DSST MIS case studies
DSST MIS · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The DSST Management Information Systems exam is a credit-by-examination test in the Business subject category, rated at Level 3 Baccalaureate. Schools that accept DSST scores may award 3 semester hours of college credit to candidates who demonstrate knowledge equivalent to that gained in a college course of the same name. The DSST MIS case studies are 5 cases and about 4,024 words.
1Softphone Rollout on Undersized Branch Circuits
Northline Distribution runs 14 branch warehouses feeding a single ERP instance at headquarters. Nine branches connect over 3 Mbps MPLS circuits; the other five, all acquired in the last eighteen months, still run 1.5 Mbps circuits because their contracts do not expire until next year.
819 words, about 4 min2Post-Incident Prioritization at a Regional Hospital
Riverside Regional Medical Center runs 1,200 clinical workstations, 340 servers, and about 60 medical devices on a single flat /16 VLAN. Last month an attacker used credentials harvested from a phishing email to log into the VPN appliance with a service account that six IT staff shared, then moved laterally to a file server holding 42,000 patient records.
803 words, about 4 min3Eleven-Month Deadline for a Student System Replacement
Lakemont State University must replace a 22-year-old student information system before vendor support ends on 30 June next year, eleven months away. Requirements elicitation produced 640 requirements and 820,000 student records to migrate.
786 words, about 4 min4Automated Inspection Investment Under an Optimistic Vendor Case
Calder Precision Parts is evaluating a 2.4 million automated inspection and ERP-integration project. The vendor's business case shows 620,000 per year in combined labor and scrap savings over a five-year life and a simple payback under four years.
775 words, about 4 min5A Failing Nightly Load at a 210-Store Retailer
Harborline Retail operates 210 stores and three source systems: an Oracle POS platform writing about 18 million transaction lines a day, a MySQL e-commerce platform, and a SQL Server loyalty database. Finance and merchandising want one warehouse at store-day-product grain with 13-month comparatives.
841 words, about 4 min