INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY

CENTRE FOR DISTANCE LEARNING

GHAZIABAD

End-Term Examinations December 2008

Subject Code : CAM
Subject Name: Computer Aided Management

Time Allowed : 3 Hours

Max. Marks : 50

Notes: (a) Answer any FOUR questions choosing from SECTION-A. SECTION-B (CASE STUDY) is compulsory. Each Question
(SECTION-A) carries 9 MARKS and (SECTION-B) Case Study carries 14 MARKS.
(b) No doubts/clarifications shall be entertained. In case of doubts/clarifications make reasonable assumptions and proceed.
(c) For students enrolled in January 2008 and July 2008 batches, the Question Paper would be treated for 70 marks
instead of 50 marks.

SECTION-A

MARKS : 36

1.

What is computer? What are the varius parts of central processing Unit and how does it function?

2.

(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)

3.

Write True or False

(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)

Explain the Structure of Excel file.

How to enter numbers, text, dates and formulae in excel ,explain?
What is the difference between Relative and absolute referencing in excel?
Explain the process of attaching user comments to cells.

Modem performs modulation and demodulation

Resistance to data theft is an advantage to using fiber optics data transmission.
An example of a medium-speed, switched communications service is data phone50.
UNIX is the application software.
Shareware is the name given to all the programs inside the computer which makes it usable.
The decimal equivalent of .01 percent is .0001.

4.

What is TCP/IP? Why is domain name preferred over IP addressing?

5.

If the employee has put in a service of grater than 60 months( counting a month as equal to 30 days for this
purpose, and rounding up if there is any fractional mont that results in the above calculation, for example 35.23
months is to be rounded to 36), he or she become eligible for the amount known as service pay. For an eligible
employee, the service pay is equal to number of months of service, as computed above, by 1/10 of the last basic(
given in column D ).The number of service months is computed as an intermediate value and shown in column G
where as the service pay in column H. What is the formulae behind the cells G3 and H# which are to be copied to
the other cells in their respective columns.

6.

Identify the anomalies in the following database design. Which normal form does this database fall in?
Customer (Name , Address, Item_ purchased , Item _cost)
And convert this design into 3rd normal form.

7.

(a) A book consisting of 500 pages, each page having roughly 1000 characters is to be stored on a
secondary storage device . What should be the capacity of such a device?
(b) How is an OCR device different from a MICR technology?

SECTION-B

(Case Study)

MARKS : 14

We have a real live situation that We are trying to solve for business. I thought Excel would be the ideal tool for it. A client
comes to me with a problem and I need to quote them for a fix. The cost of fixing this problem is proportional to the
amount of labour time involved, which is proportional to the number of 'units' this person needs fixing. So, let us define
each persons problem as having so many units, X. e.g. Person A has a problem with 10 units that needs fixing. Person B
has 140 units, Person C has 30 units. I give each enquiry a quote. The customer then decides whether or not to go with
me or with a competitor. A history of quotations against sales is built up. Each customer is given a rought quote based on
previous experience. Consequently, there is going to be variation in the cost charged per unit. My goal is to optimise the
cost charged per unit to maximise revenue. The lower the cost per unit, the higher the likelihood of a sale. But the lower
the cost per unit also leads to less revenue per sale.
How do we go about calculating the optimum cost per unit? Are there any tools within Excel that deal with this type of
problem?

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