MPCS 78303

Type

Quiz

Book Title

Business Driven Information Systems 5th Edition

ISBN 13

978-0073402987

July 20, 2017

Which of the following is a benefit of a solid MIS infrastructure?

A. reduces costs

B. improves productivity

C. optimizes business operations

D.All of these are correct.

Which methodology uses small teams to produce small pieces of deliverable software

using sprints, or 30-day intervals, to achieve an appointed goal?

A.SCRUM

B. XP

C. RUP

D. RAD

When considering the 5 steps of the order-to-delivery business process, supporting sales

are included in which step?

A. Step 2 " Sales

B. Step 1 " Marketing

C. Step 3 " Operations management

D. Step 5 " Customer service

What is the bullwhip effect?

A. views all areas up and down the supply chain in real time

B. uses advanced mathematical algorithms to improve the flow and efficiency of the

supply chain while reducing inventory

C. ensures supply chain cohesion by automating the different activities of the supply

chain

D.occurs when distorted product-demand information ripples from one partner to the

next throughout the supply chain

What is the MIS system that manipulates information to create business intelligence in

support of strategic decision making?

A. online transaction processing (OLTP)

B. online analytical processing (OLAP)

C. digital dashboard

D. visualization

A company can reduce its costs using ebusiness to change its business processes. All of

the following represent examples of a company reducing its costs through ebusiness

except ________.

A. creating an online travel reservation

B. ordering a product online

C. purchasing a book online and picking it up in the store

D. researching products to find the lowest price and visiting the store to purchase the

item

What represents the loss of a network signal strength measured in decibels (dB) and

occurs because the transmissions gradually dissipate in strength over longer distances or

because of radio interference or physical obstructions such as walls?

A. traceroute

B.attenuation

C. repeater

D. packet footer

What refers to the technology associated with the transmission of information as light

impulses along a glass wire or fiber?

A. twisted-pair wiring

B. coaxial cable

C. fiber-optic cable

D. transmission control protocol/internet protocol

What is software that prevents direct communication between a sending and receiving

computer and is used to monitor packets for security reasons?

A.proxy

B. broadband over power line

C. attenuation

D. repeater

What limits the number of instructions the CPU can execute to increase processing

speed?

A. megahertz

B. gigahertz

C. CISC

D. RISC

When building a scalable system that can support new company developments, what

are the key factors to consider?

A.anticipating expected and unexpected growth

B. organizing and deploying additional resources

C. understanding competitor products and services

D. analyzing the accessibility and availability of competitor systems

What takes information entered into a given system and sends it automatically to all

downstream systems and processes?

A. backward integration

B. application integration

C. data integration

D.forward integration

________ extracts information from data and uses it to predict future trends and

identify behavioral patterns.

A. Internet of Things

B. Predictive Analytics

C. Machine to Machine

D. Flat World

In which phase does the firm analyze its end-user business requirements and refine

project goals into defined functions and operations of the intended system?

A.analysis phase

B. design phase

C. development phase

D. testing phase

What represents the maximum throughput a system can deliver, for example, the

capacity of a hard drive represents the size or volume?

A.capacity

B. web accessibility

C. web accessibility initiative

D. vulnerability

What is an extension of an intranet that is available only to authorized outsiders?

A. national ISP

B. regional ISP

C. intranet

D.extranet

What is the capability of services to be joined together on demand to create composite

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

A. service-oriented architecture

B. service

C.loose coupling

D. interoperability

What is a peer-to-peer network?

A. a network 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 does RSS stand for?

A. Reorganized Site Syndicator

B. Really Simple Sites

C. Rented Site Syndication

D. Real Simple Syndication

Why do students need to study information technology?

A. Information technology is everywhere in business.

B. Information technology is rarely discussed in business.

C. Information technology is rarely used in organizations.

D. Information technology is found in only a few businesses.

What is a sustainable 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 measures the number of people a firm can communicate with all over the world?

A. information richness

B. information age

C. information reach

D. information browser

What is a computer designed to meet the computing needs of hundreds of people in a

large business environment?

A. supercomputer

B. mainframe computer

C. workstation computer

D. minicomputer

What is regression?

A. a statement about what will happen or might happen in the future; for example,

predicting future sales or employee turnover

B. 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

C. predictions based on time-series information

D. a statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables

Which of the following stores information about a person, place, thing, transaction, or

event, and is usually referred to as a table?

A.entity

B. extraction

C. attribute

D. foreign key

Today's workers are referred to as _______________ and they use BI along with

personal experience to make decisions based on both information and intuition, a

valuable resource for any company.

A. knowledge workers

B. knowledge thinkers

C. knowledge resources

D. knowledge players

What are the two most prevalent types of broadband access?

A. data subscriber and cable connection

B.digital subscriber line and cable connection

C. digital line and client line

D. digital server and client server

Which of the following is a not a type of organizational information system?

A. executive information system

B. decisions support system

C. analysis processing system

D. transactional processing system

What uses GPS tracking to track vehicles?

A.automatic vehicle location

B. geographic information system

C. cartography

D. edge matching

How would the banking industry use business intelligence?

A. analyze popular vacation locations with current flight listings

B.understand customer credit card usage and nonpayment rates

C. compare the demographics of patients with critical illnesses

D. predict claim amounts and medical coverage costs

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

A. The semantic web captures, organizes, and disseminates knowledge (i.e., know-how)

throughout an organization.

B. The semantic web describes the relationships between things.

C. The semantic web describes the properties of things.

D. The semantic web is not about links between web pages.

Which of the following terms could you use synonymously when referring to the Web?

A. Network, Paradigm shift

B. URL, Domain Name

C. HTML, Internet

D. Web browser, Blog

Information technology can enable departments to more efficiently and effectively

perform their core _____________.

A. facts

B. feedback mechanisms

C.business operations

D. media issues

What connects a group of computers in close proximity, such as in a school or office

setting?

A. metropolitan area network (MAN)

B.local area network (LAN)

C. wide area network (WAN)

D. secure area network (SAN)

What are the ramifications of improper electronic recycling, when analyzing the

example of a single desktop computer?

A. One computer contains more than 700 chemicals that can be toxic to the

environment.

B. Computers in landfills can leak these toxic chemicals into our land, water, and air.

C. Computers contain high levels of mercury, lead, and cadmiumharmful toxins.

D.All of these are correct.