MGT 300

APRIL 2009
PART A Question 12: Product Statistics is an example of analytical information. Answer : True

PART B

Question 12: Which system provides immediate, up- to- date information in response to query requests? Answer : Real- time system

OCTOBER 2009
y PART A

Question 7: Report for each sales person, product, and part are examples of detail or fine information granularities. Answer : True

Question 8: Transactional information is used when performing operational tasks and repetitive decisions such as analyzing daily sales reports and production schedules to determine how much inventory to carry. Answer : True

PART B

Question 6: Which are the following represents the different information granularities? Answer : A- Detail, summary, aggregate

Question 7: All of the following are characteristics of information, except : Answer : D - Quantity

APRIL 2010
y PART A

Question 5: The primary purpose of data warehouse is to perform transactional processes. Answer : False

Question 10: Information technology monitoring tracks peoples activities by such measures as number of keystrokes, error rate and number of transactions processed. Answer : True

PART B

Question 7: Which of the following represents the different information formats? Answer : B- Document, presentation, spreadsheet, database.

Question 8: Which of the following can a database maintain information on? Answer : B- Transactions.

OCTOBER 2010

PART A

Question 10: Transactional information is used when performing operational tasks and repetitive decisions such as analyzing daily sales report s and production schedules to determine how much inventory to carry. Answer : False

Question 11: Organizational information comes at different levels and in different formats and granularities. Answer : True

PART B

Question 11: What are the different types of information? Answer :C

Question 12: What encompasses all of the information contained within a single business process or unit of work and its primary purpose is to support the performing of daily operational tasks? Answer :A

PART C

Question 1(B): Explain and give example of transactional information and analytical information. Answer: Transactional information encompasses all of the information contained within a single business process or unit of work, and its primary purpose is to support the performing of daily operational tasks. For examples withdrawing cash from an ATM and making an airline reservation. Analytical information encompasses all organizational information, and its primary purpose is to support the performing of all managerial analysis tasks. Organizations capture and store transactional information in databases and use it when performing operational tasks and repetitive decisions. For examples analyzing daily sales reports and production schedules.

APRIL 2011

PART A

Question 9: Real time systems provide batch-processing information in response to query request. Answer : False

PART B

Question 8: All the following are characteristic of information, except? Answer : A- Quantity

SEPTEMBER 2011

PART B

Question 9: Which of the following can a database maintain information on? Answer: B- Transactions