Computer information systems are most successful in providing information for:
Control decisions
Planning decisions
Strategic decisions
Non-programmable decisions
None of the above.
Which of the following is not one of the qualitative characteristics that information must have?
Relevance
Retrievability
Timeliness
Accuracy
All of the above should be met.
Errors reports are an example of:
Scheduled reports
Demand reports
Exception reports
Predictive reports
Management reports.
Which of the following is generally true about management reports?
Low-level managers need information in the form of detailed reports
Reports can be issued on demand, periodically, or on the occurrence of a specific event
Middle managers use exception reports
Middle managers use summary reports
All of the above.
Which of the following is not true about expert systems?
Expert systems are collections of human knowledge
Expert systems are expensive to design
Export systems are usually designed to run on small general-purpose
Maintenance support may be difficult to obtain for an expert system
All of the above
Information is produced by processing data from which of the following sources?
Data provided by higher levels of management
Data provided by lower levels of management
Internally generated data
Externally generated data
All of the above.
Which of the following is not usually characteristic of upper management decisions?
Decisions require judgment
Decisions are structured
Decisions are long range
Decisions are unpredictable
Decisions require experience.
Which of the following statements is the most accurate?
The degree to which information needs to be summarized increases as one moves up through the management levels
Low-level managers made unstructured decisions
Upper managers make unstructured decisions
Low-level managers need general information about operating activities
Middle managers make unstructured decisions
Long-range planning reports produced in an MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS are primarily designed for:
Top management
Middle management
Lower management
(a) and (c).
A characteristic of a MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS is:
User-oriented information
Restrictions on the system’s size to inhibit future growth
Priority for data handling over the output decision-oriented information
All of the above.
An organization containing manufacturing, marketing and finance areas is called a:
Matrix organization
Flow network organization
Modular organization
Functional organization.
A system theory of management includes:
The manager as the control mechanism
The use of objectives or standards of performance describing what is being achieved
The use of both environmental and internal information describing what should be achieved
All of the above.
The number of management layers in a firm is determined by:
The scalar principle
The span of control
The degree of unity in the command
The number of managers in the firm.
The manager, in using the systems approach, should sub-divide the firm into sub-systems based on:
Functional areas-marketing, finance and manufacturing
Management levels-strategic, tactical and operational
Resource flows-manpower, money, machines and material
Any of the above represents acceptable sub-system divisions.
Which is the correct definition of MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS:
Communication process wherein information is recorded, stored, processed and retrieved for managerial decision-making
Communication process wherein data is record, stored, processed and retrieved for managerial decision-making
Communication process wherein data is converted into information
All of the above.
Which of the following best explains the meaning of managerial participation in effective computer utilization in MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS:
Managers operate the computer
Need for understanding and support from top management
Managers need to be educated about computers
Managers need to go through the computers reports.
As opposed to detailed transaction information, the management information system (MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS) responds to need for:
Electronic data processing
Managerial information
Accounting application
Utility billing information.
The online hotel reservation systems having database capabilities are a good example of:
Database management system (DBMS)
Marketing information system
Manual information system
Managerial information system.
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