BCIS - Quiz 2

A shared file server is best suited for sharing content when there is increased risk of interference with the user's work by other team members.

False

________ decisions are concerned with day-to-day activities.

Operational

________ communication occurs within a team when all team members meet at the same time.

Synchronous

In version control systems, the shared directories used to store shared documents are called libraries.

True

Informing is the first and most fundamental collaboration purpose.

True

Which of the following is a key difference between collaboration and cooperation?

Unlike cooperation, collaboration emphasizes iteration and feedback.

________ is a popular commercial webinar product used in virtual sales presentations.

WebEx

The main purpose of the planning phase in a project is to ________.

determine who will do what and by when

Margaret finds that calling all her senior supervisors and quality managers for a face-to-face meeting is not feasible. She arranges for a multiparty text chatting session involving all of them. This is an example of asynchronous communication.

false

Project plan and budget are prepared during the finalizing phase of project management.

false

Strategic decisions are typically not collaborative.

false

With Google Drive, documents are stored on the user's computer.

false

Identify the least important characteristic for an effective collaborator.

having experience as a collaborator

A project manager defines the tasks that her team members have to perform and determines the schedule for carrying out each of the tasks. This project is in the ________ phase of project management.

planning

Which of the following is the most important trait that an effective collaborator should have?

skillfulness at giving/receiving negative feedback

An organization uses a formula to compute the reorder quantity of an item in inventory. This is an example of a(n) ________ decision process.

structured

Managerial decisions are decisions about ________.

the utilization of resources

Collaboration tools that provide workflow control manage the activities in a process pre-defined by the group.

true

Team members need not continually check the SharePoint task list for new tasks.

true

Collaboration is defined as a group of people ________.

working together to achieve a common goal