Management Information System (MIS) MCQ Paper 7th Semester January 2021 Mumbai University

Q1] Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ): 40 Marks

1) For any information to be useful, it must be _____

a) Safe

b) Efficient

c) Complete

d) Optimized

2) _____ is a method of delivering software in which a vendor hosts the applications and customers access these applications over the Internet.

a) Service-oriented architecture

b) Prototyping

c) Leasing the application

d) Software-as-a-Service

3) The identity of the person who needs access is verified by a process called as _______

a) Authorization

b) Authentication

c) Biometrics

d) Password

4) The purpose of a copyright is _____

a) closely safeguarded as a secret, or legal protections are lost

b) Information that gives one company a competitive advantage over others

c) Designed to protect the expression of ideas

d) Designed to protect inventions, tangible objects, or ways to make them

5) Most companies are building e-business and e-commerce websites to achieve all of the following goals except:

a) Generate new revenue from online sales

b) Increase foot traffic at brick and mortar locations

c) Reduce transaction costs

d) Increase the loyalty of existing customers via Web customer service and support

6)Which of the following is incorrect about social computing?

a) Combines social behaviour and Information system

b) Encourages and promotes machine-generated information

c) Improves collaboration and interaction among people

d) Produces social information

7) The primary objective of worm is to Spread the infection from ______

a) Tagging

b) Really Simple Syndication

c) AJAX

d) Wikis

8) All of the following would typically be supported by an organization's intranet information portal except:

a) Communication and collaboration

b) Business operations and management

c) Web publishing

d) Recruitment

9) Which of the following systems acquisition methods saves the company’s time, enables the company to select software that has been used for similar problems in other organizations, and allows the company to try out the software?

a) Systems development life cycle

b) Prototyping

c) Buy option

d) End-user development

10) Functions of a DBMS includes _______

a) Database

b) Datamart

c) Data Warehouse

d) Manipulation of records in a table

11) Data Mart is a subset of _____

a) Data

b) Data Mining

c) Database

d) Data Warehouse

12) Data mining is not used for ________

a) Day to Day operations

b) Customer retention

c) Market analysis

d) Discover new correlations

13) The term Field in a data represents ______

a) Integrated collection of logically related data

b) A group of related records

c) Data attribute

d) Logical structure

14) Data scrubbing is which of the following?

a) A process to reject data from the data warehouse and to create the necessary indexes

b) A process to load the data in the data warehouse and to create the necessary indexes

c) A process to upgrade the quality of data after it is moved into a data warehouse

d) A process to upgrade the quality of data before it is moved into a data warehouse

15) Traveling sales people and those at regional sales offices can use the Internet, extranets, and other networks to transmit customer orders from their laptop or desktop PCs, thus breaking ________ barriers.

a) Physical

b) Competition

c) Structural

d) Geographic

16) Electronic commerce systems generally include all of the following except:

a) Internet websites for online sales

b) Direct links to credit reporting services

c) Intranets that allow sales reps to access customer records

d) Extranet access of inventory databases

17) ________ is the method of translating an original message into a type that, except for the intended recipient, cannot be interpreted by anyone.

a) Virtual Private Network (VPN)

b) Firewall

c) Encryption

d) Secure Socket Layer (SSL)

18) Which of the following is not an advantage of the buy option for acquiring IS applications?

a) Few types of off-the-shelf software are available, thus limiting confusion.

b) The software can be tried out

c) The buy option saves time.

d) The company will know what it is getting.

19) The most fundamental information systems in an organization are __________

a) Office automation systems

b) Decision support systems

c) Functional area information systems

d) Transaction processing systems

20) Types of information systems include _______

a) Management support system

b) Hardware processing system

c) Output handling systems

d) Storage processing systems

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