The University of Georgia
Department of Management Information Systems
MIST4610
Sample Final Examination
Answer all questions
Ox (40 points)
Answer the following queries based on the relational database described in the SQL Playbook.
Easy (3 points each)
1. What are the items delivered by Sao Paulo Manufacturing?
2. Find the maximum salary paid in each department.
3. List the deliveries made to each department sorted by department and within department
by item name.
4. Which employees are paid more than the highest salary paid to an employee in the Marketing department?
5. List the items that are not red or green.
Hard (5 points each)
1. Find the names of those employees who make at least $3,000 less than their boss.
2. Find the suppliers who deliver to the Clothes department all the type C items.
3. Report those items that have been delivered and have been listed in at most one sale. In
other words, there has been one or zero sales containing the item.
4. Which items delivered by Nepalese Corp have also been sold by the Recreation department.
Note, another company could have delivered the item, but it must be among those delivered
by Nepalese.
5. What is the minimum quantity of each item that has been delivered by each supplier?
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Yak (24 points - 8 for each)
Answer each of the following:
1. A national cinema chain has commissioned you to design a multidimensional database for
its marketing department. What identifier and variable dimensions would you select?
2. Write a stored procedure for the EMP table (see page 138-139) that can be used to increase
the salary by a specified percentage for employees of a specified department (i.e., salary increase and department are parameters in the procedure).
3. A bank is designing a system to store images of all its customers’ checks so customers can
view them online. As customers infrequently request to see a particular image of a check,
the bank will store the checks on a separate system to avoid reducing the response time of
its current online banking system. Each check image is about 100k and the bank receives
50,000 checks per day. Use this information to get some idea of how much storage will be
needed so that you can recommend a storage technology. What technology will you recommend and why? What backup and recovery strategy would you recommend and why?
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Auroch (20 points)
Develop a data model based on the entities and relationships that you observe on the following
sample page from The University of Georgia Undergraduate Bulletin.
(MIST) Management Information Systems
Terry College of Business, Department of Management Information Systems
MIST 2090. Introduction to Information Systems in Business. 3 hours.
Not open to students with credit in CSCI 1100-1100L or MGMT 2190.
Computer concepts and information technology in business, including hardware and software concepts, fundamentals of information systems, telecommunications and business-related software packages.
MIST 4600. Computer Programming in Business. 3 hours.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4600.
Prerequisite: MIST 2090 or CSCI 1100-1100L.
Introduction to computer programming. Fundamentals of system analysis and program development using topdown design; structured programming; and debugging, testing and implementation; elementary data structures.
MIST 4610. Data Management. 3 hours.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4610.
Prerequisite: MIST 2090 or CSCI 1100-1100L.
Data management, including database development, access, and administration. The focus is on issues and principles of managing organizational data. Students will get extensive experience in developing data models, creating relational databases, and formulating and executing complex queries.
MIST 4620. Systems Analysis and Design. 3 hours.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4620.
Prerequisite: MIST 4600 and MIST 4610.
Structured systems analysis and design with emphasis on the development of business application systems.
Methods of systems documentation are examined through the use of tools and techniques for describing process
flows, data flows, data structures, system objects, file designs, input and output designs, and program specifications.
MIST 4700. Management Information Systems Internship or Cooperative Education. 3 hours.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4700.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3000 and MIST 4600 and MIST 4610 and permission of department.
Students are permitted to enter businesses, governmental agencies, or other organizations for the purposes of obtaining practical and applied management information systems experience. A paper or suitable project associated
with a description and analysis of this experience is required.
MIST 5620. Building Decision Support Systems. 3 hours.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5620.
Prerequisite: MIST 4600 and MIST 4610.
Decision support systems are the highest level of information support systems which aid the manager in the decision making process. This course provides the student with the skills necessary to conceptualize, build, and implement decision support systems in organizations.
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Hereford (16 points)
A new law requires every university to transmit every semester the grades of each student to
the Federal Department of Education. The Department has commissioned you to develop an
XML schema to support this data exchange. The Department requires some basic information
about the university (name), student (name and social security number), and a list of courses
taken and the grades received for those courses. The Department requires SSN code to be in
the format 999-99-9999 and grades in the range A-F.
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