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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 relaonship between informaon management, governance, and compliance?
Informaon management examines the organizaonal resource of informaon and
regulates its de$nions, uses, value, and distribuon ensuring it has the types of
3. Why are epolicies important to a company?
Organizaons should develop wri*en policies establishing employee guidelines, employee
procedures, and organizaonal rules for informaon. These policies set employee
4. What is the correlaon between privacy and con$denality?
Privacy is the right to be le0 alone when you want to be, to have control over your personal
5. What is the relaonship between adware and spyware?
Adware is so0ware that, while purporng to serve some useful funcon and o0en ful$lling
that funcon, also allows Internet adversers to display adversements without the consent
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6. What are the posive and negave e‘ects associated with monitoring employees?
The best path for an organizaon planning to engage in employee monitoring is open
7. What is the relaonship 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 communicaon 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 parcipang in ebusiness keep its informaon secure?
Informaon security takes people and technology. Informing the people about security
11. What technologies can a company use to safeguard informaon?
Authencaon and authorizaon 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 idenfy, search,
13. What are the reasons a company experiences downme?
14. What are the costs associated with downme?
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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 disrupon. An
3. What is the di’erence between a disaster recovery plan and a business connuity plan?
A disaster recovery plan, which is a detailed process for recovering informaon or a system
in the event of a catastrophic disaster. This plan includes such factors as which $les and
systems need to have backups and their corresponding frequency and methods along with
4. What are the three forms of MIS infrastructures and what do they support?
Informaon MIS infrastructure iden$es where and how important informaon, such as
customer records, is maintained and secured and support operaons. An agile MIS
5. List the characteriscs of an agile MIS infrastructure and explain why they are all crical for
supporng 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$ts of using grid compung.
Grid compung is a collecon of computers, o0en geographically dispersed, that are
11. Idenfy the bene$ts and challenges of cloud compung
The bene$ts of cloud compung include cheaper costs to an organizaon 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 informaon systems and associated
13. List and describe the three most popular cloud compung delivery models.
14. Why would a company want to use virtualizaon?
Virtualizaon creates mulple “virtual” machines on a single compung 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 pracces.
16. Explain why ebusiness is contribung to the three pressures driving sustainable MIS
infrastructures.
Increased electronic waste, energy consumpon, and carbon emissions are the three
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REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. How does a database turn data elements into informaon?
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 characteriscs common to high-quality informaon?
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 informaon?
8. What is the di’erence between an enty and an a*ribute?
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9. What are the advantages of a relaonal database?
A relaonal database stores informaon in the form of logically related two-dimensional
10. What are the advantages of a data-driven website?
A data-driven website is an interacve 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 collecon of informaon, gathered from many di’erent
12. Why would you need to use muldimensional analysis?
A dimension is a parcular a*ribute of informaon. Each layer in a data warehouse or data
mart represents informaon according to an addional dimension. An informaon cube is
13. What is the purpose of informaon cleansing (or scrubbing)?
14. Why would a department want a data mart instead of just accessing the enre data
warehouse?
The MIS department manages and controls the data warehouse. A department would only
15. Why would a business be data rich, but informaon poor?
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