Information System q1-midtermquiz Information System q1-midtermquiz PDF

Preview

Summary

Short quiz 1 Which of these consists of raw facts, such as an employee's name? Data 2 and/or information that is organized to convey understanding as it applies to a current problem is -Knowledge3 computer based tool that people use to work with informaiton and support the information processing nee...

Description

*****Short quiz 1***** 1. Which of these consists of raw facts, such as an employee's name? - Data 2.Data and/or information that is organized to convey understanding as it applies to a current problem is -Knowledge 3.Any computer based tool that people use to work with informaiton and support the information processing needs of an organization. - information technology 4.A(n) __________________ is a set of interrelated components that collect, manipulate, store, and disseminate data and information and provide a feedback mechanism to meet an objective. -Information system 5. IT workers are still in demand and are projected to be in demand for the next ten years - True 6.Which of the following statements about the impact of IT on managers is not correct? -IT will increase the number of managerial levels in an organization. 7.Dashboards provide rapid access to timely information and direct access to structured information in the form of reports. True 8.End user computing is when employees directly use computers in their work to solve problems or produce results. True 9.Which of the following is not a major capability of information systems? -store large amounts of information in a very large space 10. A combination of your high school grades, application essays, letters of recommendation, and Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores would be considered knowledge. - False ****SHORT QUIZ 2***** 1. A collection of related activities and services that produce a product of value to an organization - Business Processes 2.The introduction of the ATM in the banking industry is an example of the innovation strategy. -T 3.The Internet increases traditional barriers to entry into a market. -F 4.Improving the manner in which internal business processes are executed is which

strategy for competitive advantage? - Operational effectiveness 5.When Amazon welcomes you by name back to its Web site on your second visit, this is an example of which strategy for competitive advantage? -Customer orientation 6.The introduction of ATM machines by Citibank was a classic example of which strategy for competitive advantage? -Differentiation 7.When a business must abide by government regulations such as HIPPA or FERPA, what type of business pressure is created? -Societal 8.Information-based industries face a great threat from substitute products. - T 9.Today's customers have _________________ . -higher expectations 10.Competitive advantage for an organization manifests itself as all of the following except: -Increased time to market ******SHORT QUIZ 3*** 1.Being a figurehead and leader is part of the ________ managerial role. -interpersonal 2.A ___________ refers to a choice among two or more alternatives that individuals and groups make. Decisions are diverse and are made continuously. -Decision 3.Data mining refers to the process of searching valuable business information in a large database, data warehouse or data mart. - T 4.Digital dashboards-evolved from executive information systems, which were information systems designed specifically for the information needs of top executives. -T 5.At the end of a semester, a student knows that she must achieve a grade of 81 or higher on her final exam to get an A in the course. She has just performed what kind of analysis -Goal-seeking 6.Decision support systems support only lower and middle level managers. - F 7.Searching for valuable business information in a database, data warehouse, or data mart is referred to as ________. - data mining 8. The ratio between organizational inputs and outputs is an indication of the organization's productivity. - T 9. A (n) ________ provides rapid access to timely information and direct access to

management reports. - digital dashboard 10.Which of the following is NOT a reason that managers need IT support? -number of alternatives is decreasing *****SHORT QUIZ 4**** 1.True or False: Information is the means through which the minds expands and increases its capacity to achieve its goals, often as the result of an input from another mind. -T 2.Can be defined as an individual condition of life characterized by exclusion from publicity. - Privacy 3.True or False: Information forms the intellectual capital from which human beings craft their lives and secure dignity. -T 4.This category of privacy concerns all forms of personal communication which a person wishes to keep private. - Private communication 5.True or False: Liability means that individuals have the right to recover the damages done to them by other individuals, organizations, or systems. -T 6.Is the increased value of information in decision-making. -Insidious threat 7.True or False: Responsibility is accepting any consequences of decisions and/or actions. -T 8.Has a way of fouling up people's lives, especially when the party with the inaccurate information has an advantage in power and authority. -Misinformation 9.True or False: The growth of information technology, with its enhanced capacity for surveillance, communication, computation, storage, and retrieval. - T 10.This information is closely related to property right. -Information about one's possessions ******SHORT QUZI 5****** 1. _______ involves building an inappropriate trust relationship with employees for the purpose of gaining sensitive information or unauthorized access privileges. - Social engineering 2. Biometrics are an example of: - something the user has. 3. IT security is the responsibility of everyone in the organization. -True 4. In a process called _________, a company allows nothing to run unless it is approved, whereas in a process called _________, the company allows everything to

run unless it is not approved. - whitelisting, blacklisting 5. Having one backup of your business data is sufficient for security purposes. - False 6. Unintentional threats to information systems include all of the following except: - malicious software 7. ___________ restrict unauthorized individuals from using information resources and are concerned with user identification - Access controls 8. In _________ , the organization purchases insurance as a means to compensate for any loss. - risk transference 9. Which of the following is not a strategy for mitigating the risk of threats against information? - All of the above are strategies for mitigating risk 10. The computing skills necessary to be a hacker are increasing. - False *****SHORT QUIZ 6 ********* 1. Microwave transmissions are affected by environmental conditions such as storms. - True 2. GEO satellites are used to comprise the GPS network. - False 3. _______ is a wireless standard that enables temporary, short-range connection between mobile devices. - bluetooth 4. With regard to mobile computing, _______ means that knowing where a user is physically located is a key to offering relevant products and services. - Localization 5. The greatest problem with GEO satellites is which of the following? - propagation delay 6. The most common wireless technology for TV and DVD remote control devices is: - Infrared 7. WiFi provides excellent security. - False 8. _______ communicate(s) via radio waves using radio antennas placed within adjacent geographic areas. - cell phones 9. A hotspot is a small geographical perimeter within which a wireless access point provides service to a number of users. - True 10. _______ refers to efforts by unauthorized users to access data traveling over wireless networks.

- Eavesdropping ******ACTIVITY 3****** 1. Enterprise resource planning systems take a (n) ________ view of the overall organization. - business process 2. ________ reports are produced at scheduled intervals. - routine 3. When interest is credited to your savings account at your bank, it is called a - transaction 4. ________ integrate the planning, management, and use of all of an organization's resources, and are designed to tightly integrate the functional areas of the organization. - Enterprise resource planning systems 5. Information silos were particularly efficient when business processes crossed functional boundaries in an organization. - False *******SHORT QUIZ 7**** 1. __________ consist of data that are related to demand, shipments, orders, returns, and schedules. - information flows 2. Over time, the customer relationship with vendors has become more impersonal for all of the following reasons except: - customer relationship management systems were developed 3. Customer-facing applications is an organization's sales, field service, and customer interaction center representatives interact directly with customers. - True 4. Which of the following is not a goal of supply chain management? - to increase cycle time 5. Which of the following is not a customer touch point? - none of the above - all are touch points 6. __________ are simple tools for answering repetitive customer questions. - Frequently asked questions 7. CRM systems are designed to achieve customer intimacy. - True 8. Which of the following best describes CRM? - a way of thinking and acting 9. The most common solution to supply chain problems is building inventories. - True 10. The pull model is make-to-stock. - False *****ACTIVITY 4*****

1. Which of the following is not a part of systems analysis phase of the SDLC? - identification of the technical specifications of the solution 2. Evaluating the benefits of IT projects is more complex than evaluating their costs for all of the following reasons except: - benefits are often tangible 3. A firm implements a new information system in one of its plants, assesses the new system's performance, and then implements the new system in its other plants. This is an example of ___________ conversion. - Pilot 4. Prototyping allows the users to clarify their information requirements as they use the prototype. - True 5. _________ is a method of delivering software, in which a vendor hosts the applications, and customers access these applications over the Internet. - Software-as-a-Service 6. When users ask for added functionality during a systems development project, this is called: - scope creep 7. The SDLC encourages changes to user requirements once they have been established. - False 8. Which of the following is not a part of the typical IS operational plan? - The organizational mission 9. Writing computer code is as much art as it is science. - True 10. The deliverable of the systems design stage is: - technical system specifications ***LONG QUIZ 1*** 1.Which of the following is not a disadvantage of telecommuting for employees? -Fewer opportunities for homebound or disabled people 2.IT workers are still in demand and are projected to be in demand for the next ten years -True 3.Data and/or information that is organized to convey understanding as it applies to a current problem is -Knowledge 4.The introduction of ATM machines by Citibank was a classic example of which strategy for competitive advantage? -Differentiation 5.Which of these consists of raw facts, such as an employee's name? -Data

6.When Amazon welcomes you by name back to its Web site on your second visit, this is an example of which strategy for competitive advantage? -Customer orientation 7.The Internet increases traditional barriers to entry into a market. - False 8.Which of the following is not a major capability of information systems? -store large amounts of information in a very large space 9.Dashboards provide rapid access to timely information and direct access to structured information in the form of reports. -True 10.Today's customers have __________ . -higher expectations 11.Unified Communication is a method of trying to integrate all forms of electronic communication under one standardized platform or method -T 12.is a set of interrelated components that collect, manipulate, store, and disseminate data and information and provide a feedback mechanism to meet an objective. - Information System 13.Competitive advantage for an organization manifests itself as all of the following except: -Increased time to market 14.A combination of your high school grades, application essays, letters of recommendation, and Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores would be considered knowledge. -F 15.Information-based industries face a great threat from substitute products. -T 16.A search engine is a software program you can use to find Web sites, Web pages, and Internet files -T 17.Portal Web page offers a variety of Internet services from a single, convenient location -True 18.An Internet service provider (ISP) provides temporary Internet connections to individuals and companies. - T 19.A data warehouse, unlike a data mart, deals with multiple subject areas and is typically implemented and controlled by a central organizational unit such as the corporate Information Technology (IT) group. -T 20.Any computer based tool that people use to work with information and support the information processing needs of an organization. - information technology

21.Which of the following statements about the impact of IT on managers is not correct? - IT will increase the number of managerial levels in an organization. 22._____ portals support communities such as hobby groups or a political party. -Affinity 23.End user computing is when employees directly use computers in their work to solve problems or produce results. -T 24.It refers to a multi-disciplined approach to achieving organizational objectives by making the best use of knowledge. - Knowledge Management 25.A collection of related activities and services that produce a product of value to an organization -Business Processes 26.The introduction of the ATM in the banking industry is an example of the innovation strategy. -T 27. A(n) _____ connects two or more devices in a limited geographical area. - Local area network 28.Improving the manner in which internal business processes are executed is which strategy for competitive advantage? -Operational effectiveness 29. Search engines and metasearch engines are examples of which network application? -Discovery 30.When a business must abide by government regulations such as HIPPA or FERPA, what type of business pressure is created? - Societal *****LONG QUIZ 2***** 1.Digital dashboards-evolved from executive information systems, which were information systems designed specifically for the information needs of top executives. - False 2.True or False: Information forms the intellectual capital from which human beings craft their lives and secure dignity. - True 3.Decision support systems support only lower and middle level managers. - False 4.____________ restrict unauthorized individuals from using information resources and are concerned with user identification. - Access controls 5. True or False: Liability means that individuals have the right to recover the damages done to them by other individuals, organizations, or systems.

- True 6. In _________ , the organization purchases insurance as a means to compensate for any loss. - risk transference 7.If you are an worker managing your fringe benefits over your company's intranet, you are engaging in _______ e-commerce. - business-to-employee 8.IT security is the responsibility of everyone in the organization. - True 9.Has a way of fouling up people's lives, especially when the party with the inaccurate information has an advantage in power and authority. - Misinformation 10. LinkedIn is a _____________social networking site that makes money from advertising and services. - Business-oriented 11. Which of the following is not an example of Web 2.0 applications? - Crowd sourcing 12. True or False: Responsibility is accepting any consequences of decisions and/or actions - True 13.Electronic commerce provides opportunities for companies to do all of the following except - expand at relatively high cost 14. E-commerce affects only businesses that sell products online - False 15. Channel conflict occurs when click-and-mortar companies have problems with their regular distributors when they sell directly to customers online - True 16. True or False: Information is the means through which the minds expands and increases its capacity to achieve its goals, often as the result of an input from another mind. - True 17. The advantages of electronic commerce for consumers include all of the following except: - You typically cannot access additional information, so you do not have information overload. 18. _____ auctions are the most common auction model for large purchases. Select one: - Reverse 19. A wiki is a collection of blogs. - False 20. You just started to work on a project with three other people. You realize that everyone has their own notes, which makes it hard for you to keep track of what has been done and what still needs to be done. Which of the following applications

would you suggest the team use? - A wiki 21. Unintentional threats to information systems include all of the following except: - malicious software 22.Can be defined as an individual condition of life characterized by exclusion from publicity. - Privacy 23. A (n) ________ provides rapid access to timely information and direct access to management reports. - digital dashboard 24. Which of the following is not a strategy for mitigating the risk of threats against information? - All of the above are strategies for mitigating risk 25. Is the increased value of information in decision-making. - More Insidious Threats 26. Which of the following statements concerning Web 2.0 sites is false? - They cannot be used to start a business. 27. In the _____ marketplace model, EC technology is used to streamline the purchasing process in order to reduce the cost of items purchased, the administrative cost of procurement, and the purchasing cycle time. - buy-side 28. Data mining refers to the process of searching valuable business information in a large database, data warehouse or data mart. - True 29. At the end of a semester, a student knows that she must achieve a grade of 81 or higher on her final exam to get an A in the course. She has just performed what kind of analysis - Goal-seeking 30. Being a figurehead and leader is part of the ________ managerial role. - interpersonal...