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B U SINES S DRIV E N I N F O R M AT I O N
SYS T E M S
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. What are ethics and why are they important to a company?
As it becomes easier for people to copy everything from words and data to music and video,
2. What is the relaonship between informaon management, governance, and compliance?
Informaon management examines the organizaonal resource of informaon and
regulates its de$nions, uses, value, and distribuon ensuring it has the types of
3. Why are epolicies important to a company?
Organizaons should develop wri*en policies establishing employee guidelines, employee
procedures, and organizaonal rules for informaon. These policies set employee
4. What is the correlaon between privacy and con$denality?
Privacy is the right to be le0 alone when you want to be, to have control over your personal
5. What is the relaonship between adware and spyware?
Adware is so0ware that, while purporng to serve some useful funcon and o0en ful$lling
that funcon, also allows Internet adversers to display adversements without the consent
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6. What are the posive and negave e'ects associated with monitoring employees?
The best path for an organizaon planning to engage in employee monitoring is open
7. What is the relaonship between hackers and viruses?
8. Why is security a business issue, not just a technology issue?
The $rst line of defense for security are people. People need to be educated about security
9. What are the growing issues related to employee communicaon methods and what can a
company do to protect itself?
Employees communicate on mobile devices, tablets, and computers. All of the methods of
10. How can a company parcipang in ebusiness keep its informaon secure?
Informaon security takes people and technology. Informing the people about security
11. What technologies can a company use to safeguard informaon?
Authencaon and authorizaon technologies such as biometcis and passwords can protect
12. Why is ediscovery important to a company?
Ediscovery (or electronic discovery) refers to the ability of a company to idenfy, search,
13. What are the reasons a company experiences downme?
14. What are the costs associated with downme?
B U SI N ES S D R I V E N I N F O R M AT I O N
SYS T E M S
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. How o0en should a business back up its data?
2. Why is it important to ensure backups are working and can be restored?
Without a backup a business is out of commission if there is a data disrupon. An
3. What is the di'erence between a disaster recovery plan and a business connuity plan?
A disaster recovery plan, which is a detailed process for recovering informaon or a system
in the event of a catastrophic disaster. This plan includes such factors as which $les and
systems need to have backups and their corresponding frequency and methods along with
4. What are the three forms of MIS infrastructures and what do they support?
Informaon MIS infrastructure iden$es where and how important informaon, such as
customer records, is maintained and secured and support operaons. An agile MIS
5. List the characteriscs of an agile MIS infrastructure and explain why they are all crical for
supporng change.
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6. Explain what capacity planning is and how it can help a business prepare for growth.
Capacity planning determines future environmental infrastructure requirements to ensure
7. Explain the di'erence between fault tolerance and failover.
8. Compare the di'erences among a hot, cold, and warm site.
A hot site is a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move
immediately a0er a disaster and resume business. A cold site is a separate facility that does
9. What is Moore’s Law and how does it a'ect companies?
Moore’s Law, which refers to the computer chip performance per dollar doubles every 18
10. List the business bene$ts of using grid compung.
Grid compung is a collecon of computers, o0en geographically dispersed, that are
11. Idenfy the bene$ts and challenges of cloud compung
The bene$ts of cloud compung include cheaper costs to an organizaon for a system
12. What is a data center and why would a business develop one.
A data center is a facility used to house management informaon systems and associated
13. List and describe the three most popular cloud compung delivery models.
14. Why would a company want to use virtualizaon?
Virtualizaon creates mulple “virtual” machines on a single compung device. A good
analogy is a computer printer. In the past you had to purchase a fax machine, copy machine,
15. Explain why a business today would want to follow sustainable MIS pracces.
16. Explain why ebusiness is contribung to the three pressures driving sustainable MIS
infrastructures.
Increased electronic waste, energy consumpon, and carbon emissions are the three
B U SI N ES S D R I V E N I N F O R M AT I O N
SYS T E M S
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. How does a database turn data elements into informaon?
2. Why does a business need to be concerned with the quality of its data?
3. How can data governance help protect a business from hackers?
Data governance refers to the overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, and
4. Why would a company care about the meliness of its data?
5. What are the $ve characteriscs common to high-quality informaon?
6. What is data governance and its importance to a company?
Data governance refers to the overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, and
7. What are the four primary traits that help determine the value of informaon?
8. What is the di'erence between an enty and an a*ribute?
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9. What are the advantages of a relaonal database?
A relaonal database stores informaon in the form of logically related two-dimensional
10. What are the advantages of a data-driven website?
A data-driven website is an interacve website kept constantly updated and relevant to the
11. What is a data warehouse and why would a business want to implement one?
A data warehouse is a logical collecon of informaon, gathered from many di'erent
12. Why would you need to use muldimensional analysis?
A dimension is a parcular a*ribute of informaon. Each layer in a data warehouse or data
mart represents informaon according to an addional dimension. An informaon cube is
13. What is the purpose of informaon cleansing (or scrubbing)?
14. Why would a department want a data mart instead of just accessing the enre data
warehouse?
The MIS department manages and controls the data warehouse. A department would only
15. Why would a business be data rich, but informaon poor?
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