Introduction to Management Information Systems (BADM 2301) Midterm Review (CH. 1-6)

You can check your credit report annually for free through TransUnion, Equifax, and Experian. This allows you to catch signs of identity theft early and note any problems in your credit reports. This is an example of an ethical issue that falls into the category of ___________.

Accuracy

Which of the following does NOT contribute to the increasing vulnerability of organizational information resources?

Additional management support

__________ causes pop-up advertisements to appear on your screen.

Adware

The ___________ layer of TCP/IP enables client application programs to access the other layers.

Application

Ukraine's protection of their SCADA systems is ______ than in the US but was vulnerable because of its use of ______.

Better; VPN

Chevron supported internal improvement efforts by getting its suppliers involved using a unified _______ approach that involved standardizing processes across the entire company and consolidating process information within a central repository.

Business Process Management (BPM): A management technique that includes methods and tools to support the design, analysis, implementation, management, and optimization of business processes

The top technology job is _________.

Chief Informations Officer (CIO)

Most countries don't accept electronic transactions from _________ because of fraud concerns.

China

FanDuel and DraftKings rely on ________ to manage the scalability of their websites; this means _________.

Cloud computing; they have to be ready to accept a huge increase in fans right before big games

__________ is a cable medium.

Coaxial

_______________ refers to efforts by two or more entities who work together to accomplish certain tasks.

Collaboration

Under __________'s rules, marijuana growers must put a ________ on each plant so it can be recorded and monitored by the state's enforcement system.

Colorado; microchip

Obamacare was created to address the _________ approach.

Common good

The main drawback to Google Fiber for Google is _________.

Cost

Ashley Madison's data was first released on the _________ by ________.

Dark Web; The Impact Team

_________ is the process of converting an original message into a form that cannot be read by anyone except the intended receiver.

Encryption

The category "student" is a(n) _________.

Entity

The "right to be forgotten" court order occurred in _________.

Europe

Functional dependencies are similar to ______ keys.

Foreign

The _______ creates links between two tables.

Foreign

____________ is the second step in the general framework for ethics.

Get the facts

________ is a market pressure.

Globalization

A _______ site is the most expensive option.

Hot

A __________ site is a fully configured computer facility with all of the company's services, communication links, and physical plant operations.

Hot

Which of the following is an accessibility issue?

How much should companies charge for permitting access to information in their databases?

_____ consists of 32 bits.

IPv4

In the ______ phase of BPI, the BPI team identifies possible solutions for addressing the root causes, maps the resulting "to be" process alternatives, and selects and implements the most appropriate solution.

Improve

An/The ________ is a network that allows users to take advantage of familiar applications and work habits within an organization's network.

Intranet

_________________ are/is a tool for democratizing higher education.

MOOCs

________ is a societal pressure.

Protection against terrorist attacks

Colorado uses _______ to track marijuana.

RFID

You recently inherited an Alvin and The Chipmunks "A Chipmunk Christmas" record. Since you don't have a record player, you need to find a way to convert the record into a CD. This is an example of data ______.

Rot

A(n) ________ interfaces between users and programmers and determines information requirements and technical specifications for new applications.

Systems analyst

________ is the cumulative store of subjective or experiential learning.

Tacit knowledge

Information overload is a _________ pressure.

Technology

Managing information systems in modern organizations is a difficult and complex task. Which of the following factors does NOT contribute to this?

Technology is getting cheaper to acquire, operate, and maintain

__________ does not allow participants to communicate face to face.

Teleconferencing

_________ enables participants to seamlessly share data, voice, pictures, graphics, and animation by electronic means.

Telepresence

Most oncology data is _________ and ________.

Unstructured; uncodified

__________ is the most recent example of ethical misbehavior in organizations.

Wells Fargo bank

Which of the following is a privacy issue?

What information about individuals should be kept in databases, and how secure is the information there?

Which of the following is an accurate representation of the data hierarchy from smallest to largest?

bit, byte, field, record, file, database

Companies purchase digital dossiers to _________.

create customer intimacy

St. Louis Cardinal scouting director Christopher Correa hacked the Houston Astros' system. This was an example of _________.

espionage

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires publicly held companies to implement _______ controls; it was passed to address the ______ crisis.

financial; Enron

In public-key encryption, the ________ key is used for locking and the _______ key is used for unlocking.

public; private

Trustev was created to __________.

reduce online fraud

Client/server computing links two or more computers in an arrangement in which powerful _______ provide computing services for _______.

servers; user PCs