ISM Exam 2

Executive dashboards provide support primarily to analytical, quantitative types of decisions. True or False

False

In inter-enterprise information systems, procedures are simple and generally not documented or formalized in any way. True or False

False

In the case of multi-national retailers, the customer relationship with venders has become more personal. True or False

False

Knowledge residing in the minds of employees that has not been documented is called explicit knowledge. True or False

False

Defenders-of-belief communities facilitate activities such as ___________.

Sales and marketing

Lead tracking is an application traditionally run in the functional area of ____________.

Sales and marketing

While changing a business process by adding a resource, one should add cost to the process if _________.

The change generates value greater than its cost

How does social capital improve the quality of life?

Trusting relationships add opportunities and possibilities in our lives.

Which of the following illustrates the use of social capital?

Roger telephones several friends to ask if they know someone who can help with a plumbing problem

A typical social media sponsor does all of the following, EXCEPT ___________.

Run the social media application

Which of the following is NOT a social media application provider?

SAP

Which statement among the following is not one the SLATES characteristics of Enterprise 2.0?

Tagged content be pushed to users.

Which of the following statements is NOT true about a business process?

Activities in a business process are fixed.

Social media information systems can foster hyper-social organizations in all the following ways, EXCEPT ___________.

Allowing the organization to publish purely advertising information

Which of the following is true of unsupervised data mining?

Analysts do not create a model before running the analysis.

The sequence of activities and phases of the customer lifecycle are as follows _________.

Attract, sell, support, and categorize

In the establishment of its new 3D design-selling business, All Road parts used information systems to reduce shipping costs in the selling process by ______.

Automating the delivery of the purchased #D design

Which of the following is NOT a true statement regarding problems faced by organizations in a variety of social media scenarios?

Bad PR is a potential risk faced in a "seeker of truth" community type

Among the following statements, which one is NOT applicable to BigData?

BigData can be processed with traditional techniques

Which process below is typically performed by the accounting department?

Budgeting

All Road Parts used a BI system to find candidate parts for the sale of the 3D parts designs by using all of the following criteria, except __________.

By finding parts ordered in large quantities

Among the following, what is the best way to distinguish between reporting tools and data-mining tools?

Complexity of techniques used

Requirements gap identification is a major task when implementing enterprise systems because of all of the following, except __________.

Consolidating the functional systems will closes the gaps.

Information system can be used to improve process quality by ____________.

Controlling process flow

A social media site chooses to relate to communities of users based on its goals. If the site is interested in pure publicity, it __________.

Creates a viral hook to enable users to share communications

Which of the following is NOT a way in which the PRIDE systems can be used?

Creating feedback

The problems presented by functional processes can be resolved by _______?

Cross-functional processes

__________ is the dynamic social media process of employing users to participate in product design or product redesign.

Crowdsourcing

Which of the following is not a functional process in an organization?

Customer relationship management (CRM)

Which of following activities would seekers of the truth facilitate?

Customer service

RFM analysis ranks customers by considering the recency, frequency, and ________ of their orders.

Dollar amount

Which of the following statements is NOT true about data brokers or data aggregators?

Data brokers cannot reliably infer ethnicity from consumer behavior data.

What is the major problem caused by information silos at the workgroup level?

Data integrity problem due to inconsistent duplicated data

Operational data can have many problems that make it unsuitable for data mining. Among the following, which is NOT a data problem in operational data that creates issues for data mining?

Data is highly integrated

________ involves searching for patterns and relationships among data.

Data minig

Enterprise information systems can solve all of the following problems except __________.

Data quality problems

Before initiating a social networking presence, social media sponsors must develop procedures for all of the following EXCEPT __________.

Deleting connection data from the social media site

All of the following are security risks associated with the PRIDE system, except _______.

Doctors and trainers may be restricted to viewing only partial data.

All of the following statements apply to Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), except __________

EAI establishes an integrated enterprise information store.

__________ systems link up all the direct activities in the organization: including logistics, operations, manufacturing, sales and marketing, and support.

ERP

____________ systems link up all of the direct activities in the organization: including logistics, operations, manufacturing, sales and marketing, and support.

ERP

Which of the following terms refers to an ERP module that sends order or payment information automatically between companies?

Electronic data interchange

The different types of users in the PRIDE system include all of the following, except _________.

Employers

Building a personal brand on social media involves all of the following, EXCEPT __________.

Engaging in self-promotion

__________ is the application of social media to facilitate the cooperative work of people inside organizations.

Enterprise 2.0

The solutions to problems in an enterprise system usually involve a single department of the organization. True or False

False

The functions of a data warehouse are to do all of the following except ________.

Filter data

Which of the following describes the meaning of the "sense" activity, in the SEAMS dynamic process?

Finding and relating to the communities that are important to a person

The major sources of problems with user-generated content on social media sites, include all of the following EXCEPT __________.

Government cover-ups

A student invests money and time in a business administration course. In this example, the student invests in _________.

Human capital

A(n) __________ organization uses social media to transform its interactions with customers, employees and partners into mutually satisfying relationships with them and their communities.

Hyper-socail

What exactly is ERP?

It is an umbrella term for a complicated software solution.

What is social capital?

It is trusting relationships that allow people to support one another.

How does ERP make businesses more efficient?

It provides modules that link business processes together in a cross-functional manner.

Which of the following is a benefit of social capital?

It provides opportunities to find and work with people in different social networks.

Customer relationship management applications include all of the following except __________.

Lead tracking

Inventory management (raw materials, good-in-process) is an application traditionally run in the functional area of ________.

Manufacturing

__________ are the physical products, raw materials, and supplies that flow along a supply chain.

Material flows

According to Lin, social capital adds value in the following ways, EXCEPT _________.

Monetary

Which of the following observations is true about social capital?

Most organizations today ignore the value of entity assets and simply try to connect to more people with relationships

Which of the following is the reason why business process reengineering is difficult across cross-functional processes?

No manager has authority over all the processes assigned to them

The nature of social capital means that, figuratively, social capital equals __________.

Number of Relationships x Relationship Strength x Entity Resources

When All Road acquired data for its BI system from its operational database, it used all of the following conditions, except __________.

Only select items with a unit price of more than $100.

The effect of social media on organizations and the workplace over the next ten years will likely result in following changes, EXCEPT _________.

Organizations will lose control of their employees regarding how they use social media

Which of the following is a risk associated with human resources using social media to form conclusions about candidate evaluation?

Possibility of error

Which of the following is false regarding the various aspects of the business processes in an organization?

Processes are the flow of authority in a functional area.

Among the following, what is NOT a factor that facilitates implementing an enterprise information system?

Providing training

An OLAP report has measures and dimensions. Which of the following is an example of a dimension?

Purchase date

For a product to be considered a true ERP, it must include applications that integrate all of the following except? Human Resources Quality Management Supply Chain Manufacturing Finances

Quality management

__________ analysis is a way of analyzing and ranking customers according to their purchasing patterns.

RFM

In a process diagram, a ______ represents an activity.

Rectangle with rounded corners

Among the following statements, which is NOT true regards to differences between social CRM and traditional CRM?

Social CRM is centered on lifetime value

When a student attends a business function for the purpose of meeting people and reinforcing relationships, he or she is investing in his or her _________.

Social capital

The first step and hyper-social organization should take is to develop and publicize a(n) ________ policy.

Social media

________ are the companies that operate the SM sites.

Social media application providers

Business process reengineering (BPR) takes advantage of new capabilities by all of the following except __________.

Supporting functional systems that still function

Which of the following statements is not true about social media informations systems (SMIS)?

The five component model is not valid for SMIS

A BI system enabled Target to identify customers who might be pregnant by _______.

Their purchasing patterns of lotions and vitamins.

"Defenders of belief"-type user communities have the following characteristics, EXCEPT _________.

They are good for innovative problem solving

"Seekers of the truth"-type user communities have the following characteristics, EXCEPT __________.

They share a common solution to their problem

Which of the following is not a primary activity in the BI process?

Tracking the access and use of the data mining results

A geographic information system is a decision support designed specifically to work with spatial information. True or False

True

Business process reengineering is the activity of altering existing and designing new business processes to take advantage of new information systems. True or False

True

Employees who contribute to and mange social networking sites generate direct labor costs. True or False

True

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google are al SM application providers.True or False

True

Goal-seeking analysis attempts to find the value of the inputs necessary to achieve a desired level of output. True or False

True

SM sponsors contribute to SM sites via browsers or by using specialized sponsor applications provided by the SM application provider. True or False

True

Sourcing from external suppliers occurs in the upstream portion of the supply chain. True or False

True

Which of the following workgroup processes is related to human resources?

assessment

Data and responses to data that are contributed to SM sites by users and SM sponsors are referred to as _________.

content data

Which of the following information systems minimizes data duplication among departments?

enterprise information systems

SM communities differ from communities in the past n that they are __________.

formed based on mutual interests

Which of the following conditions exist when data are isolated in separated information systems?

information silo

An ERP feature that provides up-to-date information on what is going on throughout the company is called a ________.

live dashboard

Which of the following is a risk associate with human resources when using social media to form conclusions about employees?

possibility of error on the site

Returned products, recycled products, and disposal of materials or products are called:

reverse flows

The members of a local philanthropic group meet to discuss identifying a new financial advisor for the organization. This is an example of using __________ to facilitate a business relationship.

social capital

Social capital, unlike traditional capital,________

sometimes depreciates and at other times appreciates with time

Jameel, a purchasing manager for Peerless Products, uses an ERP system to send purchase orders to vendors, schedule deliveries, provide shipping instructions, and manage payment information as well as arrival and receipt information for all of the materials that are needed to build their products. This describes Jameel's use of ERP to manage ________.

the supply chain

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