CIS Exam 2 SB
At the ______ level, managers develop overall business strategies, goals, and objectives as part of the company's strategic plan.
strategic
A method of sending audio and video files over the Internet
streaming
What is a method of sending audio and video files over the Internet in such a way that the user can view the file while it is being transferred?
streaming
______ is a method of sending audio and video files over the Internet in such a way that the user can view the file while it is being transferred.
streaming
Real Simple ________ is a web format used to publish frequently updated works, such as blogs, news headlines, audio, and video, in a standardized format.
syndication
Specific keywords or phrases incorporated into website content for means of classification or taxonomy
tags
High-level programming languages, such as C+ and Java
third generation
The ______ phase establishes descriptions of the desired features and operations of the system, including screen layouts, business rules, process diagrams, pseudo code, and other documentation.
to design
______ computing offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity.
utility
What offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity?
utility computing
symptoms of ergot poisoning
vomiting convulsive twitching hallucinations death
A(n) ______ is a system weakness, such as a password that is never changed or a system left on while an employee goes to lunch, that can be exploited by a threat.
vulnerability
A(n) ______ site is a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.
warm
The ______ methodology is a sequence of phases in which the output of each phase becomes the input for the next.
waterfall
______ AI machines can still make their own decisions based on reasoning and past sets of data.
weak
What is a locally stored URL or the address of a file or Internet page saved as a shortcut?
website bookmark
A(n) ______ management system supports the capturing, organization, and dissemination of knowledge (i.e., know-how) throughout an organization.
Knowledge
What involves capturing, classifying, evaluating, retrieving, and sharing information assets in a way that provides context for effective decisions and actions?
Knowledge management
Wireless ______ is a local area network that uses radio signals to transmit and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet.
LAN
What is an old system that is fast approaching or beyond the end of its useful life with in an organization?
Legacy system
Measures how well a solution can be implemented within existing legal and contractual obligations
Legal feasibility
Which of the following is a challenge to outsourcing?
Length of contract
grow on a wide variety of materials: soils, tree trunks & branches, leaves, rocks, fences, roofs, walls, & in water, etc.
Lichen
Enables computers to both understand concepts in the environment, and also to learn.
Machine learning
What is a type of artificial intelligence that enables computers to both understand concepts in the environment, and also to learn?
Machine learning
The system quickly transforms to support environmental changes.
Maintainability
What refers to how quickly a system can transform to support environmental changes?
Maintainability
______ is a community center that provides technology, manufacturing equipment, and educational opportunities to the public that would otherwise be inaccessible or unaffordable.
Makerspace
Select three common uses of GIS in a business.
Mapping quantities Sending information alerts Finding what is nearby
What are WYSIWYG tools, or what You See Is What You Get tools?
Mashup editors
What is the ability of an organization to tailor its products or services to the customers' specifications?
Mass customization
______ management includes activities that govern the flow of tangible, physical materials through the supply chain such as shipping, transport, distribution, and warehousing.
Materials
What occurs when there is a problem with the data collected that skews the data in one direction?
Measurement bias
A large computer network usually spanning a city.
Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)
Select three characteristics of managerial decisions.
Middle management and director employee types Short term, daily, monthly, and yearly time frames Semistructured, ad hoc reporting decision types
What includes several different types of software that sit between and provide connectivity for two or more software applications.?
Middleware
______ includes several different types of software that sit between and provide connectivity for two or more software applications.
Middleware
What remotely controls smartphones and tablets, ensuring data security?
Mobile Device Management
______ Law refers to the computer chip performance per dollar doubles every 18 months.
Moore's
What refers to the computer chip performance per dollar doubles every 18 months?
Moore's Law
Plants do not ______, they are ________
Move; immobile
Customers share pooled computing resources
Multi-tenancy
What occurs in the cloud and means that a single instance of a system serves multiple customers?
Multi-tenancy
Multiple transmitters and receivers allowing them to send and receive greater amounts of data than traditional networking devices
Multiple-in/multiple-out technology
What is the process within a genetic algorithm of randomly trying combinations and evaluating the success (or failure) of the outcome?
Mutation
________ is the process within a genetic algorithm of randomly trying combinations and evaluating the success (or failure) of the outcome.
Mutation
____________ fungi live in & around the roots of plants, taking some of the energy the plants make from photosynthesis
Mychorrizal
Select three interactivity measurements.
Number of pages viewed Time spent viewing the ad Number of repeat visits to an ad
Endophytes use a plant as a host, taking ______ from it
Nutrients
What includes a server at a physical location using an internal network for internal access and firewalls for remote users' access?
On-premise system
At what level do employees develop, control, and maintain core business activities required to run the day-to-day operation?
Operational level
______ analytics finds the optimum value for a target variable by repeatedly changing other variables, subject to specified constraints.
Optimization
_________ analysis finds the optimum value for a target variable by repeatedly changing other variables, subject to specified constraints.
Optimization
What is an arrangement by which one organization provides a service or services for another organization that chooses not to perform them in-house?
Outsourcing
______ is an arrangement by which one organization provides a service or services for another organization that chooses not to perform them in-house.
Outsourcing
What occurs when a machine learning model matches the training data so closely that the model fails to make correct predictions on new data?
Overfitting
Generates revenue each time a user clicks on a link that takes the user directly to an online agent waiting for a call.
Pay-per-call
Generates revenue each time a website visitor is converted to a customer.
Pay-per-conversion
What measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction?
Performance
______ measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction.
Performance
Provide communication over a short distance that is intended for use with devices that are owned and operated by a single user.
Personal Area Networks (PAN)
Select the four wireless communication network categories.
Personal area networks Wireless wide area networks Wireless metropolitan area networks Wireless local area networks
What occurs when a company knows enough about a customer's likes and dislikes that it can fashion offers more likely to appeal to that person, say by tailoring its website to individuals or groups based on profile information, demographics, or prior transactions?
Personalization
______ computing is the growing trend of embedding computer capabilities into everyday objects to make them effectively communicate and perform useful tasks in a way that minimizes the end user's need to interact with computers as computers.
Pervasive
What is the growing trend of embedding computer capabilities into everyday objects to make them effectively communicate and perform useful tasks in a way that minimizes the end user's need to interact with computers as computers?
Pervasive computing
Fungi take some of the energy made from ___________
Photosynthesis
process of capturing sunlight & storing it as energy in a sugar molecule
Photosynthesis
Why is ebusiness able to take advantage of the long tail?
Physical stores are limited by shelf space
Select the three characteristics of online transactional processing.
Processes the information according to defined business rules Updates existing information to reflect the new information Stores the information
Purchasing of goods and services to meet the needs of the supply chain.
Procurement
______ is the purchasing of goods and services to meet the needs of the supply chain.
Procurement
______ and materials management ERP components handle production planning and execution tasks such as demand forecasting, production scheduling, job cost accounting, and quality control.
Production
Which of the following are core ERP components?
Production and Materials Management , Accounting and Finance, Human Resources
What type of structure is represented by a typical organization, displaying the fact that different levels require different types of information to assist in decision making, problem solving, and opportunity capturing?
Pyramid
Select the four categories of BI benefits.
Quantifiable benefits Indirectly quantifiable benefits Unpredictable benefits Intangible benefits
______ Pi is a low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV and uses a standard keyboard and mouse.
Raspberry
What is a low cost, credit card-sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV and uses a standard keyboard and mouse?
Raspberry PI
Provides a framework for breaking down the development of software into four gates
Rational Unified Process (RUP)
Select three agile MIS infrastructure components.
Scalability Accessibility Usability
Measures the project time frame to ensure it can be completed on time
Schedule feasibility
What is the tendency to permit changes that exceed a project's scope and may wreak havoc on the schedule, work quality, and budget?
Scope creep
Which of the following represents a coder adding twenty new features to a project?
Scope creep
occurs when the scope increases.
Scope creep
What is a list of additional ideas or bells and whistles proposed during a project?
Scope creep parking lot
In developing a website, a(n) ___________ language is a programming method that provides interactive modules to the website.
Scripting
Uses small teams to produce small pieces of deliverable software using sprints, or 30-day intervals, to achieve an appointed goal.
Scrum
What uses small teams to produce small pieces of software using a series of "sprints," or 30-day intervals, to achieve an appointed goal?
Scrum methodology
What combines art along with science to determine how to make URLs more attractive to search engines resulting in higher search engine ranking?
Search Engine Optimization
Combines art along with science to determine how to make U R Ls more attractive to search engines resulting in higher search engine ranking
Search engine optimization
______ hypertext transfer protocol is a combination of HTTP and SSL to provide encryption and secure identification of an Internet server.
Secure
What implies that each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system?
Single-tenancy
What is the amount of time an activity may be delayed without delaying a succeeding activity or the project finish date?
Slack
What is the ability to look at information from different perspectives?
Slice-and-dice
______ and finance ERP components manage accounting data and financial processes within the enterprise with functions such as general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, budgeting, and asset management.
Software
What delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model?
Software as a Service
What modifies existing software according to the business's or user's requirements?
Software customization
What modifies software to meet specific user or business requirements?
Software customization
What is a disciplined approach for constructing information systems through the use of common methods, techniques, or tools?
Software engineering
Select two accurate statements in relation to MIS infrastructure.
Software is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks. Hardware consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system.
Detail every solution possible, including ideas that seem farfetched.
Solution generation
Evaluate solutions in terms of feasibility (can it be completed?), suitability (is it a permanent or a temporary fix?), and acceptability (can all participants form a consensus?).
Solution test
______ documents are the original transaction record.
Source
There are three key security considerations to keep in mind as you enter the wireless world:
Start with the right equipment. Make security an ongoing process, not a one-time event. Understand that not all threats are purposeful
Periodic reviews of actual performance versus expected performance
Status report
Business focus is to achieve long-term organizational goals. Time frame for analysis is months to years.
Strategic BI
Helps with planning and results in marketing campaign
Strategic BI
What involves higher level issues concerned with the overall direction of the organization; these decisions define the organization's overall goals and aspirations for the future?
Strategic decisions
At what level do managers develop overall business strategies, goals, and objectives as part of the company's strategic plan?
Strategic level
What describes the production, management, use, and disposal of technology in a way that minimizes damage to the environment?
Sustainability or green MIS
Select two terms describing the production, management, use, and disposal of technology in a way that minimizes damage to the environment
Sustainable MIS Green MIS
What identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption?
Sustainable MIS infrastructure
What produces an improved product customers are eager to buy, such as a faster car or larger hard drive?
Sustaining technology
Some fungi interact with other living things to form ________ relationships
Symbiotic
Verify that the units or pieces of code function correctly when integrated
System testing
What is the overall process for developing information systems, from planning and analysis through implementation and maintenance?
Systems Development Life Cycle
The ability to present the resources of a single computer as if it is a collection of separate computers, each with its own virtual CPUs, network interfaces, storage, and operating systems.
Systen virtualization
What provides the technical foundation for the public Internet as well as for large numbers of private networks?
TCP/IP
______ (use the acronym) provides the technical foundation for the public Internet as well as for large numbers of private networks.
TCP/IP
______ knowledge is the knowledge contained in people's heads.
Tacit
Knowledge contained in people's heads.
Tacit knowledge
What is the knowledge contained in people's heads?
Tacit knowledge
Business focus is to conduct short-term analysis to achieve strategic goals. Time frame for analysis is day(s) to weeks to months.
Tactical BI
Helps with daily analysis and results in refined campaign
Tactical BI
A microchip holds data, in this case an electronic product code, as a set of numbers unique to an item.
Tag
Select two items a disaster recovery cost curve charts.
The cost to the company of the unavailability of information and technology The cost to the company of recovering from a disaster over time.
Select the three variables included in the triple constraint.
Time Scope Resources
Select the three correct criteria for SMART objective creation.
Time Frame Specific Realistic
What is the basic business system that serves the operational level (analysts) and assists in making structured decisions?
Transaction processing system
______ information encompasses all raw facts contained within a single process and its purpose is to support daily operational tasks.
Transactional
What provides the technical foundation for the public Internet as well as for large numbers of private networks?
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
What focuses on the efficient movement of products through effective transportation management by evaluating multiple transportation modes, carriers, routes, shipping strategies, and support to find the lowest cost combination?
Transportation and logistics optimization
True or false: An ezine is a magazine published only in electronic form on a computer network.
True
True or false: Cloud computing offers new ways to store, access, process, and analyze information and connect people andresources from any location in the world where an Internet connection is available. For this reason cloud computing offers greater sustainability.
True
True or false: Managers need to continuously monitor projects to measure their success. If a project is failing, the manager must cancel the project and save the company any further project costs. Canceling a project is not necessarily a failure as much as it is successful resource management as it frees resources that can be used on other projects that are more valuable to the firm.
True
True or false: One of the biggest benefits of ebusiness is a reduction in costs including communication costs, travel costs, and start-up costs.
True
True or false: Software as a Service delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model.
True
______-pair cable refers to a type of cable composed of four (or more) copper wires twisted around each other within a plastic sheath.
Twisted
What refers to a type of cable composed of four (or more) copper wires twisted around each other within a plastic sheath?
Twisted pair cable
What is a system called when it is not operating and cannot be used?
Unavailable
Select the five primary reasons that could make a project fail.
Unclear or missing business requirements Balance of the triple constraints Skipped SDLC phases Changing technology The cost of finding errors
Primary reasons for project failure.
Unclear or missing business requirements. Skipping SDPrimary reasons for project failure. LC phases.
What occurs when a machine learning model has poor predictive abilities because it did not learn the complexity in the training data?
Underfitting
______ occurs when a machine learning model has poor predictive abilities because it did not learn the complexity in the training data.
Underfitting
What is the address of a file or resource on the web such as www.apple.com?
Universal Resource Locator (URL)
Select two reasons why ebusiness has expanded global reach.
Unlimited customers Unlimited size
What are decisions that occur in situations in which no procedures or rules exist to guide decision makers toward the correct choice?
Unstructured
Select two terms for content created and updated by many users for many users.
User-contributed content User-generated content
What is a mathematical property of an algorithm?
Variance bias
_______ workplace is a work environment that is not located in any one physical space.
Virtual
What is a work environment that is not located in any one physical space?
Virtual workplace
What is a system weakness, such as a password that is never changed or a system left on while an employee goes to lunch, that can be exploited by a threat?
Vulnerability
What is an encryption algorithm designed to protect wireless transmission data?
WEP
What is a wireless security protocol to protect Wi-Fi networks?
WPA
Wi-Fi ______ (please use the acronym) is a wireless security protocol to protect Wi-Fi networks.
WPA
What is a wide area network that uses radio signals to transmit and receive data?
WWAN
The practice of tagging pavement with codes displaying where Wi-Fi access is available.
War chalking
Based on "intelligent" Web applications using natural language processing, machine-based learning and reasoning, and intelligence applications.
Web 3.0
Select two terms that blends videoconferencing with document sharing and allows the user to deliver a presentation over the web to a group of geographically dispersed participants.
Web conferencing Webinar
Uses clickstream data to determine the effectiveness of the site as a channel-to-market.
Website business analytics
Uses clickstream data to determine the efficiency of the site for the users and operates at the server level.
Website traffic analysis
________-if analysis checks the impact of a change in a variable or assumption on the model.
What
Where on a disaster recovery cost curve is the optimal place to operate in terms of cost and time?
Where the curve between time from disaster to recovery and costs intersect.
What is a means by which portable devices can connect wirelessly to a local area network, using access points that send and receive data via radio waves?
Wi-Fi
Includes the inner workings of a Wi-Fi service or utility, including the signal transmitters, towers, or poles and additional equipment required to send out a Wi-Fi signal.
Wi-Fi infrastructure
What includes the inner workings of a Wi-Fi service or utility, including the signal transmitters, towers, or poles, along with additional equipment required to send out a Wi-Fi signal?
Wi-Fi infrastructure
What is a communications technology aimed at providing high-speed wireless data over metropolitan area networks?
WiMAX
______ (acronym) is a communications technology aimed at providing high-speed wireless data over metropolitan area networks.
WiMAX
What spans a large geographic area, such as a state, province, or country?
Wide Area Network
Spans a large geographic area such as a state, province, or country.
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Select three Business 2.0 communication and collaboration tools.
Wiki Blog Mashup
A means by which portable devices can connect wirelessly to a local area network, using access points that send and receive data via radio waves.
Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi)
A local area network that uses radio signals to transmit and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet.
Wireless LAN (WLAN)
What is a local area network that uses radio signals to transmit and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet?
Wireless LAN (WLAN)
What is a metropolitan area network that uses radio signals to transmit and receive data?
Wireless MAN
A metropolitan area network that uses radio signals to transmit and receive data.
Wireless MAN (WMAN)
A wide area network that uses radio signals to transmit and receive data
Wireless WAN (WWAN)
A wide area network that uses radio signals to transmit and receive data.
Wireless WAN (WWAN)
What provides access to Internet information through documents including text, graphics, audio, and video files that use a special formatting language called HTML?
World Wide Web
A scope creep parking lot is a list of ______ ideas or bells and whistles proposed during a project.
additional
What allow a business to generate commissions or referral fees when a customer visiting its website clicks a link to another merchant's website?
affiliate program
A(n) ______ methodology aims for customer satisfaction through early and continuous delivery of useful software components developed by an iterative process using the bare minimum requirements.
agile
Assess if the entire system meets the design requirements of the users
alpha testing
Online ______ processing is the manipulation of information to create business intelligence in support of strategic decision making.
analytical
Data ______ occurs when adding additional training examples by transforming existing examples.
augmentation
Market ______ analysis evaluates such items as websites and checkout scanner information to detect customers' buying behavior and predict future behavior by identifying affinities among customers' choices of products and services.
basket
Bandwidth is measured in terms of ______ rate, the number of bits transferred or received per unit of time.
bit
The number of bits transferred or received per unit of time.
bit rate
A(n) ______ is an online journal that allows users to post their own comments, graphics, and video.
blog
Online journal that allows users to post their own comments, graphics, and video.
blog
A website ____________ is a locally stored URL or the address of a file or Internet page saved as a shortcut.
bookmark
Social __________ allows users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks.
bookmarking
Business-to-______ applies to businesses buying from and selling to each other over the Internet.
business
Consumer-to-______ applies to any consumer who sells a product or service to a business on the Internet.
business
What is a plan that details how a company creates, delivers, and generates revenues?
business model
A(n) ______ agent is a person or event that is the catalyst for implementing major changes for a system to meet business changes.
change
What is any proprietary software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder?
closed source
Source ______ contains instructions written by a programmer specifying the actions to be performed by computer software.
code
A(n) ______ site is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.
cold
______ cloud serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations.
community
____ click fraud is a computer crime in which a competitor or disgruntled employee increases a company's search advertising costs by repeatedly clicking the advertiser's link.
competitve
Human resource ERP ______ track employee information including payroll, benefits, compensation, and performance assessment and ensure compliance with all laws.
components
Direct-to-______ is the ebusiness model where companies build, market, sell, and ship their products themselves, without relying on traditional stores or intermediaries
consumer
A cloud fabric ___________ is an individual who monitors and provisions cloud resources, similar to a server administrator at an individual company.
controller
______ is the process of transferring information from a legacy system to a new system.
conversion
The ______ path is the series of activities that determine the earliest time by which the project can be completed.
critical
What sources capital for a project by raising many small amounts from a large number of individuals, typically via the Internet?
crowdfunding
______ sources capital for a project by raising many small amounts from a large number of individuals, typically via the Internet.
crowdfunding
Software ________ modifies software to meet specific user or business requirements.
customization
The ______ web is the portion of the Internet that is intentionally hidden from search engines, uses masked IP addresses, and is accessible only with a special web browser.
dark
What is the portion of the Internet that is intentionally hidden from search engines, uses masked IP addresses, and is accessible only with a special web browser?
dark web
Digital ______ track KPIs and CSFs by compiling information from multiple sources and tailoring it to meet user needs.
dashboards
A (virtual) ______ center is a facility used to house management information systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.
data
What illustrates the movement of information between external entities and the processes and data stores within the system?
data flow diagram
Data that is currently being updated, processed, erased, accessed, or read by a system.
data-in-use
What is the large part of the Internet that is inaccessible to conventional search engines?
deep web
A(n) ______ is a logical relationship that exists between the project tasks, or between a project task and a milestone.
dependency
A ___________ recovery plan is a detailed process for recovering information or a system in the event of a catastrophic disaster.
disaster
________ prototyping builds a small-scale representation or working model of the system to ensure it meets the user and business requirements.
discovery
What builds a small-scale representation or working model of the system to ensure it meets the user and business requirements?
discovery prototyping
Sustainable MIS ______ refers to the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle.
disposal
What is a plan that details how a company creates, delivers, and generates revenues specifically on the Internet?
ebusiness model
Mashup _______ are WYSIWYG tools, or what You See Is What You Get tools.
editors
A(n) ______ is a sudden, unexpected event requiring immediate action due to potential threat to health and safety, the environment, or property.
emergency
What is the amount of energy consumed by business processes and systems?
energy consumption
Recommendation ______ is a data mining algorithm that analyzes a customer's purchases and actions on a website and then uses the data to recommend complementary products.
engine
Software ______ is a disciplined approach for constructing information systems through the use of common methods, techniques, or tools.
engineering
______ is the time remaining before reaching a destination using the present speed and is typically used for navigation applications.
ete
Wireless ___________ is a means by which portable devices can connect wirelessly to a local area network, using access points that send and receive data via radio waves.
fidelity
Programming languages for artificial intelligence and neural networks
fifth generation
A(n) ______ personal computer is built using environment-friendly materials and designed to save energy.
green
______ computing is a collection of computers, often geographically dispersed, that are coordinated to solve a common problem.
grid
What is a collection of computers, often geographically dispersed, that are coordinated to solve a common problem?
grid computing
The best way to support users is to implement a(n) ______ desk or a group of people who respond to users' questions.
help
A graphical display of data using bars of different heights
histogram
What are designated locations where Wi-Fi access points are publicly available?
hotspots
A(n) ______ is an unplanned interruption of a service.
incident
____________ as a Service delivers hardware networking capabilities, including the use of servers, networking, and storage, over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model.
infrastructure
A haptic ________ uses technology allowing humans to interact with a computer through bodily sensations and movements.
interface
______ management involves capturing, classifying, evaluating, retrieving, and sharing information assets in a way that provides context for effective decisions and actions.
knowledge
A(n) ______ system is an old system that is fast approaching or beyond the end of its useful life within an organization.
legacy
In the ______ phase, the organization performs changes, corrections, additions, and upgrades to ensure the system continues to meet business goals.
maintenance
Which phase does the organization perform changes, corrections, additions, and upgrades to ensure the system continues to meet business goals?
maintenance phase
The ______ movement is a cultural trend that places value on an individual's ability to be a creator of things as well as a consumer of things.
maker
A wireless ______ is a metropolitan area network that uses radio signals to transmit and receive data.
man
Incident ______ is the process responsible for managing how incidents are identified and corrected.
management
What is a set of policies, procedures, standards, processes, practices, tools, techniques, and tasks that people apply to technical and management challenges?
methodology
A(n) ______ area network is a large computer network usually spanning a city.
metropolitan
A(n) ______ is a simplified representation or abstraction of reality.
model
______ advertising is an online marketing concept in which the advertiser attempts to gain attention by providing content in the context of the user's experience in terms of its content, format, style
native
Disintermediation occurs when a business sells directly to the customer ______ and cuts out the intermediary.
online
______ training runs over the Internet or on a CD or DVD, and employees complete the training on their own time at their own pace.
online
______ is an arrangement by which one organization provides a service or services for another organization that chooses not to perform them in-house.
outsourcing
______-switching occurs when the sending computer divides a message into a number of efficiently sized units of data called packets, each of which contains the address of the destination computer.
packet
What occurs when the sending computer divides a message into a number of efficiently sized units of data called packets, each of which contains the address of the destination computer?
packet switching
What provides communication for devices owned by a single user that work over a short distance?
pan
Generates revenue each time a user clicks on a link to a retailer's website.
pay-per-click
A(n) ______ rotates data to display alternative presentations of the data.
pivot
What rotates data to display alternative presentations of the data?
pivot
The project ______ is a formal, approved document that manages and controls the entire project.
plan
The ______ phase establishes a high-level plan of the intended project and determines project goals.
planning
Establishes a high-level plan of the intended project and determines project goals.
planning phase
Which phase establishes a high-level plan of the intended project and determines project goals?
planning phase
Discards the legacy system and immediately migrates all users to the new system
plunge implementation
What converts an audio broadcast to a digital music player?
podcasting
A wireless access ______ enables devices to connect to a wireless network to communicate with each other.
point
Operate central website for users to access specialized content and other services.
portals
A(n) ______ is a statement about what will happen or might happen in the future; for example, predicting future sales or employee turnover.
prediction
Emergency ______ ensures a company is ready to respond to an emergency in an organized, timely, and effective manner.
preparedness
What makes system changes to reduce the chance of future system failure?
preventative maintenance
Data ______ is the process of collecting statistics and information about data in an existing source
profilling
Application ______ interface is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications.
programming
______ web application is a website that looks and behaves as if it is a mobile application but it is just a normal website.
progressive
Temporary activities undertaken to create a unique product or service.
project
What describes the business need (the problem the project will solve) and the justification, requirements, and current boundaries for the project?
project scope
A smaller-scale representation or working model of the users' requirements or a proposed design for an information system. The prototype is an essential part of the analysis phase when using a RAD methodolog.
prototype
In __________ steps are added to the value chain as new players find ways to add value to the business process.
reintermediation
A(n) ______ system is where buyers post feedback on sellers
reputation
______ management is the process of managing changes to the business requirements throughout the project.
requirements
The ______ methodology uses small teams to produce small pieces of software using a series of "sprints," or 30-day intervals, to achieve an appointed goal.
scrum
What evaluates variables that search engines use to determine where a URL appears on the list of search results?
search engine ranking
Assembly language difficult for people to understand
second generation
What is the users' actual signatures indicating they approve all of the business requirements?
sing-off
______-tenancy implies that each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system.
single
Offer more advanced computing ability and connectivity than basic cell phones.
smart phone
What offers more advanced computing ability and connectivity than basic cell phones?
smartphones
______ (one word) offer more advanced computing ability and connectivity than basic cell phones
smartphones
What is content that is designed to be easy for readers to consume and to share?
snackable content
What represent the interconnection of relationships in a social network?
social graphs
An application that connects people by matching profile information.
social network
Which of the following is an application that connects people by matching profile information?
social network
What describes the collaborative activity of marking shared online content with keywords or tags as a way to organize it for future navigation, filtering, or search?
social tagging.
Which network is a computer network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than a centralized server?
peer-to-peer network
A(n) _____ area network provides communication for devices owned by a single user that work over a short distance.
personal
Installs the new system in phases (for example, by department) until it is verified that it works correctly
phased implementation
A type of graph in which a circle is divided into sectors that each represent a proportion of the whole
pie chart
______ access network is a technology that connects individual devices to other parts of a network through radio connections.
radio
Search engine ______ evaluates variables that search engines use to determine where a URL appears on the list of search results.
ranking
Information ______ measures the number of people a firm can communicate with all over the world.
reach
Open ______ refers to any software whose source code is made available free for any third party to review and modify.
source
What is the original transaction record?
source document
A(n) ______ technology produces an improved product customers are eager to buy, such as a faster car or larger hard drive.
sustaining
______ training is held in a classroom environment and led by an instructor.
workshop
Place the phases in the systems development life cycle in the correct order, with the first phase at the top.
1. Planning 2. Analysis 3. Design 4. Development 5. Testing 6. Implementation/Maintenance
What is at the heart of an ERP system?
A central database that collects information
______ uses GPS tracking to track vehicles.
AVL
What is the time from which data are made available to the time when analysis is complete?
Analysis latency
In which phase does the firm analyzes its end-user business requirements and refines project goals into defined functions and operations of the intended system?
Analysis phase
Involves analyzing end-user business requirements and refining project goals into defined functions and operations of the intended system.
Analysis phase
What encompasses all organizational information, and its primary purpose is to support the performance of managerial analysis or semistructured decisions?
Analytical information
What is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications?
Application Programming Interface
What is the integration of a company's existing management information systems?
Application integration
______ intelligence simulates human thinking and behavior, such as the ability to reason and learn.
Artificial
What simulates human thinking and behavior, such as the ability to reason and learn?
Artificial intelligence
Which form of communication do the message and the response not occur at the same time?
Asynchronous communication
What sends information entered into a given system automatically to all upstream systems and processes?
Backward integration
______ is the maximum amount of data that can pass from one point to another in a unit of time.
Bandwidth
What does fuzzy logic assign as values to vague or ambiguous information?
Between 0 and 1
Sales, marketing, and customer service
CRM
______ data can observe the exact pattern of a consumer's navigation through a site.
Clickstream
What is cable that can carry a wide range of frequencies with low signal loss?
Coaxial cable
A separate facility that does not have any computer equipment, but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.
Cold site
Common E-Business forms:
Content providers infomediaries online marketplaces portals service providers transaction brokers
Select the three structured decisions that are almost repetitive in nature and affect short-term business strategies.
Creating employee staffing schedules Creating weekly production schedules Reordering inventory
What refers to the wisdom of the crowd?
Crowdsourcing
Foundation for data-directed decision making
Data
______ latency is the time duration to make data ready for analysis (i.e., the time for extracting, transforming, and cleansing the data) and loading the data into the database.
Data
What is the time it takes a human to comprehend the analytic result and determine an appropriate action?
Decision latency
Involves taking all of the detailed design documents from the design phase and transforming them into the actual system.
Development phase
What is a detailed process for recovering information or a system in the event of a catastrophic disaster?
Disaster recovery plan
A(n) ______ is an unmanned aircraft that can fly autonomously, or without a human.
Drone
Accounting, finance, logistics, and production
ERP
What is the buying and selling of goods and services over the Internet?
Ecommerce
______ data interchange is a standard format for the electronic exchange of information between supply chain participants.
Electronic
What is a standard format for the electronic exchange of information between supply chain participants?
Electronic data interchange
______ analysis determines values for an unknown continuous variable behavior or estimated future value.
Estimation
What determines values for an unknown continuous variable behavior or estimated future value?
Estimation analysis
What is a physical and data layer technology for LAN networking?
Ethernet
Plants exist nearly ________
Everywhere
What refers to discarded, obsolete, or broken electronic devices?
Ewaste
______ refers to discarded, obsolete, or broken electronic devices.
Ewaste
Knowledge-based assets fall into two categories:
Explicit knowledge tacit knowledge
Not all, but many antibiotics are derived from _____
Fungi
Some ______ are parasitic
Fungi
Some ______ are poisonous
Fungi
Select three examples of analytical information.
Future growth projections Market projections Sales trends
What is a mathematical method of handling imprecise or subjective information?
Fuzzy logic
A(n) ______ stores, views, and analyzes geographic data creating, multidimensional charts or maps.
GIS
What is a simple bar chart that lists project tasks vertically against the project's time frame, listed horizontally?
Gantt chart
What is a coding process in spatial databases that assigns a digital map feature to an attribute that serves as a unique ID (tract number, node number) or classification (soil type, zoning category)?
Geocoding
______ in spatial databases is a coding process that assigns a digital map feature to an attribute that serves as a unique ID (tract number, node number) or classification (soil type, zoning category).
Geocoding
A(n) ______ is a round coin-sized object, is uniquely numbered and hidden in geocache.
Geocoin
______ refers to the level of detail in the model or the decision-making process.
Granularity
What is the "next generation" protocol designed to replace the current version Internet protocol, IP version 4 (IPv4)?
IPv6
Which of the following is an intangible rather than a tangible benefit of a workplace project?
Improved morale
Managers need to analyze large amounts of ______ to make quick business decisions.
Information
What measures the number of people a firm can communicate with all over the world?
Information reach
______ optimization provides visibility across inventory levels throughout the entire supply chain.
Inventory
What is the correlation between the fulfillment of Moore's law, which has helped make electronic devices more affordable, and ewaste?
It has increased ewaste
Which of the following is true of a solid MIS infrastructure?
It optimizes business operations.
Consists of a series of tiny projects.
Iterative development
What is a trigger that enables a project manager to close the project before completion?
Kill switch
___________ are very diverse
Lichens
Select the three primary decision-making challenges facing managers today.
Manager must make decisions quickly Managers need to analyze large amounts of information Managers must apply sophisticated analysis techniques, such as Porter's strategies or forecasting, to make strategic decisions
______ decisions concern how the organization should achieve the goals and objectives set by its strategy, and they are usually the responsibility of mid-level management.
Managerial
What concerns how the organization should achieve the goals and objectives set by its strategy, and they are usually the responsibility of mid-level management?
Managerial decisions
What evaluates such items as websites and checkout scanner information to detect customers' buying behavior and predict future behavior by identifying affinities among customers' choices of products and services?
Market basket analysis
Select three measurements of bandwidth.
Megabits Gigabits Kilobits
A large computer network usually spanning a city.
Metropolitan area network (MAN)
What is a simplified representation or abstraction of reality?
Model
______ network is a category of AI that attempts to emulate the way the human brain works.
Neural
What is a category of AI that attempts to emulate the way the human brain works?
Neural network
Users can increase storage and processing power as needed
On-demand self-service
What is the capture of transaction and event information using technology to (1) process the information according to defined business rules, (2) store the information, and (3) update existing information to reflect the new information?
Online transaction processing (OLTP)
Helps with immediate actions and results in sales revenue
Operational BI
Forecasts, simulations, ad hoc reports
Output
Select the three types of revenue generation strategies websites can pursue.
Pay-per-click Pay-per-call Pay-per-conversion
List the steps in the decision-making process.
Problem identification data collection solution generation solution test solution selection Solution implementation
What is the purchasing of goods and services to meet the needs of the supply chain?
Procurement
What is a monitoring dashboard that uses red, yellow, and green color coding to indicate the status of each project task?
Project spotlight chart
Individuals and organizations actively involved in the project or whose interests might be affected as a result of project execution or project completion.
Project stakeholder
What is a modern design approach where the designers and system users use an iterative approach to building the system?
Prototyping
______ is a modern design approach where the designers and system users use an iterative approach to building the system.
Prototyping
Select the three types of data mining modeling techniques for prediction.
Regression model Optimization model Forecasting model
______ learning is the training of machine learning models to make a sequence of decisions.
Reinforcement
______ bias is a problem with using incorrect training data to the train the machine.
Sample
What is a problem with using incorrect training data to the train the machine?
Sample bias
What is a standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser, ensuring that all data passed between them remain private?
Secure Sockets Layer
A combination of HTTP and SSL to provide encryption and secure identification of an Internet server.
Secure hypertext transfer protocol (SHTTP or HTTPS)
A component of Web 2.0 that describes things in a way that computers can understand.
Semantic Web
What is a component of Web 3.0 that describes things in a way that computers can understand?
Semantic Web
___________ -passive RFID tags use a battery to run the microchip's circuitry, but communicate by drawing power from the RFID reader.
Semi
Uses a battery to run the microchip's circuitry, but communicate by drawing power from the R F I D reader.
Semi passive R F I D tag
What uses a battery to run the microchip's circuitry, but communicate by drawing power from the RFID reader?
Semi-passive RFID tags
______ analysis is a special case of what-if analysis and includes the study of the impact on other variables when one variable is changed repeatedly.
Sensitivity
What is a special case of what-if analysis and includes the study of the impact on other variables when one variable is changed repeatedly?
Sensitivity analysis
What is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests?
Server
Combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications.
Server virtualization
What measures how quickly a third party can change a system to ensure it meets user needs and the terms of any contracts, including agreed levels of reliability, maintainability, or availability?
Serviceability
______ is how quickly a third party can change a system to ensure it meets user needs and the terms of any contracts, including agreed levels of reliability, maintainability, or availability.
Serviceability
Select three characteristics of managerial decisions.
Short term, daily, monthly, and yearly time frames Middle management and director employee types Semistructured, ad hoc reporting decision types
Which of the following are functions that administrator access can perform?
Shutting down entire systems Deleting accounts Resetting passwords
What delivers electricity using two-way digital technology. It is meant to solve the problem of the world's outdated electrical grid, making it more efficient and reliable by adding the ability to remotely monitor, analyze, and control the transmission of power?
Smart grid
______ content is content that is designed to be easy for readers to consume and to share.
Snackable
What allows users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks?
Social bookmarking
What maps group contacts (personal and professional) identifying who knows each other and who works together?
Social networking analysis
Offers applications on a pay-per-use basis
Software as a Service
Training a model from input data and its corresponding labels.
Supervised machine learning
What are the three types of machine learning?
Supervised machine learning Transfer machine learning Unsupervised machine learning
Select the four business continuity planning focus areas.
Technology recovery strategies Business impact analysis Disaster recovery plan Emergency notification systems
______ systems enable the transmission of data over public or private networks
Telecommunication
What enables the transmission of data over public or private networks?
Telecommunication system
What is a remote-controlled, wheeled device with a display to enable video chat and videoconferencing?
Telepresence robot
What details the steps the system must perform along with the expected result of each step?
Test conditions
What discusses how established companies can take advantage of disruptive technologies without hindering existing relationships with customers, partners, and stakeholders?
The Innovator's Dilemma
What occurs when distorted product-demand information ripples from one partner to the next throughout the supply chain?
The bullwhip effect
What describes niche-market ebusiness strategies that capture the tail of a typical sales curve?
The long tail
True or false: The Internet and the World Wide Web are not synonymous. The WWW is just one part of the Internet, and its primary use is to correlate and disseminate information. The Internet includes the WWW and also other forms of communication systems such as email.
True
True or false: The graphical user interface (GUI) is commonly way of interacting with an an information system.
True
True or false: The relationship among the triple constraint variables is such that if any one changes, at least oneother is likely to be affected.
True
______ produces graphical displays of patterns and complex relationships in large amounts of data.
Visualization
What uses IP technology to transmit telephone calls?
Voice over IP
Which DDS analysis technique checks the impact of a single change in a variable or assumption on the model?
What-if analysis
______ provides access to Internet information through documents including text, graphics, audio, and video files that use a special formatting language called HTML.
World Wide Web
A communications technology aimed at providing high-speed wireless data over metropolitan area networks.
Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX)
What is an entity that is participating with ill intentions?
a bad actor
A(n) ______ is the smallest element of data and has a value of either 0 or 1.
a bit
The smallest element of data and has a value of either 0 or 1.
a bit
What is the smallest element of data and has a value of either 0 or 1?
a bit
GIS map ______ links business assets to a centralized system where they can be tracked and monitored over time.
automation
Plants are _______
autotrophic
A ______ is an exact copy of a system's information.
backup
A(n) ______ actor is an entity that is participating with ill intentions.
bad
The maximum amount of data that can pass from one point to another in a unit of time.
bandwidth
What is the maximum amount of data that can pass from one point to another in a unit of time?
bandwidth
A chart or graph that presents grouped data with rectangular bars with lengths proportional to the values they they represent
bar chart
The medium to connect all of the computers.
cable
Business-to-______ applies to any business that sells its products or services directly to consumers online.
consumer
______ ERP components are the traditional components included in most ERP systems and primarily focus on internal operations.
core
Mass ______ is the ability of an organization to tailor its products or services to the customers' specifications.
customization
A(n) ______ anthropologist is an individual who studies the interaction between humans and technology, observing how technology can shape humans' lives.
cyborg
A(n) ______ flow diagram illustrates the movement of information between external entities and the processes and data stores within the system.
data
What is a facility used to house management information systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems?
data center
Mobile ______ management remotely controls smartphones and tablets, ensuring data security.
device
A(n) ______ supply chain fully capitalizes on connectivity, system integration, and the information-producing capabilities of smart devices.
digital
Podcasting converts an audio broadcast to a ______ music player.
digital
A worldwide gap giving advantage to those with access to technology.
digital divide
Process of identifying new patterns, trends, and insights
discovery
Forward integration sends information entered into a given system automatically to all ______ systems and processes.
downstream
War ______ is deliberately searching for Wi-Fi signals while driving by in a vehicle.
driving
_____ scaling means the MIS infrastructure can be automatically scaled up or down based on needed requirements
dynamic
What means the MIS infrastructure can be automatically scaled up or down based on needed requirement?
dynamic scaling
A plan that details how a company creates, delivers, and generates revenues on the internet
ebusiness model
A search ______ is website software that finds other pages based on keyword matching similar to Google.
engine
What is the time of day of an expected arrival at a certain destination and is typically used for navigation applications?
estimated time of arrival
A(n) ______ information system is a specialized DSS that supports senior-level executives and unstructured, long-term, nonroutine decisions requiring judgment, evaluation,and insight.
executive
______ knowledge consists of anything that can be documented, archived, and codified, often with the help of MIS
explicit
What consists of anything that can be documented, archived, and codified, often with the help of MIS?
explicit knowledge
A(n) _____ is a magazine published only in electronic form on a computer network.
ezine
The cloud ___________ is the software that makes possible the benefits of cloud computing, such as multi-tenancy.
fabric
A technology ______ occurs when the ability of a company to operate is impaired because of a hardware, software, or data outage.
failure
The application of big data analytics to smaller data sets in near real or real time in order to solve a problem or create business value.
fast data
Affinity ______ analysis reveals the relationship between variables along with the nature and frequency of the relationships.
grouping
Involves placing the system into production so users can begin to perform actual business operations with it.
implementation phase
Time sheets, wage rates, employee benefits
input
______ consumerization is the blending of personal and business use of technology devices and applications.
it
______ development consists of a series of tiny projects. It has become the foundation of multiple agile methodologies.
iterative
______ switch is a trigger that enables a project manager to close the project before completion.
kill
__________ represents a north/south measurement of position.
latitude
Connects a group of computers in close proximity, such as in an office building, school, or home
local area network (LAN)
A heat ______ is a two-dimensional representation of data in which values are represented by colors.
map
Coaxial, twisted-pair, fiber-optic
media
______ -tenancy in the cloud means that a single instance of a system serves multiple customers.
multi
A social ______ is an application that connects people by matching profile information.
network
What consists of nonproprietary hardware and software based on publicly known standards that allows third parties to create add-on products to plug into or interoperate with the system?
open system
At the ______ level, employees develop, control, and maintain core business activities required to run the day-to-day operations.
operational
Search engine ______ combines art along with science to determine how to make URLs more attractive to search engines resulting in higher search engine ranking.
optimization
Generating payroll reports, creating paychecks
output
A process that builds—layer by layer in an additive process- a three dimensional solid object from a digital model.
3D-Printing
A service that brings wireless broadband to mobile phones.
3g
When plants settled on land ~_______ million years ago the landscape changed dramatically
475
______ printing is additive manufacturing that prints objects capable of transformation and self-assembly.
4D
What is additive manufacturing that prints objects capable of transformation and self-assembly?
4D printing
The RFID ____________ is a device that measures the acceleration (the rate of change of velocity) of an item and is used to track truck speeds or taxi cab speeds.
Accelerometer
What is a device that can measure the force of acceleration, whether caused by gravity or by movement?
Accelerometer
______ is a device that can measure the force of acceleration, whether caused by gravity or by movement.
Accelerometer
What is the computer or network device that serves as an interface between devices and the network?
Access Point
What refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system?
Accessibility
______ refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system.
Accessibility
______ and finance ERP components manage accounting data and financial processes within the enterprise with functions such as general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, budgeting, and asset management.
Accounting
Select the three common core ERP components focusing on internal operation.
Accounting and finance Human resources Production and materials management
What manages accounting data and financial processes within the enterprise with functions such as general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, budgeting, and asset management?
Accounting and finance ERP components
Contains a transmitter and a power source (typically a battery)
Active RFID tag
Which is difficult to quantify or measure?
An intangible benefit
______ latency is the time from which data are made available to the time when analysis is complete.
Analysis
Select the three characteristics of operational decisions.
Analysts and staff employee types Structured, recurring, repetitive decision types Short term and day-to-day operational time frames
______ information encompasses all organizational information, and its primary purpose is to support the performance of managerial analysis or semistructured decisions.
Analytical
fungi provides an __________ and ________
Anchor; protection
______ integration is the integration of a company's existing management information systems.
Application
______ tracking occurs when a company places active or semi-passive RFID tags on expensive products or assets to gather data on the items' location with little or no manual intervention.
Asset
Occurs when a company places active or semi-passive R F I D tags on expensive products or assets to gather data on the items' location with little or no manual intervention.
Asset tracking
What occurs when a company places active or semi-passive RFID tags on expensive products or assets to gather data on the items' location with little or no manual intervention?
Asset tracking
Represents the loss of a network signal strength measured in decibels (dBs) and occurs because the transmissions gradually dissipate in strength over longer distances or because of radio interference or physical obstructions such as walls.
Attenuation
What uses GPS tracking to track vehicles?
Automatic Vehicle Location
Uses G P S tracking to track vehicles
Automatic vehicle location (A V L)
The system is operational during different time frames.
Availability
What term is used to describe the time frames when a system is operational?
Availability
______ refers to the time frames when the system is operational.
Availability
Applies to businesses buying from and selling to each other over the Internet.
B2B
Applies to any business that sells its products or services directly to consumers online.
B2C
What applies to any business that sells its products or services directly to consumers online?
B2C
What is an exact copy of a system's information?
Backup
Select three information MIS infrastructure components.
Backup Disaster recovery Business continuity planning
______ integration sends information entered into a given system automatically to all upstream systems and processes.
Backward
What is bandwidth measured in terms of?
Bit rate
What is a wireless PAN technology that transmits signals over short distances among cell phones, computers, and other devices?
Bluetooth
Wireless PAN technology that transmits signals over short distances between cell phones, computers, and other devices.
Bluetooth
______ is a wireless PAN technology that transmits signals over short distances among cell phones, computers, and other devices.
Bluetooth
What is a technique for generating ideas by encouraging participants to offer as many ideas as possible in a short period without any analysis until all the ideas have been exhausted?
Brainstorming
______ is a technique for generating ideas by encouraging participants to offer as many ideas as possible in a short period without any analysis until all the ideas have been exhausted.
Brainstorming
Three M D M Policies:
Bring Your Own Device. Choose Your Own Device. Company-Issued, Personally-Enabled.
Employees use their own device.
Bring your own device
All devices can access data and applications
Broad network access
All devices are connected to a central cable, called the bus or backbone.
Bus
List the three primary elements of an information MIS infrastructure.
Business continuity plan Disaster recovery plan Backup and recovery plan
What details how a company recovers and restores critical business operations and systems after a disaster or extended disruption?
Business continuity planning
Applies to any consumer that sells a product or service to a business over the Internet
C2B
What applies to customers offering goods and services to each other on the Internet?
C2C
What is a set of best practices that helps an organization to maximize the benefits of an information system, while at the same time establishing appropriate controls to ensure minimum errors?
COBIT
______ planning determines future environmental infrastructure requirements to ensure high-quality system performance.
Capacity
What determines future environmental infrastructure requirements to ensure high-quality system performance?
Capacity planning
______ emissions includes the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide produced by business processes and systems.
Carbon
What is the science and art of making an illustrated map or chart?
Cartography
______ is the science and art of making an illustrated map or chart.
Cartography
__________ reasoning is a method whereby new problems are solved based on the solutions from similar cases solved in the past.
Case-based
War ______ is the practice of tagging pavement with codes displaying where Wi-Fi access is available.
Chalking
Which of the following represents a semistructured decision?
Changing employee benefits
____________ RFID tags use plastic or conductive polymers instead of silicon-based microchips, allowing them to be washed or exposed to water without damaging the chip.
Chipless
Uses plastic or conductive polymers instead of silicon-based microchips, allowing them to be washed or exposed to water without damaging the chip
Chipless RFID tag
What uses plastic or conductive polymers instead of silicon-based microchips, allowing them to be washed or exposed to water without damaging the chip?
Chipless RFID tags
Identify the three mobile device management policies.
Choose Your Own Device Bring Your Own Device Company-Issued, Personally Enabled
Employees choose a company approved and configured device.
Choose your own device
_________ is used to suppress the immune response after organ transplants Some
Ciclosporinn
______ analysis is the process of organizing data into categories or groups for its most effective and efficient use; for example, groups of political affiliation and charity donors.
Classification
What is the process of organizing data into categories or groups for its most effective and efficient use; for example, groups of political affiliation and charity donors?
Classification analysis
____________ produces several toxins (includes LSD)
Claviceps purpurea
What is a subset of sustainable MIS that refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment?
Clean computing
A business that operates in a physical store and on the Internet. Example: Barnes & Noble
Click and mortar
______ analytics is the process of collecting, analyzing, and reporting aggregate data about which pages a website visitor visits - and in what order.
Clickstream
What is the process of collecting, analyzing, and reporting aggregate data about which pages a website visitor visits - and in what order?
Clickstream analytics
What can observe the exact pattern of a consumer's navigation through a site?
Clickstream data
What is a computer designed to request information from a server?
Client
______ computing stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the Internet rather than on a person computer or server.
Cloud
What occurs when a company uses its own computing infrastructure for normal usage and accesses the cloud when it needs to scale for peak load requirements, ensuring a sudden spike in usage does not result in poor performance or system crashes?
Cloud bursting
What stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the Internet rather than on a person computer or server?
Cloud computing
List three sustainable MIS infrastructure components.
Cloud computing Virtualization Grid computing
What is the software that makes possible the benefits of cloud computing, such as multi-tenancy?
Cloud fabric
Who is an individual who monitors and provisions cloud resources, similar to a server administrator at an individual company?
Cloud fabric controller
______ analysis is a technique used to divide an information set into mutually exclusive groups such that the members of each group are as close together as possible to one another and the different groups are as far apart as possible.
Cluster
______ cable is cable that can carry a wide range of frequencies with low signal loss.
Coaxial
Each computer in the supply chain recognizes the electronic product code and pulls up information related to the item, such as dates made and shipped, price, and directions for use, from a serve maintained by the manufacturer.
Computer Network
What is the aggregation of data from simple roll-ups to complex groupings of interrelated information?
Consolidation
______ is the aggregation of data from simple roll-ups to complex groupings of interrelated information.
Consolidation
What isolates corporate applications from personal applications on a device?
Containerization
What helps companies manage the creation, storage, editing, and publication of their website content?
Content Management Systems
_____________ is often referred to as the "zombie-ant fungus" because it primarily infects ants and other insects such as spiders.
Cordyceps
______ ERP components are the traditional components included in most ERP systems and primarily focus on internal operations.
Core
What are the traditional components included in most ERP systems and primarily focus on internal operations?
Core ERP components
______ social responsibility is a companies' acknowledged responsibility to society.
Corporate
What is a companies' acknowledged responsibility to society?
Corporate social responsibility
______-to-grave provides logistics support throughout the entire system or life of the product.
Cradle
What provides logistics support throughout the entire system or life of the product?
Cradle-to-grave
______ path analysis is a project diagramming method used to predict total project duration.
Critical
What is a project diagramming method used to predict total project duration?
Critical Path analysis
What is the series of activities that determine the earliest time by which the project can be completed?
Critical path
Which of the following has the least amount of slack?
Critical path
______ refers to the wisdom of the crowd.
Crowdsourcing
the wisdom of the crowd.
Crowdsourcing
Select the three primary enterprise systems.
Customer relationship management Enterprise resource planning Supply chain management
What refers to the creation of new kinds of intermediaries that simply could not have existed before the advent of ebusiness, including comparison-shopping sites such as Kelkoo and bank account aggregation services such as Citibank?
Cybermediation
What is an individual who studies the interaction between humans and technology, observing how technology can shape humans' lives?
Cyborg anthropologist
The portion of the Internet that is intentionally hidden from search engines, uses masked I P addresses, and is accessible only with a special web browser.
Dark web
______ integration is the integration of data from multiple sources, which provides a unified view of all data.
Data
Select the three elements of data mining
Data Discovery Deployment
Refers to all data in computer storage.
Data at rest
What occurs when adding additional training examples by transforming existing examples?
Data augmentation
Gather problem-related data, including who, what, where, when, why, and how. Be sure to gather facts, not rumors or opinions about the problem.
Data collection
A stream of data that is moving or being transported between locations within or between computer systems.
Data in motion
Which of the following represent mobile information management characteristics?
Data in motion Data at rest Data in use
Which of the following represent mobile information management characteristics?
Data in use Data at rest Data in motion
What is the integration of data from multiple sources, which provides a unified view of all data?
Data integration
What is the time duration to make data ready for analysis (i.e., the time for extracting, transforming, and cleansing the data) and loading the data into the database?
Data latency
What is the process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone?
Data mining
What uses a variety of techniques to find patterns and relationships in large volumes of information that predict future behavior and guide decision making?
Data mining tools
What is the process of collecting statistics and information about data in an existing source?
Data profiling
What is the process of sharing information to ensure consistency between multiple data sources?
Data replication
______ web is the large part of the Internet that is inaccessible to conventional search engines.
Deep
What is a process that employs specialized algorithms to model and study complex datasets; the method is also used to establish relationships among data and datasets?
Deep learning
A requirements ______ document prioritizes all of the business requirements by order of importance to the company.
Definition
Which of the following are functions that administrator access can perform?
Deleting accounts Resetting passwords Shutting down entire systems
What is a logical relationship that exists between the project tasks, or between a project task and a milestone?
Dependency
Process of implementing discoveries to drive success
Deployment
Establishes descriptions of the desired features and operations of the system including screen layouts, business rules, process diagrams, pseudo code, and other documentation.
Design Phase
Which phase establishes descriptions of the desired features and operations of the system, including screen layouts, business rules, process diagrams, pseudo code, and other documentation?
Design Phase
What occurs when a business sells directly to the customer online and cuts out the intermediary?
Disintermediation
What is a new way of doing things that initially does not meet the needs of existing customers?
Disruptive technology
form the basis for complex food webs & provide _______ habitats for all other organisms
Diverse
What enables users to view details, and details of details, of information?
Drill-down
______ enables users to view details, and details of details, of information.
Drill-down
What is an unmanned aircraft that can fly autonomously, or without a human?
Drone
An unmanned aircraft that can fly autonomously, or without a human.
Drones
What takes a new approach to middleware by packaging commonly used applications together, reducing the time needed to integrate applications from multiple vendors?
EAI middleware
List the following in order of the phases of ERP growth, with the first phase at the top.
ERP Extended ERP ERP 2
Which component of Ebusiness ERP manages the transportation and storage of goods?
Elogistics
__________ manages the transportation and storage of goods.
Elogistics
E business tools for connecting and communicating
Email Instant messaging Podcasting Videoconferencing Web conferencing Content management system
What is a sudden, unexpected event requiring immediate action due to potential threat to health and safety, the environment, or property?
Emergency
______ notification service is an infrastructure built for notifying people in the event of an emergency.
Emergency
What is an infrastructure built for notifying people in the event of an emergency?
Emergency notification service
What ensures a company is ready to respond to an emergency in an organized, timely, and effective manner?
Emergency preparedness
Which of the following represent unstructured decisions?
Entering a new industry Entering a new market
What is the business-to-business (B2B) online purchase and sale of supplies and services?
Eprocurement
_________ is the business-to-business (B2B) online purchase and sale of supplies and services
Eprocurement
_________ is the business-to-business (B2B) online purchase and sale of supplies and services.
Eprocurement
infects rye plants & causes a disease called ________
Ergot
What is the time remaining before reaching a destination using the present speed and is typically used for navigation applications?
Estimated Time Enroute
Select three ebusiness advantages.
Expanding global reach Reducing costs Opening new markets
______ ERP components are the extra components that meet organizational needs not covered by the core components and primarily focus on external operations.
Extended
What are the extra components that meet organizational needs not covered by the core componentsand primarily focus on external operations?
Extended ERP components
______ programming methodology, like other agile methods, breaks a project into four phases, and developers cannot continue to the next phase until the previous phase is complete.
Extreme
Breaks a project into tiny phases, and developers cannot continue on to the next phase until the first phase is complete.
Extreme programming (XP) methodology
What breaks a project into four phases, and developers cannot continue to the next phase until the previous phase is complete?
Extreme programming (XP) methodology
What occurs when the primary machine recovers and resumes operations, taking over from the secondary server?
Failback
______ occurs when the primary machine recovers and resumes operations, taking over from the secondary server.
Failback
What occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data, and if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically directed to the secondary server or backup server?
Failover
Select the three primary wireless business applications.
GIS GPS RFID
What links business assets to a centralized system where they can be tracked and monitored over time?
GIS map automation
What is a GPS technology adventure game that posts the longitude and latitude location for an item on the Internet for users to find?
Geocache
______ is a GPS technology adventure game that posts the longitude and latitude location for an item on the Internet for users to find.
Geocache
What refers to the level of detail in the model or the decision-making process?
Granularity
What is built using environment-friendly materials and designed to save energy?
Green personal computer
What is the correlation between Moore's law and energy consumption?
Huge increases in technology from Moore's law have greatly amplified energy consumption.
What tracks employee information including payroll, benefits, compensation, and performance assessment and ensure compliance with all laws?
Human resources ERP components
A combination of two or more types of clouds
Hybrid cloud
What includes two or more private, public, or community clouds, but each cloud remains separate and is only linked by technology that enables data and application portability?
Hybrid cloud
Which two terms describe the use of professional expertise within an organization to develop and maintain its information technology systems?
In-house development In-sourcing
Select the three primary side effects of businesses' expanded use of technology.
Increased carbon emissions Increased electronic waste Increased energy consumption
Which of the following is a benefit to outsourcing?
Increased quality and efficiency of business processes.
______ MIS infrastructure identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured.
Information
What identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured?
Information MIS infrastructure
Offers computer hardware and networking equipment on a pay-per-use basis
Infrastructure as a Service
What delivers hardware networking capabilities, including the use of servers, networking, and storage, over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model?
Infrastructure as a Service
______ benefits are difficult to quantify or measure.
Intangible
Which technology companies were among the first to seize the Internet to overhaul their operations?
Intel and Cisco
What measures advertising effectiveness by counting visitor interactions with the target ad?
Interactivity
What are agents, software, or businesses that provide a trading infrastructure to bring buyers and sellers together?
Intermediaries
______ are agents, software, or businesses that provide a trading infrastructure to bring buyers and sellers together.
Intermediaries
The ______ is a massive network that connects computers all over the world and allows them to communicate with one another.
Internet
What is a massive network that connects computers all over the world and allows them to communicate with one another?
Internet
What is a company that provides access to the Internet for a monthly fee?
Internet Service Provider
Assigns a small group of people to use the new system until it is verified that it works correctly; then the remaining users migrate to the new system
Pilot implementation
________ are "self-feeding," undergoing photosynthesis
Plants
__________ are multicellular
Plants
Offers hardware, networking, and applications on a pay-per-use basis
Platform as a Service
What supports the deployment of entire systems including hardware, networking, and applications using a pay-per-use revenue model?
Platform as a Service
Measures how well the solution will be accepted in a given organization
Political feasibility
The system is available to operate on different devices or software platforms.
Portability
What refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems?
Portability
______ refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems.
Portability
What is a statement about what will happen or might happen in the future; for example, predicting future sales or employee turnover?
Prediction
What are the three types of machine learning?
Prejudice bias
______ bias is a result of training data that is influenced by cultural or other stereotypes.
Prejudice bias
Select the three ways a data center can become more sustainable.
-reduce energy consumption -store greater amounts of information in less space -find locations where resources are inexpensive, clean, and available
The fifth-generation wireless broadband technology based on the 802.11ac standard engineered to greatly increase the speed and responsiveness of wireless networks
5g
What is the fifth-generation wireless broadband technology based on the 802.11ac standard engineered to greatly increase the speed and responsiveness of wireless networks?
5g
Select two types of DSS systems.
A system that identifies risks for insurance companies A system to diagnose and treat patients
Select two types of DSS systems.
A system that identifies risks for insurance companies. A system to diagnose and treat patients.
The computer or network device that serves an as interface between devices and the network.
Access Point
______ access is unrestricted access to the entire system.
Administrator
What is unrestricted access to the entire system?
Administrator Access
E-Business revenue models:
Advertising fees License fees Subscription fees Transaction fees Value-added service fees
______ programs allow a business to generate commissions or referral fees when a customer visiting its website clicks a link to another merchant's website
Affiliate
Allow a business to generate commissions or referral fees when a customer visiting its website clicks a link to another merchant's website.
Affiliate program
Allows a business to generate commissions or referral fees when a customer visiting its website clicks a link to another merchant's website.
Affiliate program
What reveals the relationship between variables along with the nature and frequency of the relationships?
Affinity grouping analysis
______ BI is an approach to business intelligence that incorporates Agile software development methodologies to accelerate and improve the outcomes of BI initiative.
Agile
______ MIS Infrastructure includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization's goals.
Agile
What is an approach to business intelligence that incorporates Agile software development methodologies to accelerate and improve the outcomes of BI initiative?
Agile BI
What includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization's goals?
Agile MIS infrastructure
Aims for customer satisfaction through early and continuous delivery of useful software components developed by an iterative process using the bare minimum requirements.
Agile methodology
What aims for customer satisfaction through early and continuous delivery of useful software components developed by an iterative process using the bare minimum requirements?
Agile methodology
What identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them?
Business impact analysis
What are the specific business requests the system must meet to be successful, so the analysis phase is critical because business requirements drive the entire systems development effort?
Business requirements
Applies to sites primarily offering goods and services to assist consumers interacting with each other over the Internet.
C2C
Which tools do software engineers use to automate support for the development of the system?
CASE tools
What represents the maximum throughput a system can deliver; for example, the capacity of a hard drive represents its size or volume?
Capacity
______ represents the maximum throughput a system can deliver; for example, the capacity of a hard drive represents its size or volume.
Capacity
What is a method whereby new problems are solved based on the solutions from similar cases solved in the past?
Case-based
What is a technique used to divide an information set into mutually exclusive groups such that the members of each group are as close together as possible to one another and the different groups are as far apart as possible?
Cluster analysis
What is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster?
Cold site
Select the four characteristics of Web 2.0.
Collaboration outside the organization Collaboration inside the organization User-contributed content Content sharing through open sourcing
What allows every department of a company to store and retrieve information in real time, allowing information to be more reliable and accessible?
Common data repository
Defines the how, what, when, and who regarding the flow of project information to stakeholders and is key for managing expectations
Communication plan
A cloud serving a variety of groups within one organization
Community cloud
What serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations?
Community cloud
Identify the three mobile device management policies
Company-Issued, Personally Enabled Choose Your Own Device Bring Your Own Device
Employees provided with corporate devices.
Company-issued personally enabled
______ latency is the time it takes a human to comprehend the analytic result and determine an appropriate action.
Decision
______ support systems model information using OLAP, which provides assistance in evaluating and choosing among different courses of action.
Decision
Select the system that models information using OLAP, which provides assistance in evaluating and choosing among different courses of action?
Decision support system
______ learning is a process that employs specialized algorithms to model and study complex datasets; the method is also used to establish relationships among data and datasets.
Deep
Which phase takes all the detailed design documents from the design phase and transforms them into the actual system?
Development phase
______ Darwinism implies that organizations that cannot adapt to the new demands placed on them for surviving in the information age are doomed to extinction.
Digital
What implies that organizations that cannot adapt to the new demands placed on them for surviving in the information age are doomed to extinction?
Digital Darwinism
Which dilemma is facing Polaroid?
Digital Darwinism
What tracks KPIs and CSFs by compiling information from multiple sources and tailoring it to meet user needs?
Digital dashboard
What fully capitalizes on connectivity, system integration, and the informatin-producing capabilities of smart devices?
Digital supply chain
Select the following that are NOT part of the four characteristics of Web 2.0.
Direct-to-clients Identifying limited market segments Adhering to taxation rules
Ebusiness model where companies build, market, sell, and ship their products themselves, without relying on traditional stores or intermediaries.
Direct-to-consumer (DTC)
What is the ebusiness model where companies build, market, sell, and ship their products themselves, without relying on traditional stores or intermediaries?
Direct-to-consumer (DTC)
Select three information MIS infrastructure components.
Disaster recovery Business continuity planning Backup
Process of identifying new patterns, trends, and insights
Discovery
A(n) ______ model is a plan that details how a company creates, delivers, and generates revenues on the Internet.
Ebusiness
What includes all activities related to internal and external business operations such as servicing customer accounts, collaborating with partners, and exchanging real-time information?
Ebusiness
Which of the following refers to the conducting of business on the Internet, not only buying and selling, but also serving customers and collaborating with business partners?
Ebusiness
______ includes ecommerce along with all activities related to internal and external business operations such as servicing customer accounts, collaborating with partners, and exchanging real-time information.
Ebusiness
Select the four extended ERP components.
Ebusiness Business intelligence Customer relationship management (CRM) Supply chain management (SCM)
Select the four extended ERP components.
Ebusiness Customer relationship management Supply chain management Business intelligence
______ is the buying and selling of goods and services over the Internet.
Ecommerce
Measures the cost-effectiveness of a project
Economic feasibility
What occurs when paper maps are laid edge to edge and items that run across maps but do not match are reconfigured to match?
Edge matching
Select three terms that represent the event that occurs when paper maps are laid edge to edge and items that run across maps but do not match are reconfigured to match.
Edge matching Rubber sheeting Warping
______ live inside of plants
Endophytes
Which of the following represent unstructured decisions?
Entering a new market Entering a new industry
What is an enterprisewide security strategy to enforce corporate epolicies while enabling employee use of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets?
Enterprise Mobility Management
Who is a person grounded in technology, fluent in business, and able to provide the important bridge between MIS and the business?
Enterprise architect
______ is a physical and data layer technology for LAN networking.
Ethernet
What is a specialized DSS that supports senior-level executives and unstructured, long-term, nonroutine decisions requiring judgment, evaluation, and insight?
Executive information system
Select the three primary types of MIS decision-making systems.
Executive information systems Decision support systems Transaction processing system
The person or group who provides the financial resources for the project.
Executive sponsor
______ systems are computerized advisory programs that imitate the reasoning processes of experts in solving difficult problems.
Expert
What are computerized advisory programs that imitate the reasoning processes of experts in solving difficult problems?
Expert systems
Consists of anything that can be documented, achieved, and codified.
Explicit knowledge
______ occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data, and if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically directed to the secondary server or backup server.
Failover
Pseudocode is an informal description of how the computer program should work. What is another name for pseudocode?
Fake code
______ tolerance is the ability for a system to respond to unexpected failures or system crashes as the backup system immediately and automatically takes over with no loss of service.
Fault
What is the ability for a system to respond to unexpected failures or system crashes as the backup system immediately and automatically takes over with no loss of service?
Fault tolerance
What is the measure of the tangible and intangible benefits of an information system?
Feasibility
______ is the measure of the tangible and intangible benefits of an information system.
Feasibility
occurs when extra features are added.
Feature creep
______-optic refers to the technology associated with the transmission of information as light impulses along a glass wire or fiber.
Fiber
What refers to the technology associated with the transmission of information as light impulses along a glass wire or fiber?
Fiber-optic cable
Predictions based on time-series information, allowing users to manipulate the time series for forecasting activities
Forecasting model
______ integration sends information entered into a given system automatically to all downstream systems and processes.
Forward
What are programming languages that look similar to human languages?
Fourth-generation languages
________ parasites cause the majority of plant diseases
Fungal
______ logic is a mathematical method of handling imprecise or subjective information.
Fuzzy
A(n) ______ is a satellite-based navigation system providing extremely accurate position, time, and speed information.
GPS
Select the four common reasons companies outsource.
Gain core competencies Improve financial savings Expansion and rapid growth The Internet and globalization
Rational Unified Process (R U P) - Provides a framework for breaking down the development of software into four gates:
Gate One: Inception. Gate Two: Elaboration. Gate Three: Construction. Gate Four: Transition.
______ algorithm is an artificial intelligence system that mimics the evolutionary, survival-of-the-fittest process to generate increasingly better solutions to a problem.
Genetic
What is an artificial intelligence system that mimics the evolutionary, survival-of-the-fittest process to generate increasingly better solutions to a problem?
Genetic algorithm
What term describes a round coin-sized object that is uniquely numbered and hidden in geocache?
Geocoin
What stores, views, and analyzes geographic data creating, multidimensional charts or maps?
Geographic Information System
Consists of hardware, software, and data that provide location information for display on a multidimensional map
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Select the three terms that identify the geographic location of features and boundaries on Earth, such as natural or constructed features, oceans, and more.
Geospatial data Geographic information Spatial data
What is a satellite-based navigation system providing extremely accurate position, time, and speed information?
Global Positioning System
A satellite-based navigation system providing extremely accurate position, time, and speed information.
Global Positioning System (GPS)
__________ -seeking analysis finds the inputs necessary to achieve a goal such as a desired level of output.
Goal
What finds the inputs necessary to achieve a goal such as a desired level of output?
Goal-seeking analysis
What is a wearable computer with an optical head-mounted display?
Google Glass
Select three examples of features that may be included in a digital dashboard for a manufacturing team.
Graph of stock market prices List of outstanding alerts List of KPIs
Which of the following allows for creating document links, allowing users to move from one to another simply by clicking on a hot spot or link?
HTML
______ is the Internet protocol web browsers use to request and display web pages using universal resource locators.
HTTP
What uses technology allowing humans to interact with a computer through bodily sensations and movements?
Haptic interface
______ consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system, and software is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.
Hardware
What is a two-dimensional representation of data in which values are represented by colors?
Heat map
What is the best way to support users and respond to users' questions?
Help desk
______ availability occurs when a system is continuously operational at all times.
High
What occurs when a system is continuously operational at all times?
High availability
________ creates the illusion that a large number of potential customers are clicking the advertiser's links when in fact there is no likelihood that any of the clicks will lead to profit for the advertiser
Hitbots
A(n) ______ site is a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business.
Hot
A separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business.
Hot site
What is a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business?
Hot site
______ markup language links documents, allowing users to move from one to another simply by clicking on a hot spot or link.
Hypertext
What is the Internet protocol web browsers use to request and display web pages using universal resource locators?
Hypertext transport protocol (HTTP)
The blending of personal and business use of technology devices and applications
IT consumerization
What is the blending of personal and business use of technology devices and applications?
IT consumerization
What uses the professional expertise within an organization to develop and maintain its information technology systems?
In-sourcing
What is the term that refers to an unplanned interruption of a service?
Incident
What is the process responsible for managing how incidents are identified and corrected?
Incident management
What contains all of the details of an incident?
Incident record
What is a representation of information in a graphic format designed to make the data easily understandable at a glance?
Infographic
______ is a representation of information in a graphic format designed to make the data easily understandable at a glance.
Infographic
What refers to the depth and breadth of details contained in a piece of textual, graphic, audio, or video information?
Information richness
What is the capability of two or more computer systems to share data and resources, even though they are made by different manufacturers?
Interoperability
______ is the capability of two or more computer systems to share data and resources, even though they are made by different manufacturers.
Interoperability
What consists of a series of tiny projects and has become the foundation of multiple agile methodologies?
Iterative development
What is a scripting language developed by Netscape and used to create interactive websites, a big driver of Business 2.0?
JavaScript
____ is a scripting language developed by Netscape and used to create interactive websites, a big driver of Business 2.0.
JavaScript
Involves capturing, classifying, evaluating, retrieving, and sharing information assets in a way that provides context for effective decisions and actions
Knowledge management
_________ are formed by fungi that live with photosynthetic protists or bacteria
Lichens
What is designed to connect a group of computers in proximity to each other such as in an office building, a school, or a home?
Local Area Network
Connects a group of computers in close proximity, such as in an office building, school, or home
Local area network (LAN)
Applications that use location information to provide a service.
Location-based services (LBS)\
Processes that control the distribution, maintenance, and replacement of materials and personnel to support the supply chain.
Logistics
What includes the processes that control the distribution, maintenance, and replacement of materials and personnel to support the supply chain?
Logistics
______ includes the processes that control the distribution, maintenance, and replacement of materials and personnel to support the supply chain.
Logistics
Select three characteristics of strategic decisions.
Long term, yearly, and multi-year time frames Senior management, presidents, leaders, and executives employee types Unstructured, nonrecurring, one time decision types
WAPs with ______ (please use the acronym) technology have multiple transmitters and receivers, allowing them to send and receive greater amounts of data than traditional networking devices.
MIMO
Which technology has multiple transmitters and receivers, allowing them to send and receive greater amounts of data than traditional networking devices?
MIMO
What includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets?
MIS infrastructure
______ refers to how quickly a system can transform to support environmental changes.
Maintainability
What is a cultural trend that places value on an individual's ability to be a creator of things as well as a consumer of things?
Maker movement
What is a community center that provides technology, manufacturing equipment, and educational opportunities to the public that would otherwise be inaccessible or unaffordable?
Makerspace
At which level are employees continuously evaluating company operations to hone the firm's abilities to identify, adapt to, and leverage change?
Managerial level
Activities that govern the flow of tangible, physical materials through the supply chain such as shipping, transport, distribution and warehousing.
Materials management
What includes activities that govern the flow of tangible, physical materials through the supply chain such as shipping, transport, distribution, and warehousing?
Materials management
Clients can monitor and measure transactions and use of resources
Measured service
______ bias occurs when there is a problem with the data collected that skews the data in one direction.
Measurement
_____ application development is the set of processes and procedures involved in writing software for use on wireless devices.
Mobile
______ application development is the set of processes and procedures involved in writing software for use on wireless devices.
Mobile
______ information management is a security strategy that involves keeping sensitive data encrypted and allowing only approved applications to access or transmit it.
Mobile
What is the set of processes and procedures involved in writing software for use on wireless devices?
Mobile Application Development
What administers and delivers applications to corporate and personal smartphones and tablets?
Mobile Application Management
The set of processes and procedures involved in writing software for use on wireless devices
Mobile application development
A security strategy that administers and enforces corporate epolicies for applications on mobile devices.
Mobile application management (M A M)
What is the ability to purchase goods and services through a wireless Internet-enabled device?
Mobile business
What is a security strategy that involves keeping sensitive data encrypted and allowing only approved applications to access or transmit it?
Mobile information management
A security strategy that involves keeping sensitive data encrypted and allowing only approved applications to access or transmit it.
Mobile information management (M I M)
How can a spreadsheet program, such as Microsoft Office Excel, help managers make decisions?
Modeling relationships
The 1st antibiotic discovered, penicillin, is produced by a _____
Mold
an association between fungus & the roots of a plant
Mycorrhizae
What is an online marketing concept in which the advertiser attempts to gain attention by providing content in the context of the user's experience in terms of its content, format, style?
Native advertising
Contracting an outsourcing arrangement with a company in a nearby country. Often this country will share a border with the native country.
Nearshore outsourcing
Card that plugs into the back (or side) of your computers and lets them send and receive messages from other computers
Network Interface Card
What is the operating system that runs a network, steering information between computers and managing security and users?
Network Operating System
Combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device.
Network virtualization
fungi secrete enzymes that break down large _________ in the soil all around the roots, allowing the plant to absorb them
Nutrients
______ -the-shelf application software supports general business processes and does not require any specific software customization to meet the organization's needs.
Off
What supports general business processes and does not require any specific software customization to meet the organization's needs?
Off-the-shelf application software
Using organizations from developing countries to write code and develop systems. In offshore outsourcing the country is geographically far away
Offshore outsourcing
Select the three forms of outsourcing.
Offshore outsourcing Onshore outsourcing Nearshore outsourcing
______-premise systems include a server at a physical location using an internal network for internal access and firewalls for remote users' access.
On
What is the manipulation of information to create business intelligence in support of strategic decision making?
Online analytical processing (OLAP)
Select three different ebusiness forms.
Online marketplaces Content providers Infomediaries
Nonproprietary hardware and software based on publicly known standards that allows third parties to create add-on products to plug into or interoperate with the system
Open system
______ decisions affects how the firm is run from day-to-day; they are the domain of operations managers, who are the closet to the customer.
Operational
Primary users include managers, analysts, and operational users. Business focus is to manage daily operations and integrate BI with operational systems.
Operational BI
What affects how the firm is run from day-to-day; they are the domain of operations managers, who are the closest to the customer?
Operational decisions
Measures how well a solution meets the identified system requirements to solve the problems and take advantage of opportunities
Operational feasibility
Which type of analysis finds the optimum value for a target variable by repeatedly changing other variables, subject to specified constraints?
Optimization analysis
What finds the optimum value for a target variable by repeatedly changing other variables, subject to specified constraints?
Optimization analytics
A statistical process that finds the way to make a design, system, or decision as effective as possible; for example, finding the values of controllable variables that determine maximal productivity or minimal waste.
Optimization model
______ occurs when a machine learning model matches the training data so closely that the model fails to make correct predictions on new data.
Overfitting
A(n) ______ (Please use the acronym) chart is a graphical network model that depicts a project's tasks and the relationships between them.
PERT
What is a graphical network model that depicts a project's tasks and the relationships between them?
PERT Chart
What occurs when a new radical form of business enters the market that reshapes the way companies and organizations behave?
Paradigm shift
______ occurs when a company knows enough about a customer's likes and dislikes that it can fashion offers more likely to appeal to that person, say by tailoring its website to individuals or groups based on profile information, demographics, or prior transactions.
Personalization
what occurs when a company knows enough about a customer's likes and dislikes that it can fashion offers more likely to appeal to that person, say by tailoring its website to individuals or groups based on profile information, demographics, or prior transactions?
Personalization
______ cloud serves only one customer or organization and can be located on the customer's premises or off the customer's premises.
Private
A secure cloud within one company
Private cloud
What serves only one customer or organization and can be located on the customer's premises or off the customer's premises?
Private cloud
Define the problem as clearly and precisely as possible.
Problem identification
Update employee records, calculate payroll, summarize benefits
Process
What-if, sensitivity, goal-seeking, optimization
Process
What handles production planning and execution tasks such as demand forecasting, production scheduling, job cost accounting, and quality control?
Production and materials management ERP components
______ language refers to a unique set of keywords (words that it understands) along with a special syntax for organizing program instructions that execute computer commands.
Programming
What refers to a unique set of keywords (words that it understands) along with a special syntax for organizing program instructions that execute computer commands?
Programming language
An internal department that oversees all organizational projects.
Project Management Office (PMO)
Factors considered to be true, real, or certain without proof or demonstration.
Project assumption
What is a concise written description of the project's intended work?
Project charter
Specific factors that can limit options, including budget, delivery dates, available skilled resources, and organizational policies
Project constraint
Any measurable, tangible, verifiable outcome, result, or item that is produced to complete a project or part of a project
Project deliverable
Any measurable, tangible, verifiable outcome, result, or item that is produced to complete a project or part of a project.
Project deliverable
An internal department that oversees all organizational projects.
Project management office
Represents key dates when a certain group of activities must be performed.
Project milestone
Quantifiable criteria that must be met for the project to be considered a success.
Project objective
Defines the specifications for product/output of the project and is key for managing expectations, controlling scope, and completing other planning efforts.
Project requirements document
Links the project to the organization's overall business goals
Project scope statement
What is an informal description of how the computer program should work?
Pseudocode
A commercial cloud service, such as Amazon Web Services
Public cloud
What promotes massive, global, and industrywide applications offered to the general public?
Public cloud
A business that operates on the Internet only without a physical store. Example: Google
Pure-play
What emphasizes extensive user involvement in the rapid and evolutionary construction of working prototypes of a system, to accelerate the systems development process?
RAD methodology
Select the two terms that emphasize extensive user involvement in the rapid and evolutionary construction of working prototypes of a system, to accelerate the systems development process.
RAD methodology Rapid prototyping
Uses electronic tags and labels to identify objects wirelessly over short distances.
RFID
A device that measures the acceleration (the rate of change of velocity) of an item and is used to track truck speeds or taxi cab speeds.
RFID accelerometer
What is a device that measures the acceleration (the rate of change of velocity) of an item and is used to track truck speeds or taxi cab speeds?
RFID accelerometer
Select the two terms that represent a transmitter/receiver that reads the contents of RFID tags in the area.
RFID interrogator RFID reader
A transmitter/receiver that reads the contents of R F I D tags in the area.
RFID reader
What is a transmitter/receiver that reads the contents of RFID tags in the area?
RFID reader
An electronic identification device that is made up of a chip and antenna
RFID tag
What is an electronic identification device that is made up of a chip and antenna?
RFID tag
List the stages of an RFID tag at every step of an item's journey in the supply chain, with the first stage at the top.
RFID tag added and read at the manufacturer RFID tag read at the distribution center FRID tag read at the store RFID tag read at the home
The ______ methodology, owned by IBM, provides a framework for breaking down the development of software into four "gates.
RUP
Which methodology, owned by IBM, provides a framework for breaking down the development of software into four "gates?
RUP methodology
What is a technology that connects individual devices to other parts of a network through radio connections?
Radio Access Network
A technology that connects individual devices to other parts of a network through radio connections.
Radio access network (RAN)
Uses electronic tags and labels to identify objects wirelessly over short distances.
Radio frequency identification (RFID)
What uses electronic tags and labels to identify objects wirelessly over short distances.?
Radio-frequency identification
Emphasizes extensive user involvement in the rapid and evolutionary construction of working prototypes of a system to accelerate the systems development process.
Rapid application development methodology
Storage, network bandwidth, and computing capacity can be increased or decreased immediately, allowing for optimal scalability
Rapid elasticity
A reader uses radio waves to read the tag and sends the electronic product code to computers in the supply chain.
Reader
What is a web format used to publish frequently updated works, such as blogs, news headlines, audio, and video, in a standardized format?
Real Simple Syndication
What occurs when a system updates information at the same rate it receives it?
Real-time communication
What is a data mining algorithm that analyzes a customer's purchases and actions on a website and then uses the data to recommend complementary products?
Recommendation engine
What is the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the information backup?
Recovery
______ is the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the information backup.
Recovery
A statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables.
Regression model
What is the training of machine learning models to make a sequence of decisions?
Reinforcement learning
What occurs when steps are added to the value chain as new players find ways to add value to the business process?
Reintermediation
The system functions correctly and provides accurate information.
Reliability
What ensures a system is functioning correctly and providing accurate information?
Reliability
______ ensures a system is functioning correctly and providing accurate information.
Reliability
What is a place where buyers post feedback on sellers?
Reputation system
What prioritizes all of the business requirements by order of importance to the company?
Requirements definition document
What is the process of managing changes to the business requirements throughout the project?
Requirements management
Defines all project roles and indicates what responsibilities are associated with each role.
Responsibility matrix
secrete substances that digest the tissues of dead organisms, liberating nutrients that can be ______ by plants
Reused
All devices are connected to one another in the shape of a closed loop, so that each device is connected directly to two other devices, one on either side of it.
Ring
Focus on creating artificial intelligence devices that can move and react to sensory input.
Robotics
What focuses on creating artificial intelligence devices that can move and react to sensory input?
Robotics
parasites that cause considerable damage to grain crops
Rusts and smuts
Market demand, resource and capacity constraints, real-time scheduling
SCM
______ is a standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser, ensuring that all data passed between them remain private.
SSL
______ is a standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser, ensuring that all data passed between them remain private. (Please use the acronym)
SSL
An electronic document that confirms the identity of a website or server and verifies that a public key belongs to a trustworthy individual or company.
SSL Certificate
What requires an electronic document that confirms the identity of a website or server and verifies that a public key belongs to a trustworthy individual or company?
SSL certificate
Containerization isolates corporate applications from personal applications on a device. What is another name for containerization?
Sandboxing
Fungal _________ feed on dead organisms
Saprophytes
The system can "scale up" or adapt to the increased demands of growth.
Scalability
What describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth?
Scalability
______ describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth.
Scalability
Evaluates variables that search engines use to determine where a U R L appears on the list of search results.
Search engine ranking
What is a combination of HTTP and SSL to provide encryption and secure identification of an Internet server?
Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device.
Storage Virtualization
Select the three characteristics of online transactional processing.
Stores the information Processes the information according to defined business rules Updates existing information to reflect the new information
______ decisions involve higher level issues concerned with the overall direction of the organization and define the organization's aspirations for the future.
Strategic
______ data is a method of sending audio and video files over the Internet in such a way that the user can view the file while it is being transferred.
Streaming
_______ AI refers to the field of artificial intelligence that works toward providing brainlike powers to AI machines.
Strong
What refers to the field of artificial intelligence that works toward providing brainlike powers to AI machines?
Strong AI
Works towards providing brain like powers to AI machines; in effect, it works to make machines as intelligent as the humans.
Strong AI
What defines, recommends, and sets flexible supply chain strategies based on an organization's operations and resources?
Supply chain optimization
What refers to the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle?
Sustainable MIS
An RFID ______ is an electronic identification device that is made up of a chip and antenna.
Tag
______ benefits are easy to quantify and typically measured to determine the success or failure of a project.
Tangible
What are easy to quantify and typically measured to determine the success or failure of a project?
Tangible benefits
Measures the practicality of a technical solution and the availability of technical resources and expertise
Technical feasibility
What is a meeting in which an independent team of experts provides an in-depth analysis of project results to ensure that team members did the work accurately, completely, and to the right quality standard?
Technical review
What occurs when the ability of a company to operate is impaired because of a hardware, software, or data outage?
Technology failure
What focus specifically on prioritizing the order for restoring hardware, software, and data across the organization that best meets business recovery requirements?
Technology recovery strategies
What type of information encompasses all the information contained within a single business process or unit of work, and its primary purpose is to support the performance of daily operational or structured decisions?
Transactional information
Transfers information from one machine learning task to another.
Transfer machine learning
True or false: Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) is an open source project that seeks to embed real-time voice, text, and video communications capabilities in web browsers.
True
Training a model to find patterns in a dataset, typically an unlabeled dataset.
Unsupervised machine learning
The system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use.
Usability
What is the degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use?
Usability
______ is the degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use.
Usability
Determine if the system satisfies the user and business requirements
User Acceptance Testing
Created and updated by many users for many users.
User-contributed content
What is created and updated by many users for many users?
User-contributed content
_____ bias is a mathematical property of an algorithm.
Variance
What creates multiple virtual machines on a single computing device?
Virtualization
______ creates multiple virtual machines on a single computing device.
Virtualization
Select the four components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure.
Virtualization Cloud computing Grid computing Utility computing
Select the four components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure.
Virtualization Cloud computing Utility computing Grid computing
What produces graphical displays of patterns and complex relationships in large amounts of data?
Visualization
What allows mobile voice calls to be made over broadband networks, creating—under the right network conditions—clearer audio and fewer dropped calls?
Voice over LTE (VoLTE)
What is the practice of tagging pavement with codes displaying where Wi-Fi access is available?
War chalking
Deliberately searching for Wi-Fi signals while driving by in a vehicle.
War driving
What is a deliberately searching for Wi-Fi signals while driving by in a vehicle?
War driving
A separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.
Warm site
What is a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration?
Warm site
There are a number of different software development methodologies including:
Waterfall Agile Rapid application development (RAD) Extreme programming Rational unified process (RUP) Scrum
A sequence of phases in which the output of each phase becomes the input for the next.
Waterfall methodology
What is a sequence of phases in which the output of each phase becomes the input for the next?
Waterfall methodology
Machines can still make their own decisions based on reasoning and past sets of data.
Weak AI
What machines can still make their own decisions based on reasoning and past sets of data?
Weak AI
Select the term that refers to the World Wide Web during its first years of operation.
Web 1.0
What is a term to refer to the World Wide Web during its years of operation between 1991 and 2003?
Web 1.0
Select the term representing the next generation of Internet use — a distinctive communications platform characterized by new qualities, such as collaboration and sharing.
Web 2.0
The next generation of Internet use - a more mature, distinctive communications platform characterized by three qualities.
Web 2.0
What is the next generation of Internet use—a more mature, distinctive communications platform characterized by new qualities such as collaboration sharing, and free?
Web 2.0
What is an open source project that seeks to embed real-time voice, text, and video communications capabilities in web browsers?
Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC)
What means that people with disabilities, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities, can use the web?
Web accessibility
What brings together people from industry, disability organizations, government, and research labs from around the world to develop guidelines and resources to help make the web accessible to people with disabilities, including auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual disabilities?
Web accessibility initiative (WAI)
What blends videoconferencing with document sharing and allows the user to deliver a presentation over the web to a group of geographically dispersed participants?
Web conferencing
______ (one word) equivalent privacy is an encryption algorithm designed to protect wireless transmission data.
Wired
What is an encryption algorithm designed to protect wireless transmission data?
Wired Equivalent Privacy
An encryption algorithm designed to protect wireless transmission data.
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
______ media are natural parts of the Earth's environment that can be used as physical paths to carry electrical signals.
Wireless
Enables devices to connect to a wireless network to communicate with each other.
Wireless Access Point
What enables devices to connect to a wireless network to communicate with each other?
Wireless Access Point
What are natural parts of the Earth's environment that can be used as physical paths to carry electrical signals?
Wireless media
What is a plan that breaks down a project's goals into the many deliverables required to achieve it?
Work breakdown structure
What is held in a classroom environment and led by an instructor?
Workshop training
A(n) ______ point is the computer or network device that serves as an interface between devices and the network
access
Varying levels allow system users to access, view, or perform operational functions.
accessibility
Web ______ initiative (WAI) brings together people from industry, disability organizations, government, and research labs from around the world to develop guidelines and resources to help make the web accessible to people with disabilities, including auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual disabilities.
accessibility
Web ______ means that people with disabilities, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities, can use the web.
accessibility
A(n) ______ is an entity that is capable of participating in an action or a network.
actor
What is an entity that is capable of participating in an action or a network?
actor
In the ______ phase the firm analyzes its end-user business requirements and refines project goals into defined functions and operations of the intended system.
analysis
Social networking ______ maps group contacts (personal and professional) identifying who knows each other and who works together.
analysis
Mobile ______ management administers and delivers applications to corporate and personal smartphones and tablets.
application
An enterprise ______ is a person grounded in technology, fluent in business, and able to provide the important bridge between MIS and the business.
architect
Information ______ is the set of ideas about how all information in a given context should be organized
architecture
Peer-to-peer, client/server.
architecture
Estimated time of ______ is the time of day of an expected arrival at a certain destination and is typically used for navigation applications.
arrival
______ communications, or communication such as email in which the message and the response do not occur at the same time.
asynchronous
Select the term for an online journal that allows users to post their own comments, graphics, and video.
blog
Work ______ structure is a plan that breaks down a project's goals into the many deliverables required to achieve it.
breakdown
A business that operates in a physical store without an Internet presence.
brick and mortar
What are defects in the code of an information system?
bugs
______ are defects in the code of an information system.
bugs
The ______ effect occurs when distorted product-demand information ripples from one partner to the next throughout the supply chain.
bullwhip
Cloud ______ is when a company uses its own computing infrastructure for normal usage and accesses the cloud when it needs to scale for peak load requirements, ensuring a sudden spike in usage does not result in poor performance or system crashes.
bursting
Which term applies to businesses buying from and selling to each other over the Internet?
business to business
A(n) ______ model is a plan that details how a company creates, delivers, and generates revenues
businesss
What includes the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide produced by business processes and systems?
carbon emissions
Software engineers use ______ (use acronym) tools, which provide automated support for the development of the system.
case
A web server requires an SSL ______, an electronic document that confirms the identity of a website or server and verifies that a public key belongs to a trustworthy individual or company.
certificate
What is a person or event that is the catalyst for implementing major changes for a system to meet business changes?
change agent
A project ______ is a concise written description of the project's intended work.
charter
______ fraud is the abuse of pay-per-click, pay-per-call, and pay-per-conversion revenue models by repeatedly clicking a link to increase charges or costs for the advertiser
click
The abuse of pay-per-click, pay-per-call, and pay-per-conversion revenue models by repeatedly clicking a link to increase charges or costs for the advertiser.
click fraud
The practice of artificially inflating traffic statistics for online advertisements
click fraud
What is the abuse of pay-per-click, pay-per-call, and pay-per-conversion revenue models by repeatedly clicking a link to increase charges or costs for the advertiser?
click fraud
A(n) ______ is a computer designed to request information from a server.
client
A(n) ______-server network is a model for applications in which the bulk of the back-end processing, such as performing a physical search of a database, takes place on a server, while the front-end processing, which involves communicating with the users, is handled by the clients.
client
What is a computer designed to request information from a server?
client
What is a model for applications in which the bulk of the back-end processing, such as performing a physical search of a database, takes place on a server, while the front-end processing, which involves communicating with the users, is handled by the clients?
client/server network
______ source is any proprietary software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder
closed
__________ computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.
cloud
What is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction?
cloud computing
A(n) ______ system is a set of tools that supports the work of teams or groups by facilitating the sharing and flow of information.
collaboration
Tools that support the work of teams or groups by facilitating the sharing and flow of information.
collaboration system
What is a set of tools that supports the work of teams or groups by facilitating the sharing and flow of information?
collaboration system
______ intelligence is collaborating and tapping into the core knowledge of all employees, partners, and customers
collective
Collaborating and tapping into the core knowledge of all employees, partners, and customers.
collective intelligence
What is collaborating and tapping into the core knowledge of all employees, partners, and customers?
collective intelligence
Real-time ______ occurs when a system updates information at the same rate it receives it
communication
What is a computer crime in which a competitor or disgruntled employee increases a company's search advertising costs by repeatedly clicking the advertiser's link?
competitive click fraud
Test ______ detail the steps the system must perform along with the expected result of each step.
conditions
Consumer-to-______ applies to customers offering goods and services to each other on the Internet
consumer
What applies to any consumer who sells a product or service to a business on the Internet?
consumer-to-business
Energy ______ is the amount of energy consumed by business processes and systems.
consumption
______ management systems help companies manage the creation, storage, editing, and publication of their website content.
content
Generate revenues by providing digital content such as news, music, photos, or videos.
content providers
Business ______ planning details how a company recovers and restores critical business operations and systems after a disaster or extended disruption.
continuity
What is the process of transferring information from a legacy system to a new system?
conversion
______ maintenance makes system changes to repair design flaws, coding errors, or implementation issues.
corrective
What makes system changes to repair design flaws, coding errors, or implementation issues?
corrective maintenance
A common ______ repository allows every department of a company to store and retrieve information in real time, allowing information to be more reliable and accessible.
data
The large part of the Internet that is inaccessible to conventional search engines.
deep web
The ______ phase takes all the detailed design documents from the design phase and transforms them into the actual system.
development
Test the system to ensure it is bug-free
development testing
Robotics focuses on creating artificial intelligence ______ that can move and react to sensory input.
devices
A(n) ______ technology is a new way of doing things that initially does not meet the needs of existing customers.
disruptive
types of feasibility
economic operational schedule technical political legal
The network ______ describes how products in a network increase in value to users as the number of users increases.
effect
Machine language difficult for people to understand
first generation
What is similar to taxonomy except that crowdsourcing determines the tags or keyword-based classification system?
folksonomy
______ is similar to taxonomy except that crowdsourcing determines the tags or keyword-based classification system.
folksonomy
______ generation languages are programming languages that look similar to human languages.
fourth
Programming languages that look similar to human languages
fourth generation
Google _____ is a wearable computer with an optical head-mounted display.
glass
Social _________ represent the interconnection of relationships in a social network.
graphs
A(n) ______ is a keyword or phrase used to identify a topic and is preceded by a hash or pound sign (#). For example, #sandiegofire helped coordinate emergency responses to a fire.
hashtag
What is a keyword or phrase used to identify a topic and is preceded by a hash or pound sign (#)?
hashtag
Create the illusion that a large number of potential customers are clicking the advertiser's links when in fact there is no likelihood that any of the clicks will lead to profit for the advertiser.
hitbots
Create the illusion that a large number of potential customers are clicking the advertiser's links, when in fact there is no likelihood that any of the clicks will lead to profit for the advertiser.
hitbots
What creates the illusion that a large number of potential customers are clicking the advertiser's links when in fact there is no likelihood that any of the clicks will lead to profit for the advertiser?
hitbots
______ are designated locations where Wi-Fi access points are publicly available.
hotspots
Hardware to perform traffic control.
hub
Groups of star-configured workstations are connected to a linear bus backbone cable, combining the characteristics of the bus and star topologies
hybrid
The idea behind ______ ERP is to split the ERP functions between an on-premises ERP system and one or more functions handled as Software as a Service (SaaS) in the cloud.
hybrid
______ cloud includes two or more private, public, or community clouds, but each cloud remains separate and is only linked by technology that enables data and application portability.
hybrid
What splits the ERP functions between an on-premises ERP system and one or more functions handled as Software as a Service (SaaS) in the cloud?
hybrid ERP
Radio-frequency ______ uses electronic tags and labels to identify objects wirelessly over short distances.
identification
A business ______ analysis identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them.
impact
In the ______ phase, the organization places the system into production so users can begin to perform actual business operations with it.
implementation
In which phase does the organization place the system into production so users can begin to perform actual business operations with it?
implementation phase
Provide specialized information on behalf of producers of goods and services and their potential customers.
infomediaries
What is the set of ideas about how all information in a given context should be organized?
information architecture
An MIS ______ includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets.
infrastructure
Wi-Fi ______ includes the inner workings of a Wi-Fi service or utility, including the signal transmitters, towers, or poles, along with additional equipment required to send out a Wi-Fi signal.
infrastructure
The ______ dilemma discusses how established companies can take advantage of disruptive technologies without hindering existing relationships with customers, partners, and stakeholders.
innovator's
Transaction processing system
input
______ messaging is a service that enables instant or real-time communication between people.
instant
What is a service that enables instant or real-time communication between people?
instant messaging
Enterprise application ______ middleware takes a new approach to middleware by packaging commonly used applications together, reducing the time needed to integrate applications from multiple vendors.
integration
Verify that separate systems can work together, passing data back and forth correctly
integration testing
A(n) ______ service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet for a monthly fee.
internet
What supports the capturing, organization, and dissemination of knowledge (i.e., know-how) throughout an organization?
knowledge management system
Represents a north/south measurement of position.
latitude
What represents a north/south measurement of position?
latitude
_____ (use acronym) applications use location information to provide a service.
lbs
What is an old system that is fast approaching or beyond the end of its useful life within an organization?
legacy system
A(n) ______ area network is designed to connect a group of computers in proximity to each other such as in an office building, a school, or a home.
local
Which applications use location information to provide a service?
location-based services
A universal resource ______ is the address of a file or resource on the web such as www.apple.com
locator
Transportation and __________ optimization focuses on the efficient movement of products through effective transportation management by evaluating multiple transportation modes, carriers, routes, shipping strategies, and support to find the lowest cost combination.
logistics
Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, describes niche-market ebusiness strategies as capturing the Blank______ tail, referring to the tail of a typical sales curve.
long
Represents an east/west measurement of position.
longitude
What represents an east/west measurement of position?
longitude
__________ represents an east/west measurement of position.
longitude
Involves performing changes, corrections, additions, and upgrades to ensure the system continues to meet its business goals.
maintenance phase
Project ______ is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements.
management
A project _____ is an individual who is an expert in project planning and management, defines and develops the project plan, and tracks the plan to ensure the project is completed on time and on budget.
manager
At the ______ level, employees are continuously evaluating company operations to hone the firm's abilities to identify, adapt to, and leverage change.
managerial
A(n) ___________ is a website or web application that uses content from more than one source to create a completely new product or service.
mashup
Website or Web application that uses content from more than one source to create a completely new product or service.
mashup
What is a website or web application that uses content from more than one source to create a completely new product or service?
mashup
Social ______ refers to websites that rely on user participation and user-contributed content, such as Facebook, YouTube, and Digg.
media
A(n) ______ is a set of policies, procedures, standards, processes, practices, tools, techniques, and tasks that people apply to technical and management challenges.
methodology
A(n) _________ area network is a large computer network usually spanning a city.
metropolitan
What is the practice of sending brief posts (140 to 200 characters) to a personal blog, either publicly or to a private group of subscribers who can read the posts as IMs or as text messages?
microblogging
______ is the practice of sending brief posts (140 to 200 characters) to a personal blog, either publicly or to a private group of subscribers who can read the posts as IMs or as text messages.
microblogging
Data ______ is the process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone.
mining
Data ______ tools use a variety of techniques to find patterns and relationships in large volumes of information that predict future behavior and guide decision making.
mining
Enterprise ______ management is an enterprisewide security strategy to enforce corporate epolicies while enabling employee use of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets.
mobility
______ advertising is an online marketing concept in which the advertiser attempts to gain attention by providing content in the context of the user's experience in terms of its content, format, style.
native
A(n) ______ (one word) operating system is the operating system that runs a network, steering information between computers and managing security and users.
network
A(n) ______ is a communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standard methodology in which they can communicate.
network
A(n)______ is a communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standard methodology in which they can communicate.
network
What is a communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standard methodology in which they can communicate?
network
______ transmission media refers to the various types of media used to carry the signal between computers.
network
What describes how products in a network increase in value to users as the number of users increases?
network effect
What refers to the geometric arrangement of the actual physical organization of the computers (and other network devices) in a network?
network topology
What refers to the various types of media used to carry the signal between computers?
network transmission media
____________ -oriented languages group data and corresponding processes into objects.
object
What groups data and corresponding processes into objects?
object-oriented languages
Sign-______ is the users' actual signatures indicating they approve all of the business requirements.
off
Bring together buyers and sellers of products and services.
online marketplaces
What activity can run over the Internet (or on a CD or DVD), allowing employees to complete their training on their own time at their own pace?
online training
Engaging another company within the same country for services.
onshore outsourcing
What refers to any software whose source code is made available free for any third party to review and modify?
open source
Supply chain ______ defines, recommends, and sets flexible supply chain strategies based on an organization's operations and resources.
optimization
A(n) ______ shift occurs when a new radical form of business enters the market that reshapes the way companies and organizations behave.
paradigm
Uses both the legacy system and new system until all users verify that the new system functions correctly
parallel implementation
_________ RFID tags do not have a power source, whereas active RFID tags have their own transmitter and a power source (typically a battery).
passive
Does not have a power source
passive RFID tag
______ (one word) as a Service supports the deployment of entire systems including hardware, networking, and applications using a pay-per-use revenue model.
platform
______ maintenance makes system changes to reduce the chance of future system failure.
preventive
______ modeling involves graphically representing the processes that capture, manipulate, store, and distribute information between a system and its environment.
process
What involves graphically representing the processes that capture, manipulate, store, and distribute information between a system and its environment?
process modeling
Data ______ is the process of collecting statistics and information about data in an existing source.
profiling
What is a website that looks and behaves as if it is a mobile application but it is just a normal website?
progressive web application
A(n) ______ is a temporary activity a company undertakes to create a unique product, service, or result.
project
What is a temporary activity a company undertakes to create a unique product, service, or result.
project
The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements.
project management
What is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements?
project management
An individual who is an expert in project planning and management, defines and develops the project plan, and tracks the plan to ensure the project is completed on time and on budget.
project manager
Who is an individual who is an expert in project planning and management, defines and develops the project plan, and tracks the plan to ensure the project is completed on time and on budget?
project manager
Represents key dates when a certain group of activities must be performed.
project milestone
What is a formal, approved document that manages and controls the entire project?
project plan
A set of communication rules to make sure that everyone speaks the same language
protocol
A(n) ______ is a standard that specifies the format of data as well as the rules to be followed during transmission
protocol
Ethernet, transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP).
protocol
What is a standard that specifies the format of data as well as the rules to be followed during transmission?
protocol
______ cloud promotes massive, global, and industrywide applications offered to the general public.
public
The structure of a typical organization is similar to a ______, and the different levels require different types of information to assist in decision making, problem solving, and opportunity capturing.
pyramid
An incident ______ contains all of the details of an incident.
record
Disaster ______ plan is a detailed process for recovering information or a system in the event of a catastrophic disaster.
recovery
Technology ______ strategies focus specifically on prioritizing the order for restoring hardware, software, and data across the organization that best meets business recovery requirements.
recovery
Wireless network benefits:
reduce costs improve customer service offers real-time diagnostics enhances mobility supports real-time data promotes remote work improved security
Receives and repeats a signal to reduce its attenuation and extend its range
repeater
Data ______ is the process of sharing information to ensure consistency between multiple data sources.
replication
Business ______ are the specific business requests the system must meet to be successful, so the analysis phase is critical because business requirements drive the entire systems development effort.
requirements
Information ______ refers to the depth and breadth of details contained in a piece of textual, graphic, audio, or video information.
richness
A telepresence ______ is a remote-controlled, wheeled device with a display to enable video chat and videoconferencing
robot
A(n) ______ is an intelligent connecting device that examines each packet of data it receives and then decides which way to send it onward toward its destination.
router
A space station that orbits the Earth receiving and transmitting signals from Earth-based stations over a wide area.
satellite
A(n) ______ is a object that orbits the Earth receiving and transmitting signals from Earth-based stations over a wide area.
satellite
What is a space station that orbits the Earth receiving and transmitting signals from Earth-based stations over a wide area?
satellite
The project ______ describes the business need (the problem the project will solve) and the justification, requirements, and current boundaries for the project.
scope
What is a programming method that provides for interactive modules to a website?
scripting language
Website software that finds other pages based on keyword matching similar to Google.
search engine
What is website software that finds other pages based on keyword matching similar to Google?
search engine
A(n) ______ is a self-photograph placed on a social media website.
selfie
What is a self-photograph placed on a social media website?
selfie
The ______ web is a component of Web 3.0 that describes things in a way that computers can understand.
semantic
A(n) ______ is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.
server
What is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests?
server
Software as a ______ delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-revenue model.
service
Provide services such as photo sharing, video sharing, online backup and storage
service providers
______ is the ability to look at information from different perspectives, such as analyzing total product sales during a given promotion versus the sales of a single product across all promotions.
slice-and-dice
A(n) ______ grid delivers electricity using two-way digital technology. It is meant to solve the problem of the world's outdated electrical grid, making it more efficient and reliable by adding the ability to remotely monitor, analyze, and control the transmission of power.
smart
Websites that rely on user participation and user-contributed content.
social media
What refers to websites that rely on user participation and user-contributed content, such as Facebook, YouTube, and Digg?
social media
The practice of expanding your business and/or social contacts by a personal network.
social networking
______ as a Service delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model.
software
________ that is built correctly can transform as the organization and its business transforms.
software
A(n) ______ can reduce costs, improve productivity, optimize business operations, generate growth, and increase profitability.
solid MIS infrastructure
What contains instructions written by a programmer specifying the actions to be performed by computer software?
source code
A small embedded line graph that illustrates a single trend
sparkline
What identifies the geographic location of features and boundaries on Earth, such as natural or constructed features, oceans, and more?
spatial data
Project ______ chart is a monitoring dashboard that uses red, yellow, and green color coding to indicate the status of each project task.
spotlight
All devices are connected to a central device, called a hub.
star
A(n) ______ MIS infrastructure identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption.
sustainable
______ communication, or communications that occur at the same time such as IM or chat
synchronous
What is communications that occur at the same time such as IM or chat?
synchronous communication
An open ______ consists of nonproprietary hardware and software based on publicly known standards that allows third parties to create add-on products to plug into or interoperate with the system.
system
The ______ development life cycle is the overall process for developing information systems, from planning and analysis through implementation and maintenance.
system
What is the ability to present the resources of a single computer as if it is a collection of separate computers ("virtual machines"), each with its own virtual CPUs, network interfaces, storage, and operating system?
system virtualization
The overall process for developing information systems from planning and analysis through implementation and maintenance.
systems development life cycle (SDLC)
Social ______ describes the collaborative activity of marking shared online content with keywords or tags as a way to organize it for future navigation, filtering, or search.
tagging
What are specific keywords or phrases incorporated into website content for means of classification or taxonomy
tags
______ are specific keywords or phrases incorporated into website content for means of classification or taxonomy.
tags
What is the scientific classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin?
taxonomy
______ is the scientific classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin.
taxonomy
A(n) ______ review is a meeting in which an independent team of experts provides an in-depth analysis of project results to ensure that team members did the work accurately, completely, and to the right quality standard.
technical
The ______ phase brings all the project pieces together into a special testing environment to eliminate errors and bugs and verify that the system meets all the business requirements defined in the analysis phase.
testing
Involves bringing all the project pieces together into a special testing environment to eliminate errors and bugs, and verify that the system meets all of the business requirements defined in the analysis phase.
testing phase
Which phase brings all the project pieces together into a special testing environment to eliminate errors and bugs and verify that the system meets all the business requirements defined in the analysis phase?
testing phase
A graphical representation showing change of a variable over time
time-series chart
______ computing, a subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment.
to clean
A network ______ refers to the geometric arrangement of the actual physical organization of the computers (and other network devices) in a network.
topology
Bus, star, ring, hybrid, wireless.
topology
A(n) ______ (one word) processing system is the basic business system that serves the operational level (analysts) and assists in making structured decisions?
transaction
A system is called ______ when it is not operating and cannot be used
unavailable
Test individual units or pieces of code for a system
unit testing
Strategic decisions are highly ______ decisions, occurring in situations in which no procedures or rules exist to guide decision makers toward the correct choice.
unstructured
What reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product?
upcycle
______ reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product.
upcycle
Backward integration sends information entered into a given system automatically to all ______ systems and processes.
upstream
The graphical ______ interface is the interface to an information system.
user
______ documentation is created to highlight how to use the system and how to troubleshoot issues or problems.
user
What is created that highlights how to use the system and how to troubleshoot issues or problems?
user documentation
A(n) ___________ allows people at two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously as well as share documents, data, computer displays, and whiteboards.
videoconference
What allows people at two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously as well as share documents, data, computer displays, and whiteboards?
videoconference
______ over IP uses IP technology to transmit telephone calls.
voice
_________ over LTE allows mobile voice calls to be made over broadband networks, creating—under the right network conditions—clearer audio and fewer dropped calls.
voice
A(n) ______ area network spans a large geographic area, such as a state, province, or country.
wide
A(n) ______ is a type of collaborative web page that allows users to add, remove, and change content, which can be easily organized and reorganized as required.
wiki
Collaborative Web page that allows users to add, remove, and change content, which can be easily organization and reorganized as required.
wiki
What is a type of collaborative web page that allows users to add, remove, and change content, which can be easily organized and reorganized as required?
wiki
______ media are transmission material manufactured so that signals will be confined to a narrow path and will behave predictably.
wire
What type of media are transmission material manufactured so that signals will be confined to a narrow path and will behave predictably?
wire media
A (n) ______-wide area network is a wide area network that uses radio signals to transmit and receive data.
wireeless
A (n) ______-wide area network is a wide area network that uses radio signals to transmit and receive data
wireless
Devices are connected by signals between access points and wireless transmitters within a limited range.
wireless
Mobile business is the ability to purchase goods and services through a ______ Internet-enabled device.
wireless