CS 70367

Type

Quiz

Book Title

Business Driven Information Systems 5th Edition

ISBN 13

978-0073402987

July 20, 2017

A user can opt in to receive emails by choosing to allow permissions to incoming

emails.

A network operating system (NOS) is the operating system that runs a network, steering

information between computers and managing security and users.

System software controls how the various technology tools work together along with

the application software. System software includes both operating system software and

utility software.

Competitive intelligence is information collected from multiple sources such as

suppliers, customers, competitors, partners, and industries that analyzes patterns, trends,

and relationships for strategic decision making.

Control objects for information and related technology (COBIT) are software suites that

automate systems analysis, design, and development.

An intranet is a restricted network that relies on Internet technologies to provide an

Internet-like environment within the company for information sharing,

communications, collaboration, web publishing, and the support of business processes.

Magnetic medium is a secondary storage medium that uses magnetic techniques to store

and retrieve data on disks or tapes coated with magnetically sensitive materials.

True

False

Accessibility refers to the time frames when the system is operational.

A universal resource locator (URL) is the address of a file or resource on the web such

as www.apple.com.

Secure sockets layer (SSL) is a combination of HTTP and SSL to provide encryption

and secure identification of an Internet server.

Fuzzy logic is the process within a genetic algorithm of randomly trying combinations

and evaluating the success (or failure) of the outcome.

Organizational information has three characteristics including timeliness, quality, and

governance.

Regression is a statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables. It

includes many techniques for modeling and analyzing several variables when the focus

is on the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent

variables.

Business critical integrity constraints enforce business rules vital to an organization's

success and often require more insight and knowledge than relational integrity

constraints.

A primary key is a foreign key of one table that appears as an attribute in another table

and acts to provide a logical relationship between the two tables.

Knowledge can be a real competitive advantage for an organization. The most common

form of collective intelligence found inside the organization is knowledge management

(KM), which involves capturing, classifying, evaluating, retrieving, and sharing

information assets in a way that provides context for effective decisions and actions.

Application software is used in computer appliances and special-purpose applications,

such as an automobile, ATM, or media player and is used for a single purpose.

True

False

Prediction is a statistical process that finds the way to make a design, system, or

decision as effective as possible; for example, finding the values of controllable

variables that determine maximal productivity or minimal waste.

A cold site is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a

place where employees can move after a disaster.

Unavailability occurs when a system is continuously operational at all times.

The chief privacy officer is responsible for ensuring the ethical and legal use of

information within a company.

The critical path is the sequence of activities that determine the earliest date by which

the project can be completed.

Search engine optimization (SEO) combines art along with science to determine how to

make URLs more attractive to search engines resulting in higher search engine ranking.

RFID innovations and technologies are being used in many industries including retail,

hospitals, pharmaceuticals, and ranching.

A megabyte (MB or M or Meg) is roughly 1 million bytes.

A computer portable enough to fit on a lap or in a bag and has its own power source or

battery.

Geocache is a GPS technology adventure game that posts the longitude and latitude

location for an item on the Internet for users to find. GPS users find the geocache and

typically sign a guest book or take an item and leave an item for the next adventure

players to find. Caches are often placed in locations that are interesting or challenging

for people to discover.

Safe mode occurs if the system is failing and will load only the most essential parts of

the operating system and will not run many of the background operating utilities.

True

False

Production and materials management is a core ERP component.

Managers use transactional information when making structured decisions at the

operational level.

An input device is equipment used to capture information and commands.

Plan, source, give, get, and return are the five basic supply chain management

components.

Plunge implementation is a set of policies, procedures, standards, processes, practices,

tools, techniques, and tasks that people apply to technical and management challenges.

What is a secondary storage medium that uses magnetic techniques to store and retrieve

data on disks or tapes coated with magnetically sensitive materials?

A. input device

B. output device

C. magnetic tape

D. magnetic medium

What is the Internet protocol web browsers use to request and display web pages using

universal resource locators?

A. hypertext markup language

B. web browser

C. hypertext transport protocol

D. universal resource locator

Which of the choices below offers a common example of a WAN?

A. college campus

B. home office

C. city library

D.the Internet

Which of the following represents the structure of a typical organization?

A. flat line

B. pyramid

C. circle

D. cube

Which of the following questions can materials management help a company answer?

A. How do we dispose of spoiled items?

B. What laws need to be followed for storing hazardous materials?

C. Which items must be refrigerated when being stored and transported?

D.All of these are correct.

What software can remove software that is no longer needed?

A. preventive security software

B. spyware software

C. crash-proof software

D. uninstaller software

What is a telecommunications system?

A. a system that enables the transmission of data over public or private networks

B. a communications, data exchange, and resource-sharing system created by linking

two or more computers and establishing standards, or protocols, so that they can work

together

C. any network without a central file server and in which all computers in the network

have access to the public files located on all other workstations

D. a computer that is designed to request information from a server

What is a single unit of binary data routed through a network?

A.packet

B. traceroute packet

C. packet header

D. packet footer

What is software?

A. any computer-based tool that people use to work with information and support the

information and information-processing needs of an organization

B. the set of instructions that the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks

C. consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system

D. an electronic device operating under the control of instructions stored in its own

memory that can accept, manipulate, and store data

What focuses on keeping suppliers satisfied by evaluating and categorizing suppliers

for different projects?

A.supplier relationship management

B. partner relationship management

C. employee relationship management

D. All of these are correct.

Which of the following is considered a service?

A. cars

B. groceries

C.cutting hair

D. All of these are correct.

Which of the following is a reason for the growth of the World Wide Web?

A. the microcomputer revolution

B. advancements in networking hardware

C. web pages being easy to create and flexible

D. All of these are correct.

The department within a company that performs the function of selling goods or

services is called _______________.

A. marketing

B. sales

C. finance

D. operations management

Which of the following is the main drawback of biometrics?

A. It is considered illegal.

B. It is viewed as an invasion of privacy.

C. It can be costly and intrusive.

D. It requires constant monitoring and upgrading.

Jackie is the head teller at ABC Bank and her responsibilities include overseeing and

managing the tellers, resolving customer issues, and developing and implementing

systems for an optimal and efficient team. She notices a steady increase in customer

complaints and tracks back to find that the complaints started right around the time

ABC Bank provided Internet access to all employees. Jackie watched the tellers closely

and found that they were spending significant amounts of time playing Internet games

and posting on Facebook. Which policy should the company implement to help

eliminate this problem?

A. an information privacy policy

B. an email privacy policy

C. an Internet use policy

D. a workplace monitoring policy

___________ is a world where interconnected, Internet-enabled devices or "things" can

collect and share data without human intervention.

A. Internet of Things

B. Predictive Analytics

C. Machine to Machine

D. Flat World

Bill Schultz works at a high-power investment firm in Los Angeles. Bill is responsible

for promoting the firm's vision and creating the company-wide goals and strategies. He

also monitors the overall strategic performance of the company and its direction for

future business strategies. At what level of the organizational pyramid would you

categorize Bill?

A. strategic

B. owner

C. operational

D. managerial

What can encryption technology perform?

A. switch the order of characters

B. replace characters with other characters

C. insert or remove characters

D. All of these are correct.

What describes technologies that allow users to 'see" or visualize data to transform

information into a business perspective?

A. informing

B. infographics

C.data visualization

D. business intelligence dashboards

What generates revenue each time a user clicks on a link to a retailer's website?

A. pay-per-click

B. pay-per-call

C. pay-per-conversion

D. All of these are correct.

What is the ultimate outcome of a data warehouse?

A. data goals

B. data relationships

C. data marketing

D. data marts

The goal of value chain analysis is to identify processes in which the firm can add value

for the customer and create a competitive advantage for itself, with a ________ or

________.

A. focused strategy; product differentiation

B. focused strategy; cost advantage

C. cost advantage; primary value activities

D. cost advantage; product differentiation

What lists the destination (for example in IP packets the destination is the IP address)

along with the length of the message data?

A. traceroute

B. standard packet

C.packet header

D. packet footer

Which activities do accounting and finance components perform?

A. track employee information including payroll, benefits, compensation, performance

assessment, and assumes compliance with the legal requirements of multiple

jurisdictions and tax authorities

B. handle the various aspects of production planning and execution such as demand

forecasting, production scheduling, job cost accounting, and quality control

C. manage accounting data and financial processes within the enterprise with functions

such as general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, budgeting, and asset

management

D. None of these are correct.

Using one's social skills to trick people into revealing access credentials or other

valuable information is called ________.

A. social engineering

B. social media

C. social viruses

D. social processes

The Internet is a hierarchical structure linking different levels of service providers

whose millions of devices supply all the interconnections. The three levels outlined in

the book from the top down include ________.

A. new system provider (NSP), current system provider (CSP), and order entry system

provider (OSP)

B.national service provider (NSP), regional service provider (RSP), and internet service

provider (ISP)

C. net server point (NSP), radio server point (RSP), and internet server point (ISP)

D. None of these are correct.

According to Porter, companies that wish to dominate broad markets should operate

using a ________ strategy.

A. cost leadership with a low cost

B. differentiation with a low cost

C. cost leadership with a high cost

D. All of these are correct.

Which company is expecting to gain the majority of its returns on existing investments?

A. Dell Computer

B. Johnson &Johnson

C. Procter &Gamble

D. Phillips Petroleum

What is a special class of adware that collects data about the user and transmits it over

the Internet without the user's knowledge or permission?

A. spyware

B. hacker

C. drive-by hacking

D. adware

What is spyware?

A. a form of malicious software that infects your computer and asks for money

B. a new ransomware program that encrypts your personal files and demands payment

for the files' decryption keys

C. software that allows Internet advertisers to display advertisements without the

consent of the computer user

D. a special class of adware that collects data about the user and transmits it over the

Internet without the user's knowledge or permission

Which of the following focuses on user-generated content?

A. YouTube

B. Wikipedia

C. Netflix

D. All of these are correct.

Which of the following is not a reason for the explosive growth of the WWW?

A. basic web pages are easy to create and extremely flexible

B. the microcomputer revolution made it possible for an average person to own a

computer

C. digital Darwinism

D. the speed, convenience, and low cost of email