MIS 309 Posey Final

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Abstract reasoning is the ability to _____

Make and Manipulate Models

Within Excels autofilter dropdown menu, the _____ option filters a range of numbers instead of specifying individual specific values.

NUMBER FILTERS

________ states that network connection speeds for high-end users will increase by 50% per year.

Nielsen's Law

______ is a category of cloud hosting where vendors provide hosted computers with an operating system, runtime environment, and middleware like a Web server or a DBMS.

PAAS

Which of the following hardware developments allow objects to connect to a network and share data with any other application, service, or device?

Internet of Things (IoT)

Which of the following is a social media application provider?

LINKEDIN

The primary risk of peer-to-peer support in the context of social media and customer service is _____.

LOSS OF CONTROL

Which enterprise resource planning (ERP) is the world leader? (I mentioned in class that Ole Miss uses this ERP system)

MICROSOFT

Compared to in-house hosting, cloud-based hosting ______.

MINIMIZES THE RISK OF INVESTING IN TECHNOLOGY THAT WILL SOON BECOME OBSOLETE

The difference between the value that an activity generates and the cost of the activity is called the _____.

Margin

________ states the value of a network is equal to the square of the number of users connected to it.

Metcalfe's Law

Which of the following is a characteristic of cloud-based hosting?

NO OBSOLESCE

_______ are those that support operational day-to-day activities.

OPERATIONAL DECISIONS

OLAP stands for _____.

Online Analytical Processing

Linux is an example of a(n) _______.

Open-source operating system

_________ data is data from the day-to-day activities of your business such as point of sale systems like cash registers, inventory kiosks, etc. that feed into Business Intelligence Systems for analysis.

Operational

Cloud resources are ____ because many different organizations use the same physical hardware.

POOLED

______is a measure of the ratio of process outputs to inputs.

PROCESS EFFICIENCY

A _____ is a set of rules for organizing communication

PROTOCOL

Within Excel, to change the margins to narrow, first click the ______ top level tab.

Page Layout

Bargaining power of customers is likely to be the lowest for markets involving ______.

Patented Drugs

Which of the following statements is TRUE about unsupervised data mining?

Possible Answers: Does not use a priori hypothesis or model, findings obtained solely by data analysis, hypothesized model created to explain patterns found. (3-27)

Which of the following ratios has fallen as a result of Moore's Law?

Price/ Performance

Within Excel, to make text drop to a faux second line within a cell once the text runs out of room in the cell to display, the user may use _______.

Wrap Text

Which of the following is an example of computer hardware?

A monitor

Most social media applications earn their revenue through _____.

ADVERTISMENTS

Social Media sponsored feedback posted on an organizations social media site from customers can result in ______.

ALL OF THE ABOVE

Within the average function of Excel, the database part of the syntax guide refers to _____.

ALL OF THE ABOVE

Within Excels advanced filter, in order to filter a list that must satisfy two criteria simultaneously, the user must set up the ___ condition in the criteria range by placing both criteria on the same row.

AND

Which of the following conditions exists when data are isolated in separated information systems?

INFORMATION SILO

The Term _____, used to describe the cloud, means that the computing resources leased can be increased or decreased dynamically and that organizations only pay for the resources they use.

ELASTIC

______ processes span an organization and support activities in multiple departments.

ENTERPRISE

Which of the following happens during the starting phase of project management?

ESTABLISH TEAM RULES

Which of the following cloud offering is just renting the equipment from the cloud vendor?

IAAS

Which of the following is a characteristic of in-house hosting?

IN-DEPTH VISIBILITY OF SECURITY ORRRR CONTROL OF DATA LOCATION

In order to convert a section of a spread sheet to a table, the user must first click the ______ tab.

INSERT

Which of the following is a solution for problems arising from information silos?

INTEGRATING DATA INTO A SINGLE DATABASE

All of the following are characteristics of an effective collaborator except _____.

IS A POPULAR LEADER

Which of the following characteristics is a disadvantage of cloud-based hosting?

IT INVOLVES HIGH DEPENDENCY ON VENDOR ORRRRR LOSS OF CONTROL DATA LOCATION

Which of the following is a critical characteristic of good information?

Accuracy

A ______ is also called "the brain" of the computer.

Central Processing Unit

Focused differentiation occurs when ______.

A better product is provided within an industry segment

Which of the following is described as a nonroutine cognitive skill?

Answer: Systems Thinking Other Examples: Abstract Reasoning, Collaboration, Ability to Experiment

In class, I described that when you go to Walgreens, CVS or Kroger, they collect your purchase information when you enter your phone number into their point-of-sale system (cash register/ credit card box). This is an example of collecting Business Intelligence using _______.

Artificial Intelligence

All of the following is a criterion for successful collaboration except _____.

BEING ON TIME

"According to Porter's five forces model, an oil producer will have increased _______ if the supply of oil drops sharply."

Bargaining Power

Lane Kiffin had the number one recruiting class in the transfer portal to recruit the best transfer athletes in the nation to Ole Miss to offer their services to the football program. Highly recruited athletes can provide a higher chance of winning to universities thus providing them value. This value is fought over by coaches in hopes they get the player. This value the player possesses is best described within the market forces metric as discussed in the Chapter 2 Strategy Text as the _____.

Bargaining power of suppliers

Technology where the company is still spending money on research and development but doesn't quite have the product ready for market is best described as ______.

Bleeding Edge Technology

All of the following are primary purposes of collaboration except _____.

CAMARADERIE

_______ is a group of people working together to achieve a common goal via a process of feedback and iteration.

COLLABORATION

One can use the autofilters on a spread sheet to do all of the following except ______.

CONDITIONAL FORMATTING

In the video, I described the scenario of students working on a study guide with each doing a chapter and then just putting them all together without a second version. This describes _______.

COOPERATION

______ is when an organization uses Social Media Information Systems to collect customer opinions on products, services, or processes by asking customers for their input.

CROWDSOURCING

_______ is when an organization uses Social Media Information systems to collect customer opinions on products, services, or processes by asking customers for their input.

CROWDSOURCING

Within Excel, _______ assign bundled formatting packages to a cell. (Hint: In the lecture, I referenced the movie Ready Player One.)

Cell Styles

_______ is/are a feature within Excel that can be used to apply and change formatting automatically based on value within a cell

Conditional Formatting

Streamtech, a manufacturer of automobiles, recently received a patent for an unmanned search boat. By doing this, Streamtech has _____.

Created an entry barrier

The floating dollar sign is applied using the _____ format

Currency

When an organization has inconsistent duplicated data, it is said to have a(n) _____.

DATA INTEGRITY PROBLEM

All of the following are benefits of content delivery networks except ____.

DECREASED LATENCY

Tony requests a credit approval of $25,000. Instead, he gets $15,000 approved as a customer credit. Which of the following problems caused by information silos is most likely the reason behind it?

DISJOINTED PROCESSES

Social media can be used to _____.

DO ALL OF THE ABOVE

_____ are flexible, informal, and adaptive processes that normally involve strategic and less structured managerial decisions and activities.

DYNAMIC PROCESSES

Which of the following is a fundamental category of business intelligence (BI) analysis?

Data Mining

Metadata is/are ______.

Data that describes other data

Within Excel, what is the symbol used to apply absolute referencing to a cell reference?

Dollar Sign ($)

Within Excel, to change the name of a sheet tab, the user must ____

Double click the cell and type the new name

Process ______ is a measure of how well a process achieves organizational strategy.

EFFECTIVENESS

Which size of main memory is the largest?

Exabyte

"_______" is defined as making a reasoned analysis of an opportunity, envisioning potential solutions, evaluating those possibilities, and developing the most promising ones, consistent with the resources one has."

Experimentation

Social Media (SM) communities differ from communities in the past in that they are ___.

FORMED BASED ON MUTUAL INTERESTS

A ______ is a product offered to customers that is free for basic service but costs a fee for premium service. I talked about pandora in this example in class

FREEMIUM

_______ is installed into special, read-only memory of devices like printers and print servers or devices used for various types of communication.

Firmware

In the example given in class of the mountain bike company competing in a highly competitive environment like a western town in the state of Colorado during the summer where mountain biking is a large competitive industry, services like a well-trained sales staff, high end bikes and convenience services that make the rental process easy is an example of a ______ strategy.

Focused Diversified

_______ is when everyone in a group of people meeting just agrees together for the purpose of agreeing.

GROUPTHINK

"In 1972, computer scientists _____ recognized that digital devices would change the world as they evolved and became widely used."

Gordon Bell

_____ is a term that refers to the level of detail represented by the data

Granularity

______ is a term that refers to the level of detail represented by the data

Granularity

Within Excel, in order to perform a custom or nested sort on multiple fields, the user must first go to the _____ Top Level Tab.

HOME

Which of the following components of an information system is the easiest to change and results in the least amount of organizational disruption

Hardware

Which of the following is a characteristic of smart devices?

Have sensors that interact with the environment

_______ delivers business intelligence to users without any request from the users

Push Publishing

Within Excel, the ______ is located in the extreme top left of the interface. It contains commands that are typically used by most users of Excel.

Quick Access Toolbar

Within Excel, in order to unlock a cell to be editable after applying password protection, the user must ________.

RIGHT CLICK ON THE SELECTED CELLS TO BE UNLOCKED THEN SELECT FORMAT CELLS THEN SELECT THE PROTECTION TAB THEN UNCHECK THE LOCKED CHECKBOX

In order to convert a table back to a spreadsheet in Excel, you must first _____.

RIGHT CLICK ON THE TABLE

Main memory is also known as _____.

Random access memory (RAM)

_______ delivers business intelligence to users without any request from the users. (The example I used in class, is your Ole Miss email that comes to you as a student profile.)

Report Servers (push publishing)

The general grouping of commands on the Excel interface are referred to as: (Hint: I used the grocery store analogy to illustrate this in the lecture).

Ribbon

Which of the following is an example of a structured process?

SALES CLERK OPERATING A CASH REGISTER (POINT OF SALE SYSTEM) IN A GAS STATION

Within Excel, when placing a header on a worksheet, the user can press the ______ button to automatically return the sheet name to the header.

SHEET NAME

______ are the companies that operate SM sites.

SM APPLICATION PROVIDERS

______ is the use of information technology to support the sharing of content among networks of users.

SOCIAL MEDIA

______ are those that support broad scope, organizational issues.

STRATEGIC DECISIONS

_____ occurs when all team members meet at the same time.

SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION

Which of the following terms refers to a collection of servers?

Server Farm

"When you right click on a cell in Excel, one of the toolbars that displays is the ____."

Short-cut menu

In class, I describe Big Data Application Analysis as all of the following except _______.

Slow Time-Consuming Processing

"The mismatch between the high level of tech skills demanded by employers and the low level of tech skills held by employers is called _____.

The technology skills gap

CEO's, managers, and entrepreneurs measure an industry structure before entering that industry to compete based on market forces. If a food truck chooses to participate in a gathering of food trucks based on a tweet of where and who will be there and their core strength to compete is that they are unique in their food products they offer, this is an example of weak _______ to their product.

Threat of substitutions

Within the autofilter selections within Excel, in order to filter out individual numbers or values, you _____.

UNCHECK THE CHECKBOXES FOR THE VALUES THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE IN THE RESULTS


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