MIS Management Information Systems MCQ 4

Question 1

Which systems development approach builds a working model of a system quickly to gather user feedback before full development?

Accepted Answer

Prototyping

Answer

Prototyping creates an early working model to elicit user feedback and clarify requirements before committing to full development.

Question 2

In MIS, 'information overload' refers to a situation where:

Accepted Answer

Users receive more information than they can effectively process

Answer

Information overload occurs when the volume of available information exceeds a person's capacity to process it effectively, reducing decision quality.

Question 3

Which Porter's competitive force model element represents the threat posed by alternative products that serve the same customer need?

Accepted Answer

Threat of substitute products

Answer

The threat of substitutes occurs when customers can switch to a different product type that fulfills the same need, limiting an industry's pricing power.

Question 4

A company migrates its email servers to Microsoft 365, accessing email as a hosted service without managing the underlying infrastructure. This is which cloud service model?

Accepted Answer

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Answer

SaaS delivers fully functional software applications over the internet, with the vendor managing all underlying infrastructure and maintenance.

Question 5

Which term describes the process of identifying patterns in large datasets to predict future outcomes, commonly used in marketing and fraud detection?

Accepted Answer

Data mining

Answer

Data mining uses statistical and machine learning techniques to discover patterns, correlations, and insights in large datasets.

MIS - Management Information Systems Practice Test

MIS - Management Information Systems Practice Test

MIS Management Information Systems MCQ 4