IS205 Midterm

A schematic of the entire database that describes the relationships in a database is called a(n):

entity-relationship diagram.

Which of the following types of computing involves purchasing computing power from a remote provider and paying only for the computing power used?

On-demand

All of the following are current hardware platform trends except:

Unix.

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS): (

is one type of cloud computing service where users pay only for the computing capacity they actually use.

The four major competitive strategies are:

low-cost leadership, product differentiation, focus on market niche, and customer and supplier intimacy.

Mintzberg classifies a large bureaucracy existing in a slowly changing environment that produces standard products and is dominated by centralized management as a(n) ________ bureaucracy.

machine

According to the ________ definition of organizations, an organization is seen as a means by which capital and labor are transformed by the organization into outputs to the environment.

microeconomic

The term management information systems refers to a specific category of information systems serving: (from Chapter 2)

middle management functions.

A DBMS makes the:

physical database available for different logical views.

Under Mintzberg's classification of organizational structure, knowledge-based organizations fall under the category of:

professional bureaucracies.

All of the following are examples of environmental actors in an information system except: (from Chapter 1)

sales force.

Using ________ to enable government relationships with citizens, businesses, and other arms of government is called e-government. (from Chapter 2)

the Internet and networking technologies

"Look and feel" copyright infringement lawsuits are concerned with:

the distinction between an idea and its expression.

The ________ model highlights the primary or support activities that add a margin of value to a firm's products or services where information systems can best be applied to achieve a competitive advantage.

value chain

Which of the following statements about cookies is not true?

Cookies are installed only at the user's request.

Which of the following is an example of a social complementary asset? (from Chapter 1)

Technology and service firms in adjacent markets

Which of the following would not be a complementary asset for a solar panel manufacturer? (from Chapter 1)

Government funding for green technology

Which of the following involves practices and technologies to minimize the environmental effects of manufacturing and managing computing devices?

Green computing

Which of the following technologies would you use to analyze the social media data collected by a major online retailer?

Hadoop

A man steals from a grocery store in order to feed his starving family. Which of the following best expresses the utilitarian principle in evaluating this situation?

His action is acceptable, because the higher social value is the survival of the family.

Which main business function is responsible for maintaining employee records? (from Chapter 1)

Human resources

Which of the following best describes Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative?

If an action is not right for everyone to take, it is not right for anyone to take.

Which of the following represent the primary activities of a firm?

Inbound logistics, operations, outbound logistics, sales and marketing, and service

Which of the following statements about the NFL's Player Tracking system, as described in the chapter case, is not true? (from Chapter 2)

It was primarily designed to increase sales of food and beverages

A relocation control system that reports summaries on the total moving, house hunting, and home financing costs for employees in all company divisions falls into which of the following categories? (from Chapter 2)

MIS

Producing a bill of materials is a business process in which of the following functional areas? (from Chapter 2)

Manufacturing and production

Which of the following is a data analysis technology that finds hidden connections between data in disparate sources?

NORA

What percent of global Internet users use Google Search and other Google services such as YouTube?

Nearly 80 percent

Which of the following is the most prominent data manipulation language today?

SQL

Which of the following statements about collaboration is not true? (from Chapter 2)

Successful collaboration can be achieved through technology regardless of the organization's culture or structure.

Which type of system integrates supplier, manufacturer, distributor, and customer logistics processes? (from Chapter 2)

Supply chain management system

A firm that invests in an information system because it is a necessity of doing business does so because it is seeking to achieve which of the following business objectives? (from Chapter 1)

Survival

Which of the following best illustrates the relationship between entities and attributes?

The entity CUSTOMER with the attribute PURCHASE

All of the following are typically factors in a firm's decision to engage consulting and system integration services except:

The firm's staff knows more about the firm's IT infrastructure than service providers.

Which of the following best describes the primary reason for implementing a new information system, from a business perspective? (from Chapter 1)

The system will create new value for the firm, beyond its costs.

Which of the following is not a part of the IT infrastructure ecosystem found in firms?

Virtual reality systems

Which of the following factors does not help explain why computing resources today are even more available than in previous decades?

Widespread rejection of technology standards

Today's computer transistors are roughly equivalent in size to:

a virus.

A(n) ________ is used to communicate between a user and an organization's back-end systems.

application server

All of the following are steps in the process for analyzing an ethical issue except:

assigning responsibility.

The fundamental set of assumptions, values, and ways of doing things that has been accepted by most of a company's members is called its: (from Chapter 1)

culture.

The value chain model:

highlights specific activities in the business where competitive strategies can best be applied.

________ creates confusion that hampers the creation of information systems that integrate data from different sources.

Data redundancy

Which of the following systems would you expect to deliver data from external events, and summarized information from internal MIS systems? (from Chapter 2)

ESS

The use of computers to assemble data from different sources to create digital dossiers of detailed information about individuals is known as which of the following?

Profiling

Which of the following is not one of the characteristics of cloud computing, as defined by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology?

Reduced elasticity

ZipRealty, which combines Google Maps with real estate data, is an example of:

a mashup.

Which of the following statements about organizations is not true?

An informal group can be considered to be an organization.

Which of the following is the most popular mobile operating system?

Android

Which of the following is not an example of the mobile digital platform?

CRM

Which of the following types of system would you use to manage relationships with your customers? (from Chapter 2)

CRM

Which of the following is an example of an organizational complementary asset? (from Chapter 1)

Choosing the appropriate business model

Which of the following is a routine question that might be answered by an MIS system?

Compare planned to actual sales for each quarter

Which model is used to describe the interaction of external forces that affect an organization's strategy and ability to compete?

Competitive forces model

________ systems are also known as enterprise systems. (from Chapter 2)

Enterprise resource planning

The most successful solutions or methods for achieving a business objective are called:

best practices.

The interaction between information technology and organizations is influenced:

by many factors, including structure, politics, culture, and environment.

The term big data refers to all of the following except:

datasets with fewer than a billion records

Using the Internet to buy or sell goods is called: (from Chapter 2)

e-commerce.

In 2010, the FTC added all of the following recommendations to its privacy guidelines except:

firms should limit the length of time that any personal data is stored to six months or less.