Final Exam - Chapters 1-21 INFO 360

What is legendary GE CEO Jack Welch quoted as saying about competition?

"If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete."

If you receive $100 five years from now, what is the PV of that $100 if you use a 6% interest or discount rate?

$74.73

One of the first computer aided design programs ever developed was also among the first to be integrated into ERP systems. This popular program is

AutoCAD.

Data analysts are likely to have achieved what education level when beginning their career?

Bachelor's degree

To select nonadjoining cells in a spreadsheet, hold down the ________ key while selecting cells.

Control (Ctrl)

Alyssa says that no one would risk selling operable or effective malware programs, even on the Dark Web. Why is she wrong?

Criminal hackers do make money by selling actual malware.

Determine which of the following is an example of data that has integrity.

Data that are used to set sales goals for account executives are stored on a secure server; managers are allowed read-only access to the sales data for the reps they directly manage.

The Act that is important in specifically protecting email and VoIP communications is the

Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

Which type of chart commonly used by project managers is a horizontal bar chart that shows project activities on the y-axis and time on the x-axis?

Gantt chart

What is the goal of the process design step of business process management (BPM)?

Identify redundancies and inefficiencies in existing processes.

What is the purpose of the Twitter report card?

It highlights high-performing tweets. Correct. Influencers are introduced to their target audience through the Twitter report card.

Which statement accurately describes the need to keep sensitive data, information, and systems confidential?

It is both a major goal and a requirement for cybersecurity.

What occurs during the process monitoring step of business process management?

Managers track the individual components of the process as well as the process as a whole so that the performance of the engine can be measured.

Which of the listed programs are used for creating documents, basic web pages, and desktop publishing?

Microsoft Word

In terms of information quality, define "consistency" as a factor.

Multiple versions of a single item of data should be the same.

__________ is widely used in finance in the stock valuation, bond pricing, and financial modeling.

PV (Present Value)

The principle that asks the decision maker to imagine the answer a highly moral person would have for the same question is the

Principle of Virtue.

Why is data that is located in the RAM of a device considered data in transit?

RAM only holds data and instructions temporarily; nothing is permanently stored in RAM.

An electrical company has decided to open a new location in California. While it will be relocating a small percentage of executives to this new location, most employees will need to be hired from the local area. The company uses its human resource information system to sort resumes based on key words used to describe skills, college attended, and number of years' experience. Any resumes that do not fit within these parameters are not scheduled for in-person interviews. What function is this HR management system helping the company perform?

Recruiting

Most tablets and phones use ________ as their main storage device.

SSD

Of the following statements, which one specifically applies to the CRM integration of platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok?

Social media platforms provide targeted customer information.

What is a benefit a student gains by using an LMS?

Student performance is more easily tracked through the gradebook, giving a student a constantly updated view of what their grade will be.

Which statement correctly summarizes the role of the project manager (PM) during the execution stage of the project management process?

The PM monitors progress and resources and adjusts the schedule as needed.

A function that looks for a value in the leftmost column of a table, and then returns a value located in the same row as the first value, is called a

VLookup.

Which project management tool is so important that nearly all PM software includes support systems for it, to ensure that all stakeholders are kept informed of a project's status?

a communications plan

Which of the four criteria is occurring when a network confirms that a transaction has not yet occurred on the blockchain?

a transaction is verified

The Stored Communications Act prohibits which activity?

accessing the communications of an organization without authorization

There are many RDBMS query tools we can use. Those query tools include crosstab queries, ________Blank queries, parameter queries, and queries specific to SQL.

action

Because the technology allows a robot arm to act more like a human's with regard to spatial recognition and safety awareness, while maintaining all of the advantages of a traditional industrial robot, ________ can make robots much more flexible and safer.

adaptive robotics

The primary advantage of mainframes computers is that they

allow modifications to system capacity while the system is in use.

In addition to advancements in computer hardware, what drove improvements to POS (point-of-sale) systems in the 1990s?

an increasingly diverse group of users and their needs

"Cybersecurity threat mitigation" includes all of the policies, procedures, and tools that help organizations

anticipate and counter threats from security vulnerabilities or incidents and reduce their impact.

How is quantitative data about a customer most accurately characterized?

as a record of how a customer interacts with a business

A videoconference may be a better choice than a voice conference call because it allows

better communication through nonverbal cues.

What is predicting the impact of a hurricane that is predicted to make landfall in New Orleans on a trucking route that goes from Houston, TX to Miami, FL an example of?

big data

In ASCII 8 bits are combined to create a ________.

byte

Clock speed, also known as ________, is the speed at which the processor performs the operations required to run a digital device and the digital device's instructions.

clock rate

Which type of collaboration software could best help an organization increase engagement between remote employees and those who are "in-house" or organization-based?

cloud-based forums, messaging, and meeting apps

Management information systems allow managers to build upon an organization's existing strengths to create

competitive advantages.

Online marketplaces where one consumer sells to another consumer are called

consumer-to-consumer (C2C).

What are the core actions of the protect (PR) function?

controlling access to systems and preventing unauthorized access

Which of the following would the project completion time be based on?

creating the software which all components of the project depend upon to run smoothly

Integrating database management systems (DBMS) with predictive analytics to give managers a recommended course of action is the focus of

decision-making management information systems

Trying to answer questions such as "what happened?" or "what is occurring?" or "what was the ROI?" is the role of

descriptive analytics.

When making an ethical analysis, you should get all the pertinent facts and then

determine the affected.

A PERT network chart describes the ________ of each project activity in terms of optimistic or best-case scenario (O), pessimistic (P), and expected or most likely (E or M).

duration

Which cryptocurrency offers a blockchain-based platform that can be used to develop decentralized applications?

ethereum

Have you ever misplaced your purse or wallet? This may be a thing of the past since some companies are developing personal identification purchasing capability using ________ software.

facial recognition

The total amount of money (principal + interest) that lender receives from a borrower at the end of the loan is referred to as the loan's

future value (FV).

Vector and raster files are

geographic data.

What type of decision-making software can identify issues and find and implement solutions at transactional speed?

high-velocity

Which of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework functions investigates an organization's cybersecurity management in the context of their business needs and resources?

identify (ID) function

Database Management Systems (DBMS) assign users different access rules to protect the data and users from ________Blank, data leaks, and the misuse of data.

identity theft

With the increasing presence of Internet e-commerce sites, the force of customers has

increased

Which of the measurable outcomes of the balanced scorecard framework focuses on organizational culture?

learning and growth

Relational databases use ________Blank called relationships between tables.

links

A megabyte equals approximately one ________ bytes?

million

Some popular social media management systems are becoming more difficult to manage because

millions of diverse users across the globe are active participants.

The information in the memory (the RAM, the caches, the registers) is ________ when a computer is shut down

not saved

Fayol's principles for structuring organizational roles and authority emphasize

order and unity, so that employees understand their role and report to only one person.

What is the second step in the six-step process of creating an SMIS?

outline measurements of success

Which type of cookie is lost only if deleted or if is created with an expiration date?

persistent cookie

When data is anonymized, the PII is eliminated or encrypted. PII includes names, Social Security numbers, addresses, and more and stands for ______Blank identifiable information.

personally

In the fourth step in business process management, managers track the individual components of the process as well as the process as a whole so engine performance can be measured. This step is called

process monitoring.

SQL, usually pronounced "sequel," is quite useful when working with large data sets. The Q in SQL stands for

query.

When displaying financial information, the accepted practice is that ________ indicates negative values.

red

Currently, apps that run on the Cloud are ________ as compared to apps that run on local machines. Edge computing is a method of optimizing cloud computing systems by performing data processing at the edge of the network, near the source of the data and it is possible that cloud computing may take a back seat to edge computing.

slower

Specialized hardware or software that capture packets transmitted over a network are called packet

sniffers.

Sports analysts often use ________ to keep track of statistics, times, and scores of nearly every sporting event.

spreadsheets

What portion of a firm's executive information system would be responsible for automatically restocking a necessary manufacturing component once it went below a predetermined level?

supply chain management

Decision-making management information systems are necessary because

the amount of information available far exceeds any manager's ability to use it.

The term "native resolution" refers to?

the number of pixels in a display

You see ###### in a cell. This means that

this is not an error. The cell needs to be expanded in order to display the entire value.

What is the primary, underlying goal or purpose of state-sponsored cyberwarfare?

to protect or pursue national security interests

On an e-commerce presence map, what is presence?

websites, email, social media sites, and offline media