Assumption University, Graduate School of Business Written Comprehensive Examination - Sem. 3 / 2009
Assumption University of Thailand
Graduate School of Business
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Guideline for Comprehensive Examination - Semester 3/2009
Course code/title
Lecturer
Date
Time
: BC 6501 Management Information Systems
: A. Surapong Soponkij
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Textbook:
Laudon & Laudon - Management Information System – Managing the Digital
Firm. 10th edition (international)
For the latest updates on definitions and concepts, the students are advised to visit:
www.whatis.com
Topics
Enterprise System & Securing Policy (Ch.2 & 8): Define business process and
strategy to improve the relationship between organization’s activities and
its information system. Define how to secure and use framework for
security control of information system. Focused Solution: 2.3, 8.3
Ethical Issues & Customer Intimacy (Ch.4 & 9): Evaluate all impacts and
protections of information rights, privacy, and ethical issues to integrating
all customer information systems and making them available throughout
the enterprise by PRM / ERM / CRM. Focused Solution: 4.3, 9.2, 9.3
Managing Knowledge (Ch.11): There are challenges of acquiring and sharing
knowledge management system, how business gains the benefits by using
knowledge value chain as the management tools to incorporate all tacit
exchanges into business process. Focused Solution: 11.1, 11.2, 11.4
Global Challenges (Ch.13 & 15): Building alternative system methodologies
and Managing Global Business Drivers and Strategies to solve the
technology issues and opportunities for global value chains to overcome
the international networks’ basis. Focused Solution: 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.4
It is understood that the students have basic knowledge about the IS tools,
security, networking and telecommunication.
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Assumption University, Graduate School of Business Written Comprehensive Examination - Sem. 3 / 2009
Nature of Exam Questions
The format of the questions can be:
- Identify a factor, scope out a system, list some relationships
- Define business model and strategy
- Describe related enterprise application
- Draw a conventional process diagram
Advices
What to be expected:
- Maintain numbering for all answers / orders / classifications.
- Better shorten a unique answer with well-defined keywords / statements.
- Emphasize a driver approach for the enterprise system.
- Global solution to shape business process and improvement.
- Illustrate a descriptive diagram with consistent flows, direct a line to process
relationships, meaningful process name & captions, and well-defined linkages.
What to be avoided:
- Answers not related or not adapted to given conditions
- Diagram without proper usage of symbolic, directive flow, naming, linkage.
- Static answers (listing of elements without brief relationship / description)
- Out of scope system / software / application / technology / infrastructure,
unnecessary implementation beyond the conditions.
- Business model without process relationship input / rules / conditions / output.
- Outdated Information System solutions (main frames, EDI…).
This exam paper is ABAC’s property and cannot be distributed or duplicated without proper authority.
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