MIS 111 -- CCR

75%

According to Pixel Farm, because a mobile device is uniquely personal, approximately what percentage of mobile users have expressed concerns about the collection of personal data by marketers?

Declining costs of power, space, and maintenance needed to operate a data computer

All of the following are factors contributing to the rapid growth of the cloud computing industry, except:

Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)

All of the following are optional employee contributions made as wither pre- or post-tax payroll deductions EXCEPT:

Grid Computing

As one of the industry trends that led to cloud computing, which of the following was brought into the mainstream by Globus Alliance and focused on solving large problems with parallel computing?

create customer intimacy

By purchasing digital dossiers, companies are seeking to know their customers better through a process called ________.

Augmented Reality

Cyber-Physical System (CPS) engage with "real space" through interactions with all of the following EXCEPT:

smart payment cards

EMV, which stands for the three companies (Europay, MasterCard, and Visa) that originally created the technology, is a technical standard used for what mobile commerce application?

raising of a Kanban card

In the business case for pull-based production discussed in class, what determines the quantity of production produced by a work center?

what-if

In the case study of the University of Arizona's Degree Search application, "assessing a new major" was described as using what type of scenario to make a decision?

protocol

In the communication architecture model, what term is used to describe the "rules of communication" that manage the transfer of a message over a transmission medium?

enhancement

In the customer intimacy zone, what type of innovation uses the strategy of improving existing products in existing markets by modifying a single dimension in order to reawaken customer interest in increasingly commoditized categories?

Immediately following the completion of the "Choice" phase

In the decision-making process framework, the implementation of a solution occurs when?

DNS and Email Services

In the discussion of how Internet Bridges the Communications Gap Transparently, which of the following was NOT discussed as a capability of the end-user device?

cost/resource

In the following budgetary spreadsheet, what aspect of the "triple constraint" do the financial cash flows and personnel allocations represent?

The critical path will increase to 10 days

In the following critical path diagram, if the time required to complete "Task B" was changed, so that Task B now requires 6 days instead of 2 days, how would the critical path (currently shown as 9 days) be affected?

P2

In the following diagram showing the transmission of packets P1 to P6 from New York to Los Angeles, which of the following packets would be routed through the switching center in Dallas?

Connected vehicles, such as Qualcomm's V2X (Vehicle to Everything)

Question 21 / 1 point Which of the following business applications would typically NOT be something that commonly associated with NFC (Near Field Communication) technology?

Advocating for new environmental laws

Recognizing that business strategies for GreenIT depend on changing behaviors, which of the following was NOT discussed as one of the dimensions needed to create a social contract?

9

Related to project management and our discussion of the the Mythical Man Month, consider the situation shown below where the time to complete each task of the project was estimated to require 3 workers for 4 months (left figure). However, we have found that whole project estimate is low, and each task will actually require 2 months, if we use only our original 3 workers (right figure). Assuming any new workers added would be equally productive as our original workers, in order to complete the remaining 18 months of work in the two months remaining, how many total workers (including our original workers) would be required?

Nested IF statements

The Decision Support Rule Induction strategy commonly uses which of the following programming constructs to make a recommendation?

awareness

The SETA security program is designed to help organizations to mitigate the number of security breaches caused by human error by making people aware of information security policies and help prevent security incidents. SETA stands for Security, Education, Training, and _____________.

Production

The ________ process originates in the warehouse department and ends in the warehouse department.

Common Good

The _________ approach highlights the interlocking relationships that underlie all societies.

opt-out

The _________ model of informed consent permits the company to collect personal information until the customer specifically requests that the data not be collected.

values

The comparison (analysis) fields, such as the "grade" field used in our in-class discussion of pivot tables, would be displayed in which section of an Excel PivotTable control panel, as shown below:

crowdsourcing

The development of the first marine chronometer in 1714 and the Oxford English Dictionary in 1858 are examples of using what type of collaborative problem solving?

US Military (department of defense)

The first tele-medicine programs emerged in the 1950's and were connected with what organization?

coaxial cable

The images shown below are which of the three types of guided (wireline) media?

DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) Attacks

The increasing number of connected IOT (Internet of Things) devices has increased security challenges in all of the following areas EXCEPT:

Identity Services

The origins of the IOT-based security breach at Target was related to which of the following dimensions of the IT/IOT converged security model?

social problem solving

Traditional, private-sector entrepreneurship generally focuses on all of the following except:

Dissemination

Translating a manual from one language to another is an example of changing one form of explicit knowledge to another form of explicit knowledge for the purpose of ________________.

category comparison

TreeMap, Sunburst, and Histogram charts are all related to which of the following categories of visualizations?

Within 24 hours after submitting your request

Typically, how long before you're able to access Arizona's Adobe Create Cloud after you have completed the registration process?

electronic surveillance

URL filtering, which uses software to block connections to inappropriate websites, is a type of _________ technology.

Experiential Design

Universal design, or the design of products and environments, to be used by most people without need for adaptation or specialized design, is also described as all of the following, EXCEPT:

Ethical "No Free Lunch Rule"

What ethical framework is based on the tenant "Assume that virtually all tangible and intangible objects are owned by someone unless there is a specific declaration otherwise"?

Golden Rule

What ethical framework is based on the tenant "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"?

Ethical Drift

What ethical situation was David Myers, former Controller of WorldCom referring to when he stated "I still don't know that one point when I started to cross the line... when I should have acted differently"?

beacons

What is the name for tiny devices that are placed in a consumers' physical environment that have the ability to emit low-energy Bluetooth signals to send advertising to nearby consumers?

Due Process

What term is used to describe the concept used for ethical analysis regarding laws that are well-known and understood, with an ability to appeal to higher authorities?

Tragedy of the Commons

What term is used to describe the ethical theory that anything held in common that can be used by all freely without regulation will naturally result in everyone will attempt to maximize his own benefit to the detriment of the shared community resource?

minimal viable product

What term is used to describe the experimental prototype products many entrepreneurs build from scratch with bare-bones features and basic functionality that aims to appeal to early adopters?

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

What term is used to describe the externally-facing area of a company's network that is located between two firewalls and contains servers that typically handle web page requests and e-mail?

federated approach

What term is used to describe the method that allows COPLINK to access many different databases of law enforcement agencies with varying data fields?

data governance

What term is used to describe the practice of evaluating requirements and brining direction and control over data and information?

COUNTIF

Which of the following Excel functions will return the number of cells in a range by adding the values that match specified criteria?

SUMIF

Which of the following Excel functions will return the total value of a number of cells in a range by adding the values that match specified criteria in a corresponding cell?

Using cut-and-paste to copy text directly from the web or a word processing document into your website

Which of the following actions was described as being a common mistake (pitfall) made when completing ABP-3?

evaluate the quality of the solution

Which of the following actions was identified as a prerequisite to the "Revise" step in the Case Based Reasoning "R4 Cycle"?

Animal identification Systems

Which of the following applications would be most commonly associated with short range systems (up to 1 meter) that are commonly in the vicinity of metals and liquids?

Multi-factor Authentication

Which of the following is NOT a technique that is commonly used by a firewall to manage information sharing between two networks?

scale/quanity

Which of the following is NOT commonly considered to be one of the project management "triple constraints"?

impartiality

Which of the following is NOT one of the criteria used to characterize the power and control of an individual over a project's successful outcome using the stockholder matrix?

origin of information

Which of the following is NOT one of the seven (7) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Data Protection Principles?

Alignment

Which of the following is NOT one of the terms used to describe the way in which data mining is able to identify actionable patterns in business data?

microwave

Which of the following is a high bandwidth, long distance, terrestrial wireless transmission system that transmits data through electromagnetic waves?

digital twin

Which of the following terms describes a virtual software model of a physical object that allows engineers to virtually model different scenarios in order to improve their designs?

Cloud native

Which of the following terms describes an approach to building applications and services specifically for a cloud computing environment?

workflow

Which of the following terms describes the the movement of information as it progresses through the sequence of steps that make up an organization's work procedures?

Data Controllers

Which of the following terms does the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) use to encompass genetic data, racial information, information about religious and political views, sexual orientation, and trade union membership, among others?

continuous waveform

Which of the following terms would NOT commonly be associated with digital transmissions?

Something the user has

Which of the following types of authentication methods would use regular identification (ID) cards, smart ID cards, and tokens to authenticate that someone is an authorized personnel?

new product feature design

Which of the following use cases would typically NOT be an application monitored with a real-time executive dashboard?

smart factory

Which of the following uses a flexible system that optimizes performance across an interconnected network that can autonomously operate entire production processes?

Eliminates the productivity paradox

Which of the following was NOT discussed as a way that data networking can create a strategic advantage for a businesss?

automation

With respect to expanding opportunities for ICT environmental contributions, what term is associated with the issues such as Logistics for Transportation, Smart Motors, and Industrial Robots?

fixed expenses

With respect to managing a personal budget, what category of consistent expenditures would describe predictable payments such as car and rent payments?

payback period

With respect to measuring the value of an investment, which of the following methods provides an estimate of the time period needed before the net savings equals the initial cost?

Create business alignment for project schedule

A Gantt Chart a visual representation of a schedule that helps a project manager do all of the following EXCEPT:

tools and machines used by production

A bill of materials (BOM) typically would NOT include which of the following items?

instance

A(n) ________ of an entity refers to each row in a relational table, which is a specific, unique representation of the entity.

ASP

A(n) ____________ is an agent or a vendor who assembles the software needed by enterprises and then packages it with services such as development, operations, and maintenance.

flu outbreaks

According to "The internet is watching you" video case, in 2008, what was Google able to predict by tracking searches for flu symptoms and where to buy a thermometer?

Smart logistics

According to Adopting the IoT Paradigm: Challenges and Opportunities, using IOT to track packages, containers, and other bulkware are examples of what type of "smart" IOT technologies?

Industrial Internet

According to Firstmark's Internet of Everything Landscape survey, Energy, Supply Chain, Robotics, and Industrial Wearables are all part of what dimension of the Applications (Verticals) segment?

design

According to Fred Brooks, the author of the Mythical Man Month, when planning a project, the most time should be planned for which of the following activities?

Wired Networks

According to IOT Analytics, when connecting IOT (Internet of Things) device, which of the following connectivity types (transport layer) was used the LEAST in 2020?

around 800

According to Intel's "power of Entrepreneurship" video case, during the time it took for you to watch the video case, approximately how many new businesses did entrepreneurs start?

An application user's willingness to pay if convinced of value

According to NAVTEQ, what does the "subsidization breakpoint" for location-based services measure?

inclusion

According to it's description, which of "The Eller Way" standards focused on creating a global learning community in which everyone thrives in their education, as described in the following statement by Howard Gardner? "Globalization is selecting for interpersonal competencies, including the ability to think and work with others coming from very different racial, linguistic, religious, and cultural backgrounds."

radical innovation

According to our class discussion on Enterpreneurship, the amount of value accumulation over time will be the greatest with what type of innovation?

diminished sense of accountability

According to our class discussion, which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a Social Entrepreneur as a Change Agent?

Edge Computing

According to the "Cloud Computing Trends for 2020" video case, what term is used to describe a distributed computing model where information is processed closer to its source?

complex inter-relationships

According to the "PM Essential Skills" video case, project managment is all about what?

Align organizational support systems to promote ownership

According to the 10 Principles for Effective Collaboration, what approach should be taken to foster commitment of collaborators and their understanding of the overall goals?

A price match for the item

According to the Forrester Research on showrooming, what did the National Retail Foundation find as the most common reason for a consumer to research other options using mobile commerce technologies while shopping for a product in a physical store?

Collaborative Robots (Cobots)

According to the Goldman Sachs video case study on the "Factory of the Future", which one of the following technologies would be the result of increased human and machine collaboration?

Super Greens

According to the Mainstream Green report written by Ogilvy and Mather, the attitude of which of the following groups is most likely to recognize the importance of sustainability and dedicate themselves to living a green or sustainable lifestyle?

Delaying when to turn on the monument's lightning until after sunset

According to the Root Cause Analysis video case, what was the root cause analysis recommendation to prevent the stone in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC from crumbling?

robust

According to the The POUR principles of accessibility video case, which of the four POUR principles requires content to be available to technologies individuals are using, such as screen readers or an older version of a browser?

GPS receiver to provide time and location information

According to the U of Digital Beacon Technology Explained video case, which of the following was NOT discussed as a component in a beacon-based system that results in advertising messages being displayed on a customer's device?

Find and correct invalid data values

According to the What is a Pivot Table? video case, Excel PivotTables can perform all of the following data processing functions on information found in the original worksheet EXCEPT:

Information and data processing

According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Survey 2020, although the reallocation of current tasks between humans and machines (technologies) is already in motion, which of the following tasks is least likely to be performed by humans in 2025?

Internet Of Things (IOT) and connected devices

According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Survey 2020, the Health and Heathcare (HE) sector is most (highest %) likely to adopt technology in which of the following sectors?

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Survey 2020, which of the following cross-cutting (i.e., easily transferable across many occupations and roles) specialized skills will be needed in the emerging job clusters of Cloud computing, Data and AI (Artificial Intelligence), Engineering, Marketing, and Product Development?

Changes in technology has led to much quicker end-of-life for electronic products

According to the e-Waste in South Africa video case, what has resulted in a business opportunity for Bolunga Electronic Waste company to provide recycling e-Waste services?

A dramatic change in methodology or practive

According to the video case "What is a Paradigm Shift?", a paradigm shift is characterized in which of the following ways?

95%

According to the video case The World of Micro-Loans, women borrowers, who make up 85% of micro-borrowers globally, are considered a good risk as they repay approximately what percentage of their loans?

The way the user moves through the content

According to the video case discussing how to Make Money with AR, VR, and 360 Video Content, what is the major difference between virtual reality and 360 video?

measurement error

According to the video case on the Productivity Paradox, Goldman Sachs believes which of the following causes is the primary reason for the slowing in productivity growth?

Indented Bill-of-Materials

Along with a hierarchical Product Tree Structure, the relationships of items within the Bill-Of-Materials (BOM) can also be represented by which of the following?

decision making

Also called flow control, which of the following terms is used to describe the process of determining the order in which statements execute in a program?

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

Also known as "Rijndael," what cipher has been the "official" encryption standard in the United States since 2002?

local loop

Also known as a subscriber line, in the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), what is the connection between the local telephone company exchange office and a subscriber's house called?

50% to 70%

Although 80% to 95% of Americans cherish their privacy as a very important right and principle, what percentage also act in ways that allow others to easily monitor and track their activities through the use of credit cards and online activites?

primary key

Although not an exact equivalent, the first column of the data range in a VLOOKUP table_array serves a role that is similar to what database concept? VLOOKUP( lookup_value, table_array, col_index_num, range_lookup)

video monitors

Analog VGA and digital DVI computer ports provide are interfaces to what type of computer peripheral?

prediction of outcomes

As an aspect of quantitative decision making, modeling and simulation provide typically inform decisions in what way?

aware

As described by CapGemini, what aspect of smart products used an Industry 4.0 environment would focus on using sensor technology to give access to condition information regarding products and their environment?

experiential

As described by Thomas Stoffregen, what type of fidelity (or believability) answers the question "Does the system feel real?" and focuses on the subjective experiences that are associated with an interface or virtual environment?

action fidelity

As described by Thomas Stoffregen, what type of fidelity (or believability) focuses on creating a virtual environment where a user's actions resemble their actions in a corresponding real environment?

Smart Decision

As described by the UArizona's Autonomic Computing Lab, which of the following would NOT be commonly considered as being an IOT (Internet of Things) Integrated Application?

Competition

As described by the UofA's Autonomic Computing Lab, which of the following would NOT be commonly considered as being one of the challenges for the Future of the IOT (Internet of Things)?

manage change

As described in the "Ten Axioms for Success", what approach should be used to addresses a common source of project failure described as "scope creep or drift" caused by deviations from the project plan?

communication

As described in the "Ten Axioms for Success", what issue is considered as being vital to promote trust as project managers from the perspective of "Know Your Team"?

earth observation data

As described in the video case of the same name, the "Australian Geoscience Data Cube" offers a global analysis platform for what type of information?

Service Outrages and Natural Disasters

As discussed in the Cloud Computing Trends for 2020 case study, what is an important driver for the increasing demand for cloud-based Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) services?

post cards

As discussed in the the video case Vint Cerf Explains TCP Networking, what example does he use to explain how messages are sent?

satellite radio

As envisioned by the US Department of Transportation's roadmap for connected vehicles, DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communications) wireless communication technology will be used to link all of the following sources to a connected vehicle EXCEPT:

Optimized toll collection

As more IOT (Internet of Things) connected cars are connected through though wireless technologies such as DSRV (Dedicated Short Range Communication), urban connectivity is expected to improve traffic management in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

retention strategy

As part of a Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) assessment, the 80/20 rule, often referred to as the Pareto Principle, describes the importance of the profitability of a small segment of your customer base. Which of the following strategies would be used to manage this highly profitable segment of customers?

u.arizona.edu

As shown below, what "Host name" should be used with WinSCP (or equivalent field for CyberDuck) to connect to the UArizona personal web hosting server?

define

Asking the question "who are our customers and what are their priorities?" occurs during what step in the Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) supply chain management process?

customer intimacy

Companies focusing on innovation relating to product enhancement and experiential factors are all associated with what innovation zone?

Creating data definitions

Companies that are effective in data and Business Intelligence (BI) governance has senior-level committee who responsible for all of the following except:

time

Commonly associated with clustering data mining, describing data as having temporal proximity indicates the data are connected by what common attribute?

operational

Commonly occurring and well-defined business activities such as the day-to-day managing of orders and taking customer's reservations would be what category of organizational decision for a restaurant?

Seven generations in the past and also into the future

Cherokee leader Wilma Pearl Mankiller reminded us that when making decisions that affect the people, Iroquois leaders are encouraged to remember what?

WAN (Wide Area Network)

Connecting approximately 1 million organizational computer networks in more than 200 countries on all continents, the Internet is what type of network?

The needs of society and the public's right to know

Court decisions in many countries have determined the right of privacy is not absolute, but must be balanced against what?

Creating a business plan to translate a social opportunity into a profitable product or service

Creating a business plan to translate a social opportunity into a profitable product or service

tim berners-lee

Credited with creating the World Wide Web, who was quoted as saying that the "Power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone, regardless of disability, technology, or environment is an essential, integral aspect of life."?

Peer-to-peer (P2P)

In the 1990's, companies such as Limewire, Bittorrent, and Napster were based on what type of computing model?

Second Industrial Revolution

During which industrial revolution were industries able to expand their use of mass production by using electricity and internal combustion engines to power large factories and assembly lines?

problem definition

Domain expertise and text, numeric, and visual data are all inputs to what phase of the spiral methodology for the data mining process?

maturity

During what phase of a typical customer product lifecycle is the product widely accepted but intense price competition reduces profits and some firms drop out due to increased market competition?

Training

During what phase of the development of a neural network are thousands of examples presented to the neural network to create an refine the internal "hidden" layers?

Third Industrial Revolution

During which industrial revolution did electronics and information and communication (ICT) technology create a "digital revolution" that further advanced automation?

intelligence

Examination and understanding of the problem is related to which phase of the Decision Making Process (Intelligence, Design, and Choice, also known as the "IDC Phases")?

companies

Falling transportation and telecommunications costs during the second era of globalization (Globalization 2.0) allowed which of the following groups to think globally and collaborate?

PeopleSoft

Founded by David Duffield, which of the following ERP vendors is a popular software choice for managing human resources and financial activities at universities?

Redefining existing products and services

From the perspective of Porter's Competitive Forces, which of the following was NOT discussed as an approach that could be used by a company as as part of a strategy to manage the potential threat of new entrants?

alternative input devices

From the perspective of assistive technologies, what term would you use to describe the group of technologies such as an on-screen keyboards, head pointers, and motion tracking tools that allow individuals with disabilities to accomplish tasks in a more accessible way?

budget variance

From the perspective of managing a budget, what term is used to describe the difference between the amount of money that was budgeted and the actual amount of money spent?

Low Interest / Importance, High Influence

From the perspective of the "Stakeholder Matrix," what category of stakeholders could pose a risk or create obstacles for a project?

relationships

Globalization allows individuals receive information directly from governments, political advocacy organizations, businesses, and individuals, base by removing intermediaries from our ____________?

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

Google Apps, Apple iCloud, and Salesforce.com are allow examples of which of the following computing models?

descriptive

Helping organizations understand what has happened, what step in the business analytics process enables decision makers to learn from past behaviors, such as average dollars spent per customer and year-over-year change in sales?

By the order of field names in the "Rows" section

How is the hierarchical order of pivot fields displayed in a pivot table (i.e., major vs. standing as when in the following sample pivot table) determined?

The value of the first parameter

If the evaluation of the first parameter of an Excel IFERROR function (shown in bold/underlined in the example below) does NOT return an error (e.g., #N/A), what value does the IFERROR function return? =IFERROR( VLOOKUP(H15,D$11:F$19,3,FALSE), "Unknown" )

src="Walmart%20Logo.jpg"

If the filename of your company's logo image files is "Walmart Logo.jpg" on your computer (i.e., the filename of your company logo has an embedded space in the name), which of the following would the filename used in the "src" attribute on the HTML "IMG" tag?

Cyber-Physical Production System (CPPS)

In CapGemini's Industry 4.0 Smart Factory discussion, what term is used to describe a multi-agent system that acts like a market place of production service allowing machines to configure themselves automatically?

scam calls

In July 2019, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) required network operators to implement SHAKEN/STIR to verify the source of phone calls. What significant problem for cell phone users was SHAKEN/STIR seeking to address?

The worksheet name has an embedded space

In a cross-sheet reference, what aspect of a worksheet name would require the worksheet name to be enclosed in single quote marks (e.g., 'Customer Data'!A1)?

actors

In a data communication architecture, transmitters (senders) and receivers of messages are described using what term?

medium

In a network communication architecture, what term is used to describe the infrastructure used to transmit a message?

Protocol

In a network communication architecture, what term is used to describe the rules of communication used to transmit a message?

The quantity of production required to replenish one bin

In a pull-based (Kanban) production system, what does the quantity on the Kanban card indicate?

re-intermediation

In order to have more efficient supply chains, when the world becomes your market, what term has been used to describe how intermediaries are often critical to facilitate effective commerce?

relationship

In relational database modeling, operators that illustrate an association between two entities are known as which of the following?

IF road tested = 'yes'

In the "Decision Tree for Buying a Car" example discussed in class and shown below, which of the following conditions ("IF" statements) must ALWAYS be true for every "BUY" decision outcome?

Her online posting promoted drinking in the "virtual view" of her students

In the "Drunken Pirate" case discussion, why was the picture, captioned "Drunken Pirate", that Stacy Snyder posted of herself on her personal MySpace account considered as being an "unprofessional" act for a high school teacher-in-training?

wannacry

In the "Eye on Oversight" video case study, what was the name of a ransomware software that impacted the United Kingdom National Health Service in 2017?

Companies will become more location agnostic when selection the locations for to manufacture products

In the "Factory of the Future" video case, what does Goldman Sachs anticipate will be the impact of an increased focus on automation and cost savings?

Interation

In the "ThinkTank Group DSS" video case study, which of the following was NOT identified as an area supported by ThinkTank for breakthroughs when making collaborative decisions?

Allowed existing owners of BMW automobiles to make recommendations on prototype designs and features

In the BMW augmented reality (AR) case study, BMW reported that using AR improved their vehicle concept and prototype engineering processes in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

Intelligent

In the CapGemini IOT Industry 4.0 case, what dimension focuses on the way that Smart Products are equipped with computing power that enables autonomous decision-making and self-learning processes based on algorithms?

retain

In the Case-based Reasoning R4 cycle by Aamodth and Piaza, a verified solution would be added to the Case-Base following what step in cycle?

Finding a "rosetta stone" that included both encrypted and decrypted messages

In the Code Breakers Decipher Letters by Mary, Queen of Scots case study, all of the following techniques were used by the cryptologists to decode the letters EXCEPT:

Not allowed to serve as a director or CEO of a public company for five years

In the Crime Inc. - Martha Stewart video case, in addition to the criminal penalties, what other penalty did Martha Stewart receive as a result of a subsequent civil case?

experimental innovation

In the Customer Intimacy Zone, which of the following types of innovation is defined by a value proposition based on characteristics such as a hotel remembering a customer's newspaper preference or offering a coffeehouse with a European ambience?

Data was lost because the PHE used an old Excel XLS file format that was limited to 65,000 rows of data

In the Dashboard Data Quality case study on Covid 19, what technology decision made by the the Public Health of England (PHE developers) limited the spreadsheet rows of data and resulted in contact tracing for over 15,000 Covid 19 cases not being properly managed?

Uploading data to a new repository (Extraction)

In the ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) process, which of the following steps would NOT commonly be considered an action performed in the "transform" step.

FALSE

In the Excel expression "=VLOOKUP(5, B4:H16, 3, range_lookup)", what value should be used for range_lookup to return a value only when the lookup value in the table_array matches "5"? =VLOOKUP(lookup_value, table_array, column_index_number, range_lookup)

a faster horse

In the Ford Motor Assembly Line video case, Henry Ford's grandson claimed that when Henry Ford was asked about whether customers influenced his decision to build automobiles, Henry Ford responded that if he had originally asked his customers what they wanted, they would have just asked for what?

refinement

In the Fortune magazine's description of neural network decision support systems intended to recognize a dog, using multiple layers to implement the "magic" focuses on which of the following goals?

5

In the MPS (Master Production Schedule) shown below, what will the "Projected Available" quantity for week 3 (indicated by the red box)?

lot size rule

In the MPS (Master Production Schedule) the a CD Cabinet (shown below), which of the following planning items will determine the quantity of the next planned manufacturing order for the "CD Cabinet"?

Personally Identifiable Information

In the Neuro-ID video case "Intention, Friction and Fraud", all of the following are used to assess the behavior of online users, except:

0.5

In the Project Selection (Niven) example discussed in the video case on Decision Matricies by Dr. Martin from DePaul University, if a criterion received 5 points as a rating but that criterion's weight was 10%, what would be the score used for that criterion?

Optimize-to-order

In the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model, which of the following was NOT defined as one of the "make" processes?

risk adjustment

In the Total Economic Impact methodology, using best and worst case estimates to determine the overall estimated value for costs is an example of which of the following four dimensions?

Bringing flexibility and options in the learning environment

In the UDL in Higher Education video case, what did Gabrielle Rappolt-Schlichtmann indicate what an important characteristic of the UDL (Universal Design For Learning) approach to provide students in higher education with the resources to make learning tractable?

edu

In the URL "http://www.arizona.edu/index.html", which of the following defines the "top level domain"?

u.arizona.edu

In the URL "http://www.u.arizona.edu/~wtn", what part of the URL defines the hosting server?

Evalute the skill level of job applicants

In the Virtual Reality Training Solutions video case, which of the following was NOT discussed as a benefit for businesses to use VR to train their employees?

24.53

In the following example, if we change the "column_index_num" value from 3 to 6 (e.g., =VLOOKUP(5, B3:H16, 6,) ), what value will be returned? =VLOOKUP(lookup_value, table_array, column_index_num, range_lookup)

"D 2"

In the following example, what lookup_value should be used to return the value of 24.53 contained in cell G9? =HLOOKUP(lookup_value, table_array, row_index_num, range_lookup)

The work "Ad" before the URL

In the following image, what indicates that the placement of search result has beed determined based on paid advertising?

international currency exchange

In the globalization business case that discussed how a consumer in the United States was able to purchase a necktie directly from a merchant in China, which of the following business activities would companies such as PayPal, Apple Pay, and Amazon Pay be potential service providers?

Task A, Task D, and Task E

In the image shown below, what are the list of tasks that are on the critical path for this project?

noise or interference

In the network infrastructure video case Digital and Analog Signals, what is a significant problem for analog signals?

='The First Quarter'!B15

In the sample Excel worksheet shown below, which of the following would be the correct Excel syntax to reference cell B15 on the "The First Quarter" worksheet from another worksheet?

bull statue

In the video case "The world of micro-loans", what product was being produced by a loan recipient in Lima, Peru that legend says represents financial prosperity?

exoskeleton

In the video case Accessibility and Inclusion for All, Tim Brown of Ideo speaks about what manufacturing technology that not only helps protect individuals with normal physical abilities, but also enabling individuals who could not previously do a job?

social media platforms

In the video case discussing "Data-driven Decisions at Nestle," the team focused on visualizations of information that was primarily based on information from what source?

milk

In video case study about using PowerBI in Rwanda, the production of what agricultural product benefited from greater transparency in the value chain between the 200,000 famers and 160 collection points for their product?

Software-as-a-Service

In which of the following cloud models is the customer responsible for managing the fewest of the computing resources?

choice phase

In which stage of the Decision Making Process (Intelligence, Design, Choice, also known as the "IDC Phases") do you pick an option and decide how to implement it?

Software-as-a-Service (Saas)

Increasingly popular with SMEs (Small-to-Midsize Enterprises), which of the following cloud delivery models is delivered through a browser and avoids the need to manage either hardware or software?

nonvolatile

Information in data warehouses and data marts is __________, so it reflects history, which is critical for identifying and analyzing trends.

3G

Introduced in 2001, what generation of cellular networks use digital signals and can transmit voice and data at different speeds based on how fast the user is moving, and supports video, web browsing, and instant messaging?

Utility computing

Introduced in the 1990's, which of the following industry trends leading to cloud computing was described as using a business model of offering computing resources as a metered (based on actual usage rates)?

unstructured

Knowledge management is a process that helps organizations manipulate important knowledge that comprises part of the organizationâs memory, usually in a(n) ________ format.

sticky

Knowledge that is subjective, cognitive, and experiential is generally considered as being ___________.

Eliminated the need for in-store salespersons

Macy's found that using VR (Virtual Reality) to allow retail customers to design a room and see how the room would appear using VR goggles had all of the following benefits EXCEPT:

256 kbps (thousand bits per second)

More commonly found outside the United States, Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) data connections for residential subscribers typically offer users about what connection speed (bandwidth)?

Underlying Technologies

Neural networks, machine learning, and deep learning are most closely related to what aspect of the business analytics process?

plan

Organizations must have a strategy for managing all the resources that are involved in meeting customer demand for their product or service. This strategy is developed in the ________ activity of SCM (Supply Chain Management).

COPLINK

Originally developed by MIS Regents Professor Hsinchun Chen, what technology is used by law enforcement agencies worldwide for data analysis?

retention and perseverance

Our understanding of what issue related to first year students at the University was informed by Dr. Ram's analysis of MealPlan purchases made with UA CatCards?

facial recognition

Photo tagging is the process of assigning names to to images of people using what type of technology?

personal security

Services such as Life360, Snapchat Location, and OnStar Roadside Assistance are all examples of that category of innovative location-based services according to NAVTEQ?

how it is to be achieved

What element of a project plan describes the method of delivery that is covered by documents such as the technical specification and test plans?

design

Validation of the model occurs in which of the the three phases of the Decision Making Process (Intelligence, Design, Choice, also known as the "IDC Phases")?

Well aligned with a "Cost of Ownership" focus

Viewed from the perspective of Total Economic Impact (TEI), all of the following are aspects of Strategic Flexibility EXCEPT:

HLOOKUP

What Excel function allow you to search for data in a worksheet by matching a specified value in the top row of a table and then returning a value in the worksheet from the matched column that is found in a specified row?

Dr. Joe Valacich

What MIS Professor developed a tool for detecting fraud using real-time score of the authenticity of based on an applicant's behaviors?

Dr. Hsinchun Chen

What MIS Regents professors developed a sophisticated data-analysis software called COPLINK that is used by law-enforcement agencies worldwide?

eliminate

What action should be taken to resolve a project risk that is considered as unacceptable under any circumstances and that it does not re-occur in the future?

Pattern Evaluation

What aspect of the knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) process does data mining perform?

netflix

What company used a crowdsourced competition to develop an improved algorithm to predict customer preferences for its products' recommendation engine?

nested IF statement

What conditional programming construct allows a program to select one of three or more distinct outcomes by placing one conditional construct inside another?

hub-and-spoke

What data warehouse architecture is based on a central data warehouse that stores the data plus multiple dependent data marts that source their data from the central repository in order to maintain a single version of the truth for decision-support purposes?

neural computing

What decision support strategy uses a technique based on a non-linear predictive model that creates a "hidden-layer" analysis of input information that is defined using training and observed behaviors?

Increased Flexibility

What dimension of the business use of cloud systems focus on the benefits of rapid deployment, on-demand provisioning, and disaster recovery?

Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE)

What is the name of an environment that creates the illusion of immersion by projecting stereo images on the walls and floor of a room-sized cube and interacts with the user through a head tracking system continuously adjust the stereo projection to the current position of the leading viewer?

Social Credit System

What is the name of the controversial national reputation system developed by the Chinese government in order to have a standardized assessment of citizens' and businesses' economic and social reputations?

Government Information Technology Agency (GITA)

What is the name of the government agency in Arizona that is responsible for the statewide accessibility policy (Policy 130)?

IPv4

What is the the first and most commonly used IP (Internet Protocol) addressing scheme?

normalization

What method is used to analyze and reduce a relational database to its most streamlined form to ensure minimum redundancy, maximum data integrity, and optimal processing performance?

E-tegrity

What name is used to describe the Eller College of Management's commitment to fostering an environment where competition is fair, integrity is promoted, and academic dishonesty is rooted out?

variety

What one of the Big Data "Four V's" of Big Data does IBM describe as data in many forms, such as structured, unstructured, text, and multimedia?

design

What phase of the Decision Making Process (Intelligence, Design, and Choice, also known as the "IDC Phases") identified a method for considering data, also known as an "algorithm"?

encapsulation

What property of virtualization allows entire virtual machines to be saved as file that can moved or copied like any other file?

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

What security application is commonly integrated into email systems to allow messages to be sent securely using encryption?

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)

What security protocol enables secure Session-layer connections over the Internet between a web browser and a web server?

! (Exclamation Point)

What special character does Excel use as a delimiter following the worksheet name in a cross-sheet reference?

data glove

What technology enables natural interaction with virtual objects exclusively by hand gesture recognition?

crowdfunding

What term describes an internet-inspired mechanism for raising money or sponsorship from members of the public for a small project or business venture?

diffusion

What term describes the aggregate adoption of a technology and is measured by the percentage of potential uses who have actually adopted the technology?

Code of Ethics

What term is used to describe a collection of principles developed by many companies and professional organizations and intended to guide decision making by members of the organization?

voice portal

What term is used to describe a mobile commerce application with an audio interface that allows you to request information verbally and then replies with the the information you want to know using a computer-generated voice reply, such as 511 travel-information line?

firewall

What term is used to describe a system that prevents a specific type of information from moving between untrusted networks and private networks by examining each data message and blocking those that do not meet specified security rules.

iteration

What term is used to describe each repetition of the group of statements (i.e., the "Do Task" or command block) of a "WHILE" or "FOR" statement?

transformability

What term is used to describe how information can be made more accessible by ensuring that the information presented can change forms, allowing it to be perceived in multiple ways?

Opt-in and opt-out

What term is used to describe how permission marketing allows customers to select the type and time of communications?

sentiment analysis

What term is used to describe process of analyzing opinions expressed in a piece of text (e.g., a Tweet) or in a speech to determine whether the writer's or listener's attitude toward a particular topic, product, or service is positive, negative, or neutral?

constraint

What term is used to describe the business rules governing the relationships connecting entities?

project milestones

What term is used to describe the checkpoints (Go/No-go decision points) that occur during a project that also represent critical success factors (CSFs) for the project?

cross docking

What term is used to describe the practice of unloading materials from an incoming trucks or rail cars and loading these materials onto outbound trucks or rail cars, with little or no storage or warehousing in between?

data abstraction

What term is used to describe the result of summarizing information stored in a row or column of a data cube (i.e, combining all information in a row or column into a single consolidated value) through the process described in class as a projection?

hypervisor

What term is used to describe the software that manages the hardware and an can run multiple instances of an OS (operating system) on a server with virtualization?

scrum

What term is used to describes an approach in agile development that allows users to change their minds about what they want and need, and focuses on maximizing the development team's ability to deliver iterations quickly, called sprints, which allows them to respond to user requirements as they emerge?

tunneling

What term means "encapsulating one protocol within another to ensure that a transmission is secure"?

data mining

What term refers to the process of searching for valuable business information in a large database, data warehouse, or data mart with the goal of identifying previously unknown patterns and predicting trends and behaviors?

telesurgery

What term was discussed to describe how surgeons use augmented reality, high-definition video, and real-time data readings from medical sensors to control the remote robotic surgical tool?

Digital entrepreneurship

What term was used in our class discussion to describe how entrepreneurship will change, as business and society continue to be transformed by the internet and digital technologies?

drill down

What term was used to describe using the digging tool to examine the underlying data, such as when CopLink allows you to examine data for a specific neighborhood or time period?

Social CRM

What type of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system is used to engage their customers in a collaborative conversation by monitoring services such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn (among many others) for relevant mentions of their products, services, and brand, and they respond accordingly?

what-if analysis

What type of Decision-support System analysis attempts to predict the impact of changes in the assumptions, that is, the input data, on the proposed solution?

combo chart

What type of Excel chart allows multiple chart types to be integrated into one chart that allows correlations of data more easily be seen?

Cross-sheet reference

What type of addressing in Excel allows you to reference a cell or range in another worksheet in the same workbook?

cable

What type of broadband access to the Internet uses a modem that shares bandwidth among a number of subscribers, such that when large numbers of subscribers access the Internet at the same time, each user's bandwidth can decrease significantly?

bubble chart

What type of chart is similar to a scatter chart, but allows you to add another dimension of data on a third axis?

Hybrid cloud

What type of cloud infrastructure delivers services based on security requirements, the mission-critical nature of the applications, and other company-established policies that supports organizations that want to maintain higher security standards for some data but have less-sensitive data that does not require intranet-level protection?

Wide Area Networks (WANs)

What type of computer network is generally provided by common carriers such as telephone companies and the international networks of global communications services providers?

virtual

What type of computer-based reality system is a term that refers to a fully immersive experience that provides a realistic, three-dimensional, computer-generated environment replicating sight, touch, hearing, and in some cases, smell?

phased

What type of conversion introduces components of the new system in stages, introducing modules sequentially until the entire new system is operational?

affinity

What type of date mining analysis specifically is focused on discovering the co-occurrence relationships among activities performed by specific individuals or groups, such as market basket analysis, which retailers seek to understand the purchase behavior of customers?

sustainable entrepreneurship

What type of entrepreneurship focuses on preservation of nature, life support, and community in the pursuit of perceived opportunities to bring into existence future products, processes, and services for gain, where gain is broadly construed to include economic and non-economic gains to individuals, the economy, and society?

quantitative

What type of knowledge-based decision making is based on considering explicit knowledge and objective facts using algorithmic (mathematical) analysis?

Contingency planning

What type of planning, related to project scheduling, provides flexibility in the schedule to allow for changes resulting from the inevitable unexpected influences that create scheduling variation, such as illness and equipment failures?

mixed reality

What type of virtual environment allows virtual objects to be placed in the real world and interacted with and respond as if they were real objects?

funnel chart

What type of visualization is often used to show multi-step quantities where there is attrition or refinement?

Using the "Value Field Setting" in the Values area pulldown menu

When adding a pivot table comparison (analysis) field, where would you define the calculation (e.g., SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, etc.) to be used when displaying the value for a group of data?

Illegal

When an individual or organization is faced with an ethical decision is not considering whether to break the law, since what is unethical is not necessarily ________.

The number of times a packet is sent (i.e., number of segments in the route)

When analyzing a packet switched communications network route, what does the term "hop count" indicate?

buy vs. issue

When baking, purchasing a dozen eggs but only using three eggs for a batch of cupcakes is an example of what type of Unit of Measure conversion managed by an ERP system?

Value of the Asset

When considering the economics of risk management, the risk optimization line determines all of the following EXCEPT:

High Interest / Importance, and High Influence

When considering the interest and influence of stakeholders impacting the success of a project, what are the common attributes of the group of stakeholder that are the basis for an effective coalition of support for the project?

star topology

When designing its computer network, a business that anticipates that it will have a large and growing network where the company will need to be able to and and remove PCs easily from the network is most likely to choose what network topology?

total cost of ownership

When evaluating and justifying an investment in information technology (IT), what approach should be used to assess the cost when acquiring new technology?

alliance arrangments

When managing the bullwhip effect, which of the following business objectives would include using vendor-managed inventory to increase operational efficiency and allowing vendors to stock products in our in-person stores?

post-transaction related elements

Which aspect of customer support uses a Customer Relationship Managment (CRM) system to provide warranty repair capabilities, complaint resolution, product returns, & operating information?

Sears, Roebuck, & Co.

Which company began in '93, focused on buying up discontinued lines from manufacturers and selling them at a discount to their customers. Their Strategy focused on meeting customer's needs by shipping on an emerging transportation infrastructure promising rapid delivery. They used new communications technologies infrastructure to reach a geographically distributed customer base.

managing resource tradeoffs

Which of the following "CRM (Customer Relationship Management) Marketing Principles" considers the issue of resource constraints and the importance of understanding the marginal benefit and costs associated with every incremental dollar invested in a segment or product?

rule induction

Which of the following Decision Support Strategies use conditional execution to make a recommendation?

Oracle

Which of the following ERP vendors was originally named "Software Development Laboratories" (SDL) and founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates?

fines for traffic violations

Which of the following approaches was NOT used by the Smartrek traffic app, developed by UA Professor Yi-Chang Chiu, to help cities reduce traffic congestion using mobile commerce technologies?

increased customers

Which of the following business opportunities was enabled by the evolution of cellular communication technologies (i.e., 3G, 4G, and 5G networks) allowing cellular network providers to have higher density networks?

shortgage gaming

Which of the following causes of the Bullwhip Effect occurs when a vendor allocates products that have limited availability and customers respond by intentionally misrepresenting their order quantities beyond their actual need?

Well-managed and centralized quality control

Which of the following characteristics would NOT commonly be considered as a value proposition for companies considering implementing an open-source CRM system?

able to respond quickly to sudden changes in demand

Which of the following characteristics would be applicable to an inventory system that is managed using the "Pull" approach?

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Which of the following cloud delivery models only includes access to OS (Operating System) services, load balancing, and network support such as firewalls and load balancing?

SaaS

Which of the following cloud service models is commonly used to provide on-demand CRM systems, such as Salesforce.com?

customer oriented

Which of the following competitive strategies is based on the perspective of "I treat my customers better than you do"?

Obstruction of justice

Which of the following criminal actions taken by Martha Stewart in the ImClone case study directly resulted in her serving time in prison?

Decision Matrices

Which of the following decision support strategies compares alternatives by determing the qualitative factors that should be included as part of the decision, assigning weights related to their importance, and then ranking different alternatives to allow comparisons.

Process

Which of the following dimensions of the Internet of Everything (IOE) focuses on delivering the right information to the right person (or machine) at the right time?

Platform Services

Which of the following dimensions of the Open Cloud cloud taxonomy would offer services related to business intelligence, database management, and application development and testing?

rule induction strategy process

Which of the following does NOT use an iterative process?

Convenience of using mass transit options for commuting

Which of the following factors was NOT discussed as a reason that the number of digital nomad workers who are employed in the distributed workforce has been continuously expanding?

Creating regulations to ensure compliance by employees

Which of the following factors would NOT commonly be used to create social contract around sustainability based on behavioral change?

economic

Which of the following feasibility constraints considers the question "Can we afford to do the task"?

Micro-wave (2.45GHz)

Which of the following frequency ranges is most commonly associated with long range applications requiring large data transfers?

Requiring local automobile dealers to pay on COD (Cash on Delivery) terms when they received their cars

Which of the following helped Ford Motor Company manage its cash flow with respect to paying vendors for parts using its cars?

data accuracy

Which of the following is NOT a focus area for a team responsible for the data governance of a company's information assets?

high cost of international telecommunications

Which of the following is NOT a reason some US companies are moving their call center operations back to the US?

RAD

Which of the following is an iterative systems development method that can combine JAD, prototyping, and integrated computer-assisted software engineering (ICASE) tools to significantly reduce the time needed to develop a high-quality system?

adobe dreamweaver

Which of the following is on of the two web development tools that is required to be used for ABP-3?

create, capture, refine, store, manage, disseminate

Which of the following is the correct order of the KMS (knowledge management systems) cycle?

index.html (all lower case characters)

Which of the following is the full filename that should be used for your EC Hosting assignment in the public_html directory on the u.arizona.edu (U-System) server?

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

Which of the following is the most widely-accepted set of recommendations to clarify the concept of web accessibility that were developed over several years of collaborative involvement by a panel of experts and interested individuals?

Estimated and Actual Activity Budget

Which of the following is typically NOT one of the items that define each milestone on the critical path in a PERT chart?

scaling a business to fit the opportunity

Which of the following issues was NOT described as a challenge to a digital entrepreneur?

Twisted-pair wire, Coaxial cable, Fiber-optic cable

Which of the following lists correctly lists the order of the three types of guided media, from LOWEST to HIGHEST, with respect to their possible bandwidth, or transmission capacity?

prematurely closing (ending) the meeting

Which of the following meeting difficulties would NOT commonly be considered as a behavioral issues related to meeting participants?

Afterpay.com

Which of the following money applications offers borrowers easy access to a short-term (6-week) installment loan, but also has high late penalties?

Perceived poor customer service

Which of the following negative impacts related to the Bullwhip Effect does a company experience when inventory is not available for sale (i.e., out of stock items)?

recycling

Which of the following options is the least common approach used to manage the thousands of PCs discarded each day?

port

Which of the following parameters, common to both WinSCP (Windows Secure Copy) and Cyberduck, is a number that uniquely identifies a connection endpoint and directs data to a specific TCP/IP service?

nearest neighbor technique

Which of the following predictive outcome strategies uses the approach of finding data with characteristics that are similar to a new record, using the approach that if you know about a person's friends, you can also know about the person?

consistency

Which of the following requirements for information stored in a data warehouse requires the ETL process to alter or transform the source data into a single and standardized representation before loading it into the data warehouse?

resource allocator or negotiator

Which of the following roles are both commonly considered as a "decisional role" for a manager?

rigidity and inflexibility

Which of the following skills was NOT idenitifed by Tony Wagner as one of the "Seven Survival Skils" needed to be successfuly in the "New World" of Work?

ideation

Which of the following steps in the crowdsourcing process generally includes contributions by all of a company's stakeholders (i.e., Employees, Customers, Investors, and Partners)?

a virtual team

Which of the following term is used to describe a group of people working in different locations.

conditional formatting

Which of the following terms described the capability in Excel to change a cell's formatting when its contents match a specified condition, such as highlight cells based on their values, adding data bars that graph relative values in a range, or highlight duplicate values in a column of data?

People must feel shame knowing their actions will be exposed to their peers publically

Which of the following was NOT discussed as one of the factors that are required in order for deterrents relating to unethical behavior relating to cheating at academic institutions to be effective?

Crowdsourcing outsources a task to a large group of people in the form of an open call

Which of the following was NOT identified as a challenge for using crowdsourcing for product innovation?

Identify when customers search competitor's websites while shopping

Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a business opportunity associated with tracking customers while they are inside a store using wireless technologies such as WiFi and Bluetooth?

U-System (UArizona's Web Hosting Service)

Which of the following web hosting services is acceptable for the EC Hosting assignment?

Data marts are very expensive and primarily used by large companies

Which of the following would NOT be a characteristic generally associated with a data marts?

Grid computing eliminates need to use costly broadband networks to access computing resources

Which of the following would NOT commonly be considered as an advantage of using grid computing to manage pools of hardware and software components?

IF Function

Which of the following would be an example of a programming construct that is a logical function that evaluates a single condition and results in only one value?

Using "hidden layers" to hide decision logic and relevant factors from decision makers

Which of the following would generally NOT be a considered as a benefit or desirable attribute from using decision trees?

Obtaining data from source systems using handwritten code or with commercial data-integration software

Which of the following would generally NOT be an example of a transformation performed as part of an ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) or data integration process?

The need to use several standards to communicate with multiple business partners

Which of the following would generally NOT be considered as a benefit for a company communicating with its trading partners using EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) instead of a manual document delivery system?

Increasing worker job satisfaction

Which of the following would generally NOT be considered as a directly quantifiable benefit?

process

Which of the forms of innovation "Four P's" is focused on the refinement of an existing business activity to improve its efficiency?

Gantt Chart

Which of the project management scheduling visualizations includes all three of the triple constraints that are in the Scope Triangle (Time, Resources, and Scope)?

Card emulation mode

Which of the three NFC (Near Field Communication) communication modes allows your phone to act like an "interactive card" for payment, transportation, identification, and physical access?

twisted pair

Which of the three types of guided (wireline) media is relatively slow for transmitting data, subject to interference from other electrical sources, and can be easily tapped by unintended recipients to gain unauthorized access to confidential data?

fiber-optic cable

Which of the three types of guided media consists of thousands of very thin filaments of glass or plastic fibers surrounded by opaque cladding?

Make a decision and test it

Which step in the general framework for ethics considers all of the approaches and asks which option best addresses the situation?

Time-division Multiplexing

Which type of signal multiplexing offers each user full bandwidth, but is only periodically on (shared availability), as shown in the example below for circuit utilization?

relational database

While working for IBM in the mid-1960's, what did Ted Codd develop to improve upon the hierarchical storage model?

Extranet

Widely used in the areas of business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce and supply chain management (SCM), what term is used to describe a network that connects parts of the intranets of different organizations and enables business partners to communicate securely over the Internet using virtual private networks (VPNs)?

JIT

With respect to an SCM (Supply Chain Management) Value Chain, ________ delivers the precise number of parts to be assembled into a finished product at precisely the right time.

financial

With respect to an SCM (Supply Chain Management) Value Chain, ________ flows involve money transfers, payments, credit card information and authorization, payment schedules, e-payments, and credit-related data.

downstream

With respect to an SCM (Supply Chain Management) Value Chain, distribution of products to a company's customers is a(n) ________ activity.

EDI

With respect to an SCM (Supply Chain Management) Value Chain, which of the following terms is a communication standard that enables business partners to exchange routine documents, such as purchase orders, electronically?

Strategic network

With respect to our discussion of universal design for learning, which of the following dimensions of the learning brain and variability plans, executes, and monitors actions & skills when seeking to answer the "how of learning"?

FICO (Fair Isaac Credit Corporation) Score

With respect to personal finance, what is the name of the most commonly used credit scoring system intended to help lenders predict how likely an individual is to repay a loan, or make credit payments on time?

Printing a two-sided document uses only one sheet of paper, as opposed to two

With respect to saving energy, what aspect of using two-sided printing was discussed in class as providing the most signifiant benefit?

Education and Training

With respect to the security sphere of protection, which of the following controls would primarily be focused on people?

custom

With the ________ approach to on-premise ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) implementation, a company develops new ERP functions designed specifically for that firm.

Exception Reporting

_______ is a capability of dashboards that highlights deviations larger than certain thresholds.

SaaS

________ is a cloud-based ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system that avoids an on-premise ERP implementation.

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Systems

________ is an example of a source system for a data warehouse.

Tacit Knowledge

________ is the cumulative store of subjective or experiential learning commonly making it imprecise, costly to transfer, and difficult to formalize or codify.

collaboration

________ refers to efforts by two or more entities who work together to accomplish certain tasks.

KPI (Key Performance Indicator)

_________ is a capability of dashboards that are specific measures of CSFs (Critical Success Factors).

A digital dossier

_________ is an electronic profile of you and your habits.

operations

_________ is an example of a primary activity for most firms.

mass customization

_________ is the current strategy for many manufacturers where a company produces a large quantity of items but customizes them to match the needs and preferences of individual customers.

Privacy

_________ issues involve collecting, storing, and disseminating information about individuals.

Accuracy

_________ issues involve the authenticity, fidelity, and correctness of information that is collected and processed.