitations, Types...
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...Management Systems (Selected Titles) Joe Celko’s Data, Measurements and Standards in SQL Joe Celko Information Modeling and Relational Databases, 2nd Edition Terry Halpin, Tony Morgan Joe Celko’s Thinking in Sets Joe Celko Business Metadata Bill Inmon, Bonnie O’Neil, Lowell Fryman Unleashing Web 2.0 Gottfried Vossen, Stephan Hagemann Enterprise Knowledge Management David Loshin Business Process Change, 2nd Edition Paul Harmon IT Manager’s Handbook, 2nd Edition Bill Holtsnider & Brian Jaffe Joe Celko’s Puzzles and Answers, 2 Joe Celko nd Location-Based Services ` Jochen Schiller and Agnes Voisard Managing Time in Relational Databases: How to Design, Update and Query Temporal Data Tom Johnston and Randall Weis Database Modeling with MicrosoftW Visio for Enterprise Architects Terry Halpin, Ken Evans, Patrick Hallock, Bill Maclean Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications Stephano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, Aldo Bongio, Marco Brambilla, Sara Comai, Maristella Matera Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data Soumen Chakrabarti Advanced SQL: 1999—Understanding Object-Relational and Other Advanced Features Jim Melton Database Tuning: Principles, Experiments, and Troubleshooting Techniques Dennis Shasha, Philippe Bonnet SQL: 1999—Understanding Relational Language Components Jim Melton, Alan R. Simon Information Visualization in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Edited by Usama Fayyad, Georges G. Grinstein, Andreas Wierse Transactional Information Systems Gerhard Weikum...
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...Competitive Advantage 4 2.1 Making business decisions I – Porter’s Five Forces & Generic Strategy 4 2.2 Making business decisions II – Customer Order Process 5 3 Customer Relationship Management 7 3.1 Making business decisions II - CRM 7 3.1.1 Extended Strategy 8 3.1.2 New Technologies 8 4 Business Intelligence 9 4.1 Making business decisions II 9 5 Systems Development 14 5.1 Making business decisions II – PYT Business Requirement 14 6 Bibliography 15 Appendix B – PYT Business Requirement for New Payroll System 16 Appendix C - Groupware Tools 20 Figures Figure 1: As-is Broadway Cafe Rich Picture 2 Figure 2: Broadway Cafe Alters Diagram 3 Figure 3: The Broadway Café Five Forces model 4 Figure 4: Customer Ordering Process 6 Figure 5. As-Is payroll system 14 Figure 6. Flow chart payroll system 17 Figure 7: Team ISO Groupware Home Page 20 Tables Table 1: YouTube Pros and Cons 7 Table 2. Comparison of Spreadsheet and Databases 11 Table 3. Wikispaces advantages & disadvantages 20 Introduction This case study addresses the following information systems (IS) concepts for the Broadway Café, as detailed at http://www.cohesioncase.com. • Competitive Advantage - Making business decisions I (Porter’s Five Forces & Generic Strategy • Competitive Advantage - Making business decisions II (Customer Order Process) • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) – Making business decisions II • Business Intelligence – Making...
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...DSC 340 Study Guide Mick McQuaid Spring 2014 Following is a study guide for DSC 340. It’s a living document to be updated by the instructor every week during the term based on readings, contributions from students, and updates in the rapidly changing world of business information systems. 1. PERSONAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS Extensive research over the past twenty years, some of it by Tom Malone at MIT and Susan Dumais at Microsoft Research, has explored how people organize personal information. One example that helps people understand the problem of personal information is the knife analogy, described below. One important finding about personal information management has been that people are prone to do one or some combination of these two things: filing and piling. After reviewing the following topics, conclude the study of personal information systems by doing the share best practices exercise. 1.1 Knives In the Home Suppose you have just won a complete set of knives for your home. Where should you put them? You could have a single cabinet to store all knives, but it is more likely that you will distribute the knives to different rooms, placing them near where they will be used: steak knives in a buffet in the dining room, cooking knives in the kitchen, handyman knives in a garage workshop. When you need a particular knife, it will be in the context of a current task, such as preparing food, setting a table, or cutting a length of rope for a clothesline. In each...
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...Can you run your company out of your pocket? Discuss how smart phones, tablets, and other mobile devices can be used in running a business. Consider all types of devices With increase in the technology of smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices, the people are going more mobile. With use of smart phones, everybody is accessing their email accounts and contacts. With the use of some remote access tools, we should be able to access our desktop remotely in our mobile device and access from anywhere. Even for the accounting, the QuickBooks apps generated by intuit would help in maintaining the book. Even the payroll of the company can also be done using mobile devices. The major disadvantage would be the security, because if we lose the mobile devices, there is more chance for somebody to easily hack the information. The term cloud computing stems from the conceptual way the Internet is drawn, specifically as a cloud. Cloud computing is a way of explaining that users are no longer constrained or aware of where the services they are using reside. Both application and databases are moving from being hosted by the particular company to being outsourced to companies that can take entire enterprise applications and make them available to users via a browser. Yes my company uses cloud computing. It is Amazon network based Cloud computing. Our headquarters is located in Houston and we have a branch location in Louisiana. The cloud computing is very beneficial in sharing the...
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...Management Information Systems Course Notes Compiled by: Stephen Katoto For: MASINDE MULIRO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Table of Contents 1.0 The Information Systems Revolution 1 A. Why Information Systems? 1 B. Contemporary approaches to Information Systems 2 C. Other current Trends in Information Technology 4 2.0 The Information systems Revolution 9 A. The New Role of Information Systems in Organization 9 B. Learning to use information systems: New Opportunities with technology 10 3.0 The Strategic Role of Information Systems 14 A. Organizations and Information Systems 14 B. Information systems & Business Strategy 20 4.0 Information Systems, Organizations and Business Strategy 28 A. Organizations and Information Systems 28 B. How Organization Affect Information Systems 33 C. How Information Systems Impact organizations and Business firms 35 5.0 Information, Management & Decision Making 39 A. Introduction to Decision Making 39 B. Individual Models of Decision Making 42 C. Organizational Models of Decision Making 43 D. The Impact of IT Management Process 44 6.0 Ethics & Social Impact of Information systems 46 A. The Importance of Ethics in Information Systems 46 B. Electronic Networks 46 C. The Moral Dimensions of Information Systems 50 7.0 Computer and Computer Processing 57 A. What is a Computer? 57 B. Systems Approach 58 C. Classification of computers 64 8.0 Information Systems Software 66 A. Computer...
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...2007-2008 JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, HYDERABAD B.TECH. ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING I YEAR COURSE STRUCTURE |Code |Subject |T |P/D |C | | |English |2+1 |- |4 | | |Mathematics - I |3+1 |- |6 | | |Mathematical Methods |3+1 |- |6 | | |Applied Physics |2+1 |- |4 | | |C Programming and Data Structures |3+1 |- |6 | | |Network Analysis |2+1 |- |4 | | |Electronic Devices and Circuits |3+1 |- |6 | | |Engineering Drawing |- |3 |4 | | |Computer Programming Lab. |- |3 |4 | | |IT Workshop |- |3 |4 | | |Electronic Devices and Circuits Lab |- |3...
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...Definition: An information system can be any organized combination of people, hardware, software, computer networks and data resources that stores and retrieves, transforms, and disseminates information in an organization. Roles of IS in Business: There are three fundamental reasons for all business applications of information technology. They are found in the three vital roles that information system can perform for a business enterprise. Support of its business processes and operations. Support of decision making by its employees and managers. Support of its strategies for competitive advantage. Trends in IS: The business applications of information systems have expanded significantly over the years. Data Processing (1950s – 1960s): Electronic data processing systems which includes transaction processing, record keeping, and traditional accounting applications. Management Reporting (1960s – 1970s): Management information systems that include preparation of management reports of pre specified information to support decision making. Decision Support (1970s – 1980s): Decision support systems include interactive ad hoc support of managerial decision making process. Strategic and End User Support (1980s – 1990s): o End user computing systems: Direct computing support for end user productivity and work group collaboration. o Executive information systems: Critical information for top management. o Expert Systems: Knowledge based expert advice for...
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...MOBILE STORE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM _______________ A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of San Diego State University _______________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science in Computer Science _______________ by Park B. Patel Fall 2012 iii Copyright © 2012 by Park B. Patel All Rights Reserved iv DEDICATION Dedicated to My Mother Chetna Patel, Father Bharat Patel, Wife Komal Trivedi And Brother Jatan Patel v ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS Mobile Store Management System by Park B. Patel Master of Science in Computer Science San Diego State University, 2012 The Mobile Store Management System is software which can become the backbone for a billing and inventory system for small organizations. This software provides an uncomplicated system to run mobile stores. This application could be very useful to small organizations. This application is inspired from current pen and paper based store management systems. It will provide an easy and attractive interface so that the user can easily manage and utilize the application. Various other approaches were considered for this application. This application is designed in a way that it will only require a minimum amount of information from the user. The goal was to look for the minimum amount of information that will meet needed requirements. vi TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ABSTRACT ...............................................................................................
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