Mid Term Exam 480 (quizzes)

Put the following in order from smallest to largest.

1. Bit 2. Byte 3. Kilobyte 4. Megabyte 5. Gigabyte 6. Terabyte 7. Petabyte

Which of the following is one of the primary components that enable networks and individual devices to connect to the Internet?

A "backbone' of connected hardware and a suite of internet protocol software

How does supply chain visibility provided by a supply chain management system reduce the bullwhip effect?

Accurately predicting how many units of an item are expected to sell allows manufacturers to accurately source for the correct amount of raw materials and avoid overreacting to fluctuations in consumer demand.

UNM manages this aggregation site for high speed, low cost network services that takes advantage of peering services in the state, and with consortiums such as WRN and Internet 2.

Albuquerque Gigapop

Combining a desktop's power with a clean look, ________ computers are popular with companies. However, their inability to expand makes them less popular with serious gamers.

All-in-one

Data mining is a means of ________ data that can help organizations find patterns and relationships within data sets.

Analyzing

The holistic, balanced set of measures which reflect the different drivers that contribute to superior performance and the achievement of the enterprise's strategic goals.

Balanced Score Card

A common, basic condition for most flextime policies is the requirement that employees must

Be able to fulfill their work responsibilities, including attending certain meetings or events in-person.

A videoconference may be a better choice than a voice conference call because it allows

Better communication through nonverbal cues.

A wireless short-range transmission protocol is called ________.

Bluetooth

Frederick Taylor used time-and-motion studies to

Break down work tasks to find ways to improve them.

A channel over which information flows inside a digital device is called a ________

Bus

The essential RDBMS functions; create, read, update, and delete data is collectively referred to as which acronym?

CRUD

Of these business management systems, which one is focused on how managers can develop a lasting relationship with individual customers that promotes long-term buying?

Customer relationship management system

The acronym for a database administrator is ______.

DBA

A search engine continually adjusts its algorithms as more data enter its servers. This is an example of the use of

Data analytics

When creating a database field, we set ________ for each field to decrease data input mistakes.

Data types

IN addition to overall digital flexibility, technological savings, and increased collaboration, computing in the cloud provides organizations with

Disaster recovery.

In our lecture, we learned about this Artificial Intelligence effort by Google through examples of it making appointments and reservations.

Duplex

Data redundancy is the ________ of data.

Duplication

The property of cloud to grow or shrink capacity for CPU, memory, and storage resources to adapt to the changing demands of an organization, managing both resource need and controlling costs, is known as:

Elasticity

Payscale.com, Payfactors.com, and Salary.com are sites that offer

Employee compensation management solutions.

Human resource management systems are invaluable to HR managers who lack legal expertise because the systems

Ensure that HR actions comply with governmental

This involves the automatic tagging of unusual events in financial transactions and is used to spot mistakes and fraudulent activities.

Exception reporting

The chief information security officer heads the IT department in most organizations.

False

What must be integrated into an organization's enterprise resource management solution to allow it to create and maintain regulatory and compliance information from a centralized location?

Financial management systems software

In a university database, the student table, with student ID as a primary key, is linked to the university department table through its primary key-department ID. In the student table, department ID is a ________.

Foreign Key

The boot process consists of how many steps.

Four

The ________ is a separate processor (computer) on your computer that enhances your video

Graphic processor (GPU)

Which chip and manufacturing company is largest in the world?

Intel

Calculating reordering points and order quantity levels are key advantages of modern

Inventory management systems

The main advantage of the IPv6 format for IP addresses is that

It can accommodate many more addresses than the IPv4 format.

How is metadata related to information?

It helps clarify the nature of the information.

All of the following are true about UNM's Super Computer except:

It is located in the basement of UNM's basketball arena at the PIT

The amount of time that passes between when a device is asked to perform and when it completes the task is known as

Latency

The type of storage that retains data and information when the power is turned off is called ________.

RAM (Random Access Memory)

In the initiation phase of project management, the client and project manager determine if the project is SMART. What does the R in SMART refer to?

Realistic

In a relational database, information is organized into tables in which each row represents a(n) ________.

Record

The single, front door to IT service is know in ITIL as the __________.

Service Desk

What does the abbreviation SQL stand for?

Structured Query Language

Mary Parker Follett's theory of management is based on the principle that

Success depends on the flow of ideas from all levels of an organization.

UNM's Center for Advanced Research Computing is this type of a computer resource:

Super Computer

Relational databases organize data into ________ based on structured data groupings.

Tables

Which of the following is an accurate description of "Moore's Law"?

The number of transistors fitting on a chip doubles about every two years.

Which statement best describes the impact of management information systems (MIS) for communication?

They have vastly improved organizations' ability to communicate effectively and efficiently.

What does the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) strive to achieve?

To ensure EU companies protect the privacy and personal data of EU citizens

The correct way to measure the screen size of a computer monitor is?

diagonally from one corner to the other

Describe the benefits of cloud computing. More than one answer may be correct.

-Affordability for business use -Access to applications software -Flexibility of user devices

Choose what all-in-one computers actually mean

-All-in-one computers house every component except the keyboard and mouse inside the same case as the monitor -All-in-one computers are hinged computers -All-in-one computer is a stationary device with a separate keyboard and mouse

A multi-core processor has two or more ______; and is capable of ______.

-Cores -ALU's -Hyper-threading

What business management system seeks to streamline an organization's activities to prevent backlogs and inefficiencies?

Business Process Management (BPM)

__________ relationships is a(n) e-commerce relationship in which organizations buy and sell products or services online from or to one another.

Business to Business (B2B)

A key component, and major advantage, of an ERP is its

Centralized database

Which type of collaboration software could best help an organization increase engagement between remote employees and those who are "in-house" or organization based?

Cloud-based forums, messaging, and meeting apps

A computer network must be connected to the Internet to support

Communicating via email with people on other networks.

Recognizing that inappropriate and inconsistent pay can demotivate the strongest workforce, many firms use

Compensation management software

A cloud database infrastructure integrates computer hardware and operating system in an internet-based ________.

Datacenter

What type of system is used to assist with processes that rely on a large number of inputs that frequently change?

Decision support system

The purpose of the application protocol layer of TCP/IP is to

Define how email programs and other software communicate within and across networks.

According to Gartner Research, which computer manufacturer had the largest market share in the US in 2019?

Dell

Recruiting and hiring management software can help HR managers evaluate how their organization's future staffing needs are influenced by

Internal factors such as employee turnover and external factors such as public demand for the organization's products.

The main advantage of the IPv6 format for IP addresses is that

It can accommodate many more addresses than the IPv4 format

In our Techbytes, Aidan shared info on this app that allows you to keep track of family members.

Life 360

Relational databases use ________ called relationships between tables.

Links

Data centralization means that data is centralized in ________ place(s).

One.

The organization that makes best practice recommendations to make the web "available to all people, whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental ability" is

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Which of the following is a benefit to utilizing employee scheduling software? More than one answer may be correct.

-Automatically schedule employees, freeing up management for more important tasks. -Automatically record and add up the number of hours employees are working.

What are some characteristics of a 2-in-1 computer?

-Full operating system -Touch screen monitor -Short battery life

Which of the following statements describes a typical characteristic of telecommuting? More than one answer

-It requires reliable, high-speed internet access. -It allows the employee to work from almost anywhere. -It can place additional demands on the employee's time.

Common names for a USB drive include?

-Nail drive -Thumb drive -Flash drive -Jump drive

Choose the SSD characteristics

-No moving parts -Extremely fast -Uses lasers to read information

The ________ speed of the processor dictates the number of instructions that CPU can process per second.

Clock

Which of the following is a tool commonly used by project managers and accessed using project management software?

Closure Stage

Amazon, Kamatera, Salesforce, and Google are all examples of

Cloud service providers.

What is the key role of a client-server network in business?

To provide personal computer users secured access to shared data.

The unique global address for a web page or other resource on the Internet is called the __________.

Uniform resource locator

What was the benefit of Square Inc. that differentiated it from the other POS systems that were available at the time it first launched? More than one answer

-Servers at restaurants were able to process customer payments right at the table, increasing the speed at which they could turn over tables. -Smaller companies and individual vendors were able to accept credit and debit cards for payment since they didn't need to invest in expensive servers or infrastructure. -Small businesses were able to afford to accept credit and debit card transactions because a flat fee was charge per transaction.

According to Adam Smith, what are three ways that businesses can maker labor more efficient?

-They can have workers specialize in a single, simple task. -They can reduce the distance between manufacturing steps or facilities. -They can invent machines to multiply the productivity of workers.

Although Miguel does not want to give up the option to work from both home and office, he's starting to feel his personal and work lives blending together, and not in a good way. What are some strategies he should try to improve his work-life balance? More than one answer

-When at the office, Miguel can break for informal chats with colleagues in person and on video chat or phone when he's home. At the end of the day, he should take time to wind down and get enough rest. -Whenever he is, Miguel should plan his day according to achievable priorities. A first step may be scheduling a specific time for responding to messages and calls.

According to our lecture, Netflix big data analytics help to determine

-Youtube and Hulu productions that are favored by customers -Movie recommendations for customers

Binary language consists of two digits, _____ and _____.

0 ; 1

What is the key reason to implement cloud computing into one's personal and/or business data and information processing?

Cloud computing diminishes the need to store filed and software on a local drive.

What is the key reason to implement cloud computing into one's personal and/or business data and information processing?

Cloud computing diminishes the need to store files.

What occurs during the process optimization step of business process management?

Managers adapt (modify) the process to enhance process performance.

How are managers' jobs expected to change as management information system (MIS) technology and tools improve?

Managers will be freed from tasks performed by online services or staff using collaboration tools.

In our Tech Bytes, we learned that this company had leveraged technology and process design, including a conveyer system, to improve the efficiency of their operation:

McDonalds

The information in the memory (the RAM, the caches, the registers) is __________ when a computer is shut down.

Not saved.

What did Peter Drucker mean by "decentralization"?

Organizations work at what they do best and have a comparative advantage and outsource the work at which they have no advantage.

In our Pizza as a Service example, pizza delivered equates to ________

Platform as a Service

In the analytics maturity model, the most advanced level of analytics which answers the question "What should happen", is __________

Prescriptive Analytics

To set a primary key field in a database table, you must click the ________ key button.

Primary

While using her phone's GPS to drive to her vacation destination, Siena needs to find a gas station. She enters into her phone's GPS that she is looking for a gas station that is no more than five miles away from the route she is currently on. What is this an example of?

Proximity location

A ________ is also known as a question. A request for information from a database.

Query

The Global Chip Shortage had broad reaching impact that extended across many industries, including computers and automobiles, and creating significant production delays of 2 to 4 months or longer.

True

The four components of Information Technology are People, Process, Technology and Data.

True

Workspace challenges, difficulty balancing work and life, and distractions such as pets and kids are fairly common as employees got used to working from home. Gartner also referred to this as "living at work".

True

How does VPN software ensure that people accessing a network are authorized to do so?

VPN software authenticates users.

In the analytics maturity model, Predictive Analytics is the level at which this question is answered:

What will happen

From our class discussion, we learned that one major reason that Wi-Fi connectivity requires special attention at UNM is:

Wi-Fi signals do not travel well through the adobe walls that are a major part of our campus architecture.

Operational decision making is characterized by all of these expect:

Widespread, long-term impacts