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website
A wiki is a type of collaborative:
eyestrain related to computer display screen use.
CVS refers to:
display data in an easier-to-read-format.
DBMS typically include report-generating tools in order to:
find hidden relationships in data.
Data mining is a tool for allowing users to:
discovery driven
Data mining is more ________ than OLAP.
increases as more people use them.
In network economics, the value of a commercial software vendor's software products:
system software
Software that manages the resources of the computer is called:
capacity planning
You use ________ to predict when a computer hardware system becomes saturated.
data quality audit
A(n) ________ is a structured survey of the accuracy and level of completeness of the data in an information system.
1. cloud computing 2. big data 3. loT 4. The mobile digital platform
All of the following are new technology-related trends in MIS:
a) the PageRank algorithm b)the flash drive c)minicomputers d)the iPod e)the automobile ANSWER: C
All of the following have been disruptive technologies except:
The specification of procedures for identifying packages with sender and recipient information
As described in the chapter case, which of the following constitutes an organizational element in the UPS tracking system?
Identify the problem, design alternative solutions, choose the best solution, and then implement the solution.
Assume you work for a package delivery service in a major metropolitan area and that the business has been losing customers for several years. You have been asked to find a solution to this problem. What is the correct way to proceed?
90
At the client level, ________ percent of PCs use some form of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
Domestic exporter
Caterpillar Corporation is example of which of the following?
Implementing Yammer improved employee productivity and collaboration.
From your reading of the chapter-opening case study discussing ABB's use of enterprise social networking, which of the following statements best expresses ABB's experience?
increases in efficiency may be accompanied by job losses.
Redesigning and automating business processes can be seen as a double-edged sword because:
data management software.
Software that organizes, manages, and processes business data, such as data concerned with inventory, customers, and vendors, is called:
Meaningful Information
The average number of baseball tickets sold at a particular price is an example of:
Culture affects how information system solutions are implemented and used.
The culture of UPS places service to the customer among the company's highest business objectives, which is reflected in their use of information systems to enable customer tracking of their packages. Based on your reading of Chapter 1, why is "culture" an important factor to consider when building information system solutions to business problems?
if something someone else has created is useful to you, it has value, and you should assume the creator wants compensation for this work.
The ethical "no free lunch" rule states that:
Implementation
The final step in the four-step model of business problem solving is:
Culture
The fundamental set of assumptions, values, and ways of doing things that has been accepted by most of a company's members is called its:
the law of diminishing returns.
The idea that the more any given resource is applied to production, the lower the marginal gain in output, until a point is reached where the additional inputs produce no additional output, is referred to as:
a ripple effect, raising new ethical, social, and political issues.
The introduction of new information technology has:
presents data as they would be perceived by end users.
The logical view of a database:
six sigma.
The reduction of errors to 3.4 defects per million opportunities is central to the concept of:
e-business
The use of digital technology and the Internet to execute the major business processes in the enterprise is called:
30; 1.5
The world's data centers use as much energy as the output of ________ nuclear power plants, which is about ________ percent of all the energy use in the world.
Substitute products or services
To what competitive force did the printed encyclopedia industry succumb?
software localization.
Translating software to different languages is commonly referred to as:
improved decision making
Verizon's implementation of a web-based digital dashboard to provide managers with real-time information, such as customer complaints, is an example of:
Operational efficiency
Walmart exemplifies the power of information systems coupled with excellent business practices and supportive management to achieve which of the following?
Enabling business functions and departments to share information
What is the most important benefit of an enterprise application?
Structuring the database
What is the purpose of a DBMS's data definition function?
80 percent
What percent of the Fortune 500 companies uses Twitter to communicate with their customers?
on the hard drive of the visitor's computer.
When a cookie is created during a website visit, it is stored:
market niche
When a firm provides a specialized product or service for a narrow target market better than competitors, they are using a ________ strategy.
L.L. Bean
Which of the following companies used benchmarking to achieve an order-shipping accuracy of 99.9 percent?
SAN
Which of the following is a high-speed network dedicated to storage that connects different kinds of storage devices, such as tape libraries and disk arrays so they can be shared by multiple servers?
Visual Basic
Which of the following is a visual programming tool and environment for creating applications that run on Microsoft Windows operating systems?
Economic trends
Which of the following is an example of a key force in a firm's broader, less immediate environment?
The requirement that the work must be a secret
Which of the following is not a difficulty in establishing patent protection?
Human resources services
Which of the following is not a service typically provided by an information systems department?
Value webs are inflexible and cannot adapt quickly to changes in supply and demand.
Which of the following is not a true statement about value webs?
Which of the following is not an example of the consumerization of IT?
Assign responsibility.
Which of the following is not one of the five steps discussed in the chapter as a process for analyzing an ethical issue?
Compete on employee loyalty
Which of the following is not one of the four basic strategies a company can employ to deal with competitive forces?
Machines
Which of the following is not protected by copyright law?
The new rules would reject the right to be forgotten.
Which of the following is not true about the changes to EU data protection rules proposed in 2012?
A failure of Amazon's cloud computing service
Which of the following resulted in an outage for Netflix customers on Christmas Eve 2012?
a)Linux is a UNIX-like operating system. b) Linux plays a major role in running web servers and local area networks. c) Linux is the primary OS used in quantum computing. d) Linux is a robust alternative to Windows operating systems. e)Linux is an example of open source software. ANSWER: C
Which of the following statements about Linux is not true?
It took six months to implement a working system at Plan International's international headquarters.
Which of the following statements about Plan International's new human resources system, as described in the chapter case, is not true?
Spamming is less regulated in Europe than in the United States
Which of the following statements about spam is not true?
MIS
Which of the following systems are designed to summarize and report on the company's basic operations?
Server
Which of the following types of computer would you use to support a computer network?
Desktop publishing software
Which type of software provides more control over text and graphic placement in the layout of a page than word processing software?
SCM system
Which type of system would you use to change a production schedule if a key supplier was late in delivering goods?
Extranet, to enable quick collaboration via the Internet, minimize the time spent communicating with the client, and minimize the amount of paperwork needed
You have been hired by Inspiration Inc. to help improve its profit margin. Inspiration Inc. is a business communications consulting firm that services many clients in different industries throughout the world. The firm provides its clients with customized written recommendations about how to best use the client's existing resources to improve the client's internal communications. The company has approximately 100 consultants, all of whom are located in its central headquarters in Chicago. What system do you recommend to improve Inspiration Inc.'s business processes and increase its profit margin?
An extranet with KMS capabilities
You work for a highly successful advertiser that is about to expand nationally. Of utmost importance will be finding a way to store and disseminate its clients' frequently updated branding and style guides throughout the organization. The guides include multiple image files and text documents. What system will best serve these needs?
Software
________ consists of detailed, preprogrammed instructions that control and coordinate the computer hardware components in an information system.
The World Wide Web
________ is a service provided by the Internet that uses universally accepted standards for storing, retrieving, formatting, and displaying information in a page format.
Duplicated
________ systems are those in which development occurs at the home base, but operations are handed over to autonomous units in foreign locations.
Supply chain management
________ systems integrate and share information from suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and logistics companies.
database server
A(n) ________ is a dedicated computer in a client/server environment that hosts a DBMS.
value web
A ________ is a collection of independent firms that use information technology to coordinate their value chains to produce a product or service for a market collectively.
attribute.
A characteristic or quality describing an entity is called a(n):
Kant's categorical imperative
A colleague of yours frequently takes small amounts of office supplies for his own personal use, noting that the loss to the company is minimal. You counter that if everyone were to take office supplies the loss would no longer be minimal. Your rationale expresses which of the following ethical principles?
with a crow's foot preceded by a short mark.
A one-to-many relationship between two entities is symbolized in a diagram by a line that ends:
in two short marks.
A one-to-one relationship between two entities is symbolized in a diagram by a line that ends:
