INF1505 CORE EXAMS SET 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTION RATED A+
✔✔Hardware - ✔✔Any machinery (most of which uses digital circuits) that assists in the
input, processing, storage, and output activities of an information system.
✔✔Software - ✔✔The computer programs that govern the operation of a particular
computing device, be it desktop, laptop, tablet computers.
✔✔Database - ✔✔An organised collection of electronic information
✔✔Telecommunications - ✔✔The electronic transmission of signals for
communications; enables organisations to carry out their processes and tasks through
effective computer networks
✔✔Networks - ✔✔Computers and equipment that are connected in a room, building,
Campus, city, across the country or around the world to enable electronic
communications.
✔✔Internet - ✔✔The world's largest computer network, actually consisting of thousands
of interconnected networks, all freely exchanging information.
✔✔Cloud Computing - ✔✔A computing environment where software and storage are
provided as an Internet service and are accessed via a web browser.
A means of providing computer services wherein a serve provider organization owns
and manages the hardware, software, networking and storage devices, with cloud user
organizations(called tenants) accessing slices of shared resources via the internet.
✔✔Intranet - ✔✔An internal company network built using Internet and World Wide Web
standards and products that allows people within an organisation to exchange
information and work on projects.
✔✔Extranet - ✔✔A network based on web technologies thats allows selected outsiders,
such as business partners, suppliers or customers, to access authorised resources of a
company's intranet.
✔✔Procedures - ✔✔The strategies, policies, methods, and rules for using CBIS.
✔✔Business Information System Types - ✔✔Strategic Level : Executive Support
Systems - Support long-term, strategic decisions made by senior managers
Tactical Level : Management information systems & Decision support Systems -
Support mid-term decisions made by middle managers
, Operational Level : Transaction Processing Systems, Customer Relationship
Management Systems & Supply Chain Management Systems - Support the dat-to-day
running of the firm
✔✔Transaction - ✔✔Any business related exchange, such as payments to employees,
sales to customers and payments to suppliers.
✔✔Transaction Processing System (TPS) - ✔✔An organised collections of people,
procedures, software, databases and devices used to record completed business
transactions.
✔✔Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System - ✔✔A set of integrated programs
capable of managing a company's vital business operations for an entire multisite,
global organisation.
✔✔E-Commerce - ✔✔Any business transaction executed electronically between
companies (business-to-business), companies and consumers (business-to-consumer),
consumers and other consumers (consumer-to-consumer), businesses and the public
sector , and consumers and the public sector.
✔✔Mobile Commerce (M-Commerce) - ✔✔Conducting business transactions
electronically using mobile devices such as smartphones.
✔✔Electronic Business (E-Commerce) - ✔✔Using information systems and the internet
to perform all business-related tasks and functions.
✔✔Management Information Systems (MIS) - ✔✔An organised collection of people,
procedures, software, databases and devices that provides routine information to
managers and decision makers.
✔✔Decision Support System (DSS) - ✔✔An organised collection of people, procedures,
software, databases and devices used to support problem-specific decision making.
✔✔Artificial Intelligence (AI) - ✔✔The ability of computer systems to mimic or duplicate
the functions or characteristics of the human brain or intelligence.
✔✔Expert System - ✔✔A system that gives a computer the ability to make suggestions
and act like an expert in a particular field.
✔✔Knowledge Base - ✔✔A component of an expert system that stores all relevant
information, data rules, cases and relationships used by the expert system.
✔✔Virtual Reality - ✔✔The simulation of real or imagined environment that can be
experienced visually in three dimensions.
SOLUTION RATED A+
✔✔Hardware - ✔✔Any machinery (most of which uses digital circuits) that assists in the
input, processing, storage, and output activities of an information system.
✔✔Software - ✔✔The computer programs that govern the operation of a particular
computing device, be it desktop, laptop, tablet computers.
✔✔Database - ✔✔An organised collection of electronic information
✔✔Telecommunications - ✔✔The electronic transmission of signals for
communications; enables organisations to carry out their processes and tasks through
effective computer networks
✔✔Networks - ✔✔Computers and equipment that are connected in a room, building,
Campus, city, across the country or around the world to enable electronic
communications.
✔✔Internet - ✔✔The world's largest computer network, actually consisting of thousands
of interconnected networks, all freely exchanging information.
✔✔Cloud Computing - ✔✔A computing environment where software and storage are
provided as an Internet service and are accessed via a web browser.
A means of providing computer services wherein a serve provider organization owns
and manages the hardware, software, networking and storage devices, with cloud user
organizations(called tenants) accessing slices of shared resources via the internet.
✔✔Intranet - ✔✔An internal company network built using Internet and World Wide Web
standards and products that allows people within an organisation to exchange
information and work on projects.
✔✔Extranet - ✔✔A network based on web technologies thats allows selected outsiders,
such as business partners, suppliers or customers, to access authorised resources of a
company's intranet.
✔✔Procedures - ✔✔The strategies, policies, methods, and rules for using CBIS.
✔✔Business Information System Types - ✔✔Strategic Level : Executive Support
Systems - Support long-term, strategic decisions made by senior managers
Tactical Level : Management information systems & Decision support Systems -
Support mid-term decisions made by middle managers
, Operational Level : Transaction Processing Systems, Customer Relationship
Management Systems & Supply Chain Management Systems - Support the dat-to-day
running of the firm
✔✔Transaction - ✔✔Any business related exchange, such as payments to employees,
sales to customers and payments to suppliers.
✔✔Transaction Processing System (TPS) - ✔✔An organised collections of people,
procedures, software, databases and devices used to record completed business
transactions.
✔✔Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System - ✔✔A set of integrated programs
capable of managing a company's vital business operations for an entire multisite,
global organisation.
✔✔E-Commerce - ✔✔Any business transaction executed electronically between
companies (business-to-business), companies and consumers (business-to-consumer),
consumers and other consumers (consumer-to-consumer), businesses and the public
sector , and consumers and the public sector.
✔✔Mobile Commerce (M-Commerce) - ✔✔Conducting business transactions
electronically using mobile devices such as smartphones.
✔✔Electronic Business (E-Commerce) - ✔✔Using information systems and the internet
to perform all business-related tasks and functions.
✔✔Management Information Systems (MIS) - ✔✔An organised collection of people,
procedures, software, databases and devices that provides routine information to
managers and decision makers.
✔✔Decision Support System (DSS) - ✔✔An organised collection of people, procedures,
software, databases and devices used to support problem-specific decision making.
✔✔Artificial Intelligence (AI) - ✔✔The ability of computer systems to mimic or duplicate
the functions or characteristics of the human brain or intelligence.
✔✔Expert System - ✔✔A system that gives a computer the ability to make suggestions
and act like an expert in a particular field.
✔✔Knowledge Base - ✔✔A component of an expert system that stores all relevant
information, data rules, cases and relationships used by the expert system.
✔✔Virtual Reality - ✔✔The simulation of real or imagined environment that can be
experienced visually in three dimensions.
