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A retail company's database holds thousands of raw billing entries such as item codes, quantities and amounts. A manager runs a report that summarises these into monthly sales by region so that she can decide where to open a new outlet. In MIS terms, the monthly regional summary is best described as:

The monthly regional summary is information. Raw billing entries are data, and once they are processed, organised and summarised into a meaningful form that supports a decision such as choosing a new outlet location, they qualify as information rather than data or knowledge.

  1. AData, because it is stored in the database
  2. BInformation, because raw facts have been processed into a meaningful form useful for a decisionCorrect
  3. CKnowledge, because it is stored permanently
  4. DNoise, because it has been reduced from the original entries

Explanation

Raw billing entries are data. When processed, organised and summarised so they have meaning and support a decision, they become information. Storing something does not make it knowledge; knowledge needs interpretation and experience applied to information.

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