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Course Code : MS-07
Course Title : Information Systems for Managers
Assignment Code : 07/SEM-II/2007
Coverage : All Blocks

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1. What are the capabilities of information systems that businesses must have to compete (and survive) in the information age?

2. Classify each of the following systems as one (or more) of the following types: Transaction processing system (TPS), Decision support system (DSS), Executive information system (EIS), Group support system (GSS), Expert systems (ES), Computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM)

    • A student registration system in a university
    • A system that advises farmers about which fertilizer to use
    • A hospital patient admission system
    • A system that provides a marketing manager with demand reports regarding the sales volume of specific products
    • A robotic system that paints cars in a factory




3. Discuss the following:
    • Implications of the “democratization of information”
    • Should the Internet be regulated? If so, by whom?


      4. Deep Blue of IBM defeated the world chess champion, Gary Kasporov, in 1997. If computers cannot think, how is such a defeat possible? Find some recent information about machine playing against humans.


5. Define controls, threats, vulnerability, computer crime, viruses and hackers. Why can the damage done by viruses be very high?




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