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Management Information Systems

Notes 8. What are the main reasons behind the need of data communication? Discuss
9. What are all the different types of networks? Enlighten their advantages also.
10. What are the different communication channels generally used in networking? Explain
each in detail.
11. What are network protocols? What is their role? Discuss.
12. Explicate the design of wireless payment system.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. Telecommunication 2. channel
3. videoconference 4. wireless payment

5. initialization 6. Bandwidth
7. bps 8. Network media
9. Shielded twisted-pair (STP) 10. Coaxial cable

11. Local Area Network (LAN) 12. Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)
13. remote 14. value-added network (VAN)
15. URL 16. FTP
17. User Datagram Protocol 18. SMTP
19. Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) 20. Fixed wireless

6.11 Further Readings

Books Bhatnagar, S.C. and K.V. Ramani, Computers and Information Management, Prentice
Hall of India Private Ltd, New Delhi, 1991.
Davis, Gordon B. and Margrethe H. Olsen, Management Information Systems,
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Singapore, 1985.
Goyal D.P., Management Information Systems (MIS), Deep & Deep Publications,
New Delhi, 1994.
Kenneth C Laudon and Jane P Laudon, Management Information Systems - Managing
the Digital Firm, 9th Ed. Pearson Education Asia, New Delhi, 2007.

O, Brien, James A., Management Information Systems , Galgotia Publications (P)
Ltd., New Delhi, 1991.
Post, Gerald V., Management Information Systems: Solving Business Problems with
Information Technology, Third edition, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
Limited, New Delhi, 2003.

Scott, George M., Principles of Management Information Systems, McGraw-Hill Book
Company, Singapore, 2003.

Online link www.unctad.org

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