ISM Assignment Questions

Q.1.

a) What is information system? Information System help mangers in improved decision making. Explain
how?

b) Porter's competitive force model and Value cahin model help organization develop competitive
strategies using Information systems? Explain?

Q.2.

a) What are CSFs? List the steps in the CSF approach? Could CSF for different networking vendors be
different? Explain your answer?

b) What is a functional information systems? Discuss briefly any one type of functional information system
that exists in an organization involved in manufacture and sale of cars?

Q.3

a) What are the various stages in the System Development Life Cycle approach for MIS development?
State it's Limitations?

b) Contrast between Incremental Process Models and Evolutionary Process Models?

Q.4

a) What is End-user computing? How is it useful for an organization?

b) What is Outsourcing? Discuss the factors that drive an organization to choose "outsourcing" over the
"make" option as a strategic alternative?

Q.5

a) What is ERP? What are the driving factors of ERP? Name some popular ERP packages?

b) What is Data Warehouse? How is it useful for Data Mining?

a) "CRM systems is an integrated cross-functional information system”. Justify the statement providing
conceptual model of a typical CRM system?

b) What is cloud computing? How is it useful in today's information systems?

Q.7 What is collaboration? Explain business benefits of collaboration and the teamwork?

Q.8

a) What ethical, social and political issues are raised by information systems?

b) Why do contemporary information systems technology and the internet pose challenges to the
protection of individual privacy and intellectual property?

Q.9

a) What are the current trends in computer hardware platform and software platform?

b) What is IT infrastructure and what are its components? What are the stages and technology drives of IT
infrastructure evolution?

Q.10 How a DBMS solves the problems of the Traditional File Environment?

Q.11

a) What are the main telecommunication transmission media and types of networks?

b) How do the Internet and Internet technology work, and how do they support communication and e-
business?

Q.12

a) What is a supply chain? What are the supply chain processes? Explain supply chain management
application?
 b) What is enterprises system? How do enterprise systems help business achieve operational excellence?

Q.13

a) Explain E-commerce in terms of business and technology.

b) Why are computer system so vulnerable? Describe the most common threats against contemporary
information systems?

Q.14

a) What is the difference between a decision support system (DSS) and a management information
system (MIS)?

b) Explain Different types of Decision Support Systems.

Q.15

a) What are business processes? How are they related to information systems?

b) Explain E-business, E-commerce and e- governance?

Q.16 You are working in an information technology startup company. You have been asked to prepare your
company's strategic plan. Specifically your task is to analyze the competition marketplace using Porter's five
force model. Discuss your analysis?

Q.17 Explain Competitive Forces Model for IT infrastructure Investment?

Q.18

a) Discuss various alternative strategies for system acquisition. Describe which system acquisition
approach is appropriate for particular circumstances?

b) Information systems are too important to be left to computer specialist. Do you agree? Why air why
not?

Q.19 You have decided to open a website to buy and sell vegetables and fruits. Describe your approach of
customer relationship management for your new business?
What the goal is of IS planning? What steps are involved in IS planning?

Q.20

a) List and describe various security issues related to information system?

b) Define rapid application development and agile development and explain how they can speedup
system building?

Q.21 What are the advantages of establishing warehouse in an organization? Discuss the application of data
mining in business?

Q.22 What are the unique features of e-commerce, digital marketing, and digital goods?

Q.23

a) What are the alternative methods for building information systems?

b) What are the principal risk factors in information systems projects?

Q.24

a) What is information system? Explain its components?

b) Explain why information system is a business pressure and also an enabler of response activities that
counter business pressures?

c) Discuss how the role of Information system is changing with platform shift from legacy systems to web
based computing?

Q.25

a) Identify the ethical issues in information systems?

Q.26

a) What are the key threats to an information system with the use of internet?

b) How can information be secured in an organization and on internet?

Q.27

a) Discuss how business intelligence tools can integrate with ERP Systems?

b) State the business value of enterprises systems and how they can be used to make management of
the supply chain more effective?

Q.28

a) What is digital divide? What is global digital divide?

b) Why are knowledge Management systems important for the organization?

c) Which information system is used by top level management? Justify your answer.

Q.29

a) What is the outcome of I) System analysis ii) System design?

b) Explain the different types of feasibility that system development must consider?

Q.30

a) Describe the function of risk assessment and explain how it is conducted for information systems?

b) What are the key cultural and political challenges in managing global systems?
Q.31 What are the capabilities of information systems that business must have, to compete and survive in
information age?

Q.32

a) What is Data Warehouse platform? How companies use this?

b) How would a firm use data mining and text mining for competitive advantage?

Q.33 What is the role of inventories in supply chain management (SCM) and why is it difficult to manage them?

Q.34 How organizations using their data warehouse to improve customer satisfaction and companies?

Q.35 Write short notes:

1. Customer Relationship Management.

2. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).

3. Strategic Information Systems (SIS).

4. Role of IT in SIS.

5. What is the importance of business intelligence in SIS?

6. Value Chain Analysis.

7. Make or buy decisions.

8. Expert Systems.

9. Knowledge Management systems.

10. Enterprise Resources planning.

13. Agile methodology for information system development?

14. Strategic Information systems?

15. What is Balanced Scorecard approach? What are its uses in an organization?

16. Information Architecture and Information Infrastructure

Q.36 Contrast and compare the following:

1. SDLC, Prototyping and Spiral approach.

2. Database and knowledge base.

3. Data warehouse and Data Mart.

4. Transaction Processing Systems (TPS)

5. Management Information Systems (MIS)

6. Decision Support Systems.

7. Information and Knowledge?

8. Data warehousing and Data Mining?

9. Management Information System and decision support system?

10. Knowledge Management systems vs expert systems?

11. Programmable vs Non-programmable decisions?

12. Management Information System and Decision Support systems

14. Competitive Advantage and Strategic Advantage using suitable examples

15. Structured decisions and unstructured decisions

16. Tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge