MIS KC Stuff

Brooks' Law

What "law" states that "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later"?

Morse Code

What communication code was developed in 1835 to send messages digitally over a new communications infrastructure?

An application user's willingness to pay

What does the "subsidization breakpoint" for location-based services measure?

Flexibility

What eLearning advantage describes the characteristics of being able to take a class anytime, anywhere using tailored and personalized adaptive curriculum?

Attribute

What is a term that describes a measurement used to evaluate the a specified level of service promised by a vendor in an SLA (service level agreement)?

Domain name system

What is the name of the computer software system that translates Uniform Resource Locator (URL's) into IP addresses?

cultural

Varying interpretations of color, such as white being associated with either weddings or funerals, is an example of which level of the McGinn Model of Design?

High Interest /Importance and Low Influence

What stakeholder role would best describe Dr. Robbins', President of the University of Arizona, role with respect to the University of Arizona's Strategic Plan project?

Critical Success Factor

What term is used to describe a specific metric that often determines the success or failure of a task?

value proposition

What term is used to describe how a product or service fulfills the needs of a customer?

Data Abstraction

What term is used to describe the result of summarizing information stored in a data cube through the process of projections?

Economic Analysis *

When Warren Buffet evaluates a company's past performance based on their historical earnings per share (EPS), what method is being used to make a quantitative decision?

Hierarchical Model

A Product Tree Structure or Bill of Materials commonly uses what type of visualization model to show the relationships of items within the product?

Group Decision Making

A business intelligence tool such as PowerBI uses what approach to transform data to help business leaders understand the performance against target and time (trend)?

Digital Dashboard

A business intelligence tool that uses abstractions such as color and graphical images like instrument gauges to allow executives to grasp business situations quickly is known as a:

Association

A researcher has a well developed theory that air pollution is associated with higher incidence of dementia. In order to determine if there is a correlation between US air quality readings and dementia patients, what data mining method would be used?

Pay for items while shopping using a mobile wallet

According to the Smart Retain video case, indoor positioning systems were used to do all of the following except which of the following:

Bluetooth

According to the UArizona COVID Tracking App case study, what technology does the COVID Watch app us to anonymously notify users if they have come into contract with a positive case?

Communication

According to the presenter in the Managing a Website Project video case, what is a critical element for a client to get the most out of a web design team?

Measurement Error

According to the video case on the Productivity Paradox, Goldman Sachs believes which of the following causes is the primary reason for the slowing in productivity growth?

When the number of connected devices outnumbered people on the planet

According to Cisco, what was considered the "inflection point" for the Internet of Things?

Private

According to Intel Canada's video "Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds," what type of cloud architecture offers the *least* scalability?

95%

According to Social Media Today, What percentage of the content of a video message is typically retained by the viewer?

30%

According to Social Media Today, in 2018, what percentage of online chat conversations were done by chatbots?

Licensing its courses for a fee as a "course in a box"

According to the "Brave New World of MOOCs" video case study, education experts believe that companies such as Coursera are likely to monetize their intellectual property in what way?

Edge Computing

According to the "Cloud Computing Trends for 2020" video case, what term is used to describe a distributed computing model where information is processed closer to its source?

Exoskeletons

According to the Accessibility and Inclusion for All video case, what technology are some car manufacturers using on their production lines to open jobs to individuals who might not have been able to perform the job previously?

Bluetooth

According to the Beacon Technology Explained case study, what technology do beacons commonly use to communicate with an application on a customer's phone?

Golden State Warriors

According to the Fan Experience case study, which professional sports team generates additional revenue by allowing fans to update their seats using their mobile device during a game?

Virtual Ecosystems

According to the Goldman Sachs video case study on the faculty of the future, business activities such as product simulation and assembly line configuration and optimization will be enhanced by the development of what technology?

Schema

According to the Intricity video case study, what name is used to describe the defined set of tables and columns into which all of the rows of data is loaded?

Adding resources to an unpartitionable task

According to the Mythical Man Month view, adding resources (addition team members) to a project will improve (shorten) the time required to complete the project by the largest amount under which of the following scenarios?

Star Topology

According to the Physical vs. Logical Topologies Video Case, what type of network topology is the most common physical topology?

Understandable

According to the Pour Principles of Accessibility video case, using clear and straightforward language as well as consistent and predictable interfaces would be related to which of he POUR principles?

Using chemicals that are less caustic for marble in the cleaning process

According to the Root Cause Analysis video case, what was the root cause analysis recommendation to prevent the stone in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC from crumbling?

Detection of errors

After pressing submit or a PAR or KC quiz, D2L provides a warning if you have not saved your answers to one or more questions before grading your assignment. Since you are still permitted submit a quiz with unanswered questions, using a warning approach is an example of what type of error prevention?

Direct saving from reductions in cost

All of the following benefits and management strategies would commonly be associated with a "good" likelihood of achievability except:

Variability

Allowing students to choose how among written responses, recorded audio clips, or short recorded videos when answering questions on a discussion board would be an example of what UDL "ingredient" when designing an assessment?

Aware

As described by CapGemini, what aspect of smart products used an Industry 4.0 environment would focus on using sensor technology to give access to condition information regarding products and their environment?

Postcards

As discussed in the the video case "Vint Cerf Explains TCP Networking," what example does he use to explain how messages are sent?

Operational

Commonly occurring and well-defined business activities such as scheduling employees work hours would be what category of organizational decision?

Knowledge

Being able to reuse information that is created contributes to what critical success factor (aka key factor) for a high ROI (Return on Investment)?

Operational Benefits

Increased visibility, Tracking, Traceability and Higher Quality are all attributes of what type of benefits for tracking items using RFID tags?

Structured

Identifying majors with specific language and mathematics requirements using the Degree Search selection filters help you solve what type of business problem?

Projected inventory quantity

In a Master Production Schedule plan, the "Projected Available" quantity represents what planning information?

Actors

In a communication architecture, transmitters and senders are described using what term?

New revenue opportunities

In a smart city environment, which of the following was NOT described as a benefit from using IOT to connect traffic signals?

Reader

In an RFID system, where would the unique data identifying an item typically be found?

NFC, RFID, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi

In terms of maximum operating range, which of the following correctly orders the sort-range wireless technologies from longest range to shortest range?

IF tested = 'yes' and mileage = 'high' and age = 'recent' THEN -> 'BUY'

In the "Decision Tree for Buying a Car" example discussed in class, which of the following "IF" statements would correctly identify a "BUY" decision?

Incubation *

In the "ThinkTank Group DSS" video case study, which of the following was NOTidentified as a possible breakthrough for a team using ThinkTank?

Mesa, Arizona

In the COPLINK: Integrating Information video case study, what city was the focus on the case study of how law enforcement uses COPLINK to investigate crimes?

Revise

In the Case-based Reasoning R4 cycle by Aamodth and Piaza, a verified solution would be added to the Case-Base during what step?

Validating

In the Data-Driven Decisions at Nestlé video case study, Nestlé's Digital Acceleration Team training program focuses on developing skills in all of the following business issues, except:

Phase 3: Site production

In the Eller Website Redesign Process, User Testing was incorporated into each of the following phases except;

0.5

In the Project Selection example discussed in the video case on Decision Matricies by Dr. Martin from DePaul University, if a criteria received 5 points as a rating but the criteria was weighted at 10%, what would be the score for that criterion?

Local loop

In the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), what is the connection between the local telephone company exchange office and a subscriber's house called?

By the end of the second week of class

In the Purdue video case study, when is the "Signals" data mining project, as described by Purdue's CIO, first able to identify students likely to fail a class?

Risk

In the Total Economic Impact methodology, using best and worst case estimates to determine the overall estimated value for costs is an example of which of the following four dimensions?

Option

In the Total Economic Impact methodology, what aspect of the model is based on the Nobel Prize winning work of Black, Merton, and Scholes in finance that is commonly referred to as the Black-Scholes equation?

edu

In the URL "http://www.arizona.edu/index.html", which of the following defines the "domain"?

Kanban card

In the business case for pull-based production discussed in class, what determines the quantity of production produced by a work center?

The critical path will decrease to 5 days

In the following critical path diagram, if the time required to complete "Task B" was increased by 4 days, so that Task B now requires 6 days instead of 2 days, how would the critical path be affected?

Milk

In video case study about using PowerBI in Rwanda, the production of what agricultural product benefited from greater transparency in the value chain between the 200,000 famers and 160 collection points for their product?

Software-as-a-Service

In which of the following cloud models is the customer responsible for managing the fewest of the computing resources?

Video Conferencing

Incorporating capabilities to discuss issues, present documents, and seeing body language, what collaborative technology is part of Electronic-assisted Learning?

utility computing

Introduced in the 1990's, what term was used to describe the business model of offering computing resources as a metered (based on actual usage rates)?

Ishikawa diagram

Named after the inventor of the technique to identify the underlying causes of a problem, what is another name for a Fishbone (Cause and effect) Diagram?

Feedback leading to mastery

One of the challenges of online education at scale (i.e., MOOCs) is the issue of grading assignments on subjective course materials. Which of the unbundled higher education dimensions would relate to this challenge?

COPLINK

Originally developed by MIS Regents Professor Hsinchun Chen, what technology is used by law enforcement agencies worldwide for data analysis?

Twisted-pair cabling

POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) or basic, voice-grade analog telephone service has been historically most closely associated with what type of network infrastructure?

Representation

Providing options for comprehension, language, and perception would be consider as critical success factors for which UDL principle for supporting variability?

Personal Security

Services such as Life360, Snapchat Location, and OnStar Roadside Assistance are all examples of that category of innovative location-based services according to NAVTEQ?

Immersive learning environment

Technologies such as virtual, augmented, and mixed reality systems would be commonly found in what upcoming Web 3.0 Virtual Leaning Environment?

The Why

The affective network within the human brain focuses address what aspect of variability in the UDL guidelines?

Legacy data

The federated data process thing

Cloud Services

The origins of the IOT-based security breach at Target was related to which of the following dimensions of the IT/IOT converged security model?

Scheduling appointments for getting a vaccine shot

The web-based system developed MIS Professor Ram using WiFi log data help decision makers respond to the COVID-19 pandemic on campus in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

Forecasting

Using Gartner's Magic Quadrant for CRM Vendors as a reference, what type of data mining method would identify an industry relationship among Oracle, SAP, SAS, Yellowfin, and Sisense?

Smart factories

Using IOT to track packages, containers, and other bulkware are examples of what type of "smart" IOT technologies?

Decision Tree

Using a PERT chart to identify variances from planned project schedule dates is an example of what type of management activity that has been previously discussed?

Strive for consistency

Using the same quiz format, steps required to answer questions, and submission deadlines for both PARs and KCs are examples of which of the Eight Golden Rules for HCI Design?

A faster horse

When asked about whether customers influences his designs for automobiles, it has been claimed that Henry Ford said that if he had asked his customers what they wanted, they would have asked for what?

Retention Strategy

When assessing customer lifetime value, the 80/20 rule, often referred to as the Pareto Principle, describes the importance of the profitability of a small segment of your customer base. Which of the following strategies would be used to manage this highly profitable segment of customers?

Porter's Forces

Which of the following approaches would help a business leader understand the how the competition in their industry and help the company protect its sustainable competitive advantage?

Manages inventory using a "proactive" strategy

Which of the following characteristics would be applicable to an inventory system that is managed using the "Pull" approach?

Consistency

Which of the following data warehouse characteristics requires the ETL process to alter or transform the source data into a standardized representation before loading it into the data warehouse?

Bits per second

Which of the following descriptive terms would generally be associated with the transmission of digital data?

LPT Port

Which of the following types of computer ports (mechanical network connectors) would NOT be considered a serial data communication interface?

Utility website

Which of the following types of website types (as described in the ABP-3 guidelines) best describes use of the Eller website as a marketing hub to connect with new prospective students and potential donors through SEO and a cohesive online presence?

Dedicated Short-Range Communication

Which of the following types of wireless communication used as part of a connected vehicle architecture would have a line-of-sight range of approximately 300 meters

Curtails lawsuits

Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a benefit of human-centered design in the Human-centered design video case?

Improving product features and operational reliability

Which of the following would not be an expected outcome for managing the bullwhip effect in a product's supply chain?

King of Denmark from 940 to 981

Who was Harald Blaatand "Bluetooth" II?