CE CSP semester 1

____________________ is an approach that starts by investigating the general data and information needs of the organization at the strategic level, and then examines more specific data and information needs for the various functional areas and departments within the organization.

Enterprise data model

Which of the following is a generalized class of people, places, or things (objects) for which data is collected, stored, and maintained?

Entity

Which of the following uses basic graphical symbols to show the organization of and relationships between data?

Entity-relationship (ER) diagrams

Which of the following is the knowledge that is documented, stored, and codified—such as standard procedures, product formulas, customer contact lists, market research results, and patents?

Explicit knowledge

A copyrighted work can be owned by any one person, and everyone is allowed to profit from its distribution.

False

Which of the following is a set of programs that controls a computer's hardware and acts as an interface with application software?

Operating System

Which of the following is the process of determining how a system will be accepted by people and how well it will meet various system performance expectations?

Operational feasibility

Which of the following is an approach that provides users with a computing platform, typically including an operating system, programming language execution environment, database services, and Web server?

PaaS

Which of the following are steps of the system investigation process? (Choose all that apply.)

Perform investigation Draft investigative report Feasibility analysis

___ is the process of tailoring Web pages to specifically target individual consumers.

Personalization

A TPS typically includes which of the following types of systems? (Choose all that apply.)

Purchasing systems Order processing systems Accounting systems

Which of the following technologies employ a microchip with an antenna to broadcast its unique identifier and location to receivers?

RFID

Which of the following is a collection of related data fields?

Record

____ involves developing mechanical or computer devices that can paint cars, make precision welds, and perform other tasks that require a high degree of precision or are tedious or hazardous for human beings.

Robotics

Which of the following is the process for driving traffic to a Web site by using techniques that improve the site's ranking in search results?

SEO

___ are training, techniques, and processes that empower end users to work independently to access data from approved sources to perform their own analyses using an endorsed set of tools.

Self Service Analytics

____ is the process used to capture tacit knowledge that involves a novice observing an expert executing her job to learn how she performs.

Shadowing

A(n) ____ can transmit data in only one direction and is seldom used for business telecommunications.

Simplex

Which of the following permits you to install the software on one computer, or sometimes two computers, used by one person?

Single-user license

____________ is the work designed to help employees embrace a new information system and way of working.

Soft side of implementing change

_____ is an emerging approach to networking that allows network administrators to have programmable central control of the network via a controller without requiring physical access to all the network devices.

Software Defined Networking

____ is the initial phase in the development of a new or modified business information system whose purpose is to gain a clear understanding of the specifics of the problem to solve or the opportunity to address.

System Investigation

_____________ run and maintain IS equipment. They are responsible for efficiently starting, stopping, and correctly operating mainframe systems, networks, tape drives, disk devices, and printers.

System operators

Which of the following is a communications protocol or system of rules that ensures privacy between communicating applications and their users on the Internet?

TLS

____ include the people, procedures, hardware, software, data, and knowledge needed to develop computer systems and machines that demonstrate characteristics of intelligence.

AI system

____ is a six-phase structured approach for the planning and execution of a data mining project.

CRISP-DM

Which of the following is the know-how that someone has developed because of personal experience; it involves intangible factors such as beliefs, perspective, and a value system?

Tacit knowledge

A(n) ____ is a skilled and trained IS professional who directs all activities related to an organization's database, including providing security from intruders.

database administrator

A collection of related records is a(n) ______________.

file

A(n) ____________ is a group of people that is structured and managed to meet its mission or set of group goals.

organization

______________ are a type of hard-copy output device used for general design work.

printers

_____________ technology takes a three-dimensional model of an object stored on a computer and sends it to a special printer to create the object using strands of a plastic filament or synthetic powder.

3d printer

Which of the following involves a subset of e-commerce in which all the participants are organizations?

B2B e-commerce

A(n) ____ is a form of data processing whereby business transactions are accumulated over a period of time and prepared for processing as a single unit or batch.

Batch Processing System

____ are the most efficient and effective ways to complete a business process.

Best Practices

Which of the following mobile advertising networks allow an advertiser to specify the country and content where an add will run, but not a specific Web site?

Blind Networks

Which of the following is the part of a computer that sequences and executes instructions?

CPU

_____ is the rate at which data is exchanged, usually measured in bits per second (bps).

Channel Bandwith

The role of the _______________ is to employ an IS department's equipment and personnel to help the organization attain its goals.

Chief Information Officer

Which of the following is a series of electronic pulses produced at a predetermined rate that affects machine cycle time?

Clock Speed

____ is a computing environment where software and storage are provided as an Internet service and are accessed with a Web browser.

Cloud Computing

Which of the following is a method of dealing with a situation in which two or more people need to access the same record in a database at the same time?

Concurrency control

____ is a graphical representation that summarizes the steps a consumer takes in making the decision to buy your product and become a customer.

Conversion Funnel

____ begins with a transaction (e.g., taking a customer order) and results in data that serves as input to the TPS.

Data Collection

Which of the following concepts takes a "store everything" approach to big data, saving all the data in its raw and unaltered form?

Data Lake

________________ is an information-analysis tool that involves the automated discovery of patterns and relationships in a data warehouse.

Data Mining

Which of the following is a diagram of entities and their relationships?

Data Model

____ is the presentation of data in a pictorial or graphical format.

Data Visualization

Which of the following is a collection of data that contains numeric facts called measures, which are categorized by dimensions, such as time and geography?

Data cube

____ is the process of checking data for validity and completeness.

Data storage

A(n) _________________ is a database that holds business information from many sources in the enterprise, covering all aspects of the company's processes, products, and customers.

Data warehouse

Which of the following applications are ideal for storing, organizing, and retrieving data?

Database

Which of the following is the elimination of intermediate organizations between the producer and the consumer?

Disintermediation

___ refers to the conducting of business activities (e.g., distribution, buying, selling, marketing, and servicing of products or services) electronically over computer networks such as the Internet, extranets, and corporate networks.

Electronic Comerce

A(n) ____ is an electronic forum where manufacturers, suppliers, and competitors buy and sell goods, trade market information, and run back-office operations.

Electronic Exchange

Which of the following identifies both the driving (positive) and restraining (negative) forces that influence whether change can occur?

Force field analysis

What specific type of application is used to interact with people or users?

Front-end

Which of the following involves the use of information systems to develop competitive strategies for people, organizations, or even countries?

Game theory

Which of the following markup languages is considered the standard page description language for Web pages?

HTML

Which of the following protocols will allow online consumers to avoid security problems when shopping online?

HTTPS

Which of the following is an open-source software framework including several software modules that provide a means for storing and processing extremely large data sets?

Hadoop

Which of the following is a duplicate, operational hardware system or immediate access to one through a specialized vendor?

Hot site

Which of the following is an information systems strategy in which an organization outsources the equipment used to support its data processing operations, including servers, storage devices, and networking components?

IaaS

Which of the following combines traditional disciplines, such as science and medicine, with information systems and technology?

Informatics

Which of the following is a set of interrelated components that collect, manipulate, store, and disseminate data and information and provide a feedback mechanism to meet an objective?

Information system

____ is online, real-time communication between two or more people who are connected via the Internet.

Instant Messaging

____ is a network of physical objects or devices embedded with sensors, processors, software, and network connectivity capability to enable them to exchange data with the manufacturer of the device, device operators, and other connected devices.

Internet Of Things

____ is a structured meeting process that can accelerate and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the investigation, analysis, and design phases of a system development project.

JAD

___ are training, techniques, and processes that empower end users to work independently to access data from approved sources to perform their own analyses using an endorsed set of tools.

KPI

Which of the following is the awareness and understanding of a set of information and the ways that information can be made useful to support a specific task or reach a decision?

Knowledge

____ is a range of practices concerned with increasing awareness, fostering learning, speeding collaboration and innovation, and exchanging insights.

Knowledge Management

Which professional in the operations group sets up and manages the network hardware, software, and security processes?

LAN Administrator

Which of the following is a standard for wireless communications for mobile phones based on packet switching?

LTE

Which of the following best describes an organizational change model that proposes that every organizational system is made up of four main components—people, tasks, structure, and technology—that all interact; any change in one of these elements will necessitate a change in the other three elements?

Leavitt's diamond

____ is the identification of specific markets to target them with advertising messages.

Market Segmentation

Which of the following is a network that uses multiple access points to link a series of devices that speak to each other to form a network connection across a large area?

Mesh network

A(n) ____ is a systems software that controls the computer systems and devices on a network and allows them to communicate with each other.

Network Operating System

Which of the following is a computer system that can simulate the functioning of a human brain?

Neural network

A magnetic stripe card stores a limited amount of data by modifying the magnetism of tiny iron-based particles contained in a band on the card.

True

Citizens can use G2C applications to submit their state and federal tax returns online, renew auto licenses, purchase postage, apply for student loans, and make campaign contributions.

True

One of the primary advantages of a relational database is that it allows tables to be linked.

True

A(n) ____ enables one or more users to move and react in a computer-simulated environment.

VR system

Which of the following is a series of activities that an organization performs to transform inputs into outputs in such a way that the value of the input is increased?

Value chain

Which of the following include hardware and software that permit computers to capture, store, and manipulate images?

Vision systems

Which of the following is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not connected by an electrical conductor?

Wireless communication

The ____ is responsible for defining and implementing consistent principles for a variety of data issues, including setting data standards and data definitions that apply across all the databases in an organization.

data administrator

Which professional in the development group designs and maintains Web sites, including site layout and function, to meet the client's requirements?

Web Developer

Which of the following is a network is a network that connects large geographic regions?

Wide area network

Which of the following is a visual depiction of a set of words that have been grouped together because of the frequency of their occurrence?

Word cloud

Which type of software is designed to support teamwork, whether people are in the same location or dispersed around the world?

Workgroup application

Which of the following markup languages is designed to transport and store data on the Web?

XML

A software ____ is a defect in a computer program that keeps it from performing in the manner intended.

bug

The ____ is a set of electronic circuits that is used for routing data and instructions to and from the computer's various components.

bus

The_____________ is the description of the phases an individual or organization goes through in making a change and principles for successful implementation of change.

change management model

___________is a collection of facts organized so that they have additional value beyond the value of the facts themselves.

information

The ____ is the heart of the OS and controls the most critical processes.

kernel

_______________ rapidly provides data and instructions to the processor.

memory

___ processes play a pivotal role in an organization's continued operations and goal attainment.

mission critical process

____ is content that uses more than one form of communication—such as text, graphics, video, animation, audio, and other types of media.

multimedia

A DDL allows the database's creator to describe the data and relationships that are to be contained in the schema.

true