MIS SP19 Final Exam
What type of data mining presents information graphically so that users are able to identify patterns in the underlying data?
Data visualization
Requiring students to use a combination of a numeric passcode and their CatCard to enter a locked door on a UA dorm is an example of approach for security control
Defense in depth
When deployed, the Irridium satellite telephone network was based on a constellation of 66 satellites. However, how many operational satellites were originally proposed for the original constellation? (Hint the name Irridum was selected due to this number.)
77
The symbol we use in MS Excel for Absolute Addressing is what?
=(equal sign)
What would be the correct function to find the price of a Caffe Mocha, size Grande?
=VLOOKUP(A14,$A$2:$D$10,3,FALSE)
According to MIT Sloan Management Review, what percentage of companies have placed sustainability permanently on their management agendas?
About 70%
The following "img" directive uses what type of addressing? <img src="file://C:/Users/Patton/Pictures/NistFigure2.PNG " width="2612" height="1746" alt="Security"/>
Absolute
What accounting metric a strong indicator of whether a firm has sufficient short-term assets to cover its immediate liabilities
Acid test
What term is used to describe an online advertising service developed by Google, where advertisers pay to display advertising, product listings, and video content as a result of Google search.
Adwords
Which of the following security measure would be considered a "last line of defense" for information security
Cryptography
Which of the following groups of voters would the DNC be most likely to contact with a persuasion campaign message
Independent voters who always vote
What is the correct filename for your ABP-3A website?
Index.html
What is the correct filename to use for your ABP-3B website?
Index.html
What type of problem has an optimal solution can be reached through single set of steps based on an algorithm?
Structured
Which of the following would NOT be considered a type of social engineering
Trojan horse
If you are creating a template for a team, so each team member can work on a different section of the document, which is the most important thing to standardize before distributing the template?
What styles will be used and when
Which of the following is NOT a value-adding attribute of mobile computing?
Bandwidth improvement
What type of chart essentially adds a third dimension, such as frequency or quantity, to scatter plots?
Bubble charts
LEED refers to the efficiency of?
Buildings
What term is used to describe the behavior where small changes in customer demand that result in large variations in raw material orders causing inefficiency in the supply chain?
Bullwhip effect
In the Zara case, the company has aligned its information system strategy with what?
Business strategy
What approach to knowledge management would best describe the Eller FlexLabs?
Community of practice
Which of the following knowledge management concepts includes an organizational culture focused on problem solving, a desire to share knowledge because of mutual interest, and norms that build trust, such as might be found in an MIS 111 FlexLab?
Community of practice
Which of the following decisions would *not* be a quantitative decision?
Comparing project objective with corporate objectives
Porter's Forces describes which of the following business issues?
Competition
The "Porter's Forces" model deals with what aspect of globalized business?
Competition
In the Accenture video case, the presenter emphasizes that project managment is not about lists and linear relationships, but rather about managing what?
Complex inter-relationships
What term did Don Norman define as story that puts the operation of the system into context, weaving together all of the essential components, providing a framework, a context, and reasons for understanding?
Conceptual model
What MS Excel function could be used to implement Intelligent System Rule Induction?
Conditional formatting
When we discussed the design of network infrastructure, we noted that the design of connectors on computers we generally related to the speed of the communication interface, the function being supported (number of signals required), and what other issue related to human-computer interaction?
Constraints to improve reliability
What term is used to describe the set of tasks that must be completed as scheduled in order to ensure the delivery of your project on time?
Critical path
What technique has been used by companies such as Starbucks and Netflix used to engage large numbers of non-employees to innovate, manage, design and market new products?
Crowdsourcing
What term describes a way of solving problems and producing things by connecting online with people that you otherwise wouldn't know?
Crowdsourcing
What is the name of the directory where the files for your websites for ABP-3A and ABP-3B will be stored on the U.Arizona.Edu web server?
Public_html
What term was used to describe a website that can adapt to the type of device being used to access the website?
Responsive
Purchasing an entire box of screws, even though only a small number are need for the master production schedule is an example of making a purchasing decision based on what approach
Economic order quality
One of the impacts of Globalization is the the Economics of Distance (Transportation Costs) has been replaced by what?
Economies of attention
In the SCOR model, competitive requirements such as reliability, responsiveness, and agility are all related to what dimension of a vendor's performance?
Effectiveness
For companies managing their supply chain business processes using CPFAR (Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment), the process improvements over the traditional ordering process could be primarily considered as an improvement in which of the following?
Efficiency
From a user's perspective, perceived affordances would include actual perceptible design affordances and what other category of perceptual affordances?
False or fake design affordances
What type of home ISP connection is typically the fastest
Fiber
What type of guided media uses light for signaling?
Fiber optics
Which of the following types of wire media has the highest physical security?
Fiber-optic cable
The University of Arizona is nationally recognized for sustainability in its academics, research, operations, and administration by the Assocation for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. What Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System™ (STARS) rating was the University of Arizona awarded in 2017?
Gold
What term did Thomas Friedman's use to describe the impact of globalization where individual countries must sacrifice some degree of economic sovereignty to global institutions (such as capital markets and multinational corporations)?
Golden straitjacket
What tool is commonly used to track how, when and from what location users are using website?
Google analytics
In the Online Democracy model, the "Voter Activation Network" uses voter registration rolls to categorize voters as always/sometimes/never voting by using information obtained from
Government records
Allowing individuals to file tax returns, renew driver's licenses, and obtain various permits online is an example of what type of eGovernment?
Government-to-citizen
Pioneered at the University of Arizona, what decision support technology as developed to address problems such as a lack of focus, fear of speaking, hidden agendas and misunderstandings then collaborating with others?
Group decision support systems
When adding your icon to your ABP-3B website, in what section should you add the link directive to your icon file?
HEAD
What is NOT an advantage of digital transmission?
Harder to encrypt
What term is used to describe a function that uses an algorithm to convert an input of letters and numbers into an encrypted output of a fixed length?
Hash
Which of the following terms is used to measures the frequency of analog signals?
Hertz
What Regents Professor on the MIS Faculty at the University of Arizona developed the COPLINK system for managing knowledge used in law enforcement?
Hsinchun Chen
Which of the following is a support activity in Porter's value chain model?
Human resources
What is the name of the collaborative effort to advance Blockchain technology by identifying and addressing important features for a cross-industry open standard for distributed ledgers that can transform the way business transactions are conducted globally?
Hyperledger project
In the assigned reading for project management, what type of diagram was used to map the impact of a problem using the axes "Impact" and "Likelihood" that you also used in Applied Business Project 2?
I^2 diagram
The default layout of a new image in MS Word, which causes many people problems, is:
In line with text
What type of image formatting would you want to use if you wanted words to be above and below the image and let the image be centered using the centering alignment
In line with text
Data ___________ means all applications are able to access the same data, which is ___________ by databases.
Independence; maximized
In the McGinn model of design, the least common category of design elements would be related to what factor in the McGinn model?
Individual
When analyzing the performance of students in MIS 111 on Exam 1, which of the following would not be appropriate as a useful "dimension" in an OLAP data cube
Individual email addresses
In Thomas Friedman's discussion of globalization, he described the process of globalization as being realized through actions that were first defined by your country, then later defined by multi-national companies, and finally, in the most recent age of globalization is defined by
Individuals
[Linkages] When viewing the linkages among trading partners, which of the following is common for both upstream and downstream supply chains?
Information
What term best describes when consumers are able to use their smartphones to obtain information about a company's competitor's product pricing, features, customer reviews and availability while shopping in their company's brink-and mortar store?
Information transparency
If you want to insert am image with a caption, and have the caption automatically stay with the image whenever you move the image, your best option is:
Insert both the image and the caption into a text box
In the History of the Cell Phone video case, how did the use of cellular phones change the way in which calls were made?
Instead of calling a place, calls to cellular telephones were associated with a person
ERP address information silos by _____________.
Integrating functional areas
The three security challenges of wireless communication are confidentiality, accessibility, and _____.
Integrity
In the decision process, problem identification and classification occur during which phase?
Intelligence
Similiar to the expansion of telecommunications in the 1800's with the telegraph, what transportation infrastructure was discussed in class that guided the decision the placement of the long-haul fiber-optic cable infrastructure?
Inter-continetal railroads network
Operating unregulated WiFi networks, clickers, Bluetooth headsets, cordless telephones, and microwave ovens using the same 2.4GHz ISM frequency range in close proximity to one another might result in what problem?
Interference
What term is used to describe the percentage value of the number of times a keyword or key phrase appears on a webpage as compared to the total amount of words on the page?
Keyword density
The terms "contextual," "relevant," and "actionable" are commonly related to what term?
Knowledge
What term is used to describe the conversion of tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge, so that the knowledge can be used in the organization by the staff?
Knowledge codification
COPLINK, developed at the University of Arizona in the MIS Department's Artificial Intelligence Lab, allows law enforcement officers to integrate database information to identify crime suspects based on limited information (e.g., a license plate number or nick name). What term is used to describe the type of information system that is commonly used to maintain collection of experiential, reflective and solutions-oriented information?
Knowledge management
The sequence of activities performed by users of GroupSystems' ThinkTank product directly parallel the steps in what other business process?
Knowledge management cycle
In the COPLINK video case, law enforcement in what city used the COPLINK system developed to manage knowledge more efficiently and effectively?
Mesa, AZ
Related to the concepts of globalization, what computer "law" states that value of the internet is related to the number of connections (users)?
Metcalf's law
Which rule of thumb must you follow?
None of these rules of thumb are absolute musts
Explicit, or "leaky" knowledge, is based on information that is:
Objective and rational
Each long vertical or horizontal element in a cross-functional flowchart we put processes and decisions into represents what?
One actor
Where can I host my ABP-3A and ABP-3B websites?
Only on the U.arizona.edu web server
What name is used to describe results found when a search engine algorithm analyzes all the pages across the web in an unbiased way and reports the pages considered to contain the most relevant information for your search terms?
Organic
What is NOT a factor contributing to the Bullwhip Effect?
Outsourcing
Which type of website file contains software that's executed on the host before sending the results to the browser?
PHP
Although globalization has been underway for many centuries, digitization, networking, and connectiveness have dramatically increased what?
Pace of change
In a packet-switched data communication network, which of the following is true:
Packets can be lost or become corrupted between the sender and receiver
What term does Google use to describe how important a website is based upon counting the number and quality of links to a page, using the underlying assumption is that more important websites are likely to receive more links from other websites?
Page rank
In the assigned reading on accessibility, the authors note that while WCAG 1.0 focused on the techniques for accomplishing accessibility, WCAG 2.0 focused on what?
Principles of accessabilities
Which of the following business component are *not* included in an MRP-II planning cycle?
Product margins
What IoT technology discussed in class could be used to identify shoppers and allow products to "introduce" (recommend) themselves to a shopper?
RFID tags
If your internet speed seems slow, before calling your ISP and complaining the very first thing you should do is
Run a speedtest against the ISP's speed test site
What type of business systems have the capability to place automatic requests to buy products from vendors in real time?
SCM( supply chain management)
Paying Google to display marketing advertisements when a user searches for a specific Adword is most commonly associated with which of the following concepts?
SEM
Keyword selection and density, image alt tags, and links to content are mostly commonly associated with which of the following concepts?
SEO
In project management, the "Iron Triangle" or "Triple Constraint" includes a project's time, resources and what other dimension of the planning process?
Scope
What is the name used to describe when a person visits a brick-and-mortar store only to check physical characteristics of a product but intends to purchase the product online?
Showrooming
In the Jack Welch Video Case in the SCM Lecture, What approach was he discussing as key to providing customer value?
Six sigma
Dr. Patton discussed the Hacking Google Glasses video case in class and talked about what it could be a precursor to something else getting hacked in the future. What did he say might be the next thing hacked using the same technique?
Smart / autonomous cars
What is an example of something in the Integrated Application layer of the 4 Layer Model?
Smart transport
In the NASA project management video case, what did the speaker indicate was the greatest risk he faced in managing projects for NASA?
Social and political risk
What normative ethical theory expects a corporation to create more value to society that it consumes?
Social contract theory
In the video case for Nestle, data-driven decisions were primarily based on visualizations of information from what source?
Social media platforms
The big advantage of bubble charts over scatter charts is?
The add another dimension
In the video case about Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Vint Cerf described TCP using an analogy of the sending postcard through the US postal system. Which of the following was not an issue discussed in the case study?
The cost of sending the packets making up a message
Which of the following would *NOT* be a characteristic of a blockchain data store:
The data store is managed as a single database using cloud technology
From Don Norman's perspective, what fatal flaw does the BMW iDrive (which he descibed as a well thought out, very logical, and sensible device) have with respect its human interface?
The iDrive destroyed spatiality
In the assigned reading, Don Norman noted two critical issues with the original BMW iDrive design: the design failed to provide a good conceptual model (a story) and also what other problem?
The iDrive destroyed spatiality
In the Cybersecurity 101 Video Case, the reason for many of the insecurities currently found on the internet is due to what
The internet was not originally designed to experience the massive growth it underwent
Applications such as "find a friend" (FourSquare), driving directions (Smartrek), roadside assistance (OnStar), and fleet management (UPS and FedEx) are all examples of services that have been enhanced by knowing what?
The location of the requester
In the video case describing the TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) presented by Vint Cref, what common problem did his analogy using the postal service to email a page from a book have with sending TCP packets?
The message might get lost and not delivered
Thomas Friedman was quoted as saying, "We're in the middle of 3 accelerations; the market, mother nature, and Moore's law. Moore's law says the power of microchips will double every 24 months, mother nature is climate change, biodiversity loss and population, and the market is digital globalization." What is Moore's Law?
The number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years
Developed by the US Navy, a PERT (Program Evaluation Review Technique) chart would help a project manager understand what aspect of a project?
The project milestones and the order they are scheduled to be completed
A Bill-of-Materials describes the components that make up an item, the quantity used, and what other information about a finished good?
The relationships or raw materials and subassemblies
Assume you need to put a sign that says "PUSH" on a door handle to explain the correct way to operate the door. The "PUSH" sign helps a user understand what aspect of usability?
The sign explains a false affordance
As I move farther away from campus, I notice that my UAWiFi connection gets progressively weaker. What factor will always cause this to occur?
The signal strength is lost due to attenuation
What common function do "HTTP", "TCP" and "IP" share?
They all define internet-based protocols
Which of these is not an advantage of an all-in-one router, switch, WiFi access point, and Modem
They are cheap to upgrade
A Stacked Area chart is good for showing relative contributions of different series to a total over time, but they have one big limitation, which is
They cant show negative values
Pie charts have several limitations, including all of the following except?
They have limited color and don't draw the eye and attention
Treemap Charts largest advantage over bar or column charts is?
They show individual values relative to the sum of the series as well as other values
If the search column for a VLOOKUP contains a duplicate value, which value will be returned?
VLOOKUP will return a value based on the first match
What inventory strategy allows a company's supplier to monitor inventory levels and manage the replenishment process for the supplier's products
VMI
What technology do companies use to make the links between connection between two corporate intranets more secure?
VPN
In the case study presented in class, Nestle's Digital Acceleration Team training program focuses on developing skills in all of the following business issues, except:
Validating
The characteristics of big data (data science) are described as being related to volume (of the information), velocity (speed at which information is collected), veracity (the accuracy of the information) and what other characteristic?
Variety (integrating data from multiple sources
When you check your credit score for incorrect information, you're responding to which of the "4 V's" discussed for "big data" in the financial reporting business sector?
Veracity
Telepresence is a version of ____________
Videoconferencing
When you use Google Drive to work on a document with a classmate, this is considered _________.
Virtual collaboration
Businesses like to use Virtual Private Networks for every reason except?
Virtual networks are faster than ordinary internet connections
Similar to trends in computing hardware, what is the trend for wireless network hardware?
Virtualization and merging with the cloud
According to the articles what technologies enable businesses and their employees to get in front of clients and customers but do it in a cost-savings manner?
VoIP and web conferencing
The Internet is a ______________.
WAN
Select the answer the correctly orders the types of computer networks in terms of area span of coverage from largest to smallest?
WAN, MAN, LAN, PAN
in the College Money Management 101 Video Case - What was Lesson 1, the very first thing students should start doing
track expenses
In cybersecurity, what is our last line of defense?
Data encryption
Maintaining multiple copies of the same data in multiple information systems that can be independently updated commonly results in what information management problem?
Data inconsistency
___________ support local control, whereas ____________ support central control.
Data marts; data warehouses
Concerns over using data to illegally discriminate against an individual or group, reaching wrong conclusions due to data contamination, and violating intellectual property (ownership of information) protections were legal and ethical issues discussed in relation to what topic discussed during this module?
Data mining
What information-related issues does using a relational database model solve?
Data redundancy
What term did the textbook author use to describe when the functions of many physical devices are included in one other physical device?
Dematerialization
In the decision support process, formulating a module to be evaluated and setting criteria for making a choice would occur during what phase of the decision making process?
Design phase
During which phase of the website transformation processwould the project team for developing perform content analysis, layout the website using wireframes, and define a consistent visual design?
Developing site structure
A business intelligence tool that uses abstractions such as color and graphical images like instrument gauges to allow executives to grasp business situations quickly is known as a:
Digital dashboard
Which of the information layers in the Internet of Things model focuses on the communication networks that connect the sensors that actually collect the data?
Transmission layer
The __________________ test proposes a scenario in which a man and a computer both pretend to be women or men, and a human interviewer has to identify which is the real human.
Turing
What is the name of the criterion of intelligence where depends on the ability of a computer program to impersonate a human in a real-time written conversation with a human judge, sufficiently well that the judge is unable to distinguish reliably—on the basis of the conversational content alone—between the program and a real human?
Turing test
Select the answer below that orders the media correctly from the lowest to highest bandwith (data rates)
Twisted pair, coaxial cable, fiber-optic cable
What term describes being able to access information and communication in almost any location?
Ubiquity
Long term weather predictions are generally considered what type of problem?
Unstructured
When applying for advanced standing in the Eller College of Management, the process of selecting your major would be best described as having what characteristics of a decision?
Unstructured and strategic
Common themes of a blockchain generally include everything but what?
Usually exists over a client-server network
Signals used to send messages can be _____ or digital.
Analog
Telepresence systems seamlessly integrate _____ and _____.
Contextual awareness; content management
The web __________ the same thing as the internet.
Is not
If you go to your web page and it says "Forbidden - You don't have permission to access /~/ on this server", you most likely, you will need to change the permissions on your public_html directory or index.html file to which of the following?
"rwxr-xr-x"
Which of Thomas Freidman's "flattners" related to technologies related to how content can be digitized and therefore shaped, manipulated, and transmitted; how processes can be done at high speed with total ease; and how mobile can be done anywhere and anytime by anyone; and can be done by anyone?
"the steroids"
The NotPetya Cyberattack caused how much in damage around the world? (in $)
10 billion
What is the correct "port" to use for your secure shell connection when transferring files to the U.Arizona.edu web server?
22
Which of the following terms are related to production based on the mass customization initiated by a customer's order?
40%
Due to the curvature of the earth, microwave towers generally cannot be spaced more than about how many kilometers (not miles) apart?
48
A "Fishbone" process analysis diagram is also known as:
A cause-and-effect diagram
A feature of an object that limits possible (often incorrect) uses of a device is known as:
A constraint
In a relational database, what term refers to the collection of items that are all related to a single unique value, where the single value often serves as the primary key?
A record
What does the "%20" represent in an src directive?
A space character
What term is used to describe the marketing analysis where two versions of a web page are compared to see which one gives a better conversion rate for similar visitors at the same time?
A-B (or split) testing
In the video case about Dr. Chiu's Smartrek application, which of the following was not an incentive used to encourage driver participation?
Ability to find other people for carpooling
According to the "IOT Changes Everything" video case, one of the challenges limiting the widespread deployment of IOT is the transitioning to IPv6. What is the value of using IPv6 to IOT?
Ability to uniquely address billions of IOT devices
The advantage of ________________ is they can be read over greater distances.
Active RFID tags
All of the symbols representing tasks and decisions that are shown in single column of a vertical cross-functional diagram are related to the same what?
Actor
One of the origins of the Internet was the result of a project by US government agency?
Advanced research project agency
Many experts believe ________ is the solution to the challenge of making money from social networking sites and social commerce sites.
Advertising
Physical properties (shape, texture, color, etc.) of an object that allow someone to use an object correctly without the need for labels or instructions are known as:
Affordances
Which of the following would motivate businesses to create accessible eCommerce websites for their customers?
All of the three reasons shown above
What is the name of a highly popular crowdsourcing Internet marketplace enabling individuals and businesses (known as Requesters) to coordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are currently unable to do?
Amazon mechanical turk
What is the term used to describe a graphical description of a database that describes the way in which an organization's data and business activities are associated with one another?
An entity relationship diagram
What is the importance of the triple constraint?
Any changes to one constraint will likely affect the project outcome
The Internet of Things can be described as three "any"-type connections. What are these three "any" connections?
Any time, any place, any thing
Customers _____________________ because of Web 2.0.
Are more empowered
Anything that is capable of being owned or controlled to produce value would be considered as what?
Asset
[GoldmanSachs] What term was coined by Goldman Sachs in 2001 to describe the fastest growing market economies?
BRIC
What is the Elevator Test?
Being able to present the main point in 30 seconds
What term is used to describe the most successful solutions or problem-solving methods for achieving a business objective?
Best practices
What implementation approach mixes and matches core ERP modules as well as other extended ERP modules from different software providers to best fit their unique internal processes and value chains?
Best-of-breed approach
What low-power, non-directional wireless technology is used to create small personal area networks for cell phones and portable music players?
Bluetooth
What short-range wireless technology is commonly to connect smartphones with hands-free headsets for telephone calls and listening to music?
Bluetooth
Harald Blaatand, who was the King of Demark from 940-981, is associated with what wireless technology?
Bluetooth Technology
What is the name of the system used by Raytheon that allows technical blueprints to come to life so engineers engineers and customers can make quick changes to technical specifications and adjust equipment according to their needs using the "the common language of visualization."
CAVE
______________ allows you to access the internet through a coaxial media previously used only for TV connections.
Cable modern
What are the equivalent concepts in Excel to the following database terms: Field, Record, and a Table, respectively
Cell, row, worksheet
[Disintermediation] What term is describes the conflict when manufacturers (brands) disintermediate their channel partners, such as distributors, retailers, dealers, and sales representatives, by selling their products directly to consumers through general marketing methods and/or over the Internet.
Channel conflict
What Nuclear Remediation Site had their computers wiped clean by NotPetya?
Chernobyl
Which of the following types of analysis would be used to produce the Clery report, which is a public annual security report (ASR) that includes statistics of campus crime for the preceding 3 calendar years identifying the crimes committed in physical (geographic) proximity to a college campus as an effort to improve campus safety
Cluster
Identifying patterns in data based on common temporal (time) or spatial (geographic) traits is based on what type of data mining analysis
Clustering
The "nearest neighbor" Intelligent System Strategy is similar to what DM method?
Clustering
What term refers to the process where two or more entities (individuals, teams, groups, or organizations) who work together to accomplish certain tasks, such as a work group or virtual team?
Collaboration
What is the name of software that allows publishing, editing, and modifying content from a central interface, providing procedures to manage workflow in a collaborative environment?
Content management systems
What term is used to compare the number of closed sales to the the total number of website visitors? For example, if an ecommerce site receives 200 visitors in a month and has 50 sales, this term would be calcuated as 50 (sales) divided by 200 (visits), or 25%.
Conversion rate
An entrepreneur developing detailed documentation of their business processes so that they can be offered to other individuals as a franchise operation is an example of
Converting tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge
Which of the following is NOT a disadvantage of web-based call centers located overseas
Cost
The task of brainstorming in a group decision support system is similar to what step in the knowledge management cycle?
Create
What is the name for the path containing the minimum set of tasks that you must traverse in order to reach completion of your project on time?
Critical path
What type of data structure allows us to organize multi-dimensional information from a data warehouse so that it can be viewed using different data abstractions (or projections)?
Data cube
In the Ruby Tuesday's sales analysis case, analyzing historical data about the sales dimensions of products categories, sales regions, and months of the year would be best using which of the following approaches we've previously discussed?
Data cubes
What term is used to describe an individual who was born after the widespread adoption of digital technology and have grown up using technology like the Internet, computers and mobile devices?
Digital native
Major airlines (American, Delta, United, etc.) bypass travel agents and directly market tickets to customers from the airline's corporate website, this is an example of using what type of business sales strategy?
Disintermediation
Which of the following is an informational role?
Disseminator
In the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) "http://www.arizonedu", what does ".edu" define?
Domain
What type of repeater has the greatest throughput
Double radio
What is the name of the Regents Professor and founding chair of the MIS Department that pioneered the field of Group Decision Support Systems?
Dr. Jay Nanamaker
What type of chart allows you to plot data using two y-axes and a shared x-axis, visualizing a correlation or the lack thereof between the two y-axes data sets?
Dual axis chart
[ERPModules] Which of the following is typically not considered a "core" ERP module?
E-business
What information systems standard allows trading partners to move routine documents, such as purchasing orders, using standard data formats as messages over the Internet
EDI
[Systems] What term is used to describe interorganizational ERP systems that provide web-enabled links among a company's key business systems—such as inventory and production—and its customers, suppliers, distributors, and other relevant parties?
ERP-II
When Making Charts, you should do all of the following if possible, except?
Ensure the chart has images and clip art relevant to it's topic to make it appear dynamic and interesting
What category of location-based services would best describe products such as "location-based gaming", "social networking," and "find a friend"?
Entertainment
With respect to a database, what term is used to describe an abstract representation of all of the information included in a data structure about a particular type of entity?
Entity class
Besides sensors, radios, and chips, what is the value in the Internet of Things?
Establishment of services on top of the connectivity
Often presented visually on an executive dashboard, what type of report focuses attention on business processes whose performance falls outside the range of their defined KPI metrics?
Exception
What is the process of identifying metrics that are outside of acceptable tolerance levels?
Exception reporting
When Dr. Sudha Ram used CatCard data (digital traces) as part of her research to analyze students' routines and relationships to predict student retention. What knowledge management term would you use to classify the CatCard transactional data
Explicit data
What term was coined by Eli Pariser to describe a personalized search in which a website algorithm predicts what information a user would like to see based on user location and past searches on the website?
Filter bubble
Google's main business reason for installing fiber in select US cities is to _____.
Generate more web traffic, which generates more ad revenue for them
Satellites used for data communications that appear to be stationary from a fixed location on earth are placed in what type of orbit
Geosynchronous orbit
Related to the concepts of globalization, what computer "law" states that the bandwidth (speed) of data networks will double approximately every 24 months?
Gilder's law
Which of the following is FALSE of social computing?
It allows social information to remain anonymous
In addition to possessing contextual and relevant information, what other characteristic aspect does knowledge possess
It is actionable
What is NOT a benefit of telemedicine?
It requires traveling so doctors can see their patients in person
What type of inventory management systems deliver the precise number of parts, called work-in-process inventory, to be assembled into a finished product at precisely the right time?
JIT
What is the one key rule in designing a Presentation
Keep it simple
Business metrics that describe the performance of critical business activities are known as:
Key performance indicatiors
The risk of a project can be measured on what two scales?
Likelihood and impact
Which of the following issues related to wireless communication would NOT be a problem for an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) system?
Line-of-sight
In general, what you think of as the quality of your network connection speed when you are using your PC, iPad, or Smartphone is most influenced by which of the following?
Local tier-3 ISPs
An unobstructed, straight line-of-sight path between a transmitter and receiver is required by which of the following high-speed, commercial wireless network technologies?
Microwave
____________ means that users carry a device with them and can initiate a real-time contact with other systems from wherever they happen to be.
Mobility
Related to the concepts of globalization, what computer "law" states that the density of transistors will double approximately every 18 months?
Moore's law
If you have one wireless access point, for best coverage you should do what?
Mount it in the center of the house
What is the name for the exchange points for Internet traffic used by major ISPs?
NAP
Which of the following is the technology that enables most mobile wallet applications?
NFC
What is the name of the wireless technology that is designed to be embedded in mobile devices such as cell phones and credit cards allowing you to pay for items by waving your card within a few centimeters of a point-of-sale terminal?
Near-field communication
What is the name of the device that of the physical device that interfaces computers with a local area network (LAN)?
Network interface card (NIC)
What is the correct order of switching sites for packet "P5" in the following routing diagram?
New York, Dallas, Los Angeles
The success of a Group Decision Support System (GDSS) is based upon two key features: contributor anonymity (i.e., the identity of the person making the comment or suggestion is not known), and what other important feature
Parallel discussions
Which of the POUR principles focuses on the concept that web accessibility is based upon the assumption that people need to be able to input the information into their brain so that they can process it?
Perceivable
What is an affordance?
Physical property of an object that shows functionality
[RelativeSize] What type of chart would be show the values of individual components proportional to a whole, allowing you to easily know relative size of a component, such as might be done to analyze the allocation of expenditures in a budget?
Pie chart
What Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification was the building where our classroom is located, Environment and Natural Resources 2, awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council?
Platinum
What term is used to describe a physical interface between peripheral devices and the computer?
Port
If everything stops working and connecting to the internet, and you have no idea what to do, the first thing you should try is?
Powering the modem and router off then on again
Which phase of of PowerPoint Presentations do professionals spend the most time on?
Practicing
What is the term used to describe the process of reducing the number of dimensions of a multi-dimensional data cube (e.g., from three dimensions, perhaps season, location, and product, into two dimensions, such as season and location)
Projection
If we are trying to select the projects to do first, what projects should we select?
Projects that easy to do and also have high value proposition
What term is used to describe the original consensus algorithm in a Blockchain network that is used to confirm transactions and produce new blocks to the chain?
Proof-of-work
In the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) "http://www.arizonedu", what does "http://" define?
Protocol
What term is used to describe the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object?
Provenance
The old accounting maxim of "promise low" and "deliver high" is related what costing and budget
Prudence
What type of decision based on explicit knowledge and involves analysis using an algortihm and measured data?
Quantitative
Parking garage passes and access control on employee ID badges are examples of:
RFID
What technology has been used for such diverse applications as healthcare, tracking lost pets, and toll collecting on highways?
RFID
CODASYL, the Conference/Committee on Data Systems Languages, is remembered almost entirely for two activities: its work on the development of the COBOL language and its activities in standardizing database interfaces. We've learned about the pioneers of databases (Chen and Codd) today, who is credited for developing FLOW-MATIC, which evoled into the COBOL, the widely used business programming language?
Rear admiral grace murray hopper
Industry analytsts expect that 5th generation networks will be defined by three characterisitcs over 4th generation cellular networks. Which of the following would is not one of the expected changes?
Reduced signal attenuation
In a decision matrix, a "weighting" allows what additional information to be included in the analysis?
Relative importance
Tracking what products are delivered to users, and when, is a form of what?
Release control
Internet-enabled globalization does the following
Removes geography as a barrier to relationships
Google Analytics tracks the browser used to access a website. What term was used to describe a website that manages content based on the browser or device accessing the content?
Responsive web design
What type of website could adapt to the multiple devices (PC, mobile, and tablet) that a user incorporates in their daily shopping habits?
Responsive web design
As discussed in class, what company was founded in the Globalization 2.0 era based on the business model of selling discontinued product lines directly to consumers by using a new transportation infrastructure to reach a geographically distributed customer base?
Sears, roebuck & co.
Which of the following is a problem with BYOD?
Security
Although web users should have an unlimited amount of time to complete tasks on the web, this design goal must be balanced against what other issue?
Security and risk
Bandwidth is the transmission capacity of a network, stated in bits per second. Which of the following "laws" we've discussed determines the maximum bandwidth (signallin rate) of a given type of communication media (e.g., copper cable, fiber optic, etc.)?
Shannon's law
Which of the following causes of the bullwhip effect is related to a trading partner intentionally sharing inaccurate information with a company's future inventory requirements?
Shortarge gaming
What is the most important rule in presenting?
Show your passion
Sensors, RFID tags, meters, GPS, and other devices are used to collect supply chain information. These are all examples of __________.
Source data automation
What term is used to describe paid-for product ratings and reviews?
Sponsored reviews
A Mekko, or Marimekko or market map chart, which paints a picture of the overall market and helps to drive discussions about growth opportunities or acquisitions by showing the relationship between each segment or bar to the total. A Mekko chart is similar to what other type of chart discussed in class?
Stacked bar chart
Donut Charts are difficult to read, Microsoft recommends what as an alternative?
Stacked column or bar charts
When Planning the presentation, what is the number one rule?
Start with the end in mind
When classifying items on an I^2 diagram, we depend on individuals with domain knowledge and consultants about the items. What name do we use to describe an individual with domain knowledge?
Subject-matter expert
What term describes individuals with tactic knowledge about a particular domain?
Subject-matter experts
Tacit or "sticky" knowledge, is based on information that is:
Subjective and cognitive
Selecting EPEAT-compliant technology with a high rating over traditional, less energy efficient technology is an example of focusing on what sustainability effect?
Substitution by using alternative methods
Using the Internet of Things to increase the efficiency of a company's operations by allowing it to track, in real time, the movement of raw materials and parts through the manufacturing process to finished products delivered to the customer is related to what business function?
Supply chain management
Each long vertical or horizontal element in a cross-functional flowchart we put processes and decisions into is called what?
Swimlane
In the assigned reading, the acronym SMART was suggested as a way to remember the characteristics needed when defining requirements. Which letter focused on the ability of the project team to prove that a requirement has been satisfied and delivered?
T
Originally spun out of Stanford University as a research project, what big data tool started out by offering visualization techniques for exploring and analyzing relational databases and data cubes and has expanded to include Big Data research?
Tableau
[ChartingTool] What is the name of the Business Intelligence tool that is used for interactive analytics and data modeling?
Tableau
Subjective knowledge that is based an individual's experiences is known as what?
Tacit knowledge
_______________ is knowledge that is generally imprecise, costly to transfer, and difficult to formalize or codify.
Tacit knowledge
How does telemedicine improve the delivery of medical care in rural communities?
Telemedicine reduces the need for patients to travel without the physician
What term is used to describe how telemedicine uses wireless transmission and receipt of data gathered from remote sensors to allow doctors can monitor patients and control medical equipment from a distance?
Telemetry
Cisco uses the term "the power of in-person" to describe the ability of what technology to improve access to subject matter experts and to open doors to small business people?
Telepresence
What collaboration tool was discussed in class that enhances the participants' contextual awareness by sharing non-verbal information during meetings?
Telepresence
Which of the following technologies we've discussed was described as a more environmentally friendly "best practice for communication" that could greatly benefit small businesses?
Telepresence
When displaying a webpage, such as http://www.u.arizonedu/~wilburwhat is the name of the directory the web browser will beck in the "wilbur" account for the "index.html" website
The "public_html" directory
Before paying an invoice in the procurement process, the accounting team checks that the purchase order, the goods receipt document (bill-of-lading), and the vendor's invoice all match. What is the term that is used to describe this auditing process?
Three-way match
What is considered to be the high-capacity data transmission core of the Internet structure?
Tier 1 ISP
In a vertical cross-functional business process diagram, the order of items in one column (from top to bottom) shows what relationship among these items?
Time
In a vertical cross-functional diagram, items are ordered in one coumn relates to what?
Time
Hierarchical Diagrams are commonly used for all of the following except?
Time series data
In the decision matrix example shown below, which of the answers would have the highest score for Project A?
Time to complete
Which of these is NOT enumerated as a Motivation to Create Accessible Web Content?
To improve the reliability of technical functionality (technology centered motivations)
What type of chart would be typically be used to show how the an initial value is affected by intermediate values -- either positive or negative -- and resulted in the composition of a final value?
Waterfall charts
The four guiding principles of accessibility (perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust) are included in what document?
Web Content Accessibility Guide, Version 2.0
Which of the following is *NOT* a behavioral issue for meetings?
Wrong people
Of the items used that identify you uniquely at the University of Arizona, which one can be used as a primary key (unique identifier) outside the University?
Your UA email address
When you get an unexpected email, you should avoid everything but?
Copying a link to a known website and pasting it into your browser
In recognizing ethical situations, which of the following is related to a chemical reaction that occurs in your body, specifically your intestinal track
Gut check
In the Information-based Problem Solving Video Case, what was the map that the interviewee (Beth Bluer) was trying to create?
A map overlying foster homes and registered sex offenders
Thought Question: Walmart's strategic focus is on Everyday low prices and maximum efficiency. You are a Walmart Manager and have been presented with 4 alternative IT ideas, which one should almost automatically float to the top?
A new system for routing distribution that will save 10% of the total distribution costs
What is the recommended solution covered in a tech tip for keeping track of many secure passwords that could be hard to remember?
A password manager app on a cell phone with a lock screen
What is an Exploit?
A technique used to compromise a system
In the IT Strategic Planning Video Case, it discussed showing the _______ between all the IT projects and the overall business strategy? We also discussed this specific topic in class and explained it's meaning and why it mattered.
Alignment
What is the name of the University of Arizona's primary career management tool that offers UA students and alumni access to jobs, internships, and a range of other services?
Handshake
The web ____________ buyer power.
Has a mixed impact upon
The ____________________ is a summary of information needs of the functional areas and of the organization as a whole.
IT environment
In the Building Your Brand Video Case, what was a critical part of of building your online professional presence
Include keywords associated with the jobs you are seeking
What dimension of Porter's Forces focuses on the decision that a buyer makes when choosing among direct, existing competitors when all of the competitors offer the same identical name-brand product (e.g., an iPhone 6)
Industry rivalry
___________ is threatening to steal or actually stealing information from a company and then demanding payment to not use or release that information.
Information extortion
As an employee of MCI/Worldcom, David Myers faced what classic ethical dilemma also described as a 'Who am I?'
Integrity vs loyalty
The classic values conflict with "Who Am I'" represents what type of ethical dilemma?
Integrity vs loyalty
Thought Question: If you are forming a startup company, and you hope it will grow to be the next Amazon, but there is a great deal of uncertainty about both growth rate and future needs for your financial systems, which option for acquiring your Financial IT applications makes the most sense?
Lease
Making the Adobe Creative Cloud is now available to UofA students. What approach for software acquisition did the UoA used to allow students to have access to this software?
Lease (right to use product)
How does adding social networking to the VAN allows candidates to improve the effectiveness of their volunteers
Leverages personal relationships
In the Relationship-based Organizing Video Case, what was being done to improve the effectiveness of campaign volunteers?
Leveraging personal relationships of campaign volunteers with voters to allow personal networking
On your personal financial balance sheet, your student loans would be classified in what category
Liability
In the Personal Branding video case, which of the following online platforms was identified as being primarily a business networking tool?
In the Martha Stewart case, which of the following issues resulting in Martha Stewart being convicted of criminal charges that resulted in prison time
Lying to the FBI
The Associated Students of the University of Arizona is a representative organization led by University of Arizona students that serves, engages and empowers the student body through advocacy and the provision of programs and resources. What is the name of the Eller student currently serving as our ASUA Senator?
Michelle Mendoza
Market capitalization is determined by multiplying the stock price by what
Number of common shares outstanding
Understanding the question and responding with the right answer for a question in the lightning round depends most on what
People
Official sounding emails that demand you reply immediately to confirm your personal information or you will lose access to your accounts are a software attack known as
Phishing attack
What action did Stacy Snyder take that resulted in her losing her job?
Posting a photo of herself at a party on her social media account
_____________ is the right to be left alone and to be free of unreasonable personal intrusions.
Privacy
In the Software Development Lifecycle Process (SDLC), in what SDLC stage is it the most costly to make changes to the system requirements
Systems operations and maintenance
A company's "ticker" or stock symbol serves what role on a stock trading exchange
Uniquely identifies a traded stock
Critical Thinking Question: Thinking of Porter's five forces, if you are one of the mobile telephone companies upgrading to a 5G network, and the largest supplier of 5G telecom equipment in the world can no longer be purchased from for political reasons, which of the five forces will it impact from your perspective?
Bargaining power of suppliers
In the video case study of Porter's Forces, Michael Porter commented that the airport's control of gates represented which of the five forces
Bargaining power of suppliers
Taxes, FICA and other Payroll Deductions can easily be what percentage of a person's paycheck
35%
Assume you are 22 years old when you graduate from the University of Arizona and have a credit card with a $2,000 credit balance with an 18% annual rate. If you only make minimum payments of 2% of the balance or just $10 (whichever is greater) each month, what birthday will you likely be be celebrating when the the credit card is paid off?
52
Approximately what percentage of applications for jobs are rejected by potential employers before the interview due to public information posted online by the applicant (e.g. social networking, blogs, media sites, etc. - that is, your online reputation)?
60% or more
One key differentiator of Zara from competitors is it owns it's supply chain, unlike retailers such as H&M or Uniqlo, and it also owns 50% of it's manufacturing. This approach means Zara is not only more nimble, but in general doesn't have to contend with which of Porter's four external (out side the industry) forces in the same way the other retailers do?.
Bargaining power of suppliers
With respect to Porter's Forces, which of the five factors would have be the LEAST (weakest) impact on Starbuck's business model?
Bargaining power of suppliers
So, what is MIS? In the description of Scope Creep and unintended consequences, we discussed technology leading to unintended consequences... What sport was the example of where technology was leading to judgements about the performance of referees/umpires/ or coaches
Baseball and strikebox
Which of the following states has a Social Media Privacy law specifically related to prohibiting employers from requesting passwords to personal Internet accounts to get or keep a job, or prohibiting colleges and universities from requiring access to students' social media accounts
California
IT __________ be used to create a competitive advantage ___________.
Can; because everyone has access to technology
Which group of voters would result in the highest return on investment (i.e., largest number of votes for a DNC candidate) using a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) strategy
Democratic voters who sometimes vote
Converting all MIS 111 students from clickers to response cards without an initial test period is an example of what type of conversion?
Direct conversion
What is the named used to describe daily spending decisions like eating at a restaurant, buying clothes, drinking Starbucks, or playing a round of golf?
Discretionary
What is the name of the MIS Regents Professor and founding Chair of the MIS Department who described MIS as "Solving real problems for real people"?
Dr. Jay Nunamaker
What was the name of the legislation adopted by the European Parliament that mandated that all countries within the EU must setup laws requiring websites to obtain informed consent before they can store or retrieve information on a visitor's computer or web-enabled device.
EU cookie law
A Cost-Benefit Analysis is related mostly to what type of project management feasibility assessment
Economic
When information systems were first introductd into organizations, the primary focus of their use was what?
Efficiency
The Gainesville police department started using the internet to accomplish all of these objectives except?
Empower businesses to identify high crime areas and determine appropriate levels of security
David Myers' (former controller of MCI/Worldcom) statement "I still don't know that one point when I started to cross the line...", is an example of how small, incremental repeated compounding of unethical decisions can result in what
Ethical drift
School of Arts: What domain of education in the art school emphasizes experimental contemporary studio practice that includes combined media installation, performance, environmental and site-specific art, 3D modeling, digital fabrication, video, audio and AR/VR installations, community based practice, and interactive and relational strategies?
Extended media
In the Personal Branding Video Case from Tuck Business School, which tool was discussed as being an 'overheard personal conversation' that still needed to be managed in the context of your business personal brand
What organization was created in the Eller College of Management in the Spring of 2003 and is designed to be a member organization dedicated to the support of Eller College undergraduate students in their pursuit of co-curricular knowledge, skills, leadership and community activities?
Federation of Eller student organizations
What network security control prevents information from moving between two networks?
Firewall
Car payments and rent are examples of what type of expenses?
Fixed
When budgeting, the amount you spend for rent is considered as:
Fixed expenses
Which of the following is an example of how individuals use technology in a way that that allow others easily to monitor and track their activities
Geotagging smartphone photos
Which of the following actions would be considered a biometric authentication
Requiring a user to scan their fingerprint
An investors willingness to potentially loose their money in exchange for the potential of higher returns is called their?
Risk tolerance
What is used to determine how long an investment will take to double, given a fixed annual rate of interest, allowing investors to get a rough estimate of how many years it will take for the initial investment to duplicate itself.
Rule of 72
What is the name of the agile framework for managing the work of development teams who break their work into actions that can be completed within timeboxed iterations, called sprints (30 days or less)?
SCRUM
Which of the following is generally NOT commonly used as a biometric identification?
Signature
Which of the following types of social engineering attacks would be a text or SMS message from someone claiming to be from a reputable or known company asking your to disclose your personal information
Smishing
Sending phishing emails that demand users respond immediately or risk losing access to a critical resource, such as email, is an example of what
Social engineering
Information systems professionals understand business needs and analyze processes, methods and data to create customer-oriented solutions. The value proposition for MIS was described more briefly by Dr. Jay Nunamaker, Regents Professor and founding chair of the MIS Department, as a discipline focused on doing what for business?
Solving real problems
Your username (UANetID) is your claim of identify to a computer system. When the computer system verifies your identify by requiring you to enter a password is an example of what type of authentication
Something a user knows
What normative theory of ethics focuses on the belief that manager's actions should be guided by the understanding that they are entrusted with a responsibility to manage and protect the assets of the company for the benefit of all of those who the actions of the firm affect
Stakeholder
In the VAN (Voter Activiation Network) Relationship-Based Political Organizing video case study, the VAN was able to idenify the relationships of possible supporters using data from what source?
Supporters facebook records
In the Video Case on Michael Porters Competitive Forces What Industry was described as being Terrible in Every Category
The airline industry
Porters five forces focuses on what part of competition?
The business environment
Which of the following does a Fishbone Diagram typically not inform you about a problem
The cost of correcting a problem with a process
In the Biometric Passwords Video Case, what were the two emerging biometric technologies that were explained in detail
The patterns of eye veins, heartbeat rythms
Which of the following is a DISADVANTAGE of purchasing prewritten software?
The software is controlled by another company and may be hard to adapt
All of the following are Information System Professional Specialties Except
These are all information professional specialties
What term would be used to describe any danger to which its system might be exposed
Threat
_________ is any danger to which a system may be exposed.
Threat
In the 'How Technology Changes Us' Video Case, what was the fundamental technology that was being discussed as totally changing the world and how people function
Timekeeping
In financial markets, a "ticker symbol" identifies what?
Traded company
The _____________ approach states that an ethical action is the one that provides the most good or does the least harm.
Utilitarian
If you are just being asked for something you know to get into a system, what is the system attempting to do
Validate your identity
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a market indicator comprised of 30 large publically traded companies, and is intended to to gauge the performance of the industrial sector within the American economy. Recently, General Electric, who had been part of the DJIA for over 100 years, was replaced by another company. What company replaced GE in the DJIA?
Walgreens
In the Your Personal Brand Video Case, what two things had to be aligned and true for your personal brand to be effective?
Who you are and how you present yourself
You have a MAC running OSX, which of these is NOT true?
You must have an MS windows VM of assignments and Exams
Which of the following elements present on your CatCard relates to biometric identification
Your picture
Library: What is the name of the University of Arizona's multidisciplinary learning community and collaborative makerspace in the University Libraries where students can access cutting-edge technologies, such as 3D scanning and printing equipment, a visualization wall, virtual reality headsets, and Raspberry Pis, along with collaborating with interdisciplinary experts?
iSpace
Which of the following is the correct order of the traditional System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
investigation, analysis, design, programming and testing, implementation, operation and maintenance
