MID-1 IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
Production & Operations
Management
1. A.
Write a
short notes Flow shop and job shop.
B.
Define System Concept of Production.
C.
Define Product Design and Analysis.
D.
What are the advantages of Standardization?
E.
Write a short note on Batch manufacturing?
2. Briefly
explain POM?
3. Explain
New Product Development & its concepts and the steps of Product Design?
4. Define
“Process Design”? What are the “Factors Affecting Process Design Decisions”?
5.
Explain about “Value Analysis/Value Engineering” and explain Standardization
procedure?
6. Write short notes on Capacity
consideration, Commercial Plan Transfer and Ergonomic Considerations in Product
Design?
Strategic
Management
1. A. What is Strategic Management?
B. What is Value Chain Analysis?
C. Explain Business level strategy?
D. What do you mean by Building Core
Competencies?
E. What do you mean by outsourcing?
2.
Describe Strategic Management and Competitiveness Technology and explain its
objectives, vision and mission?
3.
Briefly explain Strategic Management process?
4. What
is Competitive Rivalry and Dynamics and explain the model of Competitive
Rivalry?
5.
Explain the Drivers of Competitive actions and responses in competitor
Analysis?
6.
Explain Porters 5 force Model?
Research Methodology
1.A. What
do you mean by Research Methodology?
B. Write a short note on Research Problems?
C.
What are the types of observation in research methodology?
D. Write
a short note on Qualitative Research?
E. Write a short note on Quantitative Research?
2. Explain the overview of research methodology
and its types? Briefly?
3. What do you mean by research process and
explain the ethics in business research?
4. Explain the research design and its overview?
5. Briefly explain the types of research design
and validity of research design?
6.
Explain the limitation of social science research? What are the types of
designs in research?
Elective - 1
Consumer
Behaviour
1.
A. Define Consumer Behaviour?
B.
What is Consumer Segmentation?
C.
What is Targeting and Positioning?
D. Explain Cultural Consumer Behaviour?
E.
What is Rural Consumer Behaviour?
2.
How to understand the consumer through research process briefly explain?
3.
Explain consumer behaviour in a world of economic instability? Define Rural
markets?
4.
Explain Environmental influences on Consumer behaviour?
5.
Write a short note on family and personality, social class and social group?
6.
Explain rural consumer behaviour and define branding?
Strategic
Management Accounting
1.
A. What do you mean by Cost Analysis
and control?
B. How do you calculate the machine hour rate?
Explain the Direct and indirect expenses?
C. Define Unit Costing and Job Costing?
D.
What is an introduction to activity based costing and Life cycle
costing?
E. What
are the direct and indirect expenses?
2.
What are the differences between Management accounting Vs Cost accounting Vs
Financial accounting?
3.
What is the role of accounting information in planning and control and explain
the cost concepts and classification of costs?
4.
Explain the format of Cost sheet?
5.
What are the treatment of Normal losses and Abnormal losses and explain the
inter process profits?
6.
Explain the allocation and apportionment
of overheads in cost sheet?
Performance
Management
1.
A. Define Performance Management?
B. Write a short note on strategic planning in
performance management?
C. Explain measurement approach?
D. What is gathering performance information?
E.
Explain
implementation on performance management system?
2.
Explain the Performance Management and Reward systems in context?
3.
Explain the process of Performance management and what is the performance
management strategic planning?
4.
Define Performance and choosing a Measurement Approach? Briefly Explain it?
5.
Explain measuring results and behaviours?
6.
Explain evaluating the appraisal form used by a Grocery Retailer?
Business
Intelligence
1.
A.
Define Business Intelligence and Architecture of BI?
B. Explain the value of BI?
C. Define Data Ware Housing and its concepts?
D. Explain Performance Dashboard and Score
Cards?
E. What are the Security issues and future
trends BPM?
2.
Explain the Responses and support Models of BI and styles of BI?
3.
Describe the Value of BI? What are the Performance metrics and key performance
indicators?
4.
Explain the Data Ware Housing process and implementation and Administration?
5.
Explain the BPM and overview it?
6.
Briefly Explain BPM Methodologies and Techniques?
Elective – 2
Sales and
Distribution Management
1.
A. What is sales management?
B. What are the selling process, strategies and
skills in sales management?
C. Define Sales Planning, sales budgeting?
D. What is Market cost analysis?
E. Write
a short notes on Modern day sales activities?
2.
Explain the evolution of Sales management and its importance?
3.
Explain the types of selling in sales management and differences between
selling and marketing?
4.
Explain the sales planning process and sales forecasting methods and types of
quotas and quota setting procedure?
5.
What are the reasons for establishing or revising sales territories and explain
routing and scheduling sales persons?
6.
What are the methods used for deciding sales budget? Explain modern day sales
activities?
Security
Analysis Portfolio Management
1.
A. What is investment management and
its objectives and its types?
B. What do you mean by margin Trading?
C. Define Security Analysis and its objectives?
D. What are the types of Security analysis?
E. What
do you mean by Dow Theory and efficient market hypothesis?
2.
Describe the Investment Environment in India? What do you mean by investment
media and its process?
3.
Difference between Investment Vs Speculation and Investment Vs Gambling?
Explain the securities trading and settlement and its types of orders?
4.
What are the types of Security analysis
and its objectives and believes? Explain the framework for fundamental
anyalysis?
5.
What are the concept of instrinsic value in Economic Analysis? Explain the
Industry life cycle in industry analysis?
6.
What is company analysis and its types? Explain the difference between
fundamental and technical analysis?
Training for
Development
1.
A. Define Training and its concepts?
B.
What is Motivation and Performance?
C.
What is TNA Model?
D. What is design
theory?
E.
What is the training program?
2.
Explain the trends in training and its career opportunities?
3.
Explain the Integrating OD and Strategy in training? What is the importance’s
of Training?
4.
Explain the aligning training design with learning process/
5.
Describe the TNA and Design? Explain the organizational constraints and developing
objectives?
6.
Explain the facilitation of learning and training transfer to the job?
Database
Management Systems
1. A. Define DMS?
B. What are the
components of Organizational Memory?
C.
What are data sharing and data bases?
D. What are the
needs for data base planning?
E. Write
a short notes on hardware and software in DMS?
2.
Explain the evaluation of Database Technology File-oriented systems and its
need for random access processing information?
3.
Explain the sharing data between functional unit’s works and its different
levels of users and its locations how it is useful?
4.
Explain the role of data base in strategic data base planning? What do you mean
by data base project and its development life cycle?
5.
Explain other limitations of Traditional
File systems and data base systems?
6.
Explain the hierarchical network model
systems and relational database systems? Explain the people and relationship of
the four system components?
Elective – 3
Integrated
Marketing Communication
1.
A. Define Marketing Communication?
B. Write a short note on Communication mix?
C. How to measure the Communication
effectiveness in IMC?
D. Explain the Marketing communication budget?
E. What are the post testing tools and
techniques in IMC?
2.
Explain the Integrated Marketing Communication?
3.
Explain the communication process in IMC?
4.
Explain how setting communication objectives differ from IMC?
5.
Describe the Evaluating other Promotional tools and Testing Tools and
techniques?
6.
Explain DAGMAR Approach to setting objectives and measuring advertising
effectiveness?
Financial
Institutions, Markets and Services
1. A. Explain the structure of financial
system and Equilibrium in financial markets?
B. Explain the
exchange rates in banking terms?
C.
Explain the indicators of financial system and economic development?
D.
What are the challenges of Insurance Sector?
E.
What is the Bank Capital Adequacy norms and Capital market support?
2.
Explain the Financial Sector reforms after 1991? Describe the monetary policy
and techniques of monetary control of RBI?
3.
Explain the role and functions of SEBI and RBI?
4.
Explain Commercial banks in public and private sectors and its structure and
comparative performance?
5.
Explain the Co-operative banks and its roles and how it is useful to initiatives
to strengthen in govt policies?
6.
Write a short note on IFCI, IRBI, NABARD, SIDBI, SFC’s, LIC and GIC?
Management of
Industrial Relations
1.
A. What are the characteristics of
union structure in India?
B. Explain Unfair Labour Practices?
C. Write a short note on Tripartite and
Bipartite Bodies?
D. Define Grievance Procedure?
E.
Write a short note on Right to strike and Major strikes?
2.
Explain the Dunlop’s Industrial Relations systems?
3.
Explain the characteristics of Indian IR Systems?
4.
What is the role of state dispute settlement machinery and its instruments?
5.
Describe the causes of Disputes?
6.
Describe the Trade unions functions, methods, politics and its types of union?
Decision Support
System
1.
A. Define DSS?
B.
What are the types of DSS?
C.
Write a short note on DSS Gardware environment?
D.
Write a short note on DSS hierarchy?
E. What
are the Generalizing DSS Categories?
2.
Briefly explain how DSS evolved and its benefits?
3.
Explain systems, information quality and models of DSS? And dataflow diagram
information quality?
4.
Explain DSS on the centre corporate systems?
5.
Explain the Internet and Client/Server computing in DSS?
6.
What is DSS on standalone system?
