Re: CS507 Assignment 2 Solution and Discussion
Question no 1: (6+4 marks)
A system is a collection of components that are combined with the common purpose of achieving
certain goal. Consider a National University that employs a Learning Management System (LMS) to
manage the high-quality online education to its students.
(a) You need to enlist the components that this system should typically be composed of along
with at least one example of the task that each component handles. (3+3)
(b) You need to identify the requirements for above LMS to be considered as Open-Loop System
and Closed-Loop System. (2+2)
Question no 2: (5+5 marks)
ZMJ Limited is a multi-national organization for sports items having its manufacturing facilities in
different countries across the globe. The company sells the products in global market and currently
has the market share of 30%. Recently management has realized that manual operations in their
organization have become costly and inefficient in terms of inter-departmental communications and
coordination, customer satisfaction and general overview of the organization ‘s business is difficult
to capture. It has been decided to introduce a Computer Based Information System (CBIS)
throughout the organization that should be capable to handle the information requirements of whole
business life cycle of the company. Your task is to identify at least five distinct departments in the
organization and the right information system for each of the department. You answer should include
the one benefit of each information system proposed.
Note: Your answer must be in a tabular format with four columns, One for Serial No, one for department,
one for Information system and one for benefit of the Information system.
Re: CS507 Assignment 1 Solution and Discussion
Total Marks: 20
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Assignment No. 01 Spring 2020
CS507: Information Systems
Due date: 22nd May 2020
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Objectives
All questions in this assignment cover the topics from lecture 1 to 6. For all questions your answer must be concise, to the point and compact not more than 4 to 5 lines.
The objective of this assignment is to;
Evaluate the student understandings in the basic organizational concepts
Evaluate the student understandings in the management styles
Evaluate the understandings of information resources
Instructions to solve Assignment
This assignment contains two questions, students are required to solve both.
Students should prepare the solution and upload on LMS as soon as possible
without waiting for the due date in order to avoid issues resulting from the
internet connectivity or power failures etc.
Assignment should be solved using Time New Roman format and Size of 12.
It should be clear that your assignment will not get any credit if:
• The assignment is submitted after due date.
• The assignment is not in the required format (Only MSWord Format is allowed)
• The submitted assignment does not open or file is corrupt.
• Assignment is copied (partial or full) from any source (websites, forums, students, etc.)
• Assignment sent by email will not be accepted.
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Question no 1:
(6+4 marks)
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(a) Different types of organizations have different information requirements. Your task is to identify at least two famous Pakistani organizations and their category based on size for each of the following sectors. (6 Marks)
Manufacturing Sector
Service Sector
Trading Sector
(b) Enlist at least two distinct information requirements for each of the above sector (4 Marks)
Question no 2: (5+5 marks)
There are different sources of information e.g. internal and external for organizational usage. Following sources of information are used by a newly developed organization for decision making purposes. You are required to indicate the type as “Internal” or “External” source of information from the given list. And how would you know that the information form these sources is ideal for decision making?
A Survey Conducted by HR Department For Employee Satisfaction
A survey conducted by an independent recruitment consulting firm for salary ranking by
profession
Financial Assets Consolidation report
ISO Quality standards
Standard Operating Procedures to handle external issues
KSE Stocks Status Market Status
Local Labor Law
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Assignment No. 01 Fall 2019
CS507: Information Systems
Due date: 15 Nov 2019
Total Marks: 20
Obtained Marks_____
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Objective
All questions in this assignment cover the topics from lecture 1 to 9. For all questions your answer must be concise, to the point and compact not more than 4 to 5 lines.
The objective of this assignment is to;
Evaluate the student understandings in the basic organizational concepts 2. Evaluate the understandings of management information systems
Evaluate the students understanding in decision making approaches
Instructions to solve Assignment
This assignment contains 4 questions; you are required to solve all of them. It should be clear that your assignment will not get any credit if:
• The assignment is submitted after due date.
• The assignment is not in the required format.
• The submitted assignment does not open or file is corrupt.
• Assignment is copied (partial or full) from any source (websites, forums,
students, etc.)
• Assignment sent by email will not be accepted.
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Question No 1: (5+5 Marks)
The board of directors of a famous multinational hotel has approved a new restructuring plan for the organization. The new plan is expected to improve routine activities, task ownership and smooth reporting of overall operations with expedition of decision processes. It includes numerous changes in terms of classification of jobs and differentiation of responsibilities, identification of stakeholders and their roles, inter-department and intra-department authority delegation. All correspondences have to be examined by department heads and most of departmental matters are decided at their level. Issues falling out of the scope or lacking clarity are escalated to higher management. Departments such as human relations management, marketing, finance and business development has strong dependencies on other departments and all departments work proactively with each other, however, inter-departmental decisions are required to be approved by higher management who requires the regular reports from the departmental heads on various issues.
a) management and what are the b) Give any 3 points that shows how Business Environment affects hotel industry?
Question No 2: (5 Marks)
There are different decision making approaches depending on the nature and type of the problem or issue. You are required to discuss different types of decision making approaches briefly and what approach would be applied to solve the problems related to following situations.
Recruitment in an organization 2.
Natural disaster
Selection of a University for higher Studies
Question No 3: (5 Marks)
Computer based information management systems help large organizations in various aspects like simplifying the decision processes, strategic planning, control of management, operational control and processing of transactions etc. As a system analyst you are required to enlist and briefly discuss the enabling technologies/components that an information system depends on.
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Which organizational structure is followed by this hotel
challenges of that structure?
Withdraw Amount from an account
Labor walkout in a factory
Employee salaries distribution
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"A recent security audit of information systems of VYZ Dynamics shows that their systems have certain communication (TCP/UDP) ports opened to internet users in addition to required working ports. Illicit users may use these ports to capture access to various system resources. It has reported numerous events where the legitimate user’s access was prohibited by changing their password, where IT administrators must intervene to reset the user’s credentials. For significant periods, the organization operations were interrupted leading to complaints and dissatisfactions reports from the subscribers.
You have studied various concepts related to the security of information systems. You are required to identify what risk(s), threat(s) and vulnerabilities are discussed in the given scenario.
Your answer should not exceed 60 words. Unnecessarily long responses will be given 0 marks."
Total Marks: 20
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Assignment No. 03 Fall 2019
CS507: Information Systems
Due Date: 20 Jan, 2020
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OBJECTIVE
The objective of this assignment is to;
1- Evaluate student understandings in development and design processes for information systems. 2 – Practice design tools for information systems.
INSTRUCTIONS
This assignment contains 4 questions; you are required to solve all of them.
All questions in this assignment cover the topics from lecture 23 to 33. For all questions your answer must be concise, to the point and compact not more than 4 to 5 lines along with any diagram if required.
It should be clear that your assignment will not get any credit if:
• The assignment is submitted after due date.
• The assignment is not in MSWORD DOC/DOCX format.
• The submitted assignment does not open or file is corrupt.
• Assignment is copied (partial or full) from any source (websites, forums, students,
etc.)
• Assignment sent by email will not be accepted.
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1 Question No 1: (10 Marks)
1.1 Using a suitable design tool for CBIS, Draw a diagram for Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) of a typical medical clinic focusing only on new patient visit. The diagram should cover the followings,
a) The steps that a Patient has to follow
b) Corresponding actions from hospital staff
c) Actions of doctor(s)
d) Required information particulars at either of patient, staff or doctor can be
ignored.
1.2 What is the name of SDLC tool used to solve Question 1.1? Write at least three characteristics of the design tool.
2 Question No 2: (10 Marks)
2.1 What SDLC design tool can be used to describe different stockholders/components, their types and characteristics, their relationships, in the scenario given in question 1?
2.2 Draw a suitable diagram that can help database designers to propose a database design for the given scenario.
2.3 Write at least five building blocks of the selected tool used to solve question 2.1.
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Assignment No. 02 Fall 2019
CS507: Information Systems
Due date: 06 December , 2019
Total Marks: 20
Obtained Marks_____
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Objective
All questions in this assignment cover the topics from lecture 10 to 18. For all questions your answer must be concise, to the point and compact not more than 4 to 5 lines.
The objective of this assignment is to;
Evaluate the student understandings of the Information systems.
Evaluate the understandings of Decision Support Systems.
Evaluate the students understanding in Software development life cycle.
Instructions to solve Assignment
This assignment contains 4 questions; you are required to solve all of them. It should be clear that your assignment will not get any credit if:
• The assignment is submitted after due date.
• The assignment is not in the required format (*.doc, *.docx).
• The submitted assignment does not open or file is corrupt.
• Assignment is copied (partial or full) from any source (websites, forums, students etc.).
• Assignment sent by email will not be accepted.
Note: Assignment Solutions only in MSWORD format shall be accepted.
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Virtual University of Pakistan Question No 1: (10 Marks)
a) b)
How Decision Support System (DSS) helps organizations? Discuss it with at least three points. (4 marks)
Identify the techniques & DSS Model in each of the following example scenarios. (6 marks)
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4
5 6
Scenario
Technique
DSS Model
What would happen to sale when we cut down advertising cost 20%?
Find out about this year’s revenues in compared to the previous year.
Past Admissions Analysis using exploration of data and discovering features/patterns.
What is the prediction on sales for next year?
Increase the cost of advertisement until sales reach $2
million.
To receive $950, what number of items must be sold at
the cost of $10?
Question No 2: (10 Marks)
a) Identify the type of Information System (IS) or related subsystems that best describes the followings scenarios. (6 marks)
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Scenario
An IS to measure the success of your client with your products/services.
An IS used to manage contacts, forecast and generate reports for sales.
An IS that maintain the correct amount of inventory and notify when under- stockage occurs.
An IS that guarantees that the produced or completed material shipped to the consumer complies with the company’s quality standards.
An IS used to notify the customers about product recommendation based on their previous order.
An IS that tracks the whole conversion process of raw material into the finished goods.
Answer
b) Enlist at least three points to differentiate between project life cycle and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with example. (3+1 marks)
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"A recent security audit of information systems of VYZ Dynamics shows that their systems have certain communication (TCP/UDP) ports opened to internet users in addition to required working ports. Illicit users may use these ports to capture access to various system resources. It has reported numerous events where the legitimate user’s access was prohibited by changing their password, where IT administrators must intervene to reset the user’s credentials. For significant periods, the organization operations were interrupted leading to complaints and dissatisfactions reports from the subscribers.You have studied various concepts related to the security of information systems. You are required to identify what risk(s), threat(s) and vulnerabilities are discussed in the given scenario.
Your answer should not exceed 60 words. Unnecessarily long responses will be given 0 marks."
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