1. Final Exam i hope you will sucess write in your paper

2. Chapter 1 - Objectives
Why information systems are so essential in business today.
Define an information system from both a technical and a business perspective.
The complementary assets required for information technology to provide value to a business.
Identify and describe contemporary approaches to the study of information systems and distinguish between computer literacy and information systems literacy.

3. Sample Final Exam Questions
Provide an overview of the six business objectives of information systems.
Information systems produce the information that organizations need to make decisions, control operations, analyze problems, and create new products or services. Identify and describe the three activities found in information systems.
Explain the difference between computer literacy and information literacy.
Briefly describe how information systems influence organizations, people, and technology.

4. Chapter 2 - Explain
Business processes and their relationship to information systems.
Information systems supporting the major business functions: sales and marketing, manufacturing and production, finance and accounting, and human resources.
The role played by systems serving the various levels of management in a business and their relationship to each other.
How enterprise applications and intranets promote business process integration and improve organizational performance.

5. Sample Final Exam Questions
What are "business processes"? What purposes do they serve in the firm?
Explain the difference between a management information system and a decision-support system as they relate to middle managers.
Discuss the interrelationships among TPS, MIS, DSS, and ESS systems.
What is the function of a CRM system?
Businesses today are enabled by or based upon digital networks. What is meant by e-business and e-commerce?

6. Chapter 3 - Objectives
Important features of organizations that managers need to know about in order to build and use information systems successfully.
The impact of information systems on organizations.
How information systems help businesses use synergies, core competencies, and network-based strategies to achieve competitive advantage.

7. Sample Final Exam Questions
What could account for differences in the uses of information systems in different organizations?
Discuss the concept of the reciprocal relationship that organizations have with their environments.
According to Mintzberg's classification, list five basic kinds of organizational structures, and give an example of each.

8. Chapter 4 - Objectives
The relationships among ethical, social, and political issues that are raised by information systems.
The main moral dimensions of an information society and specific principles for conduct that can be used to guide ethical decisions.
The impact of contemporary information systems and the Internet on the protection of individual privacy and intellectual property.

9. Sample Final Exam Questions
What are some problems with the traditional file environment?
Define and distinguish between the terms data hierarchy, data redundancy, and data administration.
What does a large distributed database present in terms of security problems?
List the four types of contemporary DBMS and describe a distinguishing characteristic of each one.
What is the connection between data warehousing and data-mining?

10. Chapter 7 - Objectives
The features of telecommunications networks and key networking technologies.
Alternative transmission media, types of networks, and network services.
How the Internet and Internet technology work and how they support communication and e-business.
The principal technologies and standards for wireless networking, communication, and Internet access.

11. Chapter 10 - Objectives
The unique features of e-commerce, digital markets, and digital goods.
How Internet technology has changed value propositions and business models.
The various types of e-commerce and how e-commerce has changed consumer retailing and business-to-business transactions.
The role of m-commerce in business and describe the most important m-commerce applications.

12. Sample Final Exam Questions
What are some unique features of e-commerce technology?
Explain how the Internet reduces information asymmetry.
Discuss the impact of the Internet on markets for digital goods.
Discuss how mobile commerce services and applications can extend a business's outreach to customers.

13. Sample Final Exam Questions
Why can't everything be reduced to an expert system?
Describe the two strategies normally used for an inference engine.
What is an example of a knowledge work system?
What is the difference between an expert system and a neural network?
List at least three examples of the use of intelligent agents today ?

14. Chapter 12 - Objectives
Different types of decisions and the decision-making process.
How information systems support the activities of managers and management decision making.
How decision-support systems (DSS) differ from MIS and how they provide value to the business.
How executive support systems (ESS) help senior managers make better decisions.
The role of information systems in helping people working in a group make decisions more efficiently.

15. Sample Final Exam Questions
Outline three main reasons why investments in information technology do not always produce positive results.
Compare and contrast the different capabilities of DSS and MIS systems. If you had to do without one of them, which would it be? Why?
How is data visualization used in GIS?
Discuss how executive support systems help senior managers make better decisions.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the use of a GDSS for group decision making?

16. Chapter 13 - Objectives
How building new systems produces organizational change.
The core activities in the systems development process.
Alternative methods for building information systems.
Alternative methodologies for modeling systems.
New approaches for system-building in the digital firm era.

17. Final Exam Details
All questions will be short essay type similar to the sample questions.
This is a closed book, closed notes exam.
You can take the entire class time to complete it.
No exam book required.