Fundamental of IT

POKHARA UNI VERSI TY


Level: Bachelor

Semester
–

Fall

Year : 2009

Programme:
BE

Full Marks : 100

Course:
Fundamental of IT

Time : 3hrs.


Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far
as practicable.

The figure
s in the margin indicate full marks.

Attempt all the questions.


1.

a.

Describe the five different pressure the business environment faces
in th
e

information age?

b.

What are the capabilities of information system?

c.

What is a computer
–
based information system?

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2.

a.

List the major career paths in Information Technology. Which
career path is most appealing to you at this point? Why?

b.

What are ISO OSI reference model? Explain the role of all the
layers of OSI reference model?

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3.

a.

How the use of DBMS bene
fits an organization?

b.

Describe the role of various types of computer Hardware in
personal productivity and organizational productivity.

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4.

a.

What are the two main types of system software?

b.

How can groupware add strategic advantages in that business
orga
nization?

c.

What are the common media for telecommunications? What are
their respective advantages and disadvantages?

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5.

a.

Discuss inter organizational /global information systems and their
strategic importance.

b.

Explain how IT helps Human resource mana
gement and planning?

c.

What are the objectives of Transaction processing system?

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6.

a.

Distinguish between EFT and EDI.

b.

Describe the type of E
-
commerce? Compare the requirement goals
of B to B, B to C and B to G commerce.

c.

What is meant by supply chain m
anagement? How E
-
commerce
affects the supply chain management?

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7.

Write short notes on
(
Any two
)

a.

Data warehouse

b.

Secondary storage devices

c.

Evaluation of a software

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