Sandip Foundation’s Sandip Institute of Technology & Research Centre, Nashik

Department of Information Technology

Class: T.E.I.T. Academic Year: 2010-2011 Subject: Management Information System

Assignment Chapter 02 Decision Support Systems

1. What is data warehouse? How it is useful in managerial decision making? 8

2. Explain Herbert Simon’s model for decision making. Also explain main features and types

of DSS. 8

3. What is DSS? Compare DSS with ERP and MIS. 9

4. Discuss in detail any application of DSS. Give the architecture of this DSS. 8

5. Differentiate between MIS and DSS. 8

6. Explain major activities of GIS in managerial decision making process. 8

7. Explain the role of analytical modeling in DSS. 8

8. What are the characteristics of the decision-making process? 8

9. List the different domains of artificial intelligence. 8

10. Differentiate between structured and unstructured decisions. 8

11. Explain in detail ‘what-if analysis’ and ‘sensitivity analysis’ in decision making process. 8

12. What is data mining? Explain data mining for decision support. 8

13. Explain- Goal seeking analysis. 5

Mr. Tushar B. Kute (Subject Teacher)