BUS 345 Final

The sweet spot of modelling of a problem has this many nodes

5-13

How many different items (numbers) can be represented with 3 bits?

8

What is the difference between a bit and a byte?

A bit is a 0 or a 1, then one byte is a series of 8 bits

Among the following statements, which is an informal group approach for knowledge sharing?

A community of interest

Which is false about an entity:

A database can have only one entity

Which of the following statements is false regarding the different types of information systems used in organizations?

A transaction processing system (TPS) is used to address strategic decisions of the organization like going into a new market

Google Analytics can...

All of the above

Of the following, which is true for the use of models in business?

All of the above

What might happen when you use business modelling

All of the above

Which of the following is not true about packet switching

All packets for the same email will always travel through the Internet using the same path

Among the following, which is not a benefit of IS?

Among the following, which is not a benefit of IS?

Someone's voice that you hear in a face to face meeting is this type of signal

Analog

The use of a KMS can be in

Any of the above

How can we encode data (image, sound, text, video, etc.)

By transforming them into binary code (0 and 1) using a computer program

The following person is responsible for the IT/IS to run smoothly so the organization can go about its business.

CIO

Which of the following is not a type of Automation

CRM

The primary key:

Can identify a unique record in the table

Which among the following is not part of the stages of the life cycle of knowledge (from Nonaka and Takeuchi)?

Collection

Kickstarter, indiegogo, and gofundme are examples of

Crowdsourcing

Metadata is

Data about the data stored, such as file size or creation date

Among the following statements which is not an information system that could be used by the communication and collaboration system?

Data analysis models

Among the following statements which is not a service provided by behavioral data collection?

Determine the selling price of a product or service on the Web

Which of the following is an innovation activity, according to the OECD

Develop a new product

Fill in the blank: Internet of Things can make it ________ for hackers to release malware that is more impactful because many devices are now connected

Easier

Business process modelling is a method for increasing organizations,

Efficiency and quality

The transaction processing system (TPS) is a type of information system that is used primarily by

Employees and managers at the operational management level

Which of the following statements is false concerning the concept of viral marketing?

Enables transmission on a small scale of end recipients

Open source is used by...

Everyone

Fill in the blank: "For every successful innovation, there are countless ________ attempts"

Failed

According to the Utterback-Abernathy model, process innovation typically comes before product innovation. True or False

False

All IS projects are completed successfully, on time and on budget. True or false?

False

An Integrated IS includes a set of integrated software modules to support business processes in several sectors / functions of the organization with several databases to support the autonomous functional IS. True or false?

False

In the SDLC cascade systems, it is recommended to skip steps to accelerate development. True or False?

False

The decision support systems (DSS) are a type of information system that aims to make decisions automatically, instead of managers. True or false?

False

The expressions "business process" and "information system" mean exactly the same thing. True or false?

False

The fastest and easiest step in information systems development is generally the problem definition. True or false?

False

Unlike a pop-up window, a banner ad will normally require that the user click on the banner to make it go away and continue their web browsing. True or false?

False

For a made to order business, such as Subway sandwiches or Dell computers, which of the following is probably not something you would put in the business model of customer ordering and payment

How much discretionary income the customer has to spend

Which of the following is not part of the definition of 'innovation' according to the OECD definition.

Implementation of a new or significantly improve re-organization of a company

Among the following statements which is not an advantage of electronic commerce?

Inevitably increases the time required to obtain a product or service

What technological development is mostly responsible for the shrinking of size of computers today?

Integrated Circuits

In Herbert Simon's decision making model, there are three steps, what are these steps?

Intelligence, design, choice

Identify the statement that is false. Just like mapping is a representation of the geographic world, modelling in business...

Is a complete representation of the real world

Which of the following is true about prototyping

Is a good process to use when there is uncertainty in the solution design

Which of the following is not a criteria to consider when creating innovation

Is the product going to sell long term

Which of the following is not a characteristic of virtual private network (VPN)?

It allows the establishment of a private network that does not use the public Internet

Why is the many to many relationship bad?

It can create redundancy and false data

Which of the following statements is not a disadvantage of an Integrated IS?

It can help implement industry best practices in the organization

Which of the following statements does not apply to a customer relationship management (CRM) system?

It connects suppliers, factories, distribution centers, retail outlets and retail customers in order to provide goods or services from source to consumption

Which of the following statements is false concerning the business model called "Transaction Broker"?

It redirects potential buyers on the official website of sellers

One advantage to having a common central database as opposed to many databases is

Less chance of redundant data

According to the open source definition from opensource.org, which of the following is not a criteria?

License can be given to only one type of product

The most common open source operating system of the most reliable hosting companies were

Linux

Machine language code...

Looks like a series of 0s and 1s

Among the following statements, which is not a core function of an information system?

Make decisions in place of a manager

Which one of the following will help the most to combat the bullwhip effect in a supply chain?

Make stock levels visible to all in the supply chain

Computers evolved in a way that (from older to newer)

Mechanical to Electrio-mechanical to Completely Electrical

Which of the following laws or rules is an observation on the increase of computing power

Moore's Law

Most drawings of a process of a problem have a common quality. Most of these drawings have these two things according to Tom Wujec, one was links, the other was

Nodes

Which type of automation has the most risk but most reward?

Paradigm Shift

You go to a restaurant and they have a buffet set up. Food is set up for the lunch crowd between 11 am and 2 pm. The manager keeps an eye on the trays and puts in orders depending on the demand he predicts for the day. This is an example of what type of production

Push based production model

Which of the following statements is not an outcome of information systems for organizations?

Reduce the informational needs of the organization

Among the following statements, which is not a consequence of the use of information systems for each department of an organization in isolation?

Risk of loss of autonomy in the choice of information systems that will be used in a given department

Which of the following statements is false concerning the concept of SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

SEO involves optimizing algorithms of search engines so as to display the most recently updated Web sites.

Which of the following is an Agile method?

Scrum

When using a commercially available Integrated IS you can

Select and choose the different modules/functionality you want

Which of the following is not an example of a decision made by the IS department

Should we hire an advertising agency for our next commercial campaign?

Which of the following is not true about IS.

Simple

According to the Utterback-Abernathy model, the low cost leader comes into play in the following phase.

Specific phase

Someones social security number is represented as a set of nine numbers or integers on a tax form. This data is

Structured data

When you take a skiing class and you learn how to ski, this is an example of (knowledge passing from your instructor to you)

Tacit knowledge to tacit knowledge

Which of the following statements is not an advantage of an Integrated IS?

The business that uses and installs an Integrated IS can not match the ROI of the organization that implements the Integrated IS

One can find several types of information systems (IS) within the same organization to meet different needs. Which of the following statements do not correspond to the usual segmentation of information systems in an organization

The executive information systems (EIS) are mostly used by the employees on the production floor level

When running a business process the two main issues with functional IS working independently is

The functional IS may not communicate with other functional IS and having multiple databases

Which among the following statements is not a challenge in knowledge management?

The lack of speed of the search engine

Who decides whether a program is open source or proprietary code?

The programmer

Which is false about Internet of Things

There are no security issues

According to the video "Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle", Tom Scott said that the creators of ASCII "did a really clever thing" because as demonstrated with the character "A"

They envisioned UTF-8 and made ASCII compatible to newer standards

Why do we need to encode data (image, sound, text, video, etc.)?

To express the data in a language understood by the computer

Which of the following statements describes a tool specifically found in GDSS, compared to a non-group DSS/regular DSS?

Tools to Vote

Which of the following statements is false regarding the EDI technology (Electronic Data Interchange)

Traditionally these have been done on the public Internet

3D printing has evolved so much so that even food is being considered for 3D printing. True or False

True

A model is a simplified representation or abstraction of reality. (True or False)

True

BPR can involve processes that are non-technical, not involving a computer. True or False?

True

Collaborative filtering is to compare data from different consumers in order to make recommendations on products or services. True or false?

True

ERP brings together various information systems. True or False

True

Each function, unit or department of an organization has different information needs. That is why one can find in an organization different information systems designed to meet their specific information needs. True or false?

True

Information represents a set of intelligible data that provided context makes sense to the user. True or false?

True

One fact was that in a group, the modelling process would be faster if no one talks (True or False)

True

Open source software is software that can be freely used, changed, and shared (in modified or unmodified form) by anyone. True or False.

True

TOGAF and CobiT 5 are based on best practices. True or False

True

The majority of computer systems today use the UTF-8 format (True or False)

True

Unlike the digital wallet, the stored value card requires an amount of money is first transferred to the stored value card.

True

The decision to expand into Maine for a regional restaurant chain that only exists in the Mid-West is a

Unstructured decision

Which of the following is false about Integrated Information Systems?

Uses multiple databases

Most business processes of an organization are the responsibility of ______ department(s), Where people from _______ department(s) have tasks during the business process.

Various

The three 'V's of Big Data were:

Volume, Variety, and Velocity

Which of the following networks typically covers the largest geographic area in size.

WAN

Which is a characteristic of software?

Zero marginal cost to make a copy

Among the following statements which is not one of the types of knowledge that can be found in an organization?

informal knowledge