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What is a computer that sits on, next to, or under a user’s desk and is too large to carry around? A. tablet B. desktop computer C. workstation D. minicomputer Within the sites that support disaster recovery, a ________ is […]

Which tags do NOT depend on a silicon microchip and use plastic or conductive polymers instead of silicon-based microchips allowing them to be washed or exposed to water without damaging the chip? A. active RFID B. semi-passive RFID C. RFID […]

What are unmanned aircraft that can fly autonomously, or without a human? A. 3D Printing B. robotics C. drones D. RFID As the president of a local trade company, Kristin is faced with leadership, ethical, and operational decisions on a […]

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 […]

Imagine you are creating a new product to sell in an up-and-coming market. Which of the following statements indicates that it would be easy for you as the new entrant to compete in this market? A. The threat of new […]

What is schedule feasibility? A. measures the cost-effectiveness of a project B. measures how well a solution meets the identified system requirements to solve the problems and take advantage of opportunities C.measures the project time frame to ensure that it […]

What is immediate, up-to-date information? A.real-time information B. real-time systems C. information granularity D. information governance Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a business-driven enterprise architecture that supports integrating a business as linked, repeatable activities, tasks, or services. Answer: TRUE Feedback: Service-oriented […]

Human-generated data is created by a machine without human intervention. Machine-generated structured data includes sensor data, point-of-sale data, and web log (blog) data. What is a small file deposited on a hard drive by a website containing information about customers […]

What is the difference between a wiki and a blog? A. a wiki is free and a blog has a subscription fee B. a wiki user can alter the original content of an article, where a blog user can only […]

What is the most secure type of authentication? A. something the user knows such as a user ID and password B. something the user has such as a smart card or token C. something that is part of the user […]

What is a feature of IPTV? A. IPTV uses low bandwidth. B. IPTV offers personalization. C. IPTV supports multiple devices. D.All of these are correct. How would a company like Flickr use social tagging on its website? A. by applying […]

Visualization produces graphical displays of patterns and complex relationships in large amounts of data. Which of the choices below offers a common example of a LAN? A. college campus B. home office C. city library D.All of these are correct. […]

What is a data flow diagram (DFD)? 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 […]

What is any proprietary software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder? A. closed source B. open source C. code source D. network source What is a program that secretly takes over another computer for the purpose of […]

How do prevention and resistance technologies stop intruders from accessing and reading sensitive information? A. content filtering, encryption, and firewalls B. calculating, locking, and firewalls C. content prohibiting, and cookies D. None of these are correct. Companies use ________ as […]

Which of the following questions can procurement help a company answer? A. What quantity of raw materials should we purchase to minimize spoilage? B. How can we guarantee that our raw materials meet production needs? C. At what price can […]

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 […]

Which company is expecting to gain the majority of its returns on new investments? A. General Motors B. Sears Roebuck C. Dell Computer D. Phillips Petroleum What identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may […]

Data warehouses struggle with combining too much standardized information. Failover, a specific type of fault tolerance, occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data, and if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically […]

In the basic supply chain, make refers to manufacturing products and creating production schedules. Cybermediation refers to the creation of new kinds of intermediaries that simply could not have existed before the advent of ebusiness, including comparison-shopping sites such as […]

Information redundancy is the duplication of data, or the storage of the same data in multiple places. A hashtag is a self-photograph placed on a social media website. Answer: FALSE Feedback: A selfie is a self-photograph placed on a social […]

Bread, cheese, and butter are included in the process of making a grilled cheese sandwich. Robotics supports procurement. Answer: FALSE Feedback: Robotics supports materials management. Random access memory is the portion of a computer’s primary storage that does not lose […]

Information integrity are rules that help ensure the quality of information. Spyware removes any software that employs a user’s Internet connection in the background without the user’s knowledge or explicit permission. True False Answer: TRUE Feedback: Spyware removes any software […]

Automatic call distribution directs customers to use touch-tone phones or keywords to navigate or provide information. Within the data warehouse model, the external databases could include competitor information, industry information and stock market analysis. Answer: TRUE Feedback: Within the data […]

Gate one includes inception, and this phase ensures that all stakeholders have a shared understanding of the proposed system and what it will do. Instant messaging (IMing) is a service that enables instant or real-time communication between people. Answer: TRUE […]

A worm is a form of malicious software that infects your computer and asks for money. 3D printing is a process that buildslayer by layer in an additive processa three-dimensional solid object from a digital model. Answer: TRUE Feedback: 3D […]

Production and materials management ERP components handle production planning and execution tasks such as demand forecasting, production scheduling, job cost accounting, and quality control. A Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) flow displays the path in which the process flows. […]

A minicomputer is designed to meet the computing needs of several people simultaneously in a small to medium-size business environment. True False Eprocurement is the business-to-business (B2B) online purchase and sale of supplies and services. Answer: TRUE Feedback: Eprocurement is […]

An upcycle reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product. It is important to understand that SOA is not a concrete architecture; it is thought that leads to a concrete architecture. It might be described as a style, paradigm, […]

Effectiveness MIS metrics include throughput, transaction speed, and system availability. Cyberterrorists seek to cause harm to people or to destroy critical systems or information and use the Internet as a weapon of mass destruction. Answer: TRUE Feedback: Cyberterrorists seek to […]

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. Answer: TRUE […]

A videoconference allows people at two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously as well as share documents, data, computer displays, and whiteboards. Point-to-point videoconferences connect two people, and multipoint conferences connect more than two […]

A first-mover advantage is the process of gathering information about the competitive environment, including competitors’ plans, activities, and products, to improve a company’s ability to succeed. A repeater represents the loss of a network signal strength measured in decibels and […]

Ecommerce is the buying and selling of goods and services over the Internet. Ecommerce refers only to online transactions. Investment companies use genetic effectiveness metrics to help in trading decisions. Answer: FALSE Feedback: Investment companies use genetic algorithms to help […]

Rational unified process (RUP) methodology, owned by IBM, provides a framework for breaking down the development of software into four “gates” A server is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests. Answer: TRUE Feedback: A server is […]

Cybervandalism includes threats, negative remarks, or defamatory comments transmitted via the Internet or posted on the website. The arithmetic-logic unit includes instructions and literally tells the other hardware devices what to do, based on the software instructions. Answer: FALSE Feedback: […]

Flash memory is a special type of rewritable read-only memory (ROM) that is compact and portable. True False In the basic supply chain, source refers to planning for transportation of goods to customers. Answer: FALSE Feedback: In the basic supply […]

Application service provider licenses specialty software paid for on a license basis or per-use basis or usage-based licensing. True False A backup is an exact copy of a system’s information. Answer: TRUE Feedback: A backup is an exact copy of […]

User-contributed content is a set of tools that supports the work of teams or groups by facilitating the sharing and flow of information. Outbound logistics acquires raw materials and resources and distributes them to manufacturing as required. Answer: FALSE Feedback: […]

Some of the social challenges with networking occur with newsgroups or blogs where like-minded people can exchange messages. Problems can arise when sensitive social issues become the topic of discussion such as politics or religion. Human-generated unstructured data includes text […]

Business continuity planning identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them. Employee relationship management (ERM) provides web-based self-service tools that streamline and automate the human resource department. Answer: TRUE Feedback: Employee relationship […]

A webinar is a form of web conferencing, which blends videoconferencing with document sharing and allows the user to deliver a presentation over the Web to a group of geographically dispersed participants. A prototype is a smaller-scale representation or working […]

A content creator is the person responsible for creating the original website content. Analytical CRM supports traditional transactional processing for day-to-day front-office operations or systems that deal directly with the customers. Answer: FALSE Feedback: Operational CRM supports traditional transactional processing […]

Carbon emission is the amount of energy consumed by business processes and systems. Tags are specific keywords or phrases incorporated into website content for means of classification or taxonomy. Answer: FALSE Feedback: Social networking analysis (SNA) maps group contacts (personal […]

At the operational level, employees are continuously evaluating company operations to hone the firm’s abilities to identify, adapt to, and leverage change. Supplier power is one of Porter’s five forces and it measures the suppliers’ ability to influence the prices […]

A primary key is a field (or group of fields) that uniquely identifies a given record in a table. The majority of eBay’s customers are using a business-to-business (B2B) ebusiness model. Answer: FALSE Feedback: The majority of eBay’s customers are […]

The Internet marketplace is free of most forms of traditional sales tax. An access point (AP) is the computer or network device that serves as an interface between devices and the network. Each computer initially connects to the access point […]

A selfie is a magazine published only in electronic form on a computer network. Electronic data interchange (EDI) is a standard format for the electronic exchange of information between supply chain participants. Answer: TRUE Feedback: Organizations can decrease the power […]

IP address is a simple network protocol that allows the transfer of files between two computers on the Internet. Analytical CRM provides customer segmentation, which divides a market into categories that share similar attributes such as age, location, gender, habits, […]

To decrypt information is to decode it and is the opposite of encrypt. SaaS ERP uses the cloud platform to enable organizations not only to unite around business processes but to gather cloud data across supplier networks and supply chains […]