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A manufacturing company uses software that records every sale, immediately updates the stock ledger, and generates invoices at the billing counter. Which category of information system is this primarily?
This is a Transaction Processing System, because it captures and processes routine daily events such as sales, stock updates and invoicing as they occur. Decision support and executive systems analyse processed data for managers rather than recording each operational transaction.
- ATransaction Processing SystemCorrect
- BDecision Support System
- CExecutive Information System
- DExpert System
Explanation
A Transaction Processing System captures and processes routine day-to-day business events such as sales, billing and stock updates in real time. A Decision Support System instead analyses data to help with semi-structured decisions and does not record routine transactions.
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