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Man~gemer!.t p.ccountancy
MAY2010
Course . ~~';:,;:; L,~"ullii.1atio.
G-ll' p-4.svst~ms \\flal1agement
Roll No...............................
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Total.No. of Questions-6] [Total No. of Printed Pages-2
Time Allowed-3 Hours Maxim um Marks-100
DDA
Answer all questions.
Marks
1. The AMC Limited is a Car Manufacturing company. The management wanted 20
to stream line the information system that could integrates all data-from
Sale order booking, Inventory management, and Production management system.
Human Resource management accounts and Finance-so that accurate real-
time information will be available. A special team was constituteq for this
purpose. The team has heard that many manufacturing companies are just
beginning to.move their mission-critical, enterprise-level systems off their legacy
mainframe systems and onto new clientiserver systems. They have heard that
such systems provide increased flexibility, integration and functionality.
The planning team is considering custom development. Some large manufacturing
companies have undertaken custom development of their new client/server
system.
AMC team is concerned about the risk of not able to achieve the I1;1ain,objective
of having accurate real time system. The team appoints you as the,irconsultant.
As an experts what are the areas you would carefully address in order to build
a successful client/server application system.
2. Briefly describe the System Development Life cycle methodology and the various 16
steps involved.
3. Write short notes on the following: 16
(a) Backup and recover
(b) Prototyping
(c) Artificial Intelligence (AI)
(d) XML (Extensible Markup Language).
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4. Mis. Automatic is a small scale manufacturing company producing Solar pump 16
set. With the power shortqge in the State, demand for its product has grown. ..
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Currently the inventory records are maintained manu~lly on bin cards. There
are 1000 components and subassemblies. Inventory figures constantly change
as materials were drawn for production.
In order to have a better inventory control, management decided to computerize
the inventory system. The System Development team is meeting to consider
the change over procedures for inventory. As a part of team member what will
be your recommendation for. file changeover and controls that should be in
place to maintain data integrity.
5. Computer professionals say that the Computer operating system is capable of 16
running multiple programs-by linking two or more. CPUs for processing and
by sharing the processing resources and virtual storage it is possible for 1000
use-rs sitting at a remote terminal to use the Computer system simultaneously.
Further the computer can also run multiple programs at the saxpe time. In
this context what is meant by multiprogramming, multiprocessing, time share
and virtual storage?
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6. State the risks and governance issues in an ERP when organisatioD;s integrate 16
to real-time ERP.