Information systems questions
Q1. Use an example to clearly explain the difference between data and information.
Q2. Apart from a CD and a hard disk, name two other secondary storage devices.
Q3. Define a 'Management Information System'.
Q4. State the characteristics of a good MIS.
Q5. What is an ‘inference engine’?
Q6. How would you go about making a new Expert System?
Q7. Discuss the pros and cons of online ‘diagnose yourself’ type Expert Systems?
Q8. Discuss the pros and cons of using medical Expert Systems for a very poor, third world country?
Q9. State the three types of knowledge-based system.
Q10. Use the internet for research. Apart from medical-related Expert Systems, state three other areas which have made use of Expert Systems.