MIS FINAL EXAM spring 2020
In the video case about the factory of the future, what term did Goldman Sachs used to describe the man machine systems?
Cobots
Xerox PARC's Unicomp was a precursor to which of the following topics previously discussed in class?
Collaboration
What term is used to describe the process of connecting with large groups of people via the internet?
Crowdsourcing
Which of the following security measures would be considered a "last line defense" for Information Security?
Cryptography
Why is shortage gaming the most difficult of the bullwhip effects for a company to manage?
Customer deception
What type of problem has an optimal solution can be reached through single set of steps based on an algorithm?
Structured
What term describes individuals with tactic knowledge about a particular domain?
Subject Matter Experts
One major advantage of Power BI over Tableau is?
Users are already familiar with the Microsoft interface
Sensors, RFID tags, meters, GPS, and other devices are used to collect supply chain information. These are all examples of __________
source data automation
What type of visualization essentially adds a third dimension, such as frequency or quantity, to scatter plots?
Bubble Chart
LEED refers to the efficiency of
Buildings
What term is used to describe the behavior where small changes in customer demand that result in large variations in raw material orders causing inefficiency in the supply chain?
Bullwhip effect
Porter's Forces describes which of the following business issues?
Competition
What aspect of an ERD (Entity-relationship diagram) is used to enforce business rules, such as maximum number of classes a student can take?
Constraint
The design of connectors consider the speed of the communication interface, the function being supported, and what other concept related to human-computer interface design?
Constraints to improve reliability
****What topic that we discussed in class was enabled by the telegraph as an emerging technology?
Globalization
In the Online Democracy model, the "Voter Activation Network" uses voter registration rolls to categorize voters as always/sometimes/never voting by using information obtained from:
Government record
Allowing individuals to file tax returns, renew driver's licenses, and obtain various permits online is an example of what type of eGovernment?
Government-to-citizen (G2C)
What type of eCommerce model focuses on increasing the efficiency of the University by allowing its employees to submit timecard information using UAccess?
Government-to-employee (G2E)
Pioneered at the University of Arizona by Regents Professor Jay Nunamaker, what decision support technology as developed to address problems such as a lack of focus, fear of speaking, hidden agendas, and misunderstandings then collaborating with others?
Group Decision Support Systems
In recognizing ethical situations, which of the following is related to a chemical reaction that occurs in your body, specifically your intestinal track?
Gut check
What is the name of the University of Arizona's primary career management tool that offers UA students and alumni access to jobs, internships, and a range of other services?
Handshake
What Regents Professor on the MIS Faculty at the UofA developed the COPLINK system for managing knowledge and visualizing information used by law enforcement officers?
Hsinchun Chen
Most users of these salt-and-pepper shakers would most likely depend on information from what level of the McGinn hierarchy?
Human Sensory Perceptio
Which of the following is TRUE (correct) about VLookup that requires an exact value range match?
If the lookup value is not found VLookup will re turn an error
The role of intermediaries has changed from connecting customers with the products produced by manufacturers to what new role?
Informing customers about options of where they can buy products
The terms "contextual," "relevant," and "actionable" are commonly related to what term?
Knowledge
The sequence of activities performed by users of GroupSystems' ThinkTank product directly parallel the steps in what other business process?
Knowledge management cycle
**As discussed in the "IT Doesn't Matter" case study, adopting a standardized IT solution that is seen as a prerequisite to a company's survival would relate most closely to which of the issues in the productivity paradox?
Market Share Redistribution
What term means users that cannot change or update the data in data warehouses or data marts?
Nonvolatile
Market capitalization is determined by multiplying the stock price by what?
Number of common shares outstanding
In a packet-switched data communication network, which of the following is true:
Packets can be lost or become corrupted between the sender and receiver
The success of a Group Decision Support System (GDSS) is based upon two key features: contributor anonymity (i.e., the identity of the person making the comment or suggestion is not known), and what other important feature?
Parallel Discussions
______________ is the right to be left alone and to be free of unreasonable personal intrusions.
Privacy
The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) address all of the following issues related to the transmission of data using packets, EXCEPT:
Privacy for user's message content
****What term is used to describe the perceived "discrepancy between measures of investment in information technology and measures of the national output"?
Productivity Paradox
What type of business systems have the capability to place automatic requests to buy products from vendors in real time?
SCM (Supply Chain Management)
What did the NASA project manager indicate was the greatest risk he faced in managing projects for NASA?
Social and political risk
What type of electronic commerce helps shoppers connect with one another based on tastes, location, age, gender, and other selected attributes allowing them to share information using voting, comments, discussions, and reviews focused on shopping?
Social shopping
****what is the different between a Coaxial cable for TV or internet and a Digital Audio Coaxial cable?
The TV cable has a center wire, the digital audio cable a center pin
****What is a common result when technology becomes more ubiquitous?
The competitive advantage potential declines
In the Biometric Passwords Video Case, what were the two emerging biometric technologies that were explained in detail?
The patterns of eye veins, heartbeat rhythm
15. All of the following are Information System Professional Specialties Except?
These are all Information System Professional Specialties 16
The big advantage of bubble charts over scatter charts is?
They add another dimensioN
What common function do "HTTP", "TCP" and "IP" share?
They all define internet-based protocols
****Which of these is not an advantage of an all-in-one router, switch, WiFi access point, and Modem?
They are cheap to upgrade
Current information systems have evolved to focus on what role with respect to their services?
Value creation
According to the articles what technologies enable businesses and their employees to get in front of clients and customers but do it in a cost-savings manner?
VoIP and web conferencing
The Internet is a ______________.
WAN
What filename should you use for your ABP-3 webpage?
index.html
ERP uses data to address the problem of information silos by _____________.
integrating functional areas
Subjective knowledge that is based an individual's experiences is known as what? a. Refined knowledge
tacit knowledge
Video Case-Avnet using telepresence and home-based workers are examples of using technology to produce what order sustainability effect?
2nd-Application
Taxes, FICA, and other Payroll Deductions can easily be what percentage of a person's paycheck?
35%
A power utility program to lower peak demand and avoid building new power plants entirely would be focused on what order sustainability effect?
3rd-Long term structural change
In the video case about Dr. Chiu's Smartrek application, which of the following was not an incentive used to encourage driver participation?
Ability to find other people for carpooling
The Pie Chart used to display the distribution of individuals with disabilities has what limitation(s)?
All of the above Assumes disabilities are mutually exclusive categories May be difficult to interpret if you are color blind Color/text contrast makes unit counts hard to read *d.
Why is it critical you put your index.html file and website images in the same unique directory before linking the images to the webpage and uploading to the server?
All of the above are good reasons
Which of the following would motivate businesses to create accessible eCommerce websites for their customers?
All of the first three reasons shown above
Selecting EPEAT- compliant technology with a high rating over traditional, less energy-efficient technology is an example of focusing on what sustainability effect?
Creation, Use and Disposal of a products
What is the name for the path containing the minimum set of tasks that you must traverse in order to reach the completion of your project on time?
Critical Path
What term is used to describe a specific metric that often determines the success or failure of a task?
Critical Success Factor
What technique has been used by companies such as Starbucks and Netflix used to engage large numbers of non-employees to innovate, manage, design and market new products?
Crowdsourcing
One of the origins of the Internet was the result of a project by US government agency?
DARPA (formerly ARPA) - Defense Advanced Research Project Agency
***What company that we discussed in class use social media as an emerging technology to identify and motivate voters ?
DNC VAN
If your sales team shows a customer's name as "Johnny Smith", but your shipping department knows the customer as "John A. Smith", what type of data problem does this issue represent?
Data Inconsistency
What type of data mining presents information graphically so that users are able to identify patterns in the underlying data?
Data Visualization
What type of data structure allows us to organize multi-dimensional information from a data warehouse so that it can be viewed using different data abstractions (or projections)?
Data cube
16. Maintaining multiple copies of the same data in multiple information systems that can be independently updated commonly results in what information management problem?
Data inconsistenceny
___________ support local control, whereas ____________ support central control.
Data marts; data warehouses
Concerns over using data to illegally discriminate against an individual or group, reaching wrong conclusions due to data contamination, and violating intellectual property (ownership of information) protections were legal and ethical issues discussed in relation to what topic discussed during this module?
Data mining
The requirement for everyone at the University of Arizona to use NetID+ two-factor authentication is an example of what type of security?
Defense-in-depth
Which group of voters would result in the highest return on investment (i.e., the largest number of votes for a DNC candidate) using a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) strategy?
Democratic voters who sometimes vote
Setting the criteria for making a choice and searching for alternatives typically occurs in what phase?
Design
In the decision support process, formulating a module to be evaluated and setting criteria for making a choice would occur during what phase of the decision-making process?
Design Phase
Purchasing an entire box of screws, even though only a small number are need for the master production schedule is an example of making a purchasing decision based on what approach?
Economic Order Quantity
One of the impacts of Globalization is the Economics of Distance (Transportation Costs) has been replaced by what?
Economies of Attention
What term describes the cost-savings inventory management approach using SCOR and MRP to schedule the delivery of parts close to the time as items is used in the production process?
Just-in-Time
Who was quoted as saying "Integrity is All You've Got"?
Karl Elle
Business metrics that describe the performance of critical business activities are known as:
Key performance indicators
Which of the following "laws" describes a value proposition for internet businesses is proportional to the number of connected users?
Metcalf's Law
In project management, the "Iron Triangle" or "Triple Constraint" includes a project's time, resources and what other dimension of the planning process?
Scope
When displaying a webpage, such as "http://www.u.arizona.edu/~wilbur" what is the name of the directory the web browser will check in the "wilbur" account for the "index.html" website?
The "public_html" directory
According to our Globalization lecture, how has the Globalization changed from the 1700's to the 1900's
The Pace of Change has Dramatically Increas
Which of the following would *NOT* be a characteristic of a blockchain data store
The data store is managed as a single database using cloud technology
Which of the following would *NOT* be a characteristic of a blockchain data store:
The data store is managed as a single database using cloud technology
In the 'How Technology Changes Us' Video Case, what was the fundamental technology that was being discussed as totally changing the world and how people function?
Timekeeping
Which of these is NOT enumerated as a Motivation to Create Accessible Web Content?
To improve the reliability of technical functionality (technology centered motivations)
As reported on a company's balance sheet, which of the following would be equal to the sum of the company's liabilities and shareholder equity?
Total assets
in the College Money Management 101 Video Case, what was Lesson 1, the very first thing students should start doing?
Track Expense
In financial markets, a "ticker symbol" identifies what?
Traded CompanY
The format for VLookup is: =VLOOKUP( lookup_value, table_array, column_index_number, range_lookup) Setting "range_lookup" to FALSE result in VLOOKUP...?
only returning exact matches
Which of the following describes a situation where anything that is held in common and can be used by all freely without regulation results in a situation where everyone will attempt to maximize his own benefit to the detriment of the shared community resource.
Tragedy of the Commons
If you graduate from the University of Arizona when you are 22 years old and have a credit card that charges an 18% annual rate. And, if you just have a $2,000 credit balance with an 18% annual rate but only make minimum payments of 2% of the balance each month. What birthday will you likely be celebrating when your $2,000 credit card balance is paid off?
52nd birthday
Approximately what percentage of applications for jobs are rejected by potential employers before the interview due to public information posted online by the applicant (e.g. social networking, blogs, media sites, etc. - that is, your online reputation)?
60% or more
The format for VLookup is:= VLOOKUP( lookup_value, table_array, column_index_number, range_lookup) Values in the first column of a "table_array" are most similar to what database concept?
A Key
A "Fishbone" process analysis diagram is also known as:
A cause-and-effect diagram
A feature of an object that limits possible (often incorrect) uses of a device is known as:
A constraint
In the Information-based problem-Solving Video Case, what was the map that the interviewee (Beth Bluer) was trying to create?
A map overlying foster homes and registered sex offender
According to MIT Sloan Management Review, what percentage of companies have placed sustainability permanently on their management agendas?
About 70%
Michael Porter commented that the airport's control of gates represented the impact of which of the five forces?
Bargaining power of suppliers
Why is data encryption often described as the "last line of defense"?
Because it protects you after a hacker has access to your data
What organization employed Sir Tim Berners-Lee when he developed the "vague but exciting" concept for the world wide web?
CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
In the Six Sigma video case, DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control), a specific metric that is central to the success of a process would be described using what term?
CSF
Identifying patterns in data based on common temporal (time) or spatial (geographic) traits is based on what type of data mining analysis?
Clustering
What type of data mining analysis would be used to produce the Clery report, which is based crimes for the preceding 3 calendar years committed in physical (geographic) proximity to a college campus?
Clustering
Which of the following visualizations would be most effective in displaying relative magnitudes of data overtime?
Column charts
When backing up your assignment files to the cloud using Arizona.box.com, you are using what?
Content Service
What is the name used to describe daily spending decisions like eating at a restaurant, buying clothes, drinking Starbucks, or playing a round of golf?
Discretionary
What is an example of a Universal Design approach that can be used with the video case studies presented in class?
Displaying open captions
Which of the following is an informational role?
Disseminator
In the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) "http://www.arizona.edu", what does ".edu" define?
Domain
Three-Dimensional Vision uses what technique to fool the brain?
Each eye is shown a different image appearing to be taken from a different perspective
The outcomes of the E-Government Strategy OMB report primarily focus on improving business processes in which of the following ways?
Efficiency
When analyzing the performance of students on Exam 1, which of the following would not be a useful "dimension" in an OLAP data cube?
Email addresses
David Myers' (former controller of MCI/Worldcom) statement "I still don't know that one point when I started to cross the line...", is an example of how small, incremental repeated compounding of unethical decisions can result in what?
Ethical drift
What affordance issue is the label "PUSH" addressing?
False Affordance
What term is used to describe the business role that manages the sources and uses of capital, such as managing earnings, savings, and debt?
Finance
Rank the following security controls from highest to lowest in terms of accuracy in unambiguously establishing a persona's identity
Fingerprint, password, signatur
What problem might occur when you operate WiFi networks, Bluetooth headsets, baby monitors, and garage door openers all using the same 2.4GHz ISM frequency range in close proximity to one another?
Interference (noise)
What other major technology initiatives previously discussed in class that was initially developed as a government-sponsored research program?
Internet
0. Which of the following security controls would be used to identify and stop a known user's access based on a unusual pattern of behavior?
Intrusion Detection System
If a company has a monopoly on a specific good, which of the following is true?
It has a high amount of bargaining power with its customer
How does adding social networking to the VAN allows candidates to improve the effectiveness of campaign volunteers?
Leverages personal relationships of campaign volunteers with voters
In the Relationship-based Organizing Video Case, what was being done to improve the effectiveness of campaign volunteers?
Leveraging personal relationships of campaign volunteers with voters to allow personal networking
On your personal financial balance sheet, your student loans would be classified in what category?
Liability
The risk of a project can be measured on what two scales?
Likelihood and Impact
Which of the following wireless issues would NOT be a problem for short range wireless communications technologies, such as RFID and NFC?
Line-of-sight (visual path)
In the Personal Branding video case, which of the following online platforms was identified as being primarily a business networking tool
An unobstructed, straight line-of-sight path between a transmitter and receiver is required by which of the following high-speed, commercial wireless network technologies?
Microwave
If a customer is at a dealership looking at a car through a screen where they can change features and see the changes in real time, what type of reality is it?
Mixed Reality
Which of the following is the technology that enables most mobile wallet applications?
NFC
Requiring users to take responsibility for ensuring the security of a residency hall when they use their CatCard to open an exterior door is an example of what aspect of MIS?
People
Understandability, capability, and acceptance are all related to what aspect of MIS?
People
What term is used to describe a physical interface between peripheral devices and the computer?
Port
Words such as "enrolled" and "teaches" are used to indicate what aspect of a database's entity relationship diagram?
Relationship
Which of the following is a problem with BYOD?
Security
The accounting value of a firm is equal to what?
Shareholder Equity
18. Your username (UANetID) is your claim of identify to a computer system. When the computer system verifies your identity by requiring you to enter a password is an example of what type of authentication?
Something a user know
Which of the following multiplexing approaches increases the total bandwidth available to users?
Spatial Division Multiplexing
Identifying majors with specific language and mathematics requirements using the Degree Search selection filters help you solve what type of business problem?
Structured
The value of the "all time" total sales created by this projection could be calculated using what Excel function?
Sum
_______________ is knowledge that is generally imprecise, costly to transfer, and difficult to formalize or codify.
Tacit Knowledge
How does the Heart Attack Diagnoses Decision Tree transform medical expert's knowledge?
Tacit to Explicit
The adoption of CPFAR still eliminate the need for which of the following business processes?
Three-way match
From the Smartrek App Video case, users of Smartrek use what type of decision making when deciding among alternatives for selecting a route and time for their journey?
Weighted Decision Making
If the mean (average) is generally used, when would we consider using the median?
When the Data has extreme values
Which of the following is voluntary standard for website accessibility?
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
One of the downsides (or upsides in some cases) of Neural networks is?
It is 'Black Box', the internal logic cannot be reviewed
What HTML tag that you were required to use for images on ABP3 provides assessable descriptions of the images to JAWS?
ALT tag
the task of brainstorming in a group decision support system is similar to what step in the knowledge management cycle?
Create
In addition to possessing contextual and relevant information, what other characteristic aspect does knowledge possess?
It is actionable
The role Blockchain plays in Bitcoin is?
It is the ledger of who owns what Bitcoins
What is NOT a benefit of telemedicine?
It requires traveling so doctors can see their patients in person
What is NOT a factor contributing to the Bullwhip Effect?
Outsourcing
On the balance sheet, total assets minus total liabilities must equal what?
Owner's Equity
Hierarchical Diagrams are commonly used for all of the following except?
Time series data
3. Which of the following elements present on your CatCard relates to biometric identification?
Your picture
What is the importance of the triple constraint?
*b. Any changes to one constraint will likely affect the project outcome
Tacit or "sticky" knowledge, is based on information that is:
*b. Subjective and cognitive
If the gross requirements for weeks 1-4 were decreased to 20 units per week, calculate the projected available for week 4 (identified by the red box)?
0
Based on the "Website Visits to Closes" visualization, 78,000 "valid contacts" produces 13,000 "closes", if our marketing team wants to double our closes, how many valid contacts do we estimate our website have to identify?
160,000
What is the length of the critical path?
17
The Ten Commandments of computer ethics are
A mix of legal requirements and ethical recommendation
In a relational database, what term refers to the collection of items that are all related to a single unique value, where the single value often serves as the primary key?
A record
Which of these security threats presents the most difficult threats at for organizations?
Actions by employee
The advantage of ________________ is they can be read wirelessly over greater distances.
Active RFID tags
All of the symbols representing tasks and decisions that are shown in single column of a vertical crossfunctional diagram are related to the same what?
Actor
Physical properties (shape, texture, color, etc.) of an object that allow someone to use an object correctly without the need for labels or instructions are known as:
Affordances
What term was used to describe ensuring that how you position yourself professionally in a way that attuned to a company's environment?
Alignment
What type of feasibility was a barrier to the prior leader ship in Maryland producing the map that overlaid the foster care sites with locations of known violent criminals?
All of the Above
As discussed in the Crowdsourcing Video case, what is the name of a highly popular crowdsourcing Internet marketplace enabling individuals and businesses (known as Requesters) that coordinates the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are currently unable to do?
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Anything that is capable of being owned or controlled to produce value would be considered as?
An Asset
What is the term used to describe a graphical description of a database that describes the way in which an organization's data and business activities are associated with one another?
An Entity Relationship Diagram
Which of the following types of security risks would be a technique used to compromise a system?
An Exploit
Line Charts are useful for performing what task about with a dataset?
Analyzing data trends over time
Which of the following is not one of the dimensions of the Internet of Things?
Any SECURE connection
What impairment for wireless communication also serves as the basis for spatial multiplexing?
Attenuation
What term was used to describe when information and systems are used beyond their initial objectives?
Augmented Reality
29. Which of the following types of access controls describes the process of validating a claim of identity (e.g., Something you know, have, do, or are)
Authentication
If Management wants to understand current business performance at a glance, what technology should they implement?
Automated KPI Dashboard
What type of error prevention describes the technique of requiring a user to select a value from a drop-down list?
Avoidance
What document is a financial snapshot of a company's overall performance at a given point in time?
Balance Sheet
What technology was invented in 1657 that redefined our perception of time?
Balance Spring
So, what is MIS? In the description of Scope Creep and unintended consequences, we discussed technology leading to unintended consequences... What sport was the example of where technology was leading to judgments about the performance of referees/umpires/ or coaches?
Baseball and the Strike Box
The Inclusive view of understanding disability includes more aspects than the traditional view. Which of these disabilities is traditional instead of inclusive?
Being confined to a wheelchair
What short-range wireless technology is commonly to connect smartphones with hands-free headsets for telephone calls and listening to music?
Bluetooth
Harald Blaatand, who was the King of Demark from 940-981, is associated with what wireless technology?
Bluetooth Technology
The equity on a company's balance sheet is most closely related to which of the following?
Book value
_______________ allows you to access the internet through a coaxial media previously used only for TV connections.
Cable modem
What type of Data would Eye Color be?
Categorical - nominal scale
****What is the first thing you should do when setting up your home network?
Change all the default passwords on every device ASAP
Related to disintermediation, what term describes situation that was created when Wiley Publishers offered the course textbook on their website in direct competition to the same textbook sold by the UA Bookstores?
Channel Conflict
Which of the following knowledge management concepts includes an organizational culture focused on problem solving, a desire to share knowledge because of mutual interest, and norms that build trust, such as might be found in an MIS 111 StudyHall?
Community of practice
According to the speaker from the Accenture Video Case, project management is not about lists and linear relationships, but rather involves managing what?
Complex inter-relationships
What common term was used with both human-computer interaction and In a database entity relationship diagram as a way of limiting choices by the user and also specifying the minimum and maximum possible values that may exist for a relationship between two entities, respectively?
Constraint
Along with content management, what other dimension does the use of telepresence offer businesses?
Contextual awareness
We have often said "what gets measured gets done", what key sales metric does management need to measure to evaluate the effectiveness of the sales department?
Conversions of Leads to Sales
An entrepreneur developing detailed documentation of their business processes so that they can be offered to other individuals as a franchise operation is an example of:
Converting tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge
Which of the following is NOT a disadvantage of web-based call centers located overseas?
Cost
Computer data sent over a local area network is an example of what type of data signal?
Digital Signal
A business intelligence tool that uses abstractions such as color and graphical images like instrument gauges to allow executives to grasp business situations quickly is known as a:
Digital dashboard
Who was the founding director of the Arizona Telemedicine Program?
Dr. Ronald Weinstein
What type of visualization allows you to plot data using two y-axes (variables) and a shared x-axis (usually time), visualizing a correlation between the two y-axes data sets?
Dual Axis Char
****What emerging technology was adopted by the University of Arizona to enhance security using two-factor authentication?
Duo-Plus
In the SCOR model, competitive requirements such as reliability, responsiveness, and agility are all related to what dimension of a vendor's performance?
Effectiveness
The Gainesville police department started using the internet to accomplish all of these objectives except?
Empower businesses to identify high crime areas and determine appropriate levels of security
Along with many engineering applications, which of the following VR applications would NOT be primarily focused on allowing clients to engage with new designs before making a purchasing or design decision?
End-user Training
What category of location-based services would best describe products such as "location-based gaming", "social networking," and "find a friend"?
Entertainment
With respect to a database, what term is used to describe an abstract representation of all of the information included in a data structure about a particular type of entity?
Entity Class
In your telephone contacts, the list of all possible fields (names, address, telephone number, etc.) that can be saved for each contact would be described using what term?
Entity class
Often presented visually on an executive dashboard, what type of report focuses attention on business processes whose performance falls outside the range of their defined KPI metrics?
Exception
What is the process of identifying metrics that are outside of acceptable tolerance levels?
Exception Reporting
What type of knowledge is Objective, rational, and technical, such as policies and procedures?
Explicit
Although FOX was the first network to use the virtual yellow line showing the first down line in NFA Football, why did they decide to eliminate it?
FOX belived it cost too much per game
In the Personal Branding Video Case from Tuck Business School, which tool was discussed as being an 'overheard personal conversation' that still needed to be managed in the context of your business personal brand
How does this this wall safe provide a safe hiding spot?
False Affordance (Mislead)
From a user's perspective, perceived affordances would include actual perceptible design affordances and what other category of perceptual affordances?
False or fake design affordances
Which of the following types of guided media has the highest level of physical security from eavesdropping?
Fiber Optic Cable
What network security control prevents information from moving between two networks?
Firewall
What term is used to describe the 12-month accounting period that a business uses when determining its annual financial performance?
Fiscal Year
Car payments and rent are examples of what type of expenses?
Fixed
What type of MPS scheduling resulted in MPS planning a quantity of 100 units?
Fixed Order Quantity
What term is used to describe a field (attribute) that identifies a record into another database table with the goal of minimizing data redundancy?
Foreign Key
When we discussed data communication networks, what city did we indicate was partnering with the UA MIS Department to implement Smart City technology?
Fortaleza, Brazil
Which Ford product link represents the largest market opportunity?
Fusion
What type of project management documentation includes information about all of the Triple Constraints?
Gantt Chart
DishTV, DirecTV, and SiriusXM radio are all based on what type of satellite technology?
Geostationary Orbit (GEO)
What is the name of a display that includes force feedback?
Haptic Display
What term is used to describe a function that uses an algorithm to convert an input of letters and numbers into an encrypted output of a fixed length?
Hash
What term is used to measure the signaling rate of analog signals and means cycles-per-second?
Hertz
In the Building Your Brand Video Case, what was a critical part of building your online professional presence
Include keywords associated with the jobs you are seeking
From lowest to highest, what is the correct order of these satellite types with respect to the altitude of their orbit (LEO, MEO, GEO)?
Irridum, GPS, DishTV
What type of inventory demand is derived and based on the forecasted need for finished products?
Independent demand
Which group of voters would result in the highest return on investment (i.e., largest number of votes for a DNC candidate) using a persuasion campaign strategy?
Independent voters who always vote
In the McGinn model of design, the least common category of design elements would be related to what factor in the McGinn model?
Individual
What type of Statistics is used for drawing conclusions and/or making decisions concerning a population based only on sample data?
Inferential Statistics
What term best describes when consumers are able to use their smartphones to obtain information about a company's competitor's product pricing, features, customer reviews and availability while shopping in their company's brink-and mortar store?
Information transparency
. In the History of the Cell Phone video case, how did the use of cellular phones change the way in which calls were made?
Instead of calling a place, calls to cellular telephones were associated with a person
The key advantage of using a dashboard is?
Integration of all the data in one location The ability to rapidly update the data multiple times a day The integration of interactive analytical tools All of the above
31. The classic values conflict with "Who Am I'" represents what type of ethical dilemma?
Integrity
As an employee of MCI/Worldcom, David Myers faced what classic ethical dilemma also described as a 'Who am I?
Integrity versus Loyalty
What transportation infrastructure was discussed in class that guided the decision the placement of the long-haul fiberoptic cable infrastructure?
Inter-continental Railroad Network
In general, what you think of as the quality of your network connection speed when you are using your PC, iPad, or Smartphone is most influenced by which of the following?
Local Tier-3 ISPs
What was the major benefit of Toyota's pioneering the SMED (single minute exchange of die) technique that improved the operation of its assembly process by reducing setup time?
Made assembly line more agile / flexible
CAT-5e, CAT-6, CAT-7, Coaxial, and Fiber Optic Cables are all examples of what?
Media
What term is used to describe the information collected describing the action (i.e., location, time, place, etc.) as opposed to the data itself?
Metadata
. ____________ means that users carry a device with them and can initiate a real-time contact with other systems from wherever they happen to be.
Mobility
Providing a lecture presentation in multiple formats (e.g., a video recording, a written transcript, and an audio podcast) is an example of which of the UDL learning principles?
Multiple means of representation
Allocating resources based on the frequency of past incidents in an area would be an example of using what predictive DM strategy?
Nearest neighbor
Explicit, or "leaky" knowledge, is based on information that is:
Objective and rational
Commonly occurring and well-defined business activities such as scheduling employees work hours would be what category of organizational decision?
Operational
What type of feasibility relates to assessing the viability of a project based on our ability to understand the business processes?
Operational feasibility
22. Which of the following permits the company to collect personal information until the customer specifically requests that the data not be collected?
Opt-out model of informed consent
What action did Stacy Snyder take that resulted in her losing her job?
Posting a photo of herself at a party on her personal social media account
What term is used to describe when both the consumer and retailer are informed of the price of an item, pre and post purchase?
Price Transparency
Which of the following business component are *not* included in an MRP-II planning cycle?
Product Margins
****Which of the following focuses on limiting the impact of measurement issues in the productivity paradox?
Project Management
***what career field did we discuss in class that focused on managing complex relationships among tasks, uncertainty, and risk?
Project Manager
What is the term used to describe the process of reducing the number of dimensions of a multi-dimensional data cube (e.g., from three dimensions, perhaps season, location, and product, into two dimensions, such as season and location)?
Projection
What term is used to describe the original consensus algorithm in a Blockchain network that is used to confirm transactions and produce new blocks to the chain?
Proof-of-Work
****What type of technology can be owned, actually or effectively, by a single firm though the protections afforded by patents, secrets, and exclusive licenses?
Proprietary
In the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) "http://www.arizona.edu", what does "http://" define?
Protocol
What term is used to describe the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object?
Provenance
What term is used to describe the temporal chronology (time-ordered) of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object?
Provenance
What type of decision based on explicit knowledge and involves analysis using an algortihm and measured data?
Quantitative
When using a decision tree for project prioritization, if "Priority" was based on the announced date for a vendor's end-of-life support for an information system currently used in our production line, what type of decision would this be?
Quantitative
Parking garage passes and access control on employee ID badges are examples of:
RFID
What technology has been used for such diverse applications as healthcare, tracking lost pets, and toll collecting on highways?
RFID
What IoT technology discussed in class could be used to identify shoppers and allow products to "introduce" (recommend) themselves to a shopper?
RFID Tags
A group of fields in a database that are all associated with one unique identifier, such as an SSN, would be described using what database term?
Record
Which of the following actions would be considered a biometric authentication?
Requiring a user to scan their fingerprint
The mythical man month focuses on which of the triple constraints?
Resources
An investors willingness to potentially lose their money in exchange for the potential of higher returns is called their?
Risk Tolerance
What major piece of legislation impacting business followed the MCI and Enron bankruptcies?
Sarbanes-Oxley
Which company began in '93, focused on buying up discontinued lines from manufacturers and selling them at a discount to their customers. Their Strategy focused on meeting customer's needs by shipping on an emerging transportation infrastructure promising rapid delivery. They used new communications technologies infrastructure to reach a geographically distributed customer base.
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Which of the following "laws" is based on information theory and describes a limit of a resource, rather than projecting a growth rate?
Shannon's Law
Which of the following "laws" we've discussed determines the maximum bandwidth (signaling rate) of a given type of communication media (e.g., copper cable, fiber optic, etc.)?
Shannon's Law
Which of the following causes of the bullwhip effect is related to a trading partner intentionally sharing inaccurate information with a company's future inventory requirements?
Shortage Gaming
After checking your kitchen for ingredients, your shopping list would formally be known as:
Shortages
What is the name used to describe when a person visits a brick-and-mortar store only to check physical characteristics of a product but intends to purchase the product online?
Showrooming
As I move farther away from campus, the signal strength of my UAWiFi connection gets weaker. What wireless impairment will always cause this to occur?
Signal strength is lost due to attenuation
Which of the following is generally NOT commonly used as a biometric identification?
Signature
in the Jack Welch Video Case in the SCM Lecture, what approach was he discussing as key to providing customer value?
Six Sigma
Intelligently monitoring and managing parking, urban noise, waste management and road congestion are examples of what application of IOT technology?
Smart Cities
In the video case for Nestle, data-driven decisions were primarily based on visualizations of information from what source?
Social Media Platforms
What term is used to describe paid-for product ratings and reviews?
Sponsored reviews
On a balance sheet, assets must equal the sum of liabilities and what other financial measure?
Stockholder's Equity
As part of their Smart Campus research, what MIS researcher is using CatCard data (digital traces) to analyze students' routines and relationships to predict student retention or their likelihood of returning to campus after their freshman year?
Sudha Ram
In the VAN (Voter Activation Network) Relationship-Based Political Organizing video case study, the VAN was able to identify the relationships of possible supporters using data from what source?
Supporter's Facebook contacts
*****What topic that we discussed in class was enabled by virtualization as an emerging technology?
Sustainability
Which of the following was not discussed in class as a factor for sustainable development?
Technical
How does telemedicine improve the delivery of medical care in rural communities?
Telemedicine reduces the need for patients to travel to physician's offices
Cisco uses the term "the power of in-person" to describe the ability of what technology to improve access to subject matter experts and to open doors for small business people?
Telepresence
Telemedicine's approach is similar to what other collaborative business process?
Telepresence
What type of information system that we've discussed could support the change to more virtual collaboration in the product design processes?
Telepresence
In the Cybersecurity 101 Video Case, the reason for many of the insecurities currently found on the internet is due to what?
The internet was not originally designed to experience the massive growth it underwent
Applications such as "find a friend" (FourSquare), driving directions (Smartrek), roadside assistance (OnStar), and fleet management (UPS and FedEx) are all examples of services that have been enhanced by knowing what?
The location of the requester
In the video case describing the TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) presented by Vint Cref, what common problem did his analogy using the postal service to email a page from a book have with sending TCP packets?
The message might get lost and not delivered
Thomas Friedman was quoted as saying, "We're in the middle of 3 accelerations; the market, mother nature, and Moore's law. Moore's law says the power of microchips will double every 24 months, mother nature is climate change, biodiversity loss and population, and the market is digital globalization." What is Moore's Law?
The number of transistors in dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years
Developed by the US Navy, a PERT (Program Evaluation Review Technique) chart would help a project manager understand what aspect of a project?
The project milestones and the order they are scheduled to be completed
A Bill-of-Materials describes the components that make up an item, the quantity used, and what other information about a finished good?
The relationships of raw materials and subassemblies
Which of these is a component of a businesses' business strategy?
The sales channel (e.g. online direct to consumers) the company
Assume you need to put a sign that says "PUSH" on a door handle to explain the correct way to operate the door. The "PUSH" sign helps a user understand what aspect of usability?
The sign explains a false affordance
A Stacked Area chart is good for showing relative contributions of different series to a total over time, but they have one big limitation, which is?
They can't show negative values
Treemap Charts largest advantage over bar or column charts is?
They show individual values relative to the sum of the series as well as other value
As discussed in class, the key differentiator with Zara and technology was what?
They used their technology differently than other companies
What term would be used to describe any danger to which is system may be exposed?
Threat
_________ is any danger to which a system may be exposed.
Threat
When barriers to entry are low, which of Porter's forces would be a major driver fo competition?
Threat of new entrant
What is considered to be the high-capacity data transmission core of the Internet structure?
Tier 1 ISP
In a vertical cross-functional business process diagram, the order of items in one column (from top to bottom) shows what relationship among these items?
Time
Which of the information layers in the Internet of Things model focuses on the communication networks that connect the sensors that actually collect the data?
Transmission Layer
The __________________ test proposes a scenario in which a man and a computer both pretend to be women or men, and a human interviewer has to identify which is the real human.
Turing
Packets sent over which route will arrive first (shortest transmission time)?
Unknown - Can't be determined based only on hop coun
Common themes of a blockchain generally include everything but what?
Usually exists over a client-server network
The "tragedy of the commons" would be an example of the following which of the following ethical frameworks?
Utilitarian principle
In the Data-Driven Decisions at Nestlé video case study, Nestlé's Digital Acceleration Team training program focuses on developing skills in all of the following business issues, except:
Validating
When budgeting, the amount you spend for automobile fuel, utilities (electricity, natural gas, and water), and grocery purchases are considered as
Variable (Flexible) expense
The characteristics of big data (data science) are described as being related to volume (of the information), velocity (speed at which information is collected), veracity (the accuracy of the information) and what other characteristic?
Variety (integrating data from multiples sources)
When you check your credit score for incorrect information, you are responding to which of the "4 V's" of Big Data?
Veracity
What collaboration tool was discussed in class that enhances the participants' contextual awareness by sharing non-verbal information during meetings?
Videoconferencing
When you use Google Drive to work on a document with a classmate, this is considered _________.
Virtual collaboration
Businesses like to use Virtual Private Networks for every reason except?
Virtual networks are faster than ordinary internet connections
Which of these is true about Augmented Reality?
Virtual objects are superimposed into the real-world
Which of the following would not be a "behavioral change"?
Virtualizing computers
With respect to maximum operating range, what is the correct order of the following technologies from maximum to minimum range?
WiFi, Bluetooth, RFID, NFC
What did "vague but exciting" concept was developed at CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research by Sir Tim Berners-Lee?
World Wide Web
Which of the following is NOT TRUE (incorrect) about VLookup?
You indicate the column which you want to return a result from by entering the Co lumn letter
Why are there so many different physical connector types?
all of the above The function (serial, parallel, video) often defines the number of signals required Different symbols, shapes and sizes improves reliability when connecting devices Connector design evolves as technology demands faster communication speed
Signals used to send messages can be _______ or digital.
analog
****you are using a normal flat screen television (these are 1080P) what is the speed to you need to stream using any of the listed services?
at least 9 Mbps
IT __________ be used to create a competitive advantage ___________.
can; when it is used effectivel
A ________ system tracks all communications between the company and the customer, the purpose of each communication, and any necessary follow-up
contact management
****what type of repeater has the greatest throughput?
double radio
What type of guided media uses light for signaling?
fiber optics
Google's main business reason for installing fiber in select US cities is to _______.
generate more web traffic, which generates more ad revenue for them
The web ____________ buyer power.
has a mixed impact on
What string within this "IMG" tag makes this absolute addressing for the image?
http://www.cnn.com/ in src directive
What type of HTML tag is used to display a file that contains a photo on your website?
img
The three security challenges of wireless communication are confidentiality, accessibility, and _____.
integrity
What is the name of the University of Arizona's server that students can use to host a personal website?
u.arizona.edu
The _____________ approach states that ethical action is the one that provides the most good or does the least harm.
utilitarian
Telepresence is a version of ____________.
videoconferencing
In the Your Personal Brand Video Case, what two things had to be aligned and true for your personal brand to be effective?
who you are and of how you present yourself
