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SECOND YEAR
Academic Year 2017 - 2018
ASSIGNMENT TOPICS
This booklet contains assignment topics. Students are asked to write the
assignments for SIX papers as per instructions, those who have opted Project and
Viva-Voce.
Students are asked to write the assignments for the EIGHT Papers as per
instruction those who have opted Two Theory Papers (2.7.1 & 2.7.2) as specialization.
Last date for submission: 28-02-2018
Last date for submission with late fee ` 300/- : 15-03-2018
NOTE:
1. Assignments sent after 15-03-2018 will not be evaluated.
2. Assignments should be in the own hand writing of the student concerned and
not type-written or printed or photocopied.
3. Assignments should be written on foolscap paper on one side only.
4. All assignments (with Enrolment number marked on the Top right hand corner
on all pages) should be put in an envelop with superscription “MBA
Assignments” and sent to The Director, Directorate of Distance Education,
Annamalai University, Annamalainagar – 608 002 by Registered post.
5. No notice will be taken on assignments which are not properly filled in with
Enrolment Number and the Title of the papers.
6. Students should send full set of assignments for all papers. Partial
assignments will not be considered.
ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
Write assignments on any TWO topics Questions in each paper out of the
FOUR. For each topic the answer should not exceed 15–pages. Each assignment
carries 25 marks (2 topics).
DR. M.ARUL
DIRECTOR
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2.1 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
1. Same changes in organizations are unplanned, where as others are the result of
strategic plans. Give examples of each of their verities of change and explain
their implications for organizational functioning.
2. Once you are established in your careers, what special challenges are you likely
to confront? What can you do to enhance your chance of having a fully
satisfying successful career?
3. Explain how the field of organization behaviour stands to benefit by taking a
global perspectives. What would you say are the major challenges associated
with such a perspectives.
4. Do you believe that organizational politics is inevitable or that it can be
curtailed? Explain you answer with examples.
2.2 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM
1. What do you know about Top management responsibility? Give suitable
examples for responsibility
2. What will affect the System planning and the mutual investigation? Illustrate
with suitable example input/output design.
3. You are asked to write the System Development Life cycle. Explain this
statement by using examples.
4. If you were the vice president of a company, what system would you use to
develop the management information system?
2.3 DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
1. Draw the various schemes of baking system and explain the involvement of view
levels of data abstraction.
2. Draw an E-R diagram for ordering an item in the inventory control system.
3. Develop a conceptual data model for a Hospital Information System and write a
PL/SQL program using oracle to perform the following tasks.
4. Print the patient details – according to room wise.
a) Print the patient details – according to the disease wise.
b) Print the patient details – according to the doctors attending them
c) Consider a real system of your interest and give the skeleton of the
development of DSS for that system.
2.4 E-COMMERCE
1. Describe the current e-commerce scenario in India and explain the future
prospect of e-commerce.
2. Explain the characteristics of large companies that involve B2G and B2C
transactions in their business, which require roboust, capable and scalable
electronic commerce system.
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3. Visit the following sites:
www.olx.com /www.labour.tn.gov.in /www.clicks.co.za /www.digitalplanet.co.za
a. For each site determine whether it is in the exposure stage, interaction
stage, e-commerce stage or e-business stage. Provide reasons for your
answer.
b. Determine whether each site is B2C, C2C, C2B or B2B and why.
c. Critically discuss the process of setting up a free-standing website and evaluate
the potential of e-commerce for small business development in India.
4. Consider the development of a portal for a Retailer shop. Discuss the various
technologies, tools and components involved in designing the same.
2.5 ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING
1. Large corporations like General Motors (GM), Ford, Hewlett Packard (HP), and
Digital primarily viewed themselves as manufacturing companies until the
1980s. With the globalization of operations and the proliferation of computer
networks, it was important that the manufacturing organizations extend their
information system across the supply chain with ERP solutions. Discuss your
views on this aspect.
2. As you are a General Manager in a reputed manufacturing firm and you wish to
implement ERP to replace the existing system. But the employees were unaware
about the new methodologies. How will you react and successfully implementing
the ERP.
4. Imagine that you are a manager in a firm and the implemented ERP system is
failed in your company, What type of strategies that you will follow to recover it?
5. Implementation of an ERP system is a major investment and commitment for
any organization, but still many ERP implementations fail. What are factors that
contribute to the failure of ERP implementation?
2.6 DATA WAREHOUSING AND DATA MINING
1. Outline the major research challenges of data mining in one specific application
domain, such as stream/sensor data analysis, spatiotemporal data analysis, or
bioinformatics.
2. Data quality can be assessed in terms of several issues, including accuracy,
completeness, and consistency. For each of the above three issues, discuss how
data quality assessment can depend on the intended use of the data, giving
examples. Propose two other dimensions of data quality
3. A data warehouse can be modeled by either a star schema or a snowflake
schema. Briefly describe the similarities and the differences of the two models,
and then analyze their advantages and disadvantages with regard to one
another. Give your opinion of which might be more empirically useful and state
the reasons behind your answer.
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4. Data cubes and multidimensional databases contain nominal, ordinal, and
numeric data in hierarchical or aggregate forms. Based on what you have
learned about the clustering methods, design a clustering method that finds
clusters in large data cubes effectively and efficiently
2.7.1 SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
1. Identify the key aspects in which modern software project management
practices differs from those of traditional software project management.
2. Assume the size of an organic type software product has been estimated to be
32,000 lines of source code. Assume that the average salary of a software
engineer is Rs.75,000 per month. Determine the effort required to develop the
software product and the nominal development time.
3. (a) List any four attributes that contribute to the quality software product.
Discuss how they influence software quality.
(b) Develop a set of guidelines for conducting a formal technical review.
4. Illustrate with a software, the process in determining the software WBS
architecture, populate the software WBS and in determining the cost categories
for the software.
2.7.2 ADVANCED WEB DESIGN
1. Develop a XML application to get the details of Book s(Title, Author Name, ISBN
No, Publisher details). List out the details of Management related books. Write
DTD, Schema, XZL wherever required?
2. A. Discuss abut EJB architecture and its Components with neat diagram.
B. Describe the important services provided by a container to an enterprise bean?
4. Develop an employee Payroll system using (RMI) Techniques, the primary
methods of Payroll calculation should be accessed from remotely.
4. Design web page for hospital Management system with all DHTML features and
display the hospital name in all pages using Cookies in JSP.
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