Management Information Systems Quiz

Which of the following is not an objective of MIS?

• Facilitate the decisions-making process

• Provide requisite information at each level of management

• Support decision-making

• recruit people for system

...................... is a set of processes and procedures that transform data into information and knowledge.

• Information system

• Knowledge system

• Database system

• Computer system

Which of the following is a network of facilities for procuring materials, transforming raw materials into intermediate and finished products, and distributing finished products to customers?

• Production chain

• Primary chain

• Supply chain

• Distribution chain

Information systems can facilitate supply chain management by

• Tracking the status of orders

• Rapidly communicating orders

• Providing product specifications

• Doing all of the above

Which of the following is not an Enterprise System?

• CRM

• SCM

• KMS

• DSS

The general transformation cycle for information is:

• information to data to knowledge.

• knowledge to data to information.

• data to knowledge to information.

• data to information to knowledge.

Which term is used to identify people coming together from various geographical locations to compete some task?

• Internet team

• Virtual team

• Online workgroup

• Distributed

The most important reason for failure of MIS is

• Use of improper tools for design

• Non involvement of end user

• Improper Specification

• None of the above

Which of the following system provides a diagnosis to a specific problem?

• Data Mining System

• Expert System

• Knowledge Management System

• Strategic Information system

Decision support systems usually:

• Serve managers interested in weekly, monthly, and yearly results, not day-to-day activities.

• Help managers make decisions that are unique, rapidly changing, and not easily specified in advance.

• Provide managers with a generalized computing and telecommunications capacity that can be applied to a changing array of problems.

• Perform and record the daily routine transactions necessary to the conduct of business.