CAPP 50941

Type

Quiz

Book Title

Business Driven Information Systems 5th Edition

ISBN 13

978-0073402987

July 20, 2017

Information redundancy is the duplication of data, or the storage of the same data in

multiple places.

A hashtag is a self-photograph placed on a social media website.

Application integration is the integration of a company's existing management

information systems.

A field is composed of rows and columns that represent an entity.

Longitude represents a north/south measurement of position.

Exception reports organize and categorize data for managerial perusal.

RFID supports logistics.

Business process reengineering is the analysis and redesign of workflow within and

between enterprises.

Forecasts are predictions based on time-series information.

Upcycle refers to discarded electronics and is growing with the growth of innovation;

for example, a personal computer has a life expectancy of only three to five years and a

cell phone is less than two years.

A peer-to-peer network is a model for applications in which the bulk of the back-end

processing, such as performing a physical search of a database, takes place on a server,

while the front-end processing, which involves communicating with the users, is

handled by the clients.

Social networking is the practice of expanding your business and/or social contacts by

constructing a personal network.

Desktop publishing increases the cooperation and joint productivity of small groups of

 co-workers.

True

False

Device customization is the blending of personal and business use of technology

devices and applications.

Preventive security software, through programs such as Window Washer, erases file

histories, browser cookies, cache contents, and other crumbs that applications and

Windows leave on a hard drive.

War chalking is deliberately searching for Wi-Fi signals while driving by in a vehicle.

Accurate information asks if the aggregate or summary information is in agreement

with detailed information.

Flash memory is a special type of rewritable read-only memory (ROM) that is compact

and portable.

Redundancy occurs when a task or activity is never repeated.

Volatility refers to a device's ability to function with or without power. RAM is volatile,

meaning it must have constant power to function; its contents are lost when the

computer's electric supply fails.

True

False

The chief knowledge officer is responsible for collecting, maintaining, and distributing

company knowledge.

Prototyping is a modern design approach by which the designers and system users use

an iterative approach to building the system.

The oldest and the best known is the agile methodology, a sequence of phases in which

the output of each phase becomes the input for the next.

A hub (switch or router) is the hardware to perform traffic control.

The network interface layer places data packets on the network for transmission.

Operating system software controls the application software and manages how the

hardware devices work together. When using Excel to create and print a graph, the

operating system software controls the process, ensures that a printer is attached and

has paper, and sends the graph to the printer along with instructions on how to print it.

Some computers are configured with two operating systems so they can dual

bootprovide the user with the option of choosing the operating system when the

computer is turned on.

Plan, source, make, deliver, and return are the five basic supply chain management

components.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community that develops open

standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web (www.w3.org).

Structured data is typically stored in a traditional system such as a relational database or

spreadsheet and accounts for about 20 percent of the data that surrounds us.

The chief security officer is responsible for ensuring the security of business systems

and developing strategies and safeguards against attacks from hackers and viruses.

Using only data and information to make decisions and solve problems is the key to

finding success in business. These are also the only core drivers of the information age

and the building blocks of business systems.

A worm spreads itself not only from file to file but also from computer to computer.

What are computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools?

A. an illustration of the movement of information between external entities and the

processes and data stores within the system

B.software suites that automate systems analysis, design, and development

C. a formal, approved document that manages and controls the entire project

D. a graphical representation of the processes that capture, manipulate, store, and

distribute information between a system and its environment

Which of the following is included in the four quadrants of ethical and legal behavior?

A. legal behavior and ethical behavior.

B. illegal behavior and ethical behavior.

C. legal behavior and unethical behavior.

D.All of these are correct.

Which of the following would you include as decisions and responsibilities typically

found at the managerial level of a company?

A. monthly Plans

B. monthly Budgets

C. weekly Schedule

D. All of these are correct.

What contains all of the details of an incident?

A. technology failure

B.incident record

C. incident management

D. technology recovery strategy

Which data types are typically found in the operations management department?

A. manufacturing data, distribution data, and production data

B. sales data, customer data, commission data, and customer support data

C. employee data, promotion data, vacation data

D. investment data, monetary data, reporting data

What is a form of social engineering in which one individual lies to obtain confidential

data about another individual?

A. dumpster texting

B. dumpster diving

C. trash retrieval

D. pretexting

What is network virtualization?

A. combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage

device

B.combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels

that can be assigned in real time to a specific device

C. combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems,

from the applications

D. cffers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from

disruption caused by disaster

Which of the following occurs during data cleansing?

A. clean missing records

B. clean redundant records

C. clean inaccurate data

D. All of these are correct.

What kind of attribute can be calculated using the value of another attribute?

A. single-valued attribute

B. multivalued attribute

C.derived attribute

D. stored attribute

The department within a company that supports the sales by planning, pricing, and

promoting goods or services is called ___________.

A. sales

B. operations management

C. accounting

D. marketing

What is erroneous or flawed data?

A.dirty data

B. information cleansing

C. information Scrubbing

D. ETL

What are information integrity issues?

A. occurs when the same data element has different values

B.occurs when a system produces incorrect, inconsistent, or duplicate data

C. refers to the overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, and security

of company data

D. the practice of gathering data and ensuring that it is uniform, accurate, consistent,

and complete, including such entities as customers, suppliers, products, sales,

employees, and other critical entities that are commonly integrated across

organizational systems

What occurs between two entities in which an instance of one entity can be related to

many instances of a related entity?

A. one-to-one relationship

B.one-to-many relationship

C. many-to-many relationship

D. composite entity

What is inventory cycle time?

A. an unfilled customer order for a product that is out of stock

B.the time it takes to manufacture a product and deliver it to the retailer

C. the agreed upon time between the purchase of a product and the delivery of the

product

D. the frequency of inventory replacement

What is click-fraud?

A. the electronic defacing of an existing website

B.the abuse of pay-per-click, pay-per-call, and pay-per-conversion revenue models by

repeatedly clicking on a link to increase charges or costs for the advertiser

C. a computer crime where a competitor or disgruntled employee increases a company's

search advertising costs by repeatedly clicking on the advertiser's link

D. an act or object that poses a danger to assets

What is supply chain management (SCM)?

A.the management of information flows between and among activities in a supply chain

to maximize total supply chain effectiveness and corporate profitability

B. information entered into a given system and sent automatically to all downstream

systems and processes

C. a means of managing all aspects of a customer's relationship with an organization to

increase customer loyalty and retention and an organization's profitability

D. information that connects the plans, methods, and tools aimed at integrating separate

enterprise system

When evaluating the value chain, which of the following is included in the support

value activities?

A. inbound activities

B. marketing and sales

C.firm infrastructure

D. finance and sales

What is equipment used to see, hear, or otherwise accept the results of information

processing requests?

A. input device

B. output device

C. magnetic tape

D. magnetic medium

What is a phishing expedition?

A. reroutes requests for legitimate websites to false websites

B. a technique to gain personal information for the purpose of identity theft, usually by

means of fraudulent emails that look as though they came from legitimate businesses

C. a masquerading attack that combines spam with spoofing

D. a phishing expedition in which the emails are carefully designed to target a particular

person or organization

A chipless RFID tag ________.

A. occurs when a company places active or semi-passive RFID tags on expensive

products or assets to gather data on the items' location with little or no manual

intervention

B.uses plastic or conductive polymers instead of silicon-based microchips, allowing

them to be washed or exposed to water without damaging the chip

C. measures the acceleration (the rate of change of velocity) of an item and is used to

track truck speeds or taxi cab speeds

D. provides extremely accurate position, time, and speed, using a satellite-based

navigation system

What is the name of a company's internal computer department?

A. Management Information Systems (MIS)

B. Information Systems (IS)

C. Information Technology (IT)

D. All of these are correct.

What is represented by a circle in a business process model?

A. BPMN event

B. BPMN activity

C. BPMN flow

D. BPMN gateway

A common mistake that many managers tend to make is focusing on only one type of

metrics because they are easier to measure. Which type of metrics do they focus on?

A. effectiveness MIS metrics

B. efficiency MIS metrics

C. endurance MIS metrics

D. product sales metrics

What is a cultural trend that places value on an individual's ability to be a creator of

things as well as a consumer of things?

A. computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing

B.maker movement

C. makerspace

D. RFID electronic product code

What refers to choosing to allow permissions to incoming emails?

A. opt out

B. opt in

C. BYOD

D. nonrepudiation

What identifies the geographic location of features and boundaries on Earth, such as

natural or constructed features, oceans, and more?

A. automatic vehicle location

B. geographic information system

C. cartography

D.spatial data

What is a potential problem or impact of technology dependence?

A. outages hold potentially great havoc for people, business, and educational

institutions that rely heavily on technology

B. many have a need to be continuously connected for every activity that potentially

eliminates crucial in-person social skills and could stunt psychological growth

C. people or businesses cannot function if the connection is down

D. All of these are correct.

What is threat of substitute products or services?

A. the ability of buyers to affect the price they must pay for an item

B. the suppliers' ability to influence the prices they charge for supplies (including

materials, labor, and services)

C. high when it is easy for new competitors to enter a market and low when there are

significant entry barriers to joining a market

D. high when there are many alternatives to a product or service and low when there are

few alternatives from which to choose

What has a defined length, type, and format and includes numbers, dates, or strings

such as Customer Address?

A.structured data

B. machine-generated data

C. human-generated data

D. unstructured data

What is a cellular telephone with a keypad that runs programs, music, photos, email,

and includes many features of a PDA.

A. tablet

B. PDA

C. ebook

D. smartphone