Wednesday 4 January 2012

PAST YEAR (2009-2011)

APRIL 2009

Section A

Reports for each sales person, product, and part are examples of detail or fine
information granularities (april 2009)
Answer : TRUE

Product Statistics is an example of analytical information(april 2009)
Answer : TRUE

Section B

13. Which of the following information can be maintained on a database?
A. Inventory.
B. Transactions.
C. Employees.
D. All of the above.
Answer : C

OCTOBER 2009

Section A

Reports for each sales person, product, and part are examples of detail or fine
information granularities.
Answer : TRUE

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

OCTOBER 2009

Section B

Which of the following represents the different information granularities?
A. Detail, summary, aggregate
B. Document, presentation, spreadsheet, database
C. Individual, department, enterprise
D. None of the above
Answer : A

All of the following are characteristics of information, except:
A. Transactional
B. Analytical
C. Timeliness
D. Quantity
Answer : D

APRIL 2010

Section B

7. Which of the following represents the different information formats?
A. Detail, summary, aggregate
B. Document, presentation, spreadsheet, database
C. Individual, department, enterprise
D. None of the above
Answer : B

OCTOBER 2010

Section A

10. 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

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

Section B

11. What are the different types of information?
A. Levels, forms, granularities
B. Levels, forms, data
C. Levels, formats, granularities
D. Data, formats, granularities
Answer : C

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?
A. Transactional information
B. Analytical information
C. Timeliness
D. Quality
Answer : A

Section C

1 b) Explain and give example of transactional information and analytical information.
Answer :
Transactional information is 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, making an airline reservation, purchasing stocks. Another examples are include daily sales, hourly employee payroll, product orders, shipping an order.
For analytical information is encompasses all organizational information, and its primary purpose is to support the performing of managerial analysis tasks. Organizations capture and store transactional information in databases and use it when performing operational tasks and repetitive decisions such as analyzing daily sales reports and production schedules. For example trends, sales, product statistic and future growth projections.

APRIL  2011

Section B

8. All of the following are characteristics of information, except?
A. Quantity
B. Analytical
C. Timeliness
D. Transactional
Answer : A

SEPTEMBER 2011

Section B

9. Which of the following can a database maintain information on?
A. Inventory
B. Transactions
C. Employees
D. All of the above
Answer : C

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