ABC University is a public university; especially known for its Faculty of Commerce and Management in the country. The faculty offers various UG and PG programmes along with research programmes viz., M. Phil and Ph.D. Re

CS Professional · Information Technology and Systems Audit · PYQS · December 2016
ABC University is a public university; especially known for its Faculty of Commerce and Management in the country. The faculty offers various UG and PG programmes along with research programmes viz., M. Phil and Ph.D. Recently, the Academic Council of the university approved the proposal of the faculty to start some UG and PG programmes in distance learning mode too. It is observed that the students of distance education are normally dependent on self-study along with a little support from the department(s) concerned. In view of this aforementioned fact, the Dean concerned of the faculty decided to launch a web based knowledge portal to facilitate the students of different courses and he proposed to upload the study materials, e-lectures, suggested answers of last examinations, mock test papers relevant for the coming examinations, etc. of the approved courses on this knowledge portal. It is expected that the portal will be very useful for the students as it aims to provide the access of various academic resources on anytime anywhere basis. For the implementation of this project, a technical consultant was appointed by the university. Accordingly, an initial feasibility study was done to know whether system should be developed in-house or bought as a ready made package and a detailed report was submitted. As a next step, as per the recommendations of the consultant, an expression of interest was published by the university in various national and regional newspapers inviting various organisations to showcase their capabilities and suggest a good solution as per the requirements of the concerned faculty of the university. Based on the above, answer the following - Technical consultant also suggested that some of the services in the proposed knowledge portal should be available on intranet of the university. What are the major advantages of intranet?

Answer & Explanation:

Major advantages of using intranet of some of the services in the proposed Knowledge Portal are given as follows: Easy, economic and fast system of communication within enterprise; Based on Internet protocol which expands accessibility; Serves information automatically; Replaces Grapevine and permit inter-employee communication with more transparency; Improves productivity of executives by devoting more time in analyzing information than waiting for information; Ready to access the information globally; Makes the flow of information need driven; Handles multimedia data effortlessly.

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