MIS exam 2 PARS

When investing in a Mutual fund, what should you investigate before buying?

All of these should be investigated

________ systems are important because customers are ________ powerful than ever; these systems put the intimacy back into customer service.

CRM; more

Which of the following is NOT a disadvantage of web-based call centers located overseas?

Cost

________ is the marketing of additional related products to customers based on a previous purchase.

Cross-selling

________ involves ________ a task to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.

Crowdsourcing; outsourcing

___________ support local control, whereas ____________ support central control.

Data marts; data warehouses

Which of the following is an informational role?

Disseminator

____________ is one process used for data integration.

ETL

________ is a benefit of ERP.

Flexibility

A public company's annual report is also called its?

Form 10-K

According to IT's About Business 5.2, TrueCar adopted ________ because it had to handle ________.

Hadoop; structured and unstructured data

Which of the following is not typically considered a challenge of implementing a KMS?

Having knowledge-based business problems

_______ is NOT a stage in the IDC.

Information

A(n) _________________ agent is a software program that assists you, or acts on your behalf, in performing repetitive computer-related tasks.

Intelligent

________ delivers the precise number of parts to be assembled into a finished product at precisely the right time.

JIT

According to IT's About Business 5.4, Performance Bicycle used a(n) ________ system to increase its sales.

KMS

Successful managers have always valued _____________ as an important intellectual asset.

Knowledge

When you are investing on your own, what type of order do the readings say you should be placing?

Limit Order

Which of the following is a characteristic of AI?

Low creativity

________ is part of the ________ process and occurs when the company is trying to fulfill a specific customer order.

Make-to-order; production

________ is a process that spans all organizational business processes and applications.

Master data management

A(n) _______________ is a set of CPUs which work in parallel in an attempt to simulate the way the human brain works, although in greatly simplified form.

Neural network

________ CRM systems are hosted by an external vendor in the vendor's data center.

On-demand

An investors willingness to potentially loose their money in exchange for the potential of higher returns is called their?

Risk Tolerance

________ is part of the ________ process and involves sending goods that are in the warehouse to customers.

Sell-from-stock; fulfillment

Which of the following is a good example of a unique value that could be the primary key in a student table?

Social security number

___________ focuses on automatically and accurately transcribing human speech.

Speech recognition

Which of the following is NOT a primary objective of ERP?

Streamline the manufacturing process

_______________ is knowledge that is generally imprecise, costly to transfer, and difficult to formalize or codify.

Tacit knowledge

Nonvolatile in the context of a data warehouse means ________________.

The data cannot be changed or updated by users of the data warehouse.

The guiding principles to investing include many things, but one of the most critical protections against risk and market downturns is what?

Time

The __________________ test proposes a scenario in which a man and a computer both pretend to be women or men, and a human interviewer has to identify which is the real human.

Turing

________ simplifies and integrates all forms of communication on a common hardware and software platform.

UC

Sourcing or procurement occurs in the ____________ component of the supply chain.

Upstream

Skype provides several __________ services in which analog signals are ___________ and set over the internet.

VoIP; digitized

According to IT's About Business 11.5, the Caribou Coffee case is an example of ________.

an extranet for a company and its dealers, customers, or suppliers

According to IT's About Business 5.3, ________ are/is an example of open data from governments used in the Ebola fight in Africa.

census data

A ________ system tracks all communications between the company and the customer, the purpose of each communication, and any necessary follow-up.

contact management

Affinity analysis is a(n) _________ application.

data mining

Supply chain visibility enhances supply chain _________.

flexibility

Boeing uses a _________-end CRM system because it ________.

high; coordinates staff activities in a campaign to sell its products

Data warehouses is a repository of _________ data, used primarily by _______ companies.

historical; large

Data ___________ means all applications are able to access the same data, which is ___________ by databases.

independence; maximized

ERP address information silos by _____________.

integrating functional areas

Information about data sources; database, table, and column names; refresh schedules; and data-usage measures are collectively define what issue about the information in a data warehouse.

metadata

Targeted marketing relies on _________ analytical information.

predictive

You would use optimization or simulation for ______ analytics.

prescriptive

Sensors, RFID tags, meters, GPS, and other devices are used to collect supply chain information. These are all examples of __________.

source data automation

Knowledge management systems (KMSs) can make an organization's human capital accessible as they cope with _________________.

turnover, rapid change, and downsizing.

According to IT's About Business 6.3, Raytheon engineers sit with potential clients in a CAVE ________ to explore 3D models together.

videoconference