UGANDA TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
M&E / PGDME – MONITORING AND EVALUATION
EMBA/PgD – PROJECT PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
PgDHRMD – HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
MBA – INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
MPAM -INSTITUTIONAL GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP
EMBA – PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT
MBA – INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
MPAM – PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
SECOND SEMESTER EXAMS –OCTOBER 2020
COURSE: ME 504/PM 503/HR 505/ IS 604/ IS 500 MANAGEMENT
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Date: 16th October 2020.
Time: 6 Hours (08:00 AM – 14:00PM)
INSTRUCTIONS
1. OPEN BOOK
2. Section A = 70 Marks, Section B = 30 Marks.
3. References are allowed if need be.
4. Do not XEROX. Refer to 3 above.
5. In case you attempt the MS Project Question, please attach/upload the MS Project
Workout. PUT ALL YOUR WORK INCLUDINGF THE WORD EXAM IN A COMPRESSED
FILE: .RAR, .ZIP, .7ZIP and upload as one file.
6. Submit through eLearning Platform ONLY
GOOD LUCK!!
SECTION A: ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS (70 MARKS)
1. In early 1990s, Erik Brynjolfsson did a research and got a result which he named
productivity paradox and, in this finding, he says, “the addition of information
technology to business has not improved productivity.” Do you agree? Include
Citations (APA) in your work.(20 Marks)
2. Porter/McFarian/O’Brien developed a grid to help business organisations
determine their strategies in terms of operations and achieving them excellently.
The grid below (O’Brien 2005) shows five competitive forces which may impact
upon a business and six types of competitive strategy which could be adopted to
counteract the impact of each force. Pick four cells in this grid and briefly state the
nature of the IS strategy that the company described in the scenario could adopt to
gain a competitive advantage in the area concerned and suggest why this strategy
is appropriate to the type of organisation in the scenario. (Identify an organisation
of your own Choice, perform your own diagnosis and prognosis) (20 Marks)
Customers Suppliers Competitors Entrants Substitutes
Differentiation
Low Cost
Innovation
Growth
Alliance
Other
3. Implementation and Testing are some of the most important stages in Information
Systems Development. Approaches to implementation have been defined (Yeates
& Wakefield 2004) as phased, parallel, pilot or direct.
a) Explain how a phased implementation might be used to implement the
proposed system and state the advantages and the disadvantages this method
would incur for this organisation. (5mks)
b) The company has decided that a parallel run of the new system will not be
beneficial to them. Why do you consider they have come to this decision for this
particular system? (5mks)
c) What problems, specific to this system, might they encounter if they elect to use
a direct changeover approach. (5mks)
d) What would you recommend as the most sensible approach to the
implementation of this system and state your reasons for making this
recommendation. (5mks)
4. With reference to the reasons to why it is important to have Information Systems
in this Information and Knowledge Era, Explain the types of Information systems
with how they fall into the organisation hierarchy with which kind of decisions
that are taken. (10 Marks)
SECTION B: ANSWER ONE QUESTION. PRACTICAL (30 MARKS)
5. MS Project
a) Your organization has won a tender to create a new "Software as a Service" product,
and you're in charge of the project. You decide to use a Gantt chart to organize all of the
necessary tasks, and to calculate the likely overall timescale for delivery. Convert Weeks
into Days, 1 Week = 5 Days. Map the WBS below into a Gantt Chart. (10mks)
b) Add components in the Resource Planning to include the following: Five persons working
on the project, Schedule them to work on the activities of the project, there should be no over
allocation of any kind. Produce one report indicating status of the project in regard to the
financials. (5 Marks)
c) Name and explain 3 project scheduling tools and techniques. (5mks)
6. MS Access (Database)
i. Create a database named “school.mdb” and perform the following tasks:
a. Create a table named “student info” having following table structure.
Field Name Data type Description
Class Number
Section Text
Roll no Number
Name Text 40 characters long
Status Lookup wizard Two value: “ Senior” ,
“Junior”
Photo OLE object Photos of students
DOB Date/time Date of birth of students
Remarks memo
b. Fill at least 5 records.
c. Prepare a query to display all records and Name should be in ascending order.
d. Prepare a query named “senior” to display records including fields name, class, sec,
roll no, status, photo and value of “status” field must be senior.
e. Prepare a form of above query “senior”.
f. Prepare a report of all the fields of above table.
ii. Create a database named “library.mdb” and perform the following tasks:
a. Create a table named “Book” having following structure:
Field name Field datatype Description
Book _id Text Primary key. Book
identification number
Bname Text Book name
Wname Text Writer’s name
Pyear Date/time Published year
Pname Text Publisher name
Price Currency Purchased price
Pdate Date/time Purchased date
Remark Memo comments
b. Add at least 5 records.
c. Prepare a query to display only records including book name, writer name and
publication name. Save the query as “q_book”.
d. Prepare a query to display all records on the basis of price which is more than Rs500.
e. Prepare a form on the basis of table.
f. Prepare a report on the basis of query named "q_book”.
