MIS101 Management Information System Assignment

2018 B1T3
MIS101 Management Information System Assignment
Instruction:
This assignment covers the learning materials from Week 1 to Week 4
 Answer all questions
 Students are required to make use of the internet and textbook to find relevant
open source information that can provide factual and convincing answers to all
the questions listed.
 Total mark for this Individual Assignment is 40%.
 By completing your lab work satisfactorily, you will enhance your understanding
and help yourself to prepare for your final examination.
 You are not allowed to copy your colleagues’ works.
Student Name:
Student Number:
Date of submission:
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Part I True or False (5 marks in total)
Justify the following statements whether they are right or wrong. Each question values 1 marks.
(Please write your answer in below table. There will be no mark if no answer in the table.)
No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Answer
1. Information is of no value to you if you can't access it.
Ans: True
2. Business intelligence refers solely to information about your competitors.
Ans: False
3. Management Information System mainly deals with three main organizational
resources: People, Information and Technology. They are all playing very important
roles in modern business management, people of course are the most important
component whereas information is the least important.
Ans: False
4. Technically speaking, computer is a machine that only accepts and understands
binary codes: 0, 1.
Ans: True
5. The basic approach of fuzzy logic is to assign values between 1 and 2 to vague or
ambiguous information.
Ans: True
6. SEO improves the visibility of a Web site through the use of tags and key terms found
by search engines.
Ans: True
7. Customers use only applications provided via a cloud infrastructure, which is
Software as a Service (SaaS).
Ans: True
8. The C2B e-commerce business model is a true inversion of the C2C e-commerce
business model.

Ans: False
9. A virus has the capacity to hurt the processor of a computer.
Ans: True
10. The objective of a denial-of-service attack is to prevent legitimate customers from
accessing the target site.
Ans: True
Part II Multiple Choice (10 marks in total)
There is only one correct answer for each question. 1 marks for each question.
(Please write your answer in below table. There will be no mark if no answer in the
table.)
No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Answer A B A D C C A B D A
1. Information granularity refers to:
A. the quantity of data within the information.
B. the quality of data within the information.
C. the frequency of data within the information.
D. the extent of detail within the information.
2. At lower organizational levels, information exhibits _____ granularity.
A. unrefined
B. fine
C. concentrated
D. coarse
3. ___ is a temporary holding area for the information you're working with as well as
the system and application software instructions that the CPU currently needs.

A. ROM
B. RAM
C. DVD
D. VCD
4. What type of technology allows you to verbally speak with someone over the
Internet
A. Wiki feeds
B. Social network
C. Phone
D. VoIP
5. Assume that you go to a computer store to buy a desktop, the salesman shows
you one with 2.8GHz Intel Core CPU, how many calculations this CPU is able to
perform per second approximately:
A. 28 billion calculations per second
B. 2.8 billion calculations per second
C. 280 million calculations per second
D. 280*2 million calculations per second
6. Data warehouses exist to support:
A. MRP.
B. OLAP.
C. OLTP.
D. SQL.