BUS 345 Final
The sweet spot of modelling of a problem has this many nodes
5-13
How many different items (numbers) can be represented with 3 bits?
8
What is the difference between a bit and a byte?
A bit is a 0 or a 1, then one byte is a series of 8 bits
Among the following statements, which is an informal group approach for knowledge sharing?
A community of interest
Which is false about an entity:
A database can have only one entity
Which of the following statements is false regarding the different types of information systems used in organizations?
A transaction processing system (TPS) is used to address strategic decisions of the organization like going into a new market
Google Analytics can...
All of the above
Of the following, which is true for the use of models in business?
All of the above
What might happen when you use business modelling
All of the above
Which of the following is not true about packet switching
All packets for the same email will always travel through the Internet using the same path
Among the following, which is not a benefit of IS?
Among the following, which is not a benefit of IS?
Someone's voice that you hear in a face to face meeting is this type of signal
Analog
The use of a KMS can be in
Any of the above
How can we encode data (image, sound, text, video, etc.)
By transforming them into binary code (0 and 1) using a computer program
The following person is responsible for the IT/IS to run smoothly so the organization can go about its business.
CIO
Which of the following is not a type of Automation
CRM
The primary key:
Can identify a unique record in the table
Which among the following is not part of the stages of the life cycle of knowledge (from Nonaka and Takeuchi)?
Collection
Kickstarter, indiegogo, and gofundme are examples of
Crowdsourcing
Metadata is
Data about the data stored, such as file size or creation date
Among the following statements which is not an information system that could be used by the communication and collaboration system?
Data analysis models
Among the following statements which is not a service provided by behavioral data collection?
Determine the selling price of a product or service on the Web
Which of the following is an innovation activity, according to the OECD
Develop a new product
Fill in the blank: Internet of Things can make it ________ for hackers to release malware that is more impactful because many devices are now connected
Easier
Business process modelling is a method for increasing organizations,
Efficiency and quality
The transaction processing system (TPS) is a type of information system that is used primarily by
Employees and managers at the operational management level
Which of the following statements is false concerning the concept of viral marketing?
Enables transmission on a small scale of end recipients
Open source is used by...
Everyone
Fill in the blank: "For every successful innovation, there are countless ________ attempts"
Failed
According to the Utterback-Abernathy model, process innovation typically comes before product innovation. True or False
False
All IS projects are completed successfully, on time and on budget. True or false?
False
An Integrated IS includes a set of integrated software modules to support business processes in several sectors / functions of the organization with several databases to support the autonomous functional IS. True or false?
False
In the SDLC cascade systems, it is recommended to skip steps to accelerate development. True or False?
False
The decision support systems (DSS) are a type of information system that aims to make decisions automatically, instead of managers. True or false?
False
The expressions "business process" and "information system" mean exactly the same thing. True or false?
False
The fastest and easiest step in information systems development is generally the problem definition. True or false?
False
Unlike a pop-up window, a banner ad will normally require that the user click on the banner to make it go away and continue their web browsing. True or false?
False
For a made to order business, such as Subway sandwiches or Dell computers, which of the following is probably not something you would put in the business model of customer ordering and payment
How much discretionary income the customer has to spend
Which of the following is not part of the definition of 'innovation' according to the OECD definition.
Implementation of a new or significantly improve re-organization of a company
Among the following statements which is not an advantage of electronic commerce?
Inevitably increases the time required to obtain a product or service
What technological development is mostly responsible for the shrinking of size of computers today?
Integrated Circuits
In Herbert Simon's decision making model, there are three steps, what are these steps?
Intelligence, design, choice
Identify the statement that is false. Just like mapping is a representation of the geographic world, modelling in business...
Is a complete representation of the real world
Which of the following is true about prototyping
Is a good process to use when there is uncertainty in the solution design
Which of the following is not a criteria to consider when creating innovation
Is the product going to sell long term
Which of the following is not a characteristic of virtual private network (VPN)?
It allows the establishment of a private network that does not use the public Internet
Why is the many to many relationship bad?
It can create redundancy and false data
Which of the following statements is not a disadvantage of an Integrated IS?
It can help implement industry best practices in the organization
Which of the following statements does not apply to a customer relationship management (CRM) system?
It connects suppliers, factories, distribution centers, retail outlets and retail customers in order to provide goods or services from source to consumption
Which of the following statements is false concerning the business model called "Transaction Broker"?
It redirects potential buyers on the official website of sellers
One advantage to having a common central database as opposed to many databases is
Less chance of redundant data
According to the open source definition from opensource.org, which of the following is not a criteria?
License can be given to only one type of product
The most common open source operating system of the most reliable hosting companies were
Linux
Machine language code...
Looks like a series of 0s and 1s
Among the following statements, which is not a core function of an information system?
Make decisions in place of a manager
Which one of the following will help the most to combat the bullwhip effect in a supply chain?
Make stock levels visible to all in the supply chain
Computers evolved in a way that (from older to newer)
Mechanical to Electrio-mechanical to Completely Electrical
Which of the following laws or rules is an observation on the increase of computing power
Moore's Law
Most drawings of a process of a problem have a common quality. Most of these drawings have these two things according to Tom Wujec, one was links, the other was
Nodes
Which type of automation has the most risk but most reward?
Paradigm Shift
You go to a restaurant and they have a buffet set up. Food is set up for the lunch crowd between 11 am and 2 pm. The manager keeps an eye on the trays and puts in orders depending on the demand he predicts for the day. This is an example of what type of production
Push based production model
Which of the following statements is not an outcome of information systems for organizations?
Reduce the informational needs of the organization
Among the following statements, which is not a consequence of the use of information systems for each department of an organization in isolation?
Risk of loss of autonomy in the choice of information systems that will be used in a given department
Which of the following statements is false concerning the concept of SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
SEO involves optimizing algorithms of search engines so as to display the most recently updated Web sites.
Which of the following is an Agile method?
Scrum
When using a commercially available Integrated IS you can
Select and choose the different modules/functionality you want
Which of the following is not an example of a decision made by the IS department
Should we hire an advertising agency for our next commercial campaign?
Which of the following is not true about IS.
Simple
According to the Utterback-Abernathy model, the low cost leader comes into play in the following phase.
Specific phase
Someones social security number is represented as a set of nine numbers or integers on a tax form. This data is
Structured data
When you take a skiing class and you learn how to ski, this is an example of (knowledge passing from your instructor to you)
Tacit knowledge to tacit knowledge
Which of the following statements is not an advantage of an Integrated IS?
The business that uses and installs an Integrated IS can not match the ROI of the organization that implements the Integrated IS
One can find several types of information systems (IS) within the same organization to meet different needs. Which of the following statements do not correspond to the usual segmentation of information systems in an organization
The executive information systems (EIS) are mostly used by the employees on the production floor level
When running a business process the two main issues with functional IS working independently is
The functional IS may not communicate with other functional IS and having multiple databases
Which among the following statements is not a challenge in knowledge management?
The lack of speed of the search engine
Who decides whether a program is open source or proprietary code?
The programmer
Which is false about Internet of Things
There are no security issues
According to the video "Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle", Tom Scott said that the creators of ASCII "did a really clever thing" because as demonstrated with the character "A"
They envisioned UTF-8 and made ASCII compatible to newer standards
Why do we need to encode data (image, sound, text, video, etc.)?
To express the data in a language understood by the computer
Which of the following statements describes a tool specifically found in GDSS, compared to a non-group DSS/regular DSS?
Tools to Vote
Which of the following statements is false regarding the EDI technology (Electronic Data Interchange)
Traditionally these have been done on the public Internet
3D printing has evolved so much so that even food is being considered for 3D printing. True or False
True
A model is a simplified representation or abstraction of reality. (True or False)
True
BPR can involve processes that are non-technical, not involving a computer. True or False?
True
Collaborative filtering is to compare data from different consumers in order to make recommendations on products or services. True or false?
True
ERP brings together various information systems. True or False
True
Each function, unit or department of an organization has different information needs. That is why one can find in an organization different information systems designed to meet their specific information needs. True or false?
True
Information represents a set of intelligible data that provided context makes sense to the user. True or false?
True
One fact was that in a group, the modelling process would be faster if no one talks (True or False)
True
Open source software is software that can be freely used, changed, and shared (in modified or unmodified form) by anyone. True or False.
True
TOGAF and CobiT 5 are based on best practices. True or False
True
The majority of computer systems today use the UTF-8 format (True or False)
True
Unlike the digital wallet, the stored value card requires an amount of money is first transferred to the stored value card.
True
The decision to expand into Maine for a regional restaurant chain that only exists in the Mid-West is a
Unstructured decision
Which of the following is false about Integrated Information Systems?
Uses multiple databases
Most business processes of an organization are the responsibility of ______ department(s), Where people from _______ department(s) have tasks during the business process.
Various
The three 'V's of Big Data were:
Volume, Variety, and Velocity
Which of the following networks typically covers the largest geographic area in size.
WAN
Which is a characteristic of software?
Zero marginal cost to make a copy
Among the following statements which is not one of the types of knowledge that can be found in an organization?
informal knowledge
