IS Quiz Questions For Test 1.

Information technology and information systems are synonymous terms T or F

Identify how information technology differs from information systems. One can buy information technology, but not information systems. People are an important component of information technology, but not of information systems. Unlike information systems, information technology is used for producing information. Information systems are a subset of information technology.

Which of the following statements is true about the quality of information? Information should be just barely sufficient for its purpose. Freely available data is always accurate and timely. Data that arrives after a prolonged period of time is of the highest quality. Information needs to be relevant to the subject, not necessarily to the context.

________ states that the number of transistors per square inch on an integrated chip doubles every 18 months.

Which of the following is considered information rather than mere data? a list of property prices in a neighborhood the price of a company's shares on a given day the return on investment of an advertising campaign the total number of students in a school

Which of the following types of skills is most likely to be outsourced to the lowest bidder? ability to collaborate abstract reasoning skills accounting skills ability to experiment

Meredith constantly analyzes her work in terms of her individual contribution that she makes to the overall output of the organization. This shows her ________ skills. experimentation collaboration problem-solving systems thinking

Which of the following components of an information system is the easiest to change and results in the least amount of organizational disruption? software procedures database hardware

Which of the following statements is true of business users who administer the development of information systems? hey should refrain from specifying the system's requirements. They should take an active role in the system's development. It is mandatory that they hold a degree in database management. When the system fails, they must refrain from performing tasks related to system recovery.

Mark follows certain steps to access the supplementary readings for a course when using his organization's library management system. These steps that he follows are examples of the ________ component of an information system.

A group of programmers work separately to create modules and merge the modules later to build an application. This is an example of collaboration. T or F

The main purpose of the planning phase in a project is to ________. accomplish the project tasks effectively set up the project scope and initial budget establish team roles, responsibilities, and authorities determine who will do what and by when

A decision is called an operational decision if it ________. is made by managers concerns day-to-day activities involves allocation of resources is made by an individual rather than a group

Which of the following questions is best answered through unstructured decision making? Should we continue to outsource our bookkeeping processes? When should the next batch be scheduled to reduce idle time? How many overtime hours should be used to fill this order? What is the acceptable defect ratio for this product?

A project manager has to manage tasks and budgets and solve problems during the ________ phase of project management. planning finalizing doing starting

________ is a process that occurs when the collaboration tool limits, and sometimes even directs, user activity. Version management Document tracking Version control Document monitoring

________ communication occurs within a team when all team members meet at the same time. Virtual Synchronous Unidirectional Sequential

Identify the least important characteristic for an effective collaborator. willingness to enter difficult conversations being an experienced businessperson being skillful at giving negative feedback showing ability to receive negative feedback

Project metadata is data that is ________. summarized after the completion of the project developed to design new offerings used in documents to describe recommended solutions utilized to manage the project

Which of the following is a key difference between collaboration and cooperation? Cooperation requires people to have a common goal, whereas collaboration occurs even without a common goal. Unlike cooperation, collaboration emphasizes iteration and feedback. Unlike cooperation, collaboration occurs when a job has to be accomplished. People should work together to cooperate, whereas they need not work together to collaborate.

A furniture dealer offering a wide variety of designs to premium customers exclusively is following an industry-wide cost leadership strategy. T or F

Porter's five forces model is used to assess ________. lifecycles of products internal competition market share industry structure

Identify the activity in the value chain that involves receiving and handling of raw materials and other inputs to the product outbound logistics operations inbound logistics procurement

A ________ is a collection of something, such as data and raw materials. repository value chain linkage cache

Which of the following is a primary activity in the value chain? negotiating prices with vendors receiving and distributing inputs to the product finding suitable vendors to supply raw materials setting up contractual arrangements with various suppliers

A new drug that has shown promise in curing skin cancer has been discovered by a famous chemical laboratory. This is the only known drug effective for treatment of this disease. The laboratory obtains a patent for the product and decides to sell it. This situation is characterized by ________. high threat of new entrants low threat of substitutions low bargaining power of the laboratory high bargaining power of customers

Which of the following value chain activities involves transforming raw materials into a finished product or service? marketing operations inbound logistics maintenance

The difference between the value that an activity generates and the cost of the activity is called the ________. margin revenue turnover value-addition

I-scream-4 Ice Cream recently faced competition against their flagship brand of "Orange peel ice cream." The competitor made significant in-roads into this market by offering three varieties of "Orange peel ice cream." I-scream-4 Ice Cream decided to counter this threat by introducing five new varieties of ice creams. Which competitive strategy is I-scream-4 implementing? service focus product differentiation cost differentiation in the segment cost leadership

________ argues that firms should create new, more efficient business processes that integrate the activities of all departments involved in a value chain. Market differentiation model Business process design Business process reengineering Product differentiation model

The CPU stores results of computations on the hard drive. T or F

Which of the following statements is true of closed source projects? Anyone can obtain the source code for a closed source project. Programmers can alter the closed source code based on their interests and goals. Only trusted programmers are allowed to make changes to a closed source project. Only users and developers are allowed to alter the source code in closed source projects.

Which of the following is an advantage to an organization if its BYOD (bring your own device) policy holds the employee responsible for any kind of damage? Employees will buy the hardware. The policy appears to be permissive without actually being so. Employees can gain public access from any device, not just mobile devices. The organization can sniff employees' mobile traffic.

10 TB is equivalent to ________ gigabytes.

________ is used to install and update software, back up and restore mobile devices, wipe employer software and data from devices, report usage, and provide other mobile device management data. A UX application A key logger MDM software BYOD manager

Which of the following is an example of vertical-market application software? tax preparation software that individuals use in their personal computers Adobe suite used by graphic designers Microsoft PowerPoint used to create presentations inventory tracking software for an automobile manufacturer

Which of the following statements is true of native applications? The cost of native applications is low. The limits on these applications are usually technological, not budget. They only run on the operating system for which they are programmed. They can be developed by less skilled, lesser-paid employees.

Ronald runs both Windows 7 and Linux on his desktop computer. This process is called ________. cloud computing desktop virtualization server virtualization PC virtualization

Which of the following statements is true of firmware? Firmware is the same as cache memory. The software is coded differently from other software. Firmware cannot be changed or upgraded. Users do not need to load firmware into the device's memory.

Which of the following is a characteristic of volatile memory? The files are stored permanently. The processor heats up during the operation. The contents are lost when power is off. The processing of data is very slow.

In data models, physical objects are represented as entities, whereas logical constructs and transactions are represented as attributes. T or F

Relational databases represent relationships using ________. file systems unique identifiers foreign keys metadata

The rows in a database are called ________. files tables records fields

Which of the following is an international standard language for processing a database? Cassandra MS Access DB2 SQL

Albert creates a relational database to store employee performance statistics. He stores each employee's data in independent rows and creates a column named "Employee Number" to assign unique numbers to each employee. This column is referred to as a(n) ________. identifier functionally dependent record foreign key primary key

In an E-R diagram, a line between two entities represents a(n) ________. relationship cardinality attribute identifier

Every table in a normalized database has a ________. single theme foreign key specialized query format one-to-one relationship between entities

Brad, a project manager, wants to build a database to integrate information about employees and tasks that they handle. Brad wants to track information such as task name, percentage completed, and employee name. These aspects that Brad wants to track are called ________. primary keys entities identifiers records

In an E-R diagram, a(n) ________ on a line means that at least one entity of that type is required. vertical bar small oval arrow triangular block

A student management system allows students to have multiple majors, and advisers are assigned to handle multiple students and courses. This is an example of a(n) ________ relationship. 1:1 1:N N:M M:1