Which of the following is a function of COM?

• A. Maintain assets
• B. Select
• C. Publish reports
• D. Archive data

Answer: (B)

This item is testing how COM is used to work with data by selecting items for further action. The select function is all about choosing which records or data points you will operate on, often using filters or criteria to form a subset. That’s exactly what COM handles in many MIS workflows: you pick what you’ll work with before applying any processing.

Think of it like preparing a target set for analysis or processing—without selecting, there’s nothing to act on. The other activities—maintaining assets, publishing reports, archiving data—belong to different roles in the system: asset maintenance is about keeping inventory up to date, publishing reports is about distributing finished analyses, and archiving data is about storing older information. So selecting items is the function that best fits COM.