IS Study Guide for MBAC 6080
Review Guide for IS Topics - MBAC 6080 - Spring 1998 -- Professor
Kozar
- Do information systems always provide benefits? Why not?
- What are the components/parts of any system?
- What do the symbols on a data flow diagram represent?
- What are the three types of information systems?
- Should you still do systems analysis and design when using packaged software?
- What is the prototyping development method? When should it be used?
- Why should the user-developed development method be used with caution?
Understanding and
Using the World Wide Web
- Regarding purchasing on the WWW, where has the most benefit occurred to date? (pre? post?)
- What is a firewall? What is its purpose?
- How are markup tags used? Must all of them be "paired"?
- Why do many web developers/maintainers discourage the use of page generators?
- Why are large graphics discouraged on web pages?
Linking IS and
Organizational Strategy
- How can the "alignment" model exhibit system usefulness?
- How are business objectives stated?
- If one were to engage in business process reengineering, where would you focus?
- How would the "alignment" model be used for business need pull? technology push?
- What are three types of information system feasibility? Are they related to the "alignment " model?
- Does meeting system objectives mean there will be a business benefit in terms of business objectives?
- What is the link between a data flow model and the "alignment" model?
Building Usable
Systems
- Why is usability important when considering feasibility? Which type of feasibility?
- Is there a difference between a training and reference manual?
- What are three general guides for achieving usability? (makes me hungry)
- How would you graph user/developer communication over time for prototyping vs. a systems development life cycle approach?
- Why do we want to move input close to the data source?
- What input design approach is based on the belief "if I don't do it, I can't do it wrong."?
- What objective from the alignment model are we trying to meet with output design?
- Why is a task organization desirable in designing manuals?
- Is there a difference between training and education?
- If we use a user-centric approach, why is it important to determine the user type?
- What kind of users should be used for system testing?
- What does optometry have to do with testing?
Competing
Through Information Systems
- What is meant by informationalizing? How is this related to information exhaust?
- How can mass customization be facilitated by information systems?
- What is disintermediation?
- What kind of marketing is possible with information technology?
- What would we do with system boundaries when seeking competitive advantage through IT?
- How can IT improve links to suppliers? customers?
- How do expert and decision support systems differ?
- Why should we design an IS for a person in a position rather than for the position?
- How might groupware or "teamwork technology" assist an organization?