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The document outlines a test for a course on Information Management, consisting of questions related to qualitative vs quantitative approaches, designing an information system for parliamentary elections in Botswana, data quality checks, data retention policies, and the importance of data protection in databases. It includes specific tasks such as identifying primary and secondary data sources, assessing data quality, and understanding the implications of data loss in a banking context. The test is structured to evaluate knowledge and application of information management principles within a one-hour timeframe.

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The document outlines a test for a course on Information Management, consisting of questions related to qualitative vs quantitative approaches, designing an information system for parliamentary elections in Botswana, data quality checks, data retention policies, and the importance of data protection in databases. It includes specific tasks such as identifying primary and secondary data sources, assessing data quality, and understanding the implications of data loss in a banking context. The test is structured to evaluate knowledge and application of information management principles within a one-hour timeframe.

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Department of Computer Science

CSI244 Information Management

Test 2 [30 Marks, 1 hr]

1. What advantage does qualitative approaches have over quantitative approaches? State 2
disadvantages of qualitative approaches. [4]

2. You are to design an information system to store data about past and future parliamentary
elections, including results, in Botswana.

a) In what situations do you think gathering data from primary data sources is most
applicable to this situation and why? How will you gather this data? [3]

b) What secondary data sources will you use and why? [4]

c) What two aspects of data quality will you check? If there are problems with these two
aspects how will you solve them? [4]

d) How long will you keep data about an election year and why? [3]

3. Data mining and data exploration tools serve a very important purpose in data quality and
data cleaning. What problems do these tools assist in? [2]

4. What is a data retention policy and why is it necessary for an organisation to have it? Give 3
reasons. [5]

5. Why is it necessary to protect data in a database? [2]

6. A bank is a common example of a business that keeps a lot of private and confidential data.
The bank data should be secured to achieve privacy, integrity and availability. What impact
will loss of each of privacy, integrity and availability have on the bank? [3]

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