MIS Chapter 2 Quiz

Which of the following would be primarily responsible for enterprise-wide governance and usage of information to maximize the value of an organization's data?

CDO

A ________ is a senior manager who oversees the use of IT in the firm.

CIO

Which of the following systems are especially suited to situations in which the procedure for arriving at a solution may not be fully predefined in advance?

DSS

Which of the following is an interorganizational business process?

Ordering raw materials

Which of the following is not a true statement with respect to business processes?

The efficiency of a business firm is not related to its business processes.

Which of the following can typically access a company's intranet?

The firm's employees

A business is a formal organization created to sell services or products at a profit.

True

An MIS typically uses data supplied by a TPS.

True

End users are representatives of departments outside of the information systems group for whom applications are developed.

True

Operational-level manufacturing systems provide transaction-level information that enable monitoring of the daily activities of a business.

True

A(n) ________ collects data from various key business processes and stores the data in a single comprehensive data repository, usable by many parts of the business.

enterprise system

Suppliers, customers, employees, products and services, and ________ are the five basic components with which businesses must deal.

invoices and payments

Producing a bill of materials is a responsibility of the ________ function.

manufacturing and production

The three principal levels of hierarchies within a business organization are:

senior management, middle management, and operational management.

The goal of social commerce applications is to:

share opinions about purchasing products or services.

The principal liaison between the information systems groups and the rest of the organization is a(n):

systems analyst.

A computerized system that performs and records the daily activities necessary to conduct business is classified as a(n):

transaction processing system.

Which of the following types of systems could be used to enable different firms to work collaboratively on a product?

Extranet

Systems analysts are highly trained technical specialists who write the software instructions for computers.

False

The principal purpose of a TPS is to answer nonroutine questions and track the flow of transactions through an organization.

False