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2007 FIRST YEAR EXAMINATION PAPER

BN1160 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR BUSINESS

ASTON UNIVERSITY

BSc with Honours in Accounting for ManagementBSc with Honours in Business and ManagementBSc with Honours in Business Computing and IT

BSc with Honours in Economics and ManagementBSc with Honours in Human Resource Management

BSc with Honours in International Business and ManagementBSc with Honours in International Business and Economics

BSc International Business and Modern LanguagesBSc with Honours in Marketing

BSc with Honours in Managerial and Administrative StudiesBSc Combined Honours Business Administration

2007 FIRST YEAR EXAMINATION


Date Friday 18thMay 2007 Time 09.30

2 HOURS

CLOSED BOOK

There are three sections to this paper:-

Section A (20 marks)Answer ALL multiple choice questions in youranswer booklets. Please ensure that you enteryour CANDIDATE number at the top of thesheet.

Section B (30 marks)Answer ALL questions in this section

Section C (50 marks)

Answer TWO questions from a choice of three.Each question is equally weighted.


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SECTION A - Multiple Choice

Attempt all questions.Each Question carries 1 mark(Each question has only one correct answer, a,b,c,d or e)

1. The use of a computer in engineering or product design is known by theinitials:

a. CADb. CD-ROMc. CPUd. CRT

e. ERP

2. RAD is a form of:a. Formal methodb. Prototypingc. Structured methodd. Systems development life cyclee. Spreadsheet tool

3. Who is most likely to use an EIS?a. A shop floor worker

b. A clerkc. A computer programmerd. A senior managere. A sales representative

4. When text is linked non-sequentially, it is referred to asa. serialb. hypertextc. randomd. disjointede. a file

5. Software programs designed to allow several networked users to work onthe same document at the same time are

a. electronic mailb. groupwarec. video conferencingd. bulletin boardse. shareware


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6. A cookie isa. a piece of information about a web sessionb. an image in an HTML documentc. another name for a web paged. a plug-in added to a browsere. a program for remote access to email

7. The illegal duplication of software is software _______a. piracyb. plagiarismc. patent infringementd. hacking

e. copying

8. A program that performs a useful task and, at the same time, carries outsome secret destructive act, is known as a

a. virusb. Trojan horsec. Wormd. Logic bombe. Macro virus

9. With direct changeover from an old system to a new one:

a. On a given date, the old system ceases to be operational and the newone is put into use

b. The old system and the new system operate simultaneously, and theresults are compared

c. Only minor changes are made to the system that is already in used. The new system is tested using real operating data, and when the

outputs have been checked against those of the old system, the newone is put into use

e. The new system is installed and running while the old system is stillworking.

10. The result of the systems analysis stage of computer systemdevelopment is:

a. The requirements documentb. The suite of programs and filesc. The specificationd. The feasibility studye. The user guide


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11. The main difficulty preventing the complete separation of logical andphysical design is that:

a. Some people cant think logicallyb. Physical design is easier than logical designc. The capabilities of computer hardware are constantly improvingd. Many business systems have to be developed to run on existing

hardware and softwaree. They are the same thing

12. Any system of two or more computers that are linked together is aa. distributed systemb. telecommunications systemc. teleconferencing system

d. computer networke. none of the above is correct

13. To communicate with each other, two machines must follow the samea. protocolb. bit mapc. instruction setd. modele. rule set

14. Which of the following statements is TRUE

a. The WWW is the internetb. The WWW existed before the Internetc. Important Internet applications existed long before the World Wide

Web was inventedd. Important Web applications existed long before the Internet was

inventede. None of the above is true

15. The following is NOT a form of broadband connectiona. ISDNb. FTPc. DSLd. Cable modeme. Satellite dish

16. Which of the following travels independently over computer networks,seeking out uninfected workstations to occupy?

a. wormb. logic bombc. Trojan horsed. Virus

e. Macro virus


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17. Which terms currently refers to a person who breaks into computersystems without authorisation?

a. cyber criminalb. crackerc. hackerd. electronic burglare. software wizard

18. A secret numerical code that is applied so a message can be transmittedor stored as an indecipherable garble of characters is a(n)

a. electronic combinationb. digitised keyc. encryption key

d. encoded keye. password

19. The low-cost, low maintenance machines that allow workers to accesscritical network information without the overhead of a PC or workstationare called

a. enterprise computingb. networksc. thin clientsd. distributed computinge. information systems

20. Electronic commerce includesa. salesb. supportc. customer serviced. All of the abovee. B and C only


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SECTION B

Answer all parts of the following question.The question carries 30 marks

a) Write out a lookup formula that you would use to find the total value for1997. However, before you would write this formula into the above Excelspreadsheet you would need to perform an action to ensure the lookup facilitywould work properly. What action would this be, and why would you need toperform it?

(5 marks)

b) Write a formula to calculate the number of years in which the Fishingdepartment has achieved sales over 10,000. Your formula should useappropriate addressing to ensure that it can be copied and pasted into any

other cell but still perform this calculation.(5 marks)

c) Write two different formulas that you could use to calculate how many differentvalues have (across all the departments and all the years) contributed to thetotal of 772. Note: The formula should return the value 72.

(5 marks)

d) The autofilter facility in Excel can help you to view different arrangements ofthe data. Discuss five different ways in which you can usefully use autofilter tofilter data. Illustrate your answers using the above spreadsheet.

(5 marks)


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e) Explain, providing examples from the above spreadsheet, how you might use theFormula Auditing toolbar facility in Excel and what it will help you to do.

(5 marks)

f) The graph below effectively communicates the data it represents. Identify fiveways in which this graph can be further improved for a UK audience and fullyexplain your reason for making the improvement.(Note: Do not mention changes to the graph which are simply personalpreferences only mention changes which actually improve the readability ofthe graph or the communication of the data it represents.)

(5 marks)

Sporting goods sales for period 1990-2007

0

5

10

15

20

25

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

1998

1997

1996

1995

1994

1993

1992

1991

1990

Valueofsales(000's)

FootballFishingJudoHockey Department

SECTION CAnswer 2 questions onlyEach question carries 25 marks

1. Distinguish between buy-side and sell-side e-commerce and give an example of

the application of each.(25 marks)

2. Discuss three advantages of the use of prototyping.(25 marks)

3. Identify and compare alternative changeover methods for the systemimplementation phase of the systems development lifecycle.(25 marks)

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