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Time : Three hours Maximum : 75 marks

PART A — (10 × 1 = 10 marks)

Answer any TEN questions.

Write short note on the following :

1. System.

2. Operational planning and control.

3. Deterministic system.

4. Digital signals.

5. MODEM.

6. EDI.

7. System design.

8. Decision table.

9. Semistructured and unstructured decisions.

10. Executive information systems.

11. Goal-seeking analysis.

12. Business ethics.

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PART B — (5 × 5 = 25 marks)

Answer any FIVE questions.

13. Explain the characteristic features of MIS.

14. Describe the various categories of information

systems.

15. Explain the advantages of having data in a

database.

16. Describe the significance of database structure.

17. How do the SDLC and prototyping methods differ?

How they can be interrelated?

18. Describe the various components of a DSS.

19. What can be done to improve the security of

business uses of the Internet? Give several
examples of security measures and technologies
you would use.

PART C — (4 × 10 = 40 marks)

Answer Q. No. 20 compulsorily and answer any THREE

questions from Q. No. 21 to 24.

20. Enumerate the characteristics of a system.

21. Enumerate the technological factors required for

data mining.
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22. Explain in detail about the systems development

life-cycle methodology.

23. Discuss the uses of artificial intelligence in

improving the decision support provided to
managers and business professionals.

24. Identify several types of security management

strategies and defense and explain how they can
be used to ensure the security to business
applications of information technology.

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