Business and Information Technology
1. Describe in detail how IT can help current businesses to deal with business pressure in any two of the following areas:
o Strategic Systems
o Customer Focus and Service
o Continuous Improvement Efforts
2. How do you define global competition and changing workforce?
3. What are the different business pressures the organizations has to face? Explain the methods to overcome them by
using IT?
4. What is business pressure? How do organizations respond to business pressure?
5. Describe some of the pressures that characterize the modern global business environment.
6. What is CBIS? Illustrate with an example. List out its capabilities.
7. Explain how Information Technology enhances modern business environment? Justify your answer.
8. Define TPS, MIS and DSS in center to support difference organizational levels.
9. Define IT. Explain with a help of neat sketch the relationship between business pressure, organization and IT Support.
10. “It is vital for modern global business to make money”. Justify your answer.
11. What are the elements/components of IS? Explain any two. Explain with justifiable examples.
12. What is Information System? Define the terms data, information and technology.
IT in the Modern Environment
1. Define Information Architecture.
2. Differentiate between information technology infrastructure and information technology architecture.
3. Types of Information
4. Define a management information system (MIS) and describe its role in an organization.
5. Define TPS, MIS and DSS in center to support different organizational levels?
6. What are various types of Information systems? Explain their evolution by categorizing specific systems. What
role does Information Technology play for facilitating the needs of an organization?
7. What is CBIT? How it benefits in organization?
8. Explain how technology has to be maintained in organizations.
9. If you were consider a career in computing industry, which of the jobs computing industry would interest you?
Why?
10. How does information support to different levels of employees in organization?
Computer Hardware
1. Draw illustrations of three different network topologies, with at least four computers in each. Give the name of
each topology, and label each computer as PC, mainframe or minicomputer.
2. Differences between RAMs and ROMs
3. Common computer word lengths are 5, 10, 20 and 60 bits.
4. Describe any two input devices.
5. Show diagrammatically the cost, size and speed of the storage devices.
6. What is line width? What are the factors that affect the efficiency of CPU?
7. Explain how hardware affects the efficiency of an organization?
8. How does mainframe computer differ with microcomputer? Define by their construct and applications.
9. What is the difference between Primary Memory and Secondary Memory?
10. Categorize Registers, Magnetic Disk, Optical Storage Devices, Cache Memory, WORM Disk under primary
memory and secondary memory and explain each of them in brief.
11. What factors affect the speed of microprocessor?
12. Explain machine cycle? What are the factors determine the speed of the microprocessor?
13. Describe the hierarchy of computers according to power and respective roles.
14. What are machine cycles in microprocessor? State the different stages and explain them.
15. Distinguish between primary and secondary storages along with dimension of speed, cost and capacity?
16. Explain the difference between microprocessor and CPU.
17. What are I/O devices? List some of the important I/O devices.
18. If you intend to buy a computer, how would you decide which computer should be purchased and what
peripherals it should have?
19. What factor affect the speed of microprocessor?
20. Explain different types of primary storage.
21. What is microprocessor? Describe its functions. Illustrate the advancements in microprocessor design?
22. Define how CPU works with the help of instruction execution cycle. Draw necessary figure.
23. Compare the physical and logical parameters of optical and floppy disk.
24. How does mainframe computer differ with microcomputer? Discuss in terms of their architecture and application.
25. Describe the role of various types of computer hardware in personal productivity and organizational productivity.
26. Describe the main types of primary storage and secondary storage.
27. What is microprocessor design advancing? Discuss. Give examples of the use of super computers and handheld
computers.
28. Briefly design how a microprocessor function?
29. What is CPU? Explain how CPU processes an instruction. Draw relevant figure.
30. Describe one application of a multimedia system in a business organization and its advantages.
31. Discuss what multimedia systems are and what technology they use?
32. Explain the concept of multimedia and give example of multimedia system.
33. Describe the three types of Enterprise Storage Systems. Draw necessary diagrams.
34. Describe the concept of multimedia. What are the common input/output technologies required for a multimedia
system? How are they different from the normal input and output technologies? Explain.
35. Define the term Multimedia. Why multimedia applications require extensive memory capacity?
36. “Cache memory is used to store the cash deposits and withdrawals in a specialized computer for the banking
industry.” Is this statement true or false? Why?
37. What factors affect the speed of microprocessor?
Computer Software
1. What is software crisis? Explain the reason behind software crisis.
2. “System software is a set of instructions that provides specific functionality to a user, i.e. to manipulate data or
text to produce information.” Is this statement true or false? Why?
3. “An interpreter translates and executes only one source program statement at a time.” Is this statement true or
false? Why?
4. What is the difference between application software and system software? Explain with examples.
5. What are some of the criteria used for evaluating software when planning and purpose?
6. What is an operating system? Explain the differences between system software, application software and
enterprise software with examples.
7. Explain what are the factors that have to be considered when buying a software?
8. What are the criteria for evaluating software when planning a purchase for a business organizations?
9. Explain how software has evolved and trends for the future.
10. Explain the general functions of an operating system.
11. In present scenario, software purchasing is a big concern. What are the criteria used for evaluating software when
planning a purchase in the current scenario? Discuss.
12. What are the functions of an operating systems?
13. What is open source software and what are its advantages and disadvantages?
14. What is system software? Explain its types.
15. System Software verses Application Software.
Managing Organizational Data and Information
16. What is the difference between data file and database? What are the benefits of storing data in a database instead
of a data file?
17. “A database system can have many logical views but only one physical view.” Is this statement true or false?
Why?
18. “In a hierarchical database model, many-to-many relationship are not possible.” Is this statement true or false?
Why?
19. What is Database Management System (DBMS) and what are the components of DBMS? Explain them briefly.
20. Explain the advantages of DBMS.
21. List out the advantages of DBMS in modern business organizations.
22. Data Warehouse and its advantages.
23. What is the difference between data file and database? What are the benefits of storing data in a database instead
of a data file?
24. What are main components of a DBMS?
25. What are database models? Explain any one model.
26. Describe data organization and access methods.
27. What are the advantages of Database Management System provided to the organizations?
28. What is Data Dictionary? Why it is needed? How it is used?
29. What is DBMS? Explain how it solves the problem of traditional data type system.
30. What is ERD? Define the logical data models with associated examples.
31. Data Compression
32. Data Marts
33. Data Mining
34. Centralized Database Verses Distributed Database
35. Explain source data automation with examples.
36. What are the drawbacks of traditional file system and how DBMS overcome those problems?
37. Discuss the similarities and dissimilarities between data mining and text mining.
Telecommunications and Network
1. A1 Fill in the blanks with low, high or medium relating to the cables indicated.
Type of cable Coaxial Twisted Pair Fiber Optic
Features
Relative Data Density
Relative Expense
Degree of security from tapping
Ease of installation and maintainence
B. Describe one major use of each type of the cables given above.
2. “Bandwidth is measured as a range of frequencies.” Is this statement true or false? Why?
3. “Chatting is crosstalk on twisted-pair model.” Is this statement true or false? Why?
4. Describe what a value-added network (VAN) is, and its use in EDI.
5. What is the difference between cable media and broadcast media?
6. Asynchronous Transmission verses Synchronous Transmission
7. What is communication media? Define the guided media with respective characters.
8. Application of telecommunication
9. How you distinguish between LAN, MAN and WAN?
10. Explain any four different types of Network Topologies with nice figures.
11. What is network protocol? Explain TCP/IP.
12. What are the common media for telecommunications? What are their respective advantages and disadvantages?
13. Would Telecommunication be more popular in context to Nepal? Justify your answer.
14. List and explain any two types of data transmission technology used for advanced computing applications.
15. Discuss the use of network and submit the merits and demerits.
16. Telecommunication
17. Describe the eight basic types of communication media, including their advantages and disadvantages?
18. What are the main business reasons for using LANs?
19. What are the major components of a telecommunications systems?
20. Local Area Network
21. What are satellites? Compare three basic types of communication satellites.
22. What are the characteristic of communication media?
23. Explain co axial and optic fiber with their types.
24. Application of Telecommunication
25. Discuss two distinct examples of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).
26. Differentiate between guided and unguided communication channels.
The Intranets, Internet and Extranet
27. “An Intranet is a private network that uses Internet Software and TCP/IP protocols.” Is this statement true or
false? Why?
28. “An extranet is a standby intranet that is switched on in case the primary intranet fails.” Is this statement true or
false? Why?
29. Differences & Distinguish Between Internet, Intranets and Extranets.
30. What are the major categories of communication services provided by Intranet?
31. What are the challenges faced by Internet?
32. Explain how Internet has affected our daily life? Justify its pros and cons.
33. Define Internet, Extranet and Internet. How can they enhance organizational performance? Draw a diagram
representing all three in an organization.
34. What are the services provided by the internet?
35. Explain how people collaborate over the intranets, internet and extranets using various supporting tools?
36. Explain how Intranet, Extranet and Internet help in growth of an organization?
Functional, Enterprise, and Inter organizational Systems
1. What are EDI and EFT? Explain the role of internet over EDI.
2. List and explain the important inter-organizational implementation issues of information system.
3. What is Global Information System? List three benefits of global information system with appropriate examples.
4. What competitive advantage can you imagine for EDI in your chosen field or industry?
5. What is inter organizational system? What the most prominent types of inter organizational systems?
6. Transaction Processing System & Its Tasks, Modules & Major Characteristics
7. EFT and GIS
8. Differentiate EDI and EFT with example.
9. What is inter organizational information system? List and explain its major type.
10. “Human Resource Management plays an important role in an organization.” Explain it with examples.
11. What are the advantages of human resource management in organizations?
12. List the major activities of HRM department.
13. Explain the role of Human Resource Management in business environments. Also highlight its advantages &
disadvantages.
14. What is the role of IT business functions; explain with reference to Transaction Processing, Marketing, Sales and
Production.
15. List and explain the important inter-organizational implementation issues of an information system.
16. Briefly write down the ethical and societal issues in IT-supported sale activities.
17. Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
18. What is Global Information Systems? List three benefits of global information system with suitable examples.
Electronic Commerce
1. What are the major advantages of E-Commerce?
2. How does internet support in the business? Differentiate between B-to-B and B-to-C.
3. How does a developing country like Nepal benefits from E-commerce? Give reasons to support your answer.
4. How can IT be used for data interchange and fund transfer? How can people benefit from it?
5. Suppose you are the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a large company that manufactures computers from
assembled parts. Describe in detail what you would instruct three of the following managers in your company as
to how E-Commerce could be used in their departments.
Marketing and Advertising Manager
Human Resources (Employment/Personnel) Manager
Purchasing Manager
Customer Services Manager
Finance Manager
6. List some organizational, societal and consumer benefits of e-commerce.
7. What are major issues faced by e-tailers?
8. What are the security requirements for conducting electronic commerce?
9. G to C E-Commerce
10. What are some of the issues manager face must face when they initially consider doing on the internet?
11. What are the issues that have to handle when building a web store?
12. Explain B2B and C2C in e-commerce.
13. In context to Nepal using e-commerce in business environment is challenging? Explain and justify your answer.
14. Distinguish E-commerce from E-business.
15. Explain B2C and B2G.
16. Describe e-commerce, its types, scope, benefits and limitations.
17. What are the security issues that has to be met to make EC payment safe?
18. Describe the E-commerce and support services. Also include payments and logistics system.
19. E-Business
20. Payment method in e-commerce.
21. Explain the roles of IT in marketing and sales. Briefly write down the ethical and societal issues in IT-supported
sales activities.
22. Explain the roles of IT in business function.
Computer- Based Supply Chain Management and Information System Integration
1. Define ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and its functionalities.
2. Explain the ERP concepts and its benefits to the organization.
3. Production and Operation Management
Data, Knowledge and Decision Support
1. Define DSS and Expert System.
2. Major Characteristics/Capabilities of DSS
3. Explain DSS with a necessary diagram.
4. How DSS is important for today’s business.
5. Components of DSS
Intelligence Systems in Business
1. Advantages of Artificial Intelligence Over Natural Intelligence
2. Intelligent Agents & Role in Business Systems
3. Commercial Artificial Intelligent Systems
4. Compare the difference between artificial intelligence and natural intelligence.
5. List out major advantage and disadvantage of artificial intelligence compared natural intelligence.
6. AI in business
7. AI in modern business organization
8. Define Intelligence.
Strategic Information System and Reorganization
1. How can groupware add strategic advantage in a business/ organization?
Implementing IT: Ethics, Impacts and Security
1. What are the ethical issues to be considered in information society? Give necessary examples.
2. Explain the different crimes in Internet Society?
3. What are ethics? What are different measures for protecting information resources?
4. What is IS operation plan, and what are its components?
5. What are the selecting criteria for selecting a software application package?
6. What is decision? What are the process and phases in decision making?
7. What are the characteristics and capabilities of DSS?
Misc. Questions
1. Role of IT in Global Business
2. Convert the decimal number 5698 to binary and binary and convert hexadecimal number 40CAD to decimal.
3. E-Governance
4. Explain the importance of electronic communication system in modern business scenario.
5. You are hired by Nepal Tourism Board as an information officer. Write a proposal to setup information
throughout Kaski district and the infrastructure need, different equipment and manpower to make it feasible.
6. Recently Nepal Agriculture Board has asked a proposal for taking ICT to promote the farmers and share
information and awareness. Write a report how this can be achieved.
7. E-R Model
8. How would Information Technologies help the country in adverse situation (e.g.: earthquakes, floods, landslides
etc.) what are its advantages and disadvantages. Justify your answer.
9. Convert the following decimal number into binary.
i. 7737
ii. 42.64
10. Convert the following Hexa Decimal to decimal.
i. AD80C
11. Recently Nepal Agriculture Board had asked a proposal for taking ICT to promote the farmers and share
information and awareness. Write a report how this can be achieved.
12. What do you mean by number system? Convert the following decimal numbers into binary.
i. 4682
ii. 6468
13. Define mobile computing and M-commerce and corporate portals.
14. Explain the types of Information Systems.
15. What is OSI reference model? Explain the roles of all the layers of OSI reference model.
16. Convert the binary numbers to decimals (111011.101)
17. Convert the decimal numbers into hexa decimal 54977.
18. Data Compression
Prepared by:
Arjun sharma poudel
https://www.facebook.com/arjun.sharma.5030
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