CAS CS 32239

Type

Quiz

Book Title

Business Driven Information Systems 5th Edition

ISBN 13

978-0073402987

July 20, 2017

Which of the following is a potential feature of a digital dashboard?

A. a hot list of KPIs refreshed every 15 minutes

B. a running line graph of planned versus actual production for the past 24 hours

C. a graph of stock market prices

D. All of these are correct.

What analyzes unstructured data to find trends and patterns in words and sentences?

A. social media analytics

B. speech analytics

C.text analytics

D. web analytics

Using the collective power of a community to identify and classify content significantly

________ content categorization costs.

A. eliminates

B. raises

C. lowers

D. balances

Cheryl is the operations manager for Nature's Bread Company, which specializes in

providing natural products for health conscious individuals. Cheryl is responsible for

compiling, analyzing, and evaluating daily sales numbers to determine the company's

profitability and forecast production for the next day. Which of the following is an

example of knowledge that Cheryl would be using to successfully perform her job?

A. Craig Newmark is customer number 15467.

B. Flour Power is supplier number 8745643.

C. best-selling product by day

D. Best-selling product changes when Tony the best baker is working.

Which of the following are included as potential internal strengths in a SWOT analysis

that are helpful to an organization?

A. core competencies, market leaders, cost advantages, excellent management

B. lack of strategic direction, obsolete technologies, lack of managerial talent, outdated

product line

C. expanded product line, increase in demand, new markets, new regulations

D. new entrants, substitute products, shrinking markets, costly regulatory, requirements

What is a set of measurable characteristics of a human voice that uniquely identifies an

individual?

A. voiceprint

B. face

C. iris

D. All of these are correct.

Which of the following refers to immediate, up-to-date information?

A. daily information

B. strategic information

C.real-time information

D. crisis information

What is an agile MIS infrastructure?

A. identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is

maintained and secured

B. includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when

combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization's goals

C. identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while

simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption

D. includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data,

processes, and MIS assets

What is the intangible creative work that is embodied in physical form and includes

trademarks and

patents?

A. intellectual software

B. Intellectual property

C. trademark property

D. ethical property

Which of the choices below represents the definition of information compliance?

A. the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding information

B. a method or system of government for information management or control

C. the category of computer security that addresses the protection of data from

unauthorized disclosure and confirmation of data source authenticity

D. examines the organizational resource of information and regulates its definitions,

uses, values, and distribution, ensuring that it has the types of data/information required

to function and grow effectively

Which of the following is an ebusiness marketing technique?

A. cookies

B. pop-up ad

C. banner ad

D. All of these are correct.

What are the three primary types of management information systems available to

support decision making across the company levels?

A. transaction processing systems, decision support systems, executive information

systems

B. analytical information, decision support systems, executive information systems

C. transaction processing systems, drill-down systems, expert systems

D. what-if analysis, sensitivity analysis, goal-seeking analysis

Executives of a company deal less with details of the operational activities and more

with the higher meaningful aggregations of information, or "coarser" information. What

refers to the level of detail in the model?

A. drill-down

B. visualization

C. granularity

D. consolidation

Broad differentiation, broad cost leadership, and _________ create the three generic

strategies identified by Porter.

A. narrow market leadership

B. high cost versus low cost

C.focused strategy

D. None of these are correct.

What improves business process efficiencies by simplifying or eliminating unnecessary

steps?

A. workflow

B. swim lane

C. automation

D. streamlining

With so much information and moving parts within a company, technology has made it

possible for employers to monitor many aspects of employee jobs and duties. What is a

system that can track employees' activities by measures such as keystrokes, error rate,

and number of transactions processed?

A. anti-spam system

B. information intelligence system

C. workplace MIS monitoring

D. company technology monitoring

Which of the following would not be found in a digital dashboard for a manufacturing

team?

A. a graph of stock market prices

B. a running line graph of planned versus actual production for the past 24 hours

C. an excel spreadsheet with cost analysis data

D. a hot list of key performance indicators, refreshed every 15 minutes

What determines values for an unknown continuous variable behavior or estimated

future value?

A. classification

B.estimation

C. affinity grouping

D. clustering

What occurs when a new radical form of business enters the market that reshapes the

way companies and organizations behave?

A. domain name

B. domain name hosting

C. applet

D. paradigm shift

What is the maker movement?

A. systems used to create the digital designs and then manufacture the products

B.a cultural trend that places value on an individual's ability to be a creator of things as

well as a consumer of things

C. a community center that provides technology, manufacturing equipment, and

educational opportunities to the public that would otherwise be inaccessible or

unaffordable

D. serialization or the ability to track individual items by using the unique serial number

associated with each RFID tag

What is Porter's Five Forces Model?

A. evaluates an organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to

identify significant influences that work for or against business strategies

B. analyzes the competitive forces within the environment in which a company operates

to assess the potential for profitability in an industry

C. views a firm as a series of business processes, each of which adds value to the

product or service

D. generic business strategies that are neither organization nor industry specific and can

be applied to any business, product, or service

What is structured data?

A.has a defined length, type, and format and includes numbers, dates, or strings such as

Customer Address

B. created by a machine without human intervention

C. data that humans, in interaction with computers, generate

D. not defined, does not follow a specified format, and is typically freeform text such as

emails, Twitter tweets, and text messages

Velocity includes different forms of structured and unstructured data.

Jennifer is writing a paper and she must determine which of Porter's three generic

strategies The Museum Company has implemented. Jennifer finds out that The Museum

Company offers specialty products found only in museums around the world to affluent

customers. What would Jennifer determine The Museum Company is using as its

generic strategy?

A. broad market, low cost

B. narrow market, high cost

C. broad market, high cost

D. narrow market, low cost

What computer is the fastest, most powerful, and most expensive type of computer?

A. supercomputer

B. mainframe computer

C. workstation computer

D. minicomputer

Spatial data (geospatial data or geographic information) identifies the geographic

location of features and boundaries on Earth, such as natural or constructed features,

oceans, and more. spatial data can be mapped and is stored as coordinates and topology.

A GIS accesses, manipulates, and analyzes spatial data.

The actual hamburger is included in which category of making a hamburger?

A. input

B. process

C.output

D. All of these are correct.

Which of the following terms implies that organizations that cannot adapt to the new

demands placed on them for surviving in the information age are doomed to extinction?

A. collective intelligence

B. digital Darwinism

C. joint venture

D. sole proprietorship

What software contains course information such as a syllabus and assignments and

offers drop boxes for quizzes and homework along with a grade book?

A. preventive security software

B. personal information management software

C. crash-proof software

D. course management software

A semi-passive RFID tag is ________.

A. an electronic identification device that is made up of a chip and antenna

B. a transmitter/receiver that reads the contents of RFID tags in the area

C. a device that does not have a power source

D.a device that uses a battery to run the microchip's circuitry but communicates by

drawing power from the RFID reader

The business decisions made by the human resources department include investment

data, monetary data, and reporting data.

What is another term for instant messaging?

A. IMing

B. HTML

C. podcasting

D. webbing

Which of the following definitions represents typosquatting?

A. a problem that occurs when someone registers purposely misspelled variations of

well-known domain names

B. the theft of a website's name that occurs when someone, posing as a site's

administrator, changes the ownership of the domain name assigned to the website to

another website owner

C. government attempts to control Internet traffic, thus preventing some material from

being viewed by a country's citizens

D. an antispamming approach where the receiving computer launches a return attack

against the spammer, sending email messages back to the computer that originated the

suspected spam

What is a general term for a set of standards governing the collection and use of

personal data and addressing issues of privacy and accuracy?

A. cyberbullying

B. fair information practices

C. click-fraud

D. bring your own device

What is an older secondary storage medium that uses a strip of thin plastic coated with

a magnetically sensitive recording medium?

A. magnetic medium

B. magnetic tape

C. hard drive

D. RAM