MIS Midterm
Approximately how much revenue was generated by e-commerce in 2017
About $700 billion
How much did American businesses spend on information systems hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment in 2017
About &1 trillion
Which of the following is a private corporate network extended to authorized users outside the organization?
An extranet
Which of the following is an example of a keystone firm within a business ecosystem?
Apple and the mobile platform ecosystem
A(n) ___ is used to communicate between a user and an organization's back-end systems.
Application server
Which of the following statements about business processes is not true
Business processes are typically unaffected by changes in information systems
Which of the following enables you to create a script that allows a web server to communicate with a back-end database
CGI
Which of the following is a leading networking hardware provider
Cisco
Which of the following is a routine question that might be answered by a MIS system?
Compare planned to actual sales for each quarter
Which of the following statements about cookies is not true
Cookies are installed only at the user's request
Microsoft SQL Server is an
DBMS for midrange computers
DBMSs typically include report generating tools in order to
Display data in a more structured and polished format than would be possible just by querying
The four major types of enterprise applications are
ERP, SCM, CRM, and KMS
What is the most important function of an enterprise application?
Enabling business functions and departments to share information
Which of the following is an example of a cross functional business process
Fulfilling a customer order
Which of the following involves practices and technologies to minimize the environmental effects of manufacturing and managing computing devices
Green computing
A man steals from the grocery store in order to feed his family. Which of the following explains the humanitarian principle in evaluating this situation
His action is acceptable, because the higher social value is the survival of the family
Which main business function is responsible for maintaining employee records
Human resources
Which of the following statements is not true
In 2017 American businessses spent $500 billion on business and management consulting and information technology services
Which of the following is not one of the current key technology trends that rises ethical issues
Increase in data quality
Which of the five moral dimensions of the information age do the central business activities of Double Click involve
Information rights and obligations
Which of the following statements about the technical view of organizations is not true
It emphasizes group relationships, values, and structures
Which of the following best describes the effect that new information technology has on society
It has a ripple effect, raising new ethical, social, and political issues
If sales of your products declined in a specific region of the country, which of the following types of system would best help you understand why?
MIS
Which of the following is a DBMS for desktop computers
Microsoft Access
MongoDB and SimpleDB are both examples of:
NoSQL databases
Which type of software is created and updated by a worldwide community of programmers and available for free?
Open source
To make sure they stock clothes that their customers will purchase, a department store implements a new application that analyzes spending levels at their stores and cross-references this data to popular clothing styles. Which of the following business objectives is this information intended to support?
Operational excellence
Which of the following is the most prominent data manipulation language today
SQL
Which of the following is not one of the techniques used in web mining
Server mining
which ethical rule states that if an action cannot be taken repeatedly it is not right to take it at all
Slippery-slope rule
Which type of system integrates supplier, manufacturer, distributor, and customer logistics processes?
Supply Chain management system
All of the following are capabilities of enterprise social networking tools except
Supply chain management
A(n) ___ is typically a major source of data for other systems
TPS
Which of the following is a support activity in a firm's value chain
Technology
which of the following is an example of a social complementary asset
Technology and service firms in adjacent markets
Which of the following best illustrates the relationship between entities and attributes
The entity CUSTOMER with the attribute PURCHASE
Which of the following constitutes an organizational element in the UPS tracking system described in the chapter?
The specification of procedures for identifying packages with sender and recipient information
Which of the following is an example of a legacy system
Transaction processing system running on a mainframe
Which of the following factors does not help explain why computing resources today are even more available than in previous decades
Widespread rejection of technology standards
Telepresence technology is primarily designed to
allow employees to share ideas and plans in real time
Linux is
an example of open-source software.
The select operation
creates a subset consisting of all records in the file that meet stated criteria
All of the following are competitive forces in Poter's model except
disruptive technologies
In 2010, the FTC added all of the following recommendations to its privacy guidelines except
firms should limit the length of time that any personal data is stored to six months or less
The value chain model
highlights specific activities in the business where competitive strategies can best be applied
The internet increases the bargaining power of customers by
making information available to everyone
The ability to offer individually tailored products or services using the same production resources as bulk production is known as
mass customization
The term management information systems refers to a specific category of information systems serving:
middle management functions
In the ___ model of informed consent, personal information cannot be collected until the consumer specifically agrees that his or her data can be collected
opt-in
The logical view of a database
presents data as they would be perceived by end users.
Under Mintzberg's classification of organizational structure, the knowledge-based organization falls under the category of
professional bureaucracies
A database ___ describes a database entity
record
The ____ function is responsible for making sure customers are aware of the company's product
sales and marketing
All of the following are examples of environmental actors in an information system except
sales force
When two organizations pool markets and expertise that result in lower costs and generate profits, they are creating
synergies
In a relational database, a record is referred to in technical terms as a(n)
tuple
A client computer networked to a server computer with processing split between the two types of machines is called a(n)
two-tiered client server architecture
An ___ is a collection of independent firms that use information technology to coordinate their value chains to collectively produce a product or service for a market
value web
Which of the following is not a true statement about value webs
value webs are inflexible and cannot adapt quickly to changes in supply and demand