Question Bank

MODULE 1
Q1. Enlist various types of computer-based information systems in an organization and
describe any one
Q2 How is operational support system different from Management support system.
Q3 Information technology makes it possible to “never be out of touch.” Discuss the pros and
cons of always being available to your employers and clients.
Q4 What are the major reasons why it is important for employees in all functional areas to
become familiar with IT?
Q5 How does information technology play a major role in reengineering most business
processes?
Q6 Differentiate between BPR and BPI
Q7 Give examples to illustrate how the business applications of information systems can
support a firm’s business processes, managerial decision making, and strategies for
competitive advantage.
Q8 Describe other potential impacts of IT on societies as a whole.
Q9 How ergonomic design help engineers to stay health and live safety.
Q10 Discuss various business pressures in which organisations conduct their operations
Q11Describe the various strategies that organizations adopt to counter Porter’s competitive
forces in order to gain competitive advantage.

MODULE 2
1. Identify and give examples of the components and functions of a computer system.
2. Identify the computer systems and peripherals you would acquire or recommend for a
business of your choice, and explain the reasons for your selections.
3. Discuss ways that common challenges in managing data can be addressed using data
governance.
4. What are three possible architectures for data warehouses and data marts in an
organization?
5. What is big data? Discuss the various challenges in big data management.
6. Describe the benefits and challenges of implementing knowledge management systems
in organizations.
7. Define Big Data and discuss its characteristics.
8. Explain Knowledge Management cycle.
9. Describe the wireline communications media and channels.
10. Explain how database management software helps business professionals and
supports the operations and management of a business.
11. Explain:
a. Major types of databases.
b. Data warehouses and data mining.
c. Logical data elements.
d. Fundamental database structures.
e. Database development.
12. Explain the impact that networks have had on business and everyday life for each of
the six major categories of network applications.
 13. Describe technologies that underlie pervasive computing, providing examples of how businesses
can utilize each one.
14. Describe the key characteristics and advantages of cloud computing.
15. Identify a use-case-scenario for each of the four types of clouds.
16. Explain the operational model of each of the three types of cloud services.
17. Identify the key benefits of cloud computing.
18. Discuss the concerns and risks associated with cloud computing.

MODULE 3
Q1 Difference between ERP I & ERP II
Q2 Explain ERP support for business processes?
Q3 Why are ERP upgrades so complex and expensive?
Q4 Identify the phases in the decision-making process, and use a decision support framework
to demonstrate how technology supports managerial decision making.
Q5 How will you use the BI technique to improvise the business by knowing the customer’s
behaviour? Explain with detailed example.
Q6Describe and provide examples of the three different ways in which organizations use
business intelligence (BI)
Q7 What are the different commercial application of AI
Q8 What is an expert system. What are the different components of expert system?
Q9 What are the major applications where expert systems can be implemented?
Q10 Explain the different tools (Neural Network, Fuzzy logic, Genetic Algorithm, VR) used
to develop cognitive science application.
11 What are the difference between new AI based application versus old decision making
system.
Q12What are some of the limitations or dangers you see in the use of AI technologies such as
expert systems, virtual reality, and intelligent agents?
Q13 One difference between a conventional business intelligence system and an expert system
is that the former can explain how questions, whereas the latter can explain both how and why
questions. Discuss the implications of this statement.
Q14 Explain the potential value and the potential limitations of artificial intelligence.
Q15 Provide examples of the benefits, applications, and limitations of expert systems.
Q16 Explain how your university could employ an expert system in its admission process.
Could it use a neural network? What might happen if a student were denied admission to the
university and his parents discovered that an expert system was involved in the admissions
process?

MODULE 4
1. Discuss how privacy issues can impact transborder data flows.
2. Describe Privacy Codes and Policies and its importance.
3. Describe various ethical frameworks that can help us make ethical decisions.
4. Describe the four categories of ethical issues related to information technology.
5. List and describe the fundamental tenets of ethics.
6. Identify three places that store personal data, and for each one, discuss at least one
personal threat to the privacy of the data stored there.
7. Differentiate among a threat, an exposure, and a vulnerability.
8. Explain the major threats to the Information systems.
 9. Describe various Unintentional threats.
10. Describe various Intentional threats.
11. What are the different types of software attacks?
12. What is a SCADA system?
13. Explain risk management in protecting information resources?
14. Differentiate between authentication and authorization. Which one of these always
performed first?
15. Explain any two communications controls used for information system security.

MODULE 5

Q1 Describe Web 2.0 tools used to develop website?

MODULE 6
1. Discuss the different cost/benefit analyses that companies must take into account when
formulating an IT strategic plan.
2. Discuss the four business decisions that companies must make when they acquire new
applications.
3. Enumerate the primary tasks and the importance of each of the six processes involved
in the systems development life cycle.
4. Analyze the process of vendor and software selection.
5. Identify each of the three components of IT management and use examples to illustrate
how they might be implemented in a business.
6. Explain how failures in IT management can be reduced by the involvement of
business managers in IT planning and management.
7. Identify several cultural, political, and geoeconomic challenges that confront
managers in the management of global information technologies.
8. Explain the effect on global business/IT strategy of the trend toward a transnational
business strategy by international business organizations.
9. Identify several considerations that affect the choice of IT applications, IT platforms,
data access policies, and systems development methods by a global business
enterprise.
10. Understand the fundamental concepts of outsourcing and offshoring, as well as the
primary reasons for selecting such an approach to IS/IT management.