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This document contains 27 review questions from chapters 1, 3, 6, and 12 of the textbook "Management Information Systems – Managing the digital firm". The questions cover a range of topics including how information systems have changed business operations, major new technology trends influencing business interactions, the components of information systems, strategies supported by information systems, database management systems, business intelligence systems, and decision making stages. The questions ask the reader to define terms, list capabilities and examples, and describe concepts from the textbook chapters.

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Course Review Questions

This document contains 27 review questions from chapters 1, 3, 6, and 12 of the textbook "Management Information Systems – Managing the digital firm". The questions cover a range of topics including how information systems have changed business operations, major new technology trends influencing business interactions, the components of information systems, strategies supported by information systems, database management systems, business intelligence systems, and decision making stages. The questions ask the reader to define terms, list capabilities and examples, and describe concepts from the textbook chapters.

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MIS COURSE REVIEW QUESTIONS (CORE TEXTBOOK: Management

Information Systems – Managing the digital firm)


Chapter 1
1. Describe how information systems have changed the way businesses operate and their
products and services.
2. Identify three major new information system trends that are influencing the way businesses
interact with employees, customers, suppliers, and business partners.
3. What are management components of information systems?
4. What are organization components of information systems?
5. What are technology components of information systems?
6. Describe the characteristics of a digital firm.
7. List six reasons why information systems are so important for business today.
8. Describe the complementary social assets required to optimize returns from information
technology investments.
9. Describe the complementary managerial assets required to optimize returns from
information technology investments.
10. Describe the complementary organizational assets required to optimize returns from
information technology investments.
Chapter 3
11. Identify the features of organizations that help explain differences in organizations’ use of
information systems.
12. Describe how information systems can support the Low-cost leadership strategy and give
examples.
13. Describe how information systems can support the Product differentiation strategy and
give examples.
14. Describe how information systems can support the Focus on market niche strategy and
give examples.
15. Describe how information systems can support the Strengthen customer and supplier
intimacies strategy and give examples.
Chapter 6
16. List and describe the problems of the traditional file environment.
17. Name the capabilities of a DBMS.
18. List and describe the three operations of a relational DBMS.
19. Give examples for Select operation.
20. Give examples for Join operation
21. Give examples for Project operation
Chapter 12
22. List and describe the stages in decision making.
23. List and describe the analytic functionalities provided by BI systems.
24. What is drill down in term of BI analytic functionalities. Give an example of drill down
capability.
25. What are production reports? Give examples of production reports in a specific business
functional area.
26. What are Parameterized reports? Give examples of Parameterized reports in a specific
business functional area.
27. What are Dashboards/scorecards? Give examples of Dashboards/scorecard

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