FINALTERM EXAMINATION

Fall 2008 CS507- Information Systems (Session - 1)

Question No: 1 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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► Father & Sons

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► Brothers

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► Father, Sons and Brothers PAGE 7

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Question No: 2 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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The organization refers to a organizational structure with few or no levels of

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intervening management between staff and managers is called
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► Hierarchical organization
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► Flat Organization PAGE 10

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► Pyramid Organization
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Question No: 3 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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ERP's major objective is to tightly integrate the functional areas of the organization
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and to enable seamless information flows across the functional areas.

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► False
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Question No: 4 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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Which of the following integrate the planning, ma of the organization?

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► ERP

► CRM

► ESS
► OIS

Question No: 5 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

What are the steps and their order in EC order fulfillment

► Ensuring payment, checking availability, arranging shipment, insurance,

production, purchasing & warehousing, contacts with customers and returns

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► Ensuring payment, checking availability, arranging shipment, insurance,

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production, purchasing & warehousing, and contacts with customers

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► Ensuring payment, checking availability, arranging shipment, insurance,

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production, plant services, purchasing & warehousing, and contacts with custom

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production, plant services, purchasing & warehousing, contacts with customers

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Question No: 6 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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Data warehouses are generally batch updated at the end of the day, week or some
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Question No: 7 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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The Internet Protocol is designed solely for the addressing and routing of data
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packets across a network

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► True PAGE 164

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► False

Question No: 8 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which one of the following are partially configured, usually with network

connections and selected peripheral equipment, such as disk drives, tape drives and
controllers, but without the main computer.

► Cold Site

► Warm Site PAGE 162

► Hot Site

► Third Party Arrangements

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Question No: 9 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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Likelihood Determination phase determines that a potent by a given threat-source.

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► True PAGE 156

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► False

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Question No: 10 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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Threat capacity is an input source for Likelihood determination

► False
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► True
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Question No: 11 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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Which of the following is the primary method for keeping a computer secure from
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intruders?
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► Anti virus
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► Scanners
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► Firewall 145
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► Password
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Question No: 12 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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Decisions in which the decision maker must provide judgment, evaluation, and

insights into the problem definition would be characterized as:

► Structured

► Semi Structured
► Unstructured

Non-structured

Question No: 13 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Wireless computing devices are not subject to viruses.

► False

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► True

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Question No: 14 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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Which of the following is a private enterprise owned communication network that

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uses internet protocols, network connectivity, and public telecommunication system

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to share organization's information or operations with its employees, and to enable

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the employees to communicate with each other?

► Internet PAGE 128

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► Intranet
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► Wireless communication
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► None of above
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Question No: 15 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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Availability of which of the following to various users also depends on how the
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information is processed?
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► Information PAGE 125

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► Data
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► Log file
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► None of above

Question No: 16 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which of the following helps an organization in gaining competitive advantage in

the use of processes; effectiveness and efficiency should also be kept in mind?
► BPR PAGE 124

► CSF

► SPR

Question No: 17 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

CRM software requires highly integrated environment for high Productivity, which

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is rarely available.

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► True PAGE 45

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► False

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Question No: 18 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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Existence of functional departments in each organization may vary with the nature

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of industry and the nature of products/services being offered.

► True PAGE 47
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► False
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Question No: 19 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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Public companies are example of

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► Small Organization
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► Large Organization PAGE 8

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► Medium organization
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Question No: 20 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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__________serves the concurrent monitoring as the system is being used.

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► Scanners
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► Active monitors PAGE 143

► Behavior blockers

Question No: 21 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

While developing software object oriented analysis focuses on

► Modular approach PAGE 119

► Incremental approach

► Traditional approach

► Derived approach

Question No: 22 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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Testing is easy for the software that is developed using OOAD due to use of

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► Modular approach

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► Real time modeling

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► Usability feature

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Question No: 23 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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Providing access to the data and behavior is through an object's interface is called

► Message passing
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► Polymorphism
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► Encapsulation
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Question No: 24 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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There are typically two kinds of audit records.

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► True PAGE 149

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► False
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Question No: 25 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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In assessing risks for an IT system, is the first step.

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► To define the scope of the effort. PAGE 153

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► Vulnerability Assesment

► threat identification

Question No: 27 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

The two major criteria that are used to analyze risks are Operational Effects and
Situational Impacts

► True

► False

Question No: 28 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

The Internet Protocol is designed solely for the connecting and routing of data

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packets across a internet.

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► True

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► False

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routing of data packets across a network

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Question No: 29 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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An IDS with the neural network feature traffic on the network and creates a database

► True PAGE 168

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► False
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Question No: 30 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

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BPR's major objective is to tightly integrate the fun and to enable seamless
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information flows across the function

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► False
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Question No: 31 ( Marks: 1 )

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What is virus?
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Software based used to infect a computer.

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Question No: 32 ( Marks: 1 )

Define the basic objective of Risk management

Question No: 33 ( Marks: 2 )

Identify the following flow chart symbol

Question No: 34 ( Marks: 2 )

Define Firewall.

Firewall is the primary method for keeping a computer secure from intruders. A

firewall allows or blocks traffic into and out of a private network or the user's

computer.

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Question No: 35 ( Marks: 3 )

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What do you understand by Digital Cert

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Question No: 36 ( Marks: 3 )

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What are the purposes of system analyses

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Question No: 37 ( Marks: 3 )

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What are hackers?
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Hackers are normally skilled programmers, and have been known to crack system
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passwords, with quite an ease.

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Question No: 38 ( Marks: 5 )

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Discuss the types of threats in detail

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• Physical threat – This refers to the damage caused to the physical

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infrastructure of the information

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systems, e.g.
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• Fire
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• Energy Variations
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• Structural damage

• Pollution

• Intrusion

Logical – This refers to damage caused to the software and data without physical
presence.

• Viruses and worms

• Logical intrusion

Question No: 39 ( Marks: 5 )

Discuss Risk Determination briefly.

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The purpose of this step is to assess the level of risk to the IT system. The

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determination of particular threat can be expressed as a function of

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1. The likelihood of a given threat-source’s attempting to exercise a given

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vulnerability (system flaw)

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2. The magnitude of the impact should a threat source successfully exercise a

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vulnerability
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3. The adequacy of planned or existing security controls for reducing or
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eliminating risk.
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Question No: 40 ( Marks: 10 )

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Discuss different ways to control the virus

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Question No: 41 ( Marks: 10 )

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What is reusable software?

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The software developed using object oriented approach can be easily reused due to
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independence/uniqueness of the objects i.e. an independent accounting module

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built in object oriented environment can be made a part of a complete ERP solution
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without developing it again from scratch for ERP.

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