CIS Unit 1 Quiz

Which of the following is a good example of a system, since removing one part will cause the entire system to stop working?

A car engine

Which of the following are examples of data? (Select all that apply)

Amount sold, Customer number

________ analytics is the scientific process of transforming data into insight for making better decisions.

Business

How will a business estimate the impact on profits from increases or decreases in costs?

By manipulating variables

In analyzing a business, the characteristics of an individual sale, such as the order date, are best referred to as ______.

Data

What is information that returns to its original transmitter (input, transform, or output) and modifies the transmitter's actions?

Feedback

Which is included in feedback for a car's system?

Gas Level

What is data converted into a meaningful and useful context?

Information

What is the primary difference between information and business intelligence?

Information primarily focuses on internal variables. BI manipulates multiple variables including both internal and external variables.

What is a world where interconnected Internet-enabled devices or "things" have the ability to collect and share data without human intervention?

Internet of Things

What includes the skills, experience, and expertise, coupled with information and intelligence, that creates a person's intellectual resources?

Knowledge

Select the accurate statement in terms of MIS.

MIS enables business success and innovation

What is a business function that moves information about people, products, and processes across the company to facilitate decision making and problem solving?

Management information systems

What is a way of monitoring the entire system by viewing multiple inputs being processed or transformed to produce outputs while continuously gathering feedback on each part?

Systems thinking

What provides an end-to-end view of how operations work together to create a product or service?

Systems thinking

Select the item that can be answered by using knowledge.

Taking into account external reasons for the recent underperformance of a good salesperson

Select the group of items that can be determined using information.

The best-selling product, best customer, and worst-selling product

Which of the following are examples of information in contrast to data? (Select all that apply)

Worst customer, Best-selling product

What is the science of fact-based decision making?

analytics

__________ is the science of fact-based decision making.

analytics

Management ________ systems is a business function, like accounting and human resources, which moves information about people, products, and processes across the company to facilitate decision making and problem solving.

information

_________ includes the skills, experience, and expertise, coupled with information and intelligence, that creates a person's intellectual resources.

knowledge

What has a defined length, type, and format and includes numbers, dates, or strings such as Customer Address?

structured data

What is typically stored in a traditional system such as a relational database or spreadsheet and accounts for about 20 percent of the data that surrounds us.

structured data

Which of the following are types of unstructured data?

text messages, emails, Twitter tweets

A variable is a data characteristic that stands for a value that changes or varies over __________.

time

What type of data is not defined and does not follow a specified format and is typically free-form text such as emails, Twitter tweets, and text messages?

unstructured data

A(n) ________ is a data characteristic that stands for a value that changes or varies over time.

variable

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a world where interconnected Internet-enabled devices or "things" have the ability to collect and share data __________ human intervention.

without