Q1Access control principles
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Case: M/s MARS PLUTO ET LTD. (MPETL) is a company in service industry whose business is to provide data analysis and business intelligence services to its customers. In recent times, MPETL faced frequent problems of network outage due to complete or partial failure of hardware components, and storage failure. This hardware failure further made its data vulnerable to potential unauthorized disclosure or malicious use, as there were poor restrictions on use of computers system resources to authorized users. To seek the solution of this critical problem, Ms. Smriti was hired by the company to provide t…
As suggested by Ms. Smriti, the revised access control mechanisms like Password and Biometric given to the users are based on the principle of ___________.
(a) Best Privilege
(b) Least Privilege
(c) Moderate Privilege
(d) Most Privilege
Q1(i)Environmental impact on organizational operations
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Case: O-Farm, an organic farm products brand has been operating in India since 2014. It has had a decent history of business with revenue of ₹ 50 crores in the previous year and a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 11% year on year. While the company operated on 'Kisaan Kalyan' i.e., farmer friendly agenda since its inception, the rough times ahead seem to call for changes. The recent amendments in Agriculture laws have posed immense threat to how the business operates. The leaders have been proactive in shifting gears and budgeted funds for shifting focus to 'Upbhokta Sewa', i.e., customer orien…
O-Farm's new strategy implementation as a result of amendment of Agriculture laws by the government, resonates with which of the following statements?
(a) Organisational operations are highly influenced by ripple effect of environmental changes.
(b) Organisational structure is highly influenced by ripple effect of environmental changes.
(c) Organisational operations are not affected by the ripple effect of environmental changes.
(d) Organisational structure can influence the environmental changes.
Q1(ii)Mission vs vision in organizational strategy
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Case: O-Farm, an organic farm products brand has been operating in India since 2014. It has had a decent history of business with revenue of ₹ 50 crores in the previous year and a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 11% year on year. While the company operated on 'Kisaan Kalyan' i.e., farmer friendly agenda since its inception, the rough times ahead seem to call for changes. The recent amendments in Agriculture laws have posed immense threat to how the business operates. The leaders have been proactive in shifting gears and budgeted funds for shifting focus to 'Upbhokta Sewa', i.e., customer orien…
The shift of O-Farm from 'Kisaan Kalyan' to 'Upbhokta Sewa' is a change in?
(a) Mission
(b) Vision
(c) Promotion
(d) Product
Q1(iii)Cost leadership strategy
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Case: O-Farm, an organic farm products brand has been operating in India since 2014. It has had a decent history of business with revenue of ₹ 50 crores in the previous year and a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 11% year on year. While the company operated on 'Kisaan Kalyan' i.e., farmer friendly agenda since its inception, the rough times ahead seem to call for changes. The recent amendments in Agriculture laws have posed immense threat to how the business operates. The leaders have been proactive in shifting gears and budgeted funds for shifting focus to 'Upbhokta Sewa', i.e., customer orien…
Which of the following was the first and major advantage for O-Farm that helped them achieve Cost Leadership in the market?
(a) Economies of Scale was achieved very early on
(b) Prompt forecast of product's demand
(c) Becoming customer oriented
(d) Well negotiated purchase contracts
Q1(iv)Marketing strategy types
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Case: O-Farm, an organic farm products brand has been operating in India since 2014. It has had a decent history of business with revenue of ₹ 50 crores in the previous year and a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 11% year on year. While the company operated on 'Kisaan Kalyan' i.e., farmer friendly agenda since its inception, the rough times ahead seem to call for changes. The recent amendments in Agriculture laws have posed immense threat to how the business operates. The leaders have been proactive in shifting gears and budgeted funds for shifting focus to 'Upbhokta Sewa', i.e., customer orien…
O-Farm's marketing strategy is an example of which of the following marketing strategies?
(a) Person Marketing
(b) Augmented Marketing
(c) Enlightened Marketing
(d) Synchro Marketing
Q1(v)Sustainability of cost leadership
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Case: O-Farm, an organic farm products brand has been operating in India since 2014. It has had a decent history of business with revenue of ₹ 50 crores in the previous year and a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 11% year on year. While the company operated on 'Kisaan Kalyan' i.e., farmer friendly agenda since its inception, the rough times ahead seem to call for changes. The recent amendments in Agriculture laws have posed immense threat to how the business operates. The leaders have been proactive in shifting gears and budgeted funds for shifting focus to 'Upbhokta Sewa', i.e., customer orien…
The brand has achieved cost leadership through multiple strategies, but it would be a constant challenge to sustain this leadership because of which of the following reasons?
(a) Competitors would imitate its modus operandi.
(b) Marketing cost will be huge as volumes increase given its choice of marketing strategy.
(c) Change in Agriculture Laws shall disrupt its supply chain time and gain.
(d) Sales volume will have to outperform its own targets and even that of competitors.
Q2Quality management strategies
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Case: M/s MARS PLUTO ET LTD. (MPETL) is a company in service industry whose business is to provide data analysis and business intelligence services to its customers. In recent times, MPETL faced frequent problems of network outage due to complete or partial failure of hardware components, and storage failure. This hardware failure further made its data vulnerable to potential unauthorized disclosure or malicious use, as there were poor restrictions on use of computers system resources to authorized users. To seek the solution of this critical problem, Ms. Smriti was hired by the company to provide t…
Ms. Smriti's suggestion of solution to the problem of MPETL refers to a strategy well depicted in the DIAGRAM 1. What do you think this strategy refers to?
(a) SIX SIGMA Cycle
(b) Total Quality Management Cycle
(c) Business Process Reengineering Cycle
(d) Enterprise Resource Planning Cycle
Q2Vision vs mission statements
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Drishti Care is a not-for profit eye hospital and research centre. Which one of the following statements is likely to relate to Drishti Care's vision, rather than its mission statement?
(a) Drishti Care places patient care before all else.
(b) Drishti Care will be the global leader in cutting edge eye surgery.
(c) Drishti Care offers the highest level of patient care throughout country.
(d) Drishti Care consultants strive to continually improve surgical techniques.
Q3Database models for multimedia data
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Case: M/s MARS PLUTO ET LTD. (MPETL) is a company in service industry whose business is to provide data analysis and business intelligence services to its customers. In recent times, MPETL faced frequent problems of network outage due to complete or partial failure of hardware components, and storage failure. This hardware failure further made its data vulnerable to potential unauthorized disclosure or malicious use, as there were poor restrictions on use of computers system resources to authorized users. To seek the solution of this critical problem, Ms. Smriti was hired by the company to provide t…
MPETL provides business intelligence solution to its clients that may require to store complex data such as images, audio and video etc. Identify the type of database Model that MPETL might be using to store such voluminous data.
(a) Object Oriented Database
(b) Relational Database
(c) Network Database
(d) Hierarchical Database
Q3SWOT analysis
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ABC is a marketing consultancy business. ABC's most recent corporate analysis has identified that three new businesses have recently entered its market and started aggressively targeting ABC's key client. As part of ABC's corporate analysis, these three new businesses would be a
(a) Strength
(b) Opportunity
(c) Weakness
(d) Threat
Q4Access control process steps
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Case: M/s MARS PLUTO ET LTD. (MPETL) is a company in service industry whose business is to provide data analysis and business intelligence services to its customers. In recent times, MPETL faced frequent problems of network outage due to complete or partial failure of hardware components, and storage failure. This hardware failure further made its data vulnerable to potential unauthorized disclosure or malicious use, as there were poor restrictions on use of computers system resources to authorized users. To seek the solution of this critical problem, Ms. Smriti was hired by the company to provide t…
Due to frequent hardware failures, the Access controls used to allow individuals' access to system got violated. To reconfigure the Access controls, three step process will be followed. Which of the following shall NOT form a part of this process?
(a) Identification
(b) Authentication
(c) Authorization
(d) Accountability
Q4Porter's generic strategies
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Trekking Poles is a small company based in the Himalayan ranges in India. It is known in the region for its hill walking sticks. Trekking Poles sell specialist walking equipment in their small shop at the foot of the mountains. They do not have a website yet are able to sell their products at premium prices. Which of the following one of Porter's generic strategies best fits Trekking Poles?
(a) Cost leadership
(b) Differentiation
(c) Focused cost leadership
(d) Focused differentiation
Q5Network topology design
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Case: M/s MARS PLUTO ET LTD. (MPETL) is a company in service industry whose business is to provide data analysis and business intelligence services to its customers. In recent times, MPETL faced frequent problems of network outage due to complete or partial failure of hardware components, and storage failure. This hardware failure further made its data vulnerable to potential unauthorized disclosure or malicious use, as there were poor restrictions on use of computers system resources to authorized users. To seek the solution of this critical problem, Ms. Smriti was hired by the company to provide t…
The suggested network by Ms. Smriti has high cost of installation and maintenance. The company decided to opt STAR network as an alternate of this network. To create a STAR network, which network linkages need to be removed from DIAGRAM 2 (Server is denoted with 'S')?
(a) Linkages between: C1-S, C2-S, C3-S, C4-S
(b) Linkages between: C1-C2, C2-C3, C3-C4, C4-C1
(c) Linkages between: C1-S, C2-S, C3-C4, C4-C1
(d) Linkages between: C3-S, C4-S, C3-C4, C4-C1
Q5Levels of strategy
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A Ltd. has recently decided to install a new IT system to improve the efficiency of its payroll function. A ltd. believes this will reduce the cost of running the payroll system by 20%. Which one of the following levels of strategy is the above IT system most closely linked to?
(a) Corporate level
(b) Functional level
(c) Business level
(d) Strategic level
Q6Flowchart advantages and limitations
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Mr. Anil is the Examination Department Head of a university in Chennai. During Covid 19 pandemic, the Top management of the university sought an action plan from him on how the examination department proposes to conduct online entrance exams for various courses that university offers. Knowing both the advantages and limitations of flowcharts, he preferred to give presentation on the work flow using flowchart. List both advantages and limitations of the flowcharts.
Q6Strategy implementation effectiveness
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An organisation during its strategy planning envisaged entire scenarios and created a strategy framework. But in mean time after implementation, it realised that its framework is not effective in certain unique scenarios. What is the reason for the same?
(a) Strategy is 'partly proactive and Partly reactive'
(b) Lack of analysis and proper planning.
(c) Strategy is highly reactive and highly proactive.
(d) Improper creation of strategic framework
Q7Business Process Management System benefits
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DEF Limited is planning to implement Business Process Management System (BPMS) to update the documentation, analysis, monitor and re-design its business processes. Though the benefits of BPMS are endless, elaborate some benefits that are unique to a company.
Q7Competitive barriers and industry regulations
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Easy Access is a marketing services company providing consultancy to a range of business clients. Easy Access and its rivals have managed to persuade the Government to require all marketing services companies to complete a time-consuming and bureaucratic registration process and to comply with an industry code of conduct. Do you think that by doing this Easy Access and its rivals has an advantage in some way to fight off competitors? Explain.
Q8DBMS advantages
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ABC Ltd. is a financial company with huge clientele, therefore the data under its custody is voluminous, thereby requiring the company to maintain its data in Database Management System (DBMS). Elaborate the advantages of Database Management System (DBMS) that the company may avail.
Q8Macro environment analysis
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Assume that you are an entrepreneur who has an intense desire to get into the business. What types of information relating to macro environment would you need to determine external opportunities and threats?
Q9Operating System functions
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Discuss various activities that are executed by Operating System so that it is able to manage the hardware resources and acts as an interface with various application programs.
Q9Strategic decision-making and organizational hierarchy
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Mr. Mehta sharing with his friend in an informal discussion that he has to move very cautiously in his organization as the decisions taken by him has organisation wide impact and involves large commitments of resources. He also said that his decisions decide the future of his organisation. Where will you place Mr. Mehta in the organizational hierarchy and explain his role in the organization.
Q10E-commerce benefits
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Mr. Raj is a Chief Manager of XYZ company; a well-known brand in the field of footwear. He suggested the Board members of the company to adopt e-commerce technology to launch its website and offer the relevant services online to its customers. This was proposed to meet out the ever-increasing demand of today's competitive world. Being unaware about the technology benefits, the Top Management asked him to present a report pertaining to benefits of the same in next board meeting. Help Mr. Raj to jot down all the benefits associated with e-Commerce application and implementation.
Q10Strategic vs operational decisions
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How strategic decisions differ in nature from other routine decisions taken in day-to-day working of an organization? Explain.
Q11Network security threats
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Define Threat. Also discuss various categories of threats associated with Network security in a telecommunication network.
Q11Ansoff's matrix product-market strategies
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Ajanta & Sons Limited are manufacturers of domestic household security alarms for high income group homeowners in India. The company is currently reviewing two strategic options. Option 1: Selling the same alarms although with different coverings to smaller and low-income group households at a lower price. Option 2: Development of new, more sophisticated alarms and a wide range of security services (guards and surveillance) for sale to industrial clients for higher prices. The senior management team of Ajanta & Sons Limited are keen to analyse the two options using Ansoff's matrix.
Q12Credit card processing steps
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Mr. Anil, the sales head of the XYZ bank providing Credit Card, is required to prepare a document to be launched in the public domain explaining its clients about processing of the credit card. Prepare the content for his document.
Q12Experience curve concept
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Explain the concept of Experience Curve and highlight its relevance in strategic management.
Q13Accounting Information System components
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There are various components that compose together to make a typical Accounting Information System (AIS) that performs the functions like collection, storage, and processing of financial and accounting data useful in decision making. Discuss those components in brief.
Q14Grid Computing administration
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You are deputed as an IT Administrator in ABC insurance company that uses Grid Computing to mine the data from partner hospitals for fraud detection. As an administrator, discuss your perspective in using the Grid Computing.
Q15Communication controls
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In a communication subsystem, there needs to be well placed controls so as to transport data among all or other subsystems within a system or to another system. Identify the control and briefly explain the controls falling under its purview.