CAPP 65752

Type

Quiz

Book Title

Business Driven Information Systems 5th Edition

ISBN 13

978-0073402987

July 20, 2017

Human-generated data is created by a machine without human intervention.

Machine-generated structured data includes sensor data, point-of-sale data, and web log

(blog) data.

What is a small file deposited on a hard drive by a website containing information about

customers and their web activities?

A. key logger

B. hardware key logger

C. cookie

D. adware

Which of the following means the right to be left alone when you want to be, to have

control over your personal possessions, and not to be observed without your consent?

A. safety

B. ethical standard

C. privacy

D. confidentiality

How would the retail industry use business intelligence?

A. track crime patterns, locations, and criminal behavior

B. analyze customer demographics

C.predict sales, inventory levels, and distribution

D. predict hardware failures

What is a person or group that has an interest or concern in an organization?

A. stakeholder

B. business strategy

C. supplier

D. partner

What is economic feasibility?

A.measures the cost-effectiveness of a project

B. measures how well a solution meets the identified system requirements to solve the

problems and take advantage of opportunities

C. measures the project time frame to ensure that it can be completed on time

D. measures the practicality of a technical solution and the availability of technical

resources and expertise

What removes any software that employs a user's Internet connection in the background

without the user's knowledge or explicit permission?

A. preventive security software

B. spyware software

C. crash-proof software

D. disk image software

As a trainer for Exempla Healthcare, Tina is faced with many challenges to properly

training her new hires. There are over 40 different locations where Exempla employees

work across the Chicago metro area. Tina decides to implement some valuable

ebusiness tools to help reduce traveling costs, increase speed, and provide flexibility for

completing training sessions with all the new hires. Tina primarily uses PowerPoints

and videos during her training modules. What is the most effective ebusiness tool for

Tina to implement in order to accomplish all of her training goals?

A. IMing

B. webinar

C. blog

D. email

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a well-defined project plan?

A.prepared by the project manager

B. easy to read

C. appropriate to the project's size

D. communicated to all key participants

Which of the following statements describes Web 3.0's feature that ensures the

"integration of legacy devices"?

A. the ability to use current devices such as iPhone and laptops as credit cards or tickets

B. the design of websites and other software so they can be easily integrated and work

together

C. the ability for software to be distributed and accessed from anywhere

D. the design of software to be easily integrated and work together

Which of the following terms represents how quickly a third-party or vendor can

change a system to ensure it meets user needs and the terms of any contracts including

agreed levels of reliability, maintainability, or availability?

A. capacity

B. web accessibility

C.serviceability

D. vulnerability

Which of the following represents the primary elements in an information MIS

infrastructure?

A.backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning

B. backup, accessibility, and usability

C. backup, cloud computing, and virtualization

D. grid computing, cloud computing, and virtualization

What kind of attribute would be given for a person who does not have an email

address?

A.null-valued attribute

B. multivalued attribute

C. single-valued attribute

D. stored attribute

Which social media site uses LBS?

A.Foursquare

B. iTunes

C. Google

D. YouTube

What stores, views, and analyzes geographic data creating multidimensional charts or

maps; for example, it is used to monitor global warming by measuring the speed of

glaciers melting in Canada, Greenland, and Antarctica?

A. automatic vehicle location

B.geographic information system

C. cartography

D. edge matching

Online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP) are

similar MIS strategies used to help with business decision making. What is the primary

difference between OLTP and OLAP?

A. OLTP is used at the operational level; OLAP is used at the managerial level

B. OLTP is used to capture transactional and event data; OLAP is used to manipulate

information

C. OLTP is used to support structured decisions; OLAP is used to support

semistructured decisions

D. All of these are correct.

Data integration is the integration of data from multiple sources, which provides a

unified view of all data.

What is a phone scam that attempts to defraud people by asking them to call a bogus

telephone number to "confirm" their account information?

A. pharming

B. phishing

C. phishing expedition

D. vishing

Shelby Black runs a very successful hair salon in downtown Los Angeles. One of

Shelby's tasks is to input positive and negative customer reviews into her computer

system. What type of information is Shelby gathering?

A. feedback

B. processing

C. output management

D. sales processing

What is estimated time en route (ETE)?

A.the time remaining before reaching a destination using the present speed and is

typically used for navigation applications

B. the time of day of an expected arrival at a certain destination and is typically used for

navigation applications

C. a device that measures the acceleration (the rate of change of velocity) of an item

and is used to track truck speeds or taxi cab speeds

D. a GPS technology adventure game that posts the longitude and latitude location for

an item on the Internet for users to find

What is a service-oriented architecture?

A.A business-driven enterprise architecture that supports integrating a business as

linked, repeatable activities, tasks, or services.

B. A business task.

C. The capability of services to be joined together on demand to create composite

services, or disassembled just as easily into their functional component.

D. The capability of two or more computer systems to share data and resources, even

though they are made by different manufacturers.

Why is estimating future growth a challenge for most companies?

A. Growth can occur if the company acquires new markets.

B. Growth can occur if the company acquires new customers.

C. Growth can occur if the company acquires new products.

D.All of these are correct.

What generates revenue each time a user clicks on a link that takes the user directly to

an online agent waiting for a call?

A. pay-per-click

B. pay-per-call

C. pay-per-conversion

D. All of these are correct.

What are the three business functions an MIS infrastructure supports?

A.supports operations, change, and the environment or sustainability

B. supports operations, customers, and ewaste

C. supports operations, clients, and servers

D. supports information, change, and business continuity planning

What system is used in computer appliances and special-purpose applications, such as

an automobile, ATM, or media player and are used for a single purpose?

A. system software

B. operating system software

C. embedded operating system

D. multitasking

What is process modeling?

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

What occurs when the ability of a company to operate is impaired because of a

hardware, software, or data outage?

A. emergency

B. emergency preparedness

C. business Impact analysis

D.technology failure

The best and most effective way to manage authentication is through ________.

A. smart technology card

B. tokens

C. biometrics

D. passwords

Which of the following is considered an input in the systems thinking example of a

TPS?

A. CRUD

B. calculate

C. report

D. source document

Which of the choices below is a common Internet monitoring technology?

A. key logger

B. hardware key logger

C. cookie

D.All of these are correct.

Which of the below examples indicates when the time is right to initiate a business

process change?

A. The market being served makes a distinctive shift.

B. The company is below industry benchmarks on its core processes.

C. The company strategically passes or leapfrogs the competition on key decisions to

regain competitive advantage.

D. All of these are correct.

What is data that is not defined, does not follow a specified format, and is typically

freeform text such as emails, Twitter tweets, and text messages?

A. structured data

B. machine-generated data

C. human-generated data

D. unstructured data

Who is the person responsible for updating and maintaining website content?

A. content creator

B.content editor

C. static information

D. dynamic information