MPCS 73564

Type

Quiz

Book Title

Business Driven Information Systems 5th Edition

ISBN 13

978-0073402987

July 20, 2017

What are the two main categories in a value chain analysis?

A. primary value activities and secondary value activities

B. primary value activities and support value activities

C. primary value activities and strengthening value activities

D. None of these are correct.

A transaction processing system (TPS) is the basic business system that assists

operational level analysts when making structured decisions. Which of the following is

not an example of a TPS?

A. Target's internal company payroll system

B. Comfort Dental patient diagnosis system

C. First Bank's overall accounting system

D. Stewart Sport's order entry system

What is cartography?

A. an east/west measurement of position

B.the science and art of making an illustrated map or chart

C. stores, views, and analyzes geographic data, creating multidimensional charts or

maps

D. a round coin-sized object, is uniquely numbered and hidden in geocache

What spans a large geographic area, such as a state, province, or country?

A. local area network

B. wide area network

C. metropolitan area network

D. peer-to-peer network

Personal digital assistant (PDA) is a small handheld computer that performs simple

tasks such as taking notes, scheduling appointments, and maintaining an address book

and a calendar. The PDA screen is touch-sensitive, allowing a user to write directly on

the screen, capturing what is written.

True

False

What is a type of mediation that refers to the creation of new kinds of intermediaries

that simply could not have existed before the advent of ebusiness?

A. cybermediation

B. interactivity

C. reintermediation

D. disintermediation

One of the primary goals of a database is to eliminate information redundancy by

recording each piece of data in only one place in the database. What does the

elimination of information redundancy do for a database?

A. reduces disk space requirements

B. makes updating information easier

C. improves information quality

D. All of these are correct.

Bonnie Flat is a real estate agent who specializes in the luxury home market in the

Seattle, WA area. Bonnie is highly technical and uses many types of online marketing

techniques to increase business. One of most successful online marketing techniques is

to place a box along the top of real estate websites and luxury custom furniture

websites. What type of marketing technique is Bonnie using?

A. a cookie

B. a banner ad

C. a pop-up ad

D. a click-through ad

Which four elements are included in systems thinking?

A. output, process, feedback, and accounting

B. process, output, operations, and accounting

C.input, process, output, and feedback

D. input, output, sales, and feedback

Which of the following include the three primary network providers?

A. DSL, Cable Modem, Broadband

B. LAN, WAN, MAN

C. VoIP, UC, IPTV

D.ISP, NSP, RSP

Define data mining, and explain the three common forms for mining structured and

unstructured data.

Which of the following authentication methods is 100 percent accurate?

A. smart card

B. fingerprint authentication

C. user ID

D. None of these are correct.

What is loose coupling?

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

What is the science and art of making an illustrated map or chart?

A. automatic vehicle location

B. geographic information system

C.cartography

D. edge matching

What is the term for the most successful solutions or problem-solving methods that

have been developed by a specific organization or industry?

A. ROI

B. metrics

C. best practices

D. KPI

What is software whose source code is available free for any third party to review and

modify?

A. free source

B. open source

C. code source

D. network source

What is information that people use to support their decision-making efforts?

A. information cleansing and scrubbing

B. data-mining tools

C. data mining

D. business intelligence

What is a service that enables instant or real-time communication between people?

A. URL

B. IMing

C. tacit knowledge

D. elicit knowledge

What is rivalry among existing competitors?

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 competition is fierce in a market and low when competitors are more

complacent

Which of the following is the key term that defines the confirmation or validation of an

event or object?

A. buyer power

B. data

C.fact

D. entry barrier

What is open source?

A. any proprietary software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder

B. any software whose source code is made available free for any third party to review

and modify

C. contains instructions written by a programmer specifying the actions to be performed

by computer software

D. consists of nonproprietary hardware and software based on publically known

standards that allow third parties to create add-on products to plug into or interoperate

What are computer viruses that wait for a specific date before executing their

instructions?

A. zombie

B. zombie farm

C. pharming attack

D. time bomb

What caused Polaroid to go bankrupt?

A. It failed to have innovative technology and a captive customer base.

B. One-hour film processing and digital cameras stole its market share.

C. People who want instant access to their pictures also want a third party involved.

D. Internet websites such as Flickr and Facebook stole its market share.

What is the size of the internal electrical pathway along which signals are sent from one

part of the computer to another?

A. clock speed

B. word length

C. bus width

D. chip line width

Which of the choices below represents the bullwhip effect?

A. organizations know about employee events triggered downstream in the supply chain

B. customers receive distorted product demand information regarding sales information

C. distorted product-demand information ripples from one partner to the next

throughout the supply chain

D. the ability to view all areas up and down the supply chain

What is spear phishing?

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

Which activities belong in the accounting department?

A. records, measures, and reports monetary transactions

B. tracks strategic financial issues, including money, banking, credit, investments, and

assets

C. supports sales by planning, pricing, and promoting goods or services is marketing

D. relies on information from operations to understand inventory, place orders, and

forecast consumer demand

What is unified communications (UC)?

A. allows dynamic IP address allocation so users do not have to have a preconfigured IP

address to use the network

B. converts IP addresses into domains, or identifying labels that use a variety of

recognizable naming conventions

C. the efficient coexistence of telephone, video, and data communication within a single

network, offering convenience and flexibility not possible with separate infrastructures

D.the integration of communication channels into a single service

What is 3D printing?

A.a process that buildslayer by layer in an additive processa three-dimensional solid

object from a digital model

B. the use of electronic tags and labels to identify objects wirelessly over short

distances

C. unmanned aircraft that can fly autonomously, or without a human

D. the focus on creating artificial intelligence devices that can move and react to

sensory input

Which of the following represents a brick-and-mortar business?

A. The Gap

B. Amazon

C. Google

D. T.J.Maxx

Which activities do human resource 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.