MPCS 77517

Type

Quiz

Book Title

Business Driven Information Systems 5th Edition

ISBN 13

978-0073402987

July 20, 2017

What is also provided for the system users and can be online or in a classroom?

A.training

B. testing

C. implementation phase

D. testing phase

If you were thinking about an oven as a system, which of the following represents the

process?

A. the uncooked food

B. the cooked food

C. a light indicating that the oven has reached the preheated temperature

D. the oven running at 350 degrees for 20 minutes

What consists of a series of tiny projects?

A. waterfall methodology

B.iterative development

C. agile methodology

D. All of these are correct.

What is a form of malicious software that infects your computer and asks for money?

A. sniffer

B. spyware

C. spoofware

D. ransomware

What is a project plan?

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 forms of data mining assigns records to one of a predefined set

of classes?

A. clustering

B.classification

C. estimation

D. affinity grouping

Which of the following is not considered a feature in a contact center?

A. automatic call distribution

B. interactive voice response

C. predictive dialing

D.automatic predictive dialing

The process of gathering information about the competitive environment, including

competitors' plans, activities, and products, to improve a company's ability to succeed is

the definition of ___________.

A. feedback

B. information

C.competitive intelligence

D. data

Which group of stakeholders' primary interests include professional associations,

ethical recycling, and increasing employment?

A. employees

B. shareholders/investors

C.community

D. customers

Andy Benton works at the local Starbucks coffee shop and his responsibilities include

taking orders, fulfilling orders, and ringing in sales. At what level of the organizational

pyramid would you categorize Andy?

A. strategic

B. owner

C. operational

D. managerial

Who is a person within the organization who is trusted to monitor, contribute, filter, and

guide the social media presence of a company, individual, product, or brand?

A. social media monitoring

B. social media manager

C. social media policy

D. information privacy manager

Which gate in the RUP methodology includes building and developing the project?

A. inception

B. elaboration

C.construction

D. transition

What is the key word in ERP?

A.enterprise

B. resource

C. planning

D. None of these are correct.

What is a data file that identifies individuals or organizations online and is comparable

to a digital signature?

A. digital code

B. digital sign

C. digital certificate

D. digital card

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

Internet-like environment within the company for information sharing,

communications, collaboration, and web publishing?

A. national ISP

B. regional ISP

C.intranet

D. extranet

In which of the five basic supply chain activities do you plan for the transportation of

goods to customers?

A. plan

B. source

C. deliver

D. return

Within the beginning stage of the data warehouse models process, which of the

following are included in the internal databases?

A.marketing, sales, inventory, and billing

B. data mart 1, data mart 2, data mart 3

C. competitor and industry information, mailing lists, amp; stock market analysis

D. marketing information, and stock market analysis numbers

What is website software that finds other pages based on keyword matching similar to

Google?

A. dot-com

B. search engine

C. search engine ranking

D. search engine optimization

What is data that humans, in interaction with computers, generate?

A. structured data

B. machine-generated data

C.human-generated data

D. unstructured data

What helps organizations reduce their investment in inventory while improving

customer satisfaction through product availability?

A. supply chain event management

B. selling chain management

C. collaborative engineering

D.collaborative demand planning

What is the technique used to divide information sets into mutually exclusive groups

such that the members of each group are as close together as possible to one another

and the different groups are as far apart as possible?

A. statistical detection

B.cluster analysis

C. association detection

D. social media analytics

Which methodology begins or ends each day with a stand-up meeting to monitor and

control the development effort?

A.Scrum

B. XP

C. RUP

D. RAD

Large wikis, such as Wikipedia, can protect the quality and accuracy of their

information by assigning users roles such as ________.

A. reader

B. subject matter expert

C. editor

D. All of these are correct.

What assesses if the entire system meets the design requirements of the users?

A.alpha testing

B. development testing

C. integration testing

D. system testing

What creates a way for a company to recover and restore partially or completely

interrupted critical functions within a predetermined time after a disaster or extended

disruption?

A. disaster recovery plan

B. disaster recovery cost curve

C.business continuity planning

D. emergency notification system

Which of the following is the common term for the representation of multidimensional

information?

A. block

B. square

C. column

D. cube

Your boss has asked you to analyze the music industry using Porter's five forces model.

Which of the following represents buyer power in the music industry?

A. established record labels like EMI, Sony, Universal

B. Walmart, Target, iTunes

C. independent record labels

D. game systems like Wii, social networks like Facebook

Information is data converted into useful, meaningful context. What are data

characteristics that change or vary over time?

A. facts

B. variables

C. supplies

D. services

What do SMART criteria for successful objective creation include?

A. specific, metrics, agreed upon, real, time valued

B.specific, measurable, agreed upon, realistic, time framed

C. specific, measurable, accurate, real, time valued

D. specific, metrics, agreed upon, realistic, time framed

The banking industry has implemented several competitive advantages including

ATMs, online bill pay services, and electronic statements. Of course, these competitive

advantages were quickly duplicated by any competitor that wanted to remain in the

banking industry. These were all examples of which competitive advantage?

A. acquiring new technology products and services

B. hiring new employees

C. reducing expenses

D. gaining invaluable feedback from customers