MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM. QUESTION 1 What is MIS? Explain different types of information system serving at different levels in organization. Give suitable example. ANSWER Management Information System provides information in the form of reports and displays to managers and many business professionals. For example, sales managers may use their network computers and web browser to get instantaneous displays about the sales results of their products. TYPES OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN
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terms: data, database, DBMS, database system, database catalog, program-data independence, user view, DBA, end user, canned transaction, meta-data, and transaction-processing application. 1.2. What four main types of actions involve databases? Briefly discuss each. 1.3. Discuss the main characteristics of the database approach and how it differs from traditional file systems. 1.4. What are the responsibilities of the DBA and the database designers? 1.5. What are the different types of database end users
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DATA WAREHOUSE A data warehouse is a logical collection of information gathered from different operational databases and used to create business intelligence that supports decision making tasks and business analysis activities. Walmart is known for having the biggest data warehouse used, which is larger then 4 Petabytes. Wal-Mart is very secretive about their data warehouse. After achieving a major milestone Teradata, Wal-Mart’s data warehouse supplier, was given permission to announce a few shallow
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the modern world, the majority of accounting entries occur electronically. Accountants and auditors store information in databases, managed by enterprise systems that have a set of controls to ensure that transactions and record keeping happen as expected. E-business Web sites handle transactions automatically, with the accounting data going directly into the necessary databases. The concept of a paper trail has become a bit of a misnomer; today, because of accounting information systems, there is
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Database Tutorial Question The following relational database table is an extract of part of an “unnormalised” Student table: StudNum | StudName | StudAddr | PhNum | CourseCode | CourseName | UnitID | UnitName | StaffID | StaffName | StaffOffice | Grade | 101 | Jenny Teo | 123a Norwich Hse | 9911345 | 20241 | BBus(Acc) | Acc24 | Finance 2a | S045 | Paul Smith | D401 | D | 101 | Jenny Teo | 123a Norwich Hse | 9911345 | 20241 | BBus(Acc) | Law01 | Intro. Law | S022 | Elaine Ng | F213 | C |
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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.
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which was originally implemented by Ritchie and Ken Thompson in assembly language on PDP-7. They decided to port the operating system to a PDP-11. They considered rewriting the operating system using B language. However, B’s inability to take advantage of some of the PDP-11’s features led to the development of C. Pascal – Published in 1970 and designed by Niklaus Wirth, it was intended as a tool to teach structured programming. Smalltalk – Smalltalk was the product of research led by Alan Kay
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Question 1 Differentiate between database management system and information retrieval system by focusing on their functionalities. (30 marks). Database management system Information retrieval system Main software in computer system Obtain resources to the information relevant Offer Data modelling Facility Restricted to classify of object Structured data format Unstructured data format Provide precise semantics Provide imprecise semantics Complete of query specification Incomplete of query
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August 31, 2006 Mr. Shubhankar Shil Lecturer School of business Independent University, Bangladesh Subject: Submission of the internship report. Dear Sir, With due respect, I would like to inform you that it is a great pleasure for me to submit the internship report on “The effects of customer service management on business performance in Bangladesh cell phone industry an empirical analysis” as requirement for BBA 499 program. Through out the completion of the report, I came to know about
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extensive use of information technology. Businesses today use information systems to achieve six major objectives: operational excellence; new products, services, and business models; customer/ supplier intimacy; improved decision making; competitive advantage; and day-to-day survival. 3. What exactly is an information system? How does it work? What are its management, organization, and technology components? From a technical perspective, an information system collects, stores, and disseminates
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