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MCS-052 MCA (Revised) Term-End Examination June, 2017: Principles of Management and Information Systems

This document is an exam for an MCA course on Principles of Management and Information Systems. It contains 5 questions with multiple parts each. Question 1 is compulsory and asks students to justify the importance of business ethics for management, define portfolio management and its objectives, explain the importance of transaction processing systems for sales and marketing, and how ERP improves organizational performance. The other questions ask students to discuss topics like decision support systems, neural networks, total cost of ownership, information system requirements, discounted cash flow, risk analysis using IT assets, knowledge discovery in databases and basket analysis, and comparing vertical and horizontal organizations.

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MCS-052 MCA (Revised) Term-End Examination June, 2017: Principles of Management and Information Systems

This document is an exam for an MCA course on Principles of Management and Information Systems. It contains 5 questions with multiple parts each. Question 1 is compulsory and asks students to justify the importance of business ethics for management, define portfolio management and its objectives, explain the importance of transaction processing systems for sales and marketing, and how ERP improves organizational performance. The other questions ask students to discuss topics like decision support systems, neural networks, total cost of ownership, information system requirements, discounted cash flow, risk analysis using IT assets, knowledge discovery in databases and basket analysis, and comparing vertical and horizontal organizations.

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of Printed Pages : 2 MCS-052


MCA (Revised)
Term-End Examination
June, 2017
0469 1
MCS 052 : PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT AND
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INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Time : 2 hours Maximum Marks : 50


Note : Question no. 1 is compulsory. Answer any three
questions from the rest.

1. (a) "Business ethics are an important


requirement for management." Justify the
statement with suitable examples. 5

(b) What is 'Portfolio Management' ? Write the


objectives associated with the term
`Portfolio Management'. 5

(c) Explain the importance of 'transaction


processing system' in sales and marketing. 5

(d) How does ERP improve the performance of


any organisation ? Explain. 5

2. (a) Explain the importance of 'Decision


Support System' in different stages of
management. 6

(b) Explain, how neural network method is


used in market analysis. 4
MCS-052 1 P.T.O.
3. (a) Discuss the term Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO). Give the advantages of the Total
Cost of Ownership (TCO) approach. 4

(b) "An information system can be a set of


collection of elements starting from
collection of data, its processing and
presentation, for achieving defined goals."
Discuss this statement in the light of
information system requirements. 6

4. (a) Explain the term 'Discounted Cash Flow'.


What is the relation between Discounted
Present Value and Future Value ? 5

(b) How do IT assets help management in Risk


Analysis ? 5

5. (a) What is knowledge discovery in Databases ?


Discuss Basket Analysis using data mining. 7

(b) Compare and contrast between vertical and


horizontal organisations. 3

MCS-052 2 3,500

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