Exam Focus: Management Information Systems

February 26, 2025

The DSST Management Information Systems exam helps students gain college credit for knowledge equivalent to that taught in a formal course. This exam covers a range of important topics, including:

  • Knowledge of telecommunications
  • Network security
  • Systems analysis and design
  • Business decision making
  • Knowledge management
  • Data warehousing
  • Data mining

The exam consists of 100 multiple-choice questions to be completed in 2 hours.

 

Sample Management Information Systems Questions:

Want to know what the test is like? Here are 5 sample questions:

1. A computer-based information system consists of which of the following elements?

a. Computers, keyboards, display monitors, hard disks, and printers

b. People, procedures, data, programs, and computers

c. Input, processing, storage, and output

d. Planning, programming, organizing, and evaluating

 

2. Which of the following characteristics of a system reflects the fact that all systems are comprised of subsystems?

a. Synergy

b. Differentiation

c. Regulation

d. Hierarchy

 

3. The process by which workers develop their own applications, with or without the help of professional MIS staff, is called?

a. Decentralized computing

b. Distributed computing

c. End-user computing

d. Client/server computing

 

4. Which of the following terms is used to describe the transmission of data one character at a time?

a. Synchronous

b. Asynchronous

c. Half-duplex

d. Full-duplex

 

5. Multiplexors and concentrators are used in telecommunication systems to do which of the following?

a. Perform high-speed arithmetic operations

b. Increase utilization of the communication lines

c. Store and retrieve data

d. Display data on the monitor

 

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