CSC208
Management Information System (MIS)
Siti Nurbaya Ismail
Faculty of Computer Science & Mathematics,
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Kedah
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Course Information
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Code: CSC208
Course:
Management Information
System (MIS)
Contact Hour:
4
Course Status:
Non Core
Credit Unit:
3
Prerequisites:
None
Course Contents
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 This course is the study of information systems focusing on
their use in business and management.
 This course provides the students with the leading edge
perspectives on the business and management uses of
information systems. Businesses invest in information
systems because they create business value. The major
system investments being made today are enterprise
applications that integrate information across the
enterprise and create powerful new links to customers and
suppliers.
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Course Goals
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 Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
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Learn how managers develop, design, and implement major
systems to create new resources of value for the business.
Analyse business problems, develop systems solutions, and
manage business systems in the digital firm.
Apply problem-solving skills to an ongoing real business
scenario.
Identify the four enterprise applications: supply chain
management, customer relationship management, enterprise
systems, and knowledge management as the system pillars of
the digital firm.
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Textbook
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Information Systems Creating Business Value
by
Mark W. Huber, Craig A. Piercy & Patrick G.
McKeown :
John Wiley & Sons (2007)
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Course Information
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Assessment: 100%
Continuous Assessment
Final
Exam:
60%
Tests:
T1
15%
T2
Quizzes:
5%
Project:
20%
Course Description
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 Lab Session
 Database Management System(DBMS)
 Microsoft Access 2007
Tables
• Holds data.
Access uses
tables to
display the raw
data in records
(rows) and
fields
(columns).
Forms
• To display, enter,
edit, and print
formatted data
one record at a
time.
Reports
• Is a design for
printed data. Data
can be summarize
using the report
function or retrieve
specific information
to display.
Queries
• Question that
can be ask
about the data
within the
database.
Project
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 Introduction
 To meet the course requirements, students are required to
complete ONE project on Microsoft Access before end of
the semester.
 It is a group project where a team will be responsible to
establish a database of tables, forms, reports and queries
necessary for managerial and operational purposes of one
business process.
 All team is required to give reports on the progress of activities
as specified in the schedule.
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 Objectives
1.
To expose students in organizing collaborative efforts to
achieve specific goals.
2.
To expose students the roles of IT and technical people in any
system development project.
3.
To understand limitations and constraints about a project
development, particularly concerning costs, time, supports,
information technologies, creativity, and others.
4.
To know important technical concepts that are considered
necessary to facilitate communications with technical people,
and ease the development process.
5.
To help students improving their skills in organizing work
activities and resources, and presentation.
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Project
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 Decription
 ONE project.
 Each team is made up of 2 to 3 members.
 What you need to do is:
In groups (one group contains 2 or 3 students), develop a database
system for an organization.
 Your group is required to conduct some business rules activities to
complete of the given project.
 With the help of DBMS tool e.g. MS Access, MySQL etc, you can
efficiently manage your business profits.
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Project
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 Specification of the system:
 Tables: Minimum 3 tables, Maximum 5 tables
 Forms: in order to interact with the database
 Reports: Minimum 3 reports, Maximum 5 tables
 Queries: Minimum 3 reports, Maximum 5 tables
 Marks will be based on the workability of the system,
the user interface and report produced (technical
and aesthetical values)
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Project
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You need to provide a documentation on your work
that explains about your application
Submission of project:
1.
2.
Submit soft copy along the hard copy
Schedule of presentation will be determined once all
groups have been established
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Civility in the Classroom
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 Students are expected to assist in maintaining a classroom
environment which is conducive to learning.
 In order to assure that all students have an opportunity to
gain from time spent in class, unless otherwise approved by
the instructor, students are prohibited from using cellular
phones or beepers, eating or drinking in class, making
offensive remarks, reading newspapers, sleeping or
engaging in any other form of distraction.
 Inappropriate behavior in the classroom shall result in,
minimally, a request to behave his/herself.
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