INSY 2303 UPDATED 2026 EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔MRP - ✔✔Material Requirements Planning, A production planning, scheduling, and
inventory control system used to manage manufacturing processes.
✔✔Data Flow Diagram - ✔✔The core documentation tool for project teams using
structured methodology, graphically illustrates how data moves through an information
system
✔✔Success Factors - ✔✔They also serve as an evaluation checklist at the end of a
project
✔✔Gantt Chart - ✔✔shows the duration of development tasks as they occur over time
✔✔WBS - Work breakdown structure - ✔✔Work breakdown structure, breaks a
complete task into a series of subtasks
✔✔PERT -Program evaluation and review technique - ✔✔Program evaluation and
review technique, used for analyzing the time needed to complete each project task
✔✔JIT - Just-In-Time manufacturing - ✔✔A methodology aimed primarily at reducing
times within production system as well as response times from suppliers and to
customers
✔✔Horizontal Market - ✔✔Designed for common elements of many businesses
✔✔Vertical Market - ✔✔Designed for a specific industry or enterprise
✔✔Turnkey System - ✔✔A computer system that has been customized for a particular
application
✔✔B2B and B2G - ✔✔Websites such as FedBid, Oracle, & Ingram sell goods and
services to other businesses or to the government
✔✔B2C (business-to-consumer) - ✔✔Online storefronts such as Zappos, Amazon &
Dell offer merchandise and services to consumers
✔✔C2C (consumer-to-consumer) - ✔✔Consumers sell to each other at popular auction
and list sites, such as eBay & TaoBao.
✔✔Fuzzy Logic - ✔✔An expert system can deal with this type of data by working with
confidence levels. These systems are designed to deal with data that is imprecise or
problematic
, ✔✔Expert System - ✔✔A computer system designed to analyze data and produce a
recommendation, diagnosis, or decision based on a set of facts and rules
✔✔TPS (Transaction Processing System) - ✔✔Transaction Processing System,
provides a way to collect, process, store, display, modify or cancel transactions
✔✔DSS (decision support system) - ✔✔Decision Support System helps people make
decisions by directly manipulating data, accessing data from external sources,
generating statistical projections, and creating data models of various scenarios
✔✔Batch Processing - ✔✔The processing of previously collected jobs in a si
✔✔OLTP (online transaction processing) - ✔✔Online Transaction Processing System, a
real-time method in which each transaction is processed as it is entered
✔✔Exception Report - ✔✔contains information that is outside of normal or acceptable
ranges
✔✔summary report - ✔✔combines information that is outside of normal or acceptable
ranges
✔✔Ad Hoc Report - ✔✔A report that is created on the fly, displaying information in a
table or a chart that is the result of a question that has not already been codified in a
production report.
✔✔Database/Database Models - ✔✔The underlying structure of a database
✔✔hierarchical - ✔✔one-to-one and one-to-many relationships which are linked in a
hierarchical structure
✔✔network - ✔✔Conceived as a flexible way of representing objects and their
relationships.
✔✔Relational - ✔✔stores data in a collection of related tables
✔✔O-O - ✔✔stores data as objects, which can be grouped into classes and defined by
attributes and methods
✔✔DBMS (Database Management System) - ✔✔software that manages data stored in
a database
✔✔Data Independence - ✔✔Entails separating data from the programs that manipulate
it
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔MRP - ✔✔Material Requirements Planning, A production planning, scheduling, and
inventory control system used to manage manufacturing processes.
✔✔Data Flow Diagram - ✔✔The core documentation tool for project teams using
structured methodology, graphically illustrates how data moves through an information
system
✔✔Success Factors - ✔✔They also serve as an evaluation checklist at the end of a
project
✔✔Gantt Chart - ✔✔shows the duration of development tasks as they occur over time
✔✔WBS - Work breakdown structure - ✔✔Work breakdown structure, breaks a
complete task into a series of subtasks
✔✔PERT -Program evaluation and review technique - ✔✔Program evaluation and
review technique, used for analyzing the time needed to complete each project task
✔✔JIT - Just-In-Time manufacturing - ✔✔A methodology aimed primarily at reducing
times within production system as well as response times from suppliers and to
customers
✔✔Horizontal Market - ✔✔Designed for common elements of many businesses
✔✔Vertical Market - ✔✔Designed for a specific industry or enterprise
✔✔Turnkey System - ✔✔A computer system that has been customized for a particular
application
✔✔B2B and B2G - ✔✔Websites such as FedBid, Oracle, & Ingram sell goods and
services to other businesses or to the government
✔✔B2C (business-to-consumer) - ✔✔Online storefronts such as Zappos, Amazon &
Dell offer merchandise and services to consumers
✔✔C2C (consumer-to-consumer) - ✔✔Consumers sell to each other at popular auction
and list sites, such as eBay & TaoBao.
✔✔Fuzzy Logic - ✔✔An expert system can deal with this type of data by working with
confidence levels. These systems are designed to deal with data that is imprecise or
problematic
, ✔✔Expert System - ✔✔A computer system designed to analyze data and produce a
recommendation, diagnosis, or decision based on a set of facts and rules
✔✔TPS (Transaction Processing System) - ✔✔Transaction Processing System,
provides a way to collect, process, store, display, modify or cancel transactions
✔✔DSS (decision support system) - ✔✔Decision Support System helps people make
decisions by directly manipulating data, accessing data from external sources,
generating statistical projections, and creating data models of various scenarios
✔✔Batch Processing - ✔✔The processing of previously collected jobs in a si
✔✔OLTP (online transaction processing) - ✔✔Online Transaction Processing System, a
real-time method in which each transaction is processed as it is entered
✔✔Exception Report - ✔✔contains information that is outside of normal or acceptable
ranges
✔✔summary report - ✔✔combines information that is outside of normal or acceptable
ranges
✔✔Ad Hoc Report - ✔✔A report that is created on the fly, displaying information in a
table or a chart that is the result of a question that has not already been codified in a
production report.
✔✔Database/Database Models - ✔✔The underlying structure of a database
✔✔hierarchical - ✔✔one-to-one and one-to-many relationships which are linked in a
hierarchical structure
✔✔network - ✔✔Conceived as a flexible way of representing objects and their
relationships.
✔✔Relational - ✔✔stores data in a collection of related tables
✔✔O-O - ✔✔stores data as objects, which can be grouped into classes and defined by
attributes and methods
✔✔DBMS (Database Management System) - ✔✔software that manages data stored in
a database
✔✔Data Independence - ✔✔Entails separating data from the programs that manipulate
it
