MIS final
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
Selecting EPEAT-compliant technology with a high rating over traditional, less energy efficient technology is an example of focusing on what sustainability effect?
Substitution by using alternative methods
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 the following would NOT be considered a type of social engineering ?
Torjan Horse
According Cornell University's Computer Energy Usage Facts, how much energy can you save by replacing traditional CRT monitors with equivalently-sized LCD monitors?
40%
Assume you are 22 years old when you graduate from the University of Arizona and have a credit card with a $2,000 credit balance with an 18% annual rate. If you only make minimum payments of 2% of the balance or just $10 (whichever is greater) each month, what birthday will you likely be be celebrating when the the credit card is paid off?
52
According to MIT Sloan Management Review, what percentage of companies have placed sustainability permanently on their management agendas?
About 70%
The "nearest neighbor" Intelligent System Strategy is similar to what DM method?
Clustering
Which of the following decisions would *not* be a quantitative decision?
Comparing project objectives with corporate objectives
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
What term describes a way of solving problems and producing things by connecting online with people that you otherwise wouldn't know?
Crowdsourcing
Which of the following security measures would be considered a "last line defense" for Information Security?
Cryptography
In the Ruby Tuesday's sales analysis case, analyzing historical data about the sales dimensions of products categories, sales regions, and months of the year would be best using which of the following approaches we've previously discussed?
Data Cubes
In cybersecurity, what is our last line of defense?
Data Encryption
What information-related issues does using a relational database model solve?
Data Redundancy
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
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
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
Digital dashboard
What is the named used to describe daily spending decisions like eating at a restaurant, buying clothes, drinking Starbucks, or playing a round of golf?
Discretionary
When major airlines (American, Delta, United, etc.) bypass travel agents and directly market tickets to customers from the airline's corporate website, this is an example of using what type of business sales strategy?
Disintermediation
Which of the following is an informational role?
Disseminator
What is the name of the MIS Regents Professor and founding Chair of the MIS Department who described MIS as "Solving real problems for real people"?
Dr. Jay Nunamaker
What type of chart allows you to plot data using two y-axes and a shared x-axis, visualizing a correlation or the lack thereof between the two y-axes data sets?
Dual Axis Chart
What information systems standard allows trading partners to move routine documents, such as purchasing orders, using standard data formats as messages over the Internet.
EDI
A Cost-Benefit Analysis is related mostly to what type of project management feasibility assessment?
Economic
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.
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
Which of the following is an example of how individuals use technology in a way that that allow others easily to monitor and track their activities?
Geotagging smartphone photos
Pioneered at the University of Arizona, 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
What type of inventory management systems deliver the precise number of parts, called work-in-process inventory, to be assembled into a finished product at precisely the right time?
JIT
What is the one key rule in designing a Presentation
Keep is simple
Business metrics that describe the performance of critical business activities are known as:
Key performance indicators
The terms "contextual," "relevant," and "actionable" are commonly related to what term?
Knowledge
Thought Question: If you are forming a startup company, and you hope it will grow to be the next Amazon, but there is a great deal of uncertainty about both growth rate and future needs for your financial systems, which option for acquiring your Financial IT applications makes the most sense?
Lease
On your personal financial balance sheet, your student loans would be classified in what category?
Liability
Related to the concepts of globalization, what computer "law" states that value of the internet is related to the number of connections (users)?
Metcalf's Law
[RelativeSize] What type of chart would be show the values of individual components proportional to a whole, allowing you to easily know relative size of a component, such as might be done to analyze the allocation of expenditures in a budget?
Pie Chart
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 type of decision based on explicit knowledge and involves analysis using an algortihm and measured data?
Quantitative
What normative ethical theory expects a corporation to create more value to society that it consumes?
Social Contract Theory
In the VAN (Voter Activiation Network) Relationship-Based Political Organizing video case study, the VAN was able to idenify the relationships of possible supporters using data from what source?
Supporter's Facebook contacts
In the Software Development Lifecycle Process (SDLC), in what SDLC stage is it the most costly to make changes to the system requirements
Systems Operation and Maintenance
Originally spun out of Stanford University as a research project, what big data tool started out by offering visualization techniques for exploring and analyzing relational databases and data cubes and has expanded to include Big Data research?
Tableau
[ChartingTool] What is the name of the Business Intelligence tool that is used for interactive analytics and data modeling?
Tableau
Subjective knowledge that is based an individual's experiences is known as what?
Tacit knowledge
What collaboration tool was discussed in class that enhances the participants' contextual awareness by sharing non-verbal information during meetings?
Telepresence
Which of the following technologies we've discussed was described as a more environmentally friendly "best practice for communication" that could greatly benefit small businesses?
Telepresence
In the Video Case on Michael Porters Competitive Forces What Industry was described as being Terrible in Every Category?
The Airline Industry
Which of the following does a Fishbone Diagram typically not inform you about a problem?
The cost of correcting a problem with a process
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
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 a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years
In the Biometric Passwords Video Case, what were the two emerging biometric technologies that were explained in detail?
The patterns of eye veins, heartbeat rythms
The big advantage of bubble charts over scatter charts is?
They add another dimension
Pie charts have several limitations, including all of the following except?
They have limited color and don't draw the eye and attention
Hierarchical Diagrams are commonly used for all of the following except?
Time series data
A company's "ticker" or stock symbol serves what role on a stock trading exchange?
Uniquely identifies a traded stock
What inventory strategy allows a company's supplier to monitor inventory levels and manage the replenishment process for the supplier's products?
VMI
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a market indicator comprised of 30 large publically traded companies, and is intended to to gauge the performance of the industrial sector within the American economy. Recently, General Electric, who had been part of the DJIA for over 100 years, was replaced by another company. What company replaced GE in the DJIA?
Walgreens
What type of data mining presents information graphically so that users are able to identify patterns in the underlying data?
Data Visualization
_________ support local control, whereas ____________ support central control.
Data marts; data warehouses
Requiring students to use a combination of a numeric passcode and their CatCard to enter a locked door on a UA dorm is an example of approach for security control?
Defense in depth
[Systems] What term is used to describe interorganizational ERP systems that provide web-enabled links among a company's key business systems—such as inventory and production—and its customers, suppliers, distributors, and other relevant parties?
ERP-II
Which of the following groups of voters would the DNC be most likely to contact with a persuasion campaign message?
Independent voters who always vote
Which of the following terms are related to production based on the mass customization initiated by a customer's order?
Pull model
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 values
Which of the following elements present on your CatCard releates to biometric identification?
Your picture
Telepresence is a version of ____________.
videoconferencing
The web ____________ buyer power.
has a mixed impact on
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
What accounting metric a strong indicator of whether a firm has sufficient short-term assets to cover its immediate liabilities?
Acid test
All of the symbols representing tasks and decisions that are shown in single column of a vertical cross-functional diagram are related to the same what?
Actor
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
[GoldmanSachs] What term was coined by Goldman Sachs in 2001 to describe the fastest growing market economies?
BRIC
What is the Elevator Test?
Being able to present the main point in 30 seconds
What MS Excel function could be used to implement Intelligent System Rule Induction?
Conditional Formatting
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
The task of brainstorming in a group decision support system is similar to what step in the knowledge management cycle?
Create
Maintaining multiple copies of the same data in multiple information systems that can be independently updated commonly results in what information management problem?
Data inconsistency
Which group of voters would result in the highest return on investment (i.e., largest number of votes for a DNC candidate) using a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) strategy?
Democratic voters who sometimes vote
Converting all MIS 111 students from clickers to response cards without an initial test period is an example of what type of conversion?
Direct conversion
What was the name of the legislation adopted by the European Parliament that mandated that all countries within the EU must setup laws requiring websites to obtain informed consent before they can store or retrieve information on a visitor's computer or web-enabled device.
EU Cookie Law
When Making Charts, you should do all of the following if possible, except?
Ensure the chart has images and clip art relevant to it's topic to make it appear dynamic and interesting
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
When Dr. Sudha Ram used CatCard data (digital traces) as part of her research to analyze students' routines and relationships to predict student retention. What knowledge management term would you use to classify the CatCard transactional data?
Explicit data
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 records
What would be the correct function to find the price of a Caffe Mocha, size Grande?
=VLOOKUP(A14,$A$2:$D$10,3,FALSE)
What is the recommended solution covered in a tech tip for keeping track of many secure passwords that could be hard to remember?
A Password Manager App on a Cell phone with a Lock Screen
A "Fishbone" process analysis diagram is also known as:
A cause-and-effect diagram
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
What is an Exploit?
A technique used to compromise a system
[Linkages] When viewing the linkages among trading partners, which of the following is common for both upstream and downstream supply chains?
Information
In addition to possessing contextual and relevant information, what other characteristic aspect does knowledge possess?
It is actionable
What term is used to describe the conversion of tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge, so that the knowledge can be used in the organization by the staff?
Knowledge Codification
COPLINK, developed at the University of Arizona in the MIS Department's Artificial Intelligence Lab, allows law enforcement officers to integrate database information to identify crime suspects based on limited information (e.g., a license plate number or nick name). What term is used to describe the type of information system that is commonly used to maintain collection of experiential, reflective and solutions-oriented information?
Knowledge management
How does adding social networking to the VAN allows candidates to improve the effectiveness of their volunteers?
Leverages personal relationships
In the Martha Stewart case, which of the following issues resulting in Martha Stewart being convicted of criminal charges that resulted in prison time?
Lying to the FBI
Related to the concepts of globalization, what computer "law" states that the density of transistors will double approximately every 18 months?
Moore's Law
What is NOT a factor contributing to the Bullwhip Effect?
Outsourcing
What Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification was the building where our classroom is located, Environment and Natural Resources 2, awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council?
Platinum
Which of the following business component are *not* included in an MRP-II planning cycle?
Product Margins
Which of the following actions would be considered a biometric authentication?
Requiring a user to scan their fingerprint
An investors willingness to potentially loose their money in exchange for the potential of higher returns is called their?
Risk Tolerance
What is used to determine how long an investment will take to double, given a fixed annual rate of interest, allowing investors to get a rough estimate of how many years it will take for the initial investment to duplicate itself.
Rule of 72
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 is the name of the agile framework for managing the work of development teams who break their work into actions that can be completed within timeboxed iterations, called sprints (30 days or less)?
SCRUM
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
What normative theory of ethics focuses on the belief that manager's actions should be guided by the understanding that they are entrusted with a responsibility to manage and protect the assets of the company for the benefit of all of those who the actions of the firm affect?
Stakeholder
What type of problem has an optimal solution can be reached through single set of steps based on an algorithm?
Structured
All of the following are Information System Professional Specialties Except?
These are all Information System Professional Specialties
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
In the case study presented in class, Nestle's Digital Acceleration Team training program focuses on developing skills in all of the following business issues, except:
Validating
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're responding to which of the "4 V's" discussed for "big data" in the financial reporting business sector?
Veracity
What type of chart would be typically be used to show how the an initial value is affected by intermediate values -- either positive or negative -- and resulted in the composition of a final value?
Waterfall Charts
Telepresence systems seamlessly integrate _____ and _____.
contextual awareness; content management
What term describes individuals with tactic knowledge about a particular domain?
Subject-matter Experts
Sensors, RFID tags, meters, GPS, and other devices are used to collect supply chain information. These are all examples of __________.
source data automation
Critical Thinking Question: Thinking of Porter's five forces, if you are one of the mobile telephone companies upgrading to a 5G network, and the largest supplier of 5G telecom equipment in the world can no longer be purchased from for political reasons, which of the five forces will it impact from your perspective?
Bargaining Power of Suppliers
In the video case study of Porter's Forces, Michael Porter commented that the airport's control of gates represented which of the five forces?
Bargaining Power of Suppliers
What type of chart essentially adds a third dimension, such as frequency or quantity, to scatter plots?
Bubble Charts
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
In the Zara case, the company has aligned its information system strategy with what?
Business strategy
What approach to knowledge management would best describe the Eller FlexLabs?
Community of Practice
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 FlexLab?
Community of practice
Porter's Forces describes which of the following business issues?
Competition
The "Porter's Forces" model deals with what aspect of globalized business?
Competition
The sequence of activities performed by users of GroupSystems' ThinkTank product directly parallel the steps in what other business process?
Knowledge management cycle
The _____________ approach states that an ethical action is the one that provides the most good or does the least harm.
utilitarian
When you use Google Drive to work on a document with a classmate, this is considered _________.
virtual collaboration
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 the Economics of Distance (Transportation Costs) has been replaced by what?
Economies of Attention
For companies managing their supply chain business processes using CPFAR (Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment), the process improvements over the traditional ordering process could be primarily considered as an improvement in which of the following?
Efficiency
What organization was created in the Eller College of Management in the Spring of 2003 and is designed to be a member organization dedicated to the support of Eller College undergraduate students in their pursuit of co-curricular knowledge, skills, leadership and community activities?
Federation of Eller Student Organizations (FESO)
The University of Arizona is nationally recognized for sustainability in its academics, research, operations, and administration by the Assocation for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. What Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating SystemTM (STARS) rating was the University of Arizona awarded in 2017?
Gold
What term did Thomas Friedman's use to describe the impact of globalization where individual countries must sacrifice some degree of economic sovereignty to global institutions (such as capital markets and multinational corporations)?
Golden Straightjacket
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)
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 University of Arizona developed the COPLINK system for managing knowledge used in law enforcement?
Hsinchun Chen
Which of the following is a support activity in Porter's value chain model?
Human Resources
The ____________________ is a summary of information needs of the functional areas and of the organization as a whole.
IT environment
In the Building Your Brand Video Case, what was a critical part of of building your online professional presence
Include keywords associated with the jobs you are seeking
When analyzing the performance of students in MIS 111 on Exam 1, which of the following would not be appropriate as a useful "dimension" in an OLAP data cube?
Individual email addresses
In Thomas Friedman's discussion of globalization, he described the process of globalization as being realized through actions that were first defined by your country, then later defined by multi-national companies, and finally, in the most recent age of globalization is defined by:
Individuals
What dimension of Porter's Forces focuses on the decision that a buyer makes when choosing among direct, existing competitors when all of the competitors offer the same identical name-brand product (e.g., an iPhone 6)?
Industry Rivalry
___________ is threatening to steal or actually stealing information from a company and then demanding payment to not use or release that information.
Information extortion
As an employee of MCI/Worldcom, David Myers faced what classic ethical dilemma also described as a 'Who am I?'?
Integrity versus Loyality
The classic values conflict with "Who Am I'" represents what type of ethical dilemma?
Integrity vs. loyalty
In the COPLINK video case, law enforcement in what city used the COPLINK system developed to manage knowledge more efficiently and effectively?
Mesa, Arizona
The Associated Students of the University of Arizona is a representative organization led by University of Arizona students that serves, engages and empowers the student body through advocacy and the provision of programs and resources. currently serving as our ASUA Senator?
Michelle Mendoza
Which rule of thumb must you follow?
None of the rules of thumb are absolute musts
Market capitalization is determined by multiplying the stock price by what?
Number of common shares outstanding
Explicit, or "leaky" knowledge, is based on information that is:
Objective and rational
Each long vertical or horizontal element in a cross-functional flowchart we put processes and decisions into represents what?
One actor
Although globalization has been underway for many centuries, digitization, networking, and connectiveness have dramatically increased what?
Pace of Change
______________ is the right to be left alone and to be free of unreasonable personal intrusions.
Privacy
CODASYL, the Conference/Committee on Data Systems Languages, is remembered almost entirely for two activities: its work on the development of the COBOL language and its activities in standardizing database interfaces. We've learned about the pioneers of databases (Chen and Codd) today, who is credited for developing FLOW-MATIC, which evoled into the COBOL, the widely used business programming language?
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
Which of the following types of social engineering attacks would be a text or SMS message from someone claiming to be from a reputable or known company asking your to disclose your personal information
Smishing
Sending phishing emails that demand users respond immediately or risk losing access to a critical resource, such as email, is an example of what?
Social Engineering
In the video case for Nestle, data-driven decisions were primarily based on visualizations of information from what source?
Social Media Platforms
Which of the following is a DISADVANTAGE of purchasing prewritten software?
The software is controlled by another company and may be hard to adapt.
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
What term would be used to describe any danger to which is system my be exposed?
Threat
_________ is any danger to which a system may be exposed.
Threat
If the search column for a VLOOKUP contains a duplicate value, which value will be returned?
VLOOKUP will return a value based on the the first match
What technology do companies use to make the links between connection between two corporate intranets more secure?
VPN
If you are just being asked for something you know to get into a system, what is the system attempting to do?
Validate your identity
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
IT __________ be used to create a competitive advantage ___________.
can; when it is used effectively
When you get an unexpected email, you should avoid everything but?
copying a link to a known website and pasting it into your browser
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
Data ___________ means all applications are able to access the same data, which is ___________ by databases.
independence; maximized
ERP address information silos by _____________.
integrating functional areas
In the decision process, problem identification and classification occur during which phase?
intelligence
Which of the following is the correct order of the traditional System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)?
investigation, analysis, design, programming and testing, implementation, operation and maintenance
Library: What is the name of the University of Arizona's multidisciplinary learning community and collaborative makerspace in the University Libraries where students can access cutting-edge technologies, such as 3D scanning and printing equipment, a visualization wall, virtual reality headsets, and Raspberry Pis, along with collaborating with interdisciplinary experts?
ispace
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
Long term weather predictions are generally considered what type of problem?
Unstructured
When applying for advanced standing in the Eller College of Management, the process of selecting your major would be best described as having what characteristics of a decision?
Unstructured and Strategic
Which of Thomas Freidman's "flattners" related to technologies related to how content can be digitized and therefore shaped, manipulated, and transmitted; how processes can be done at high speed with total ease; and how mobile can be done anywhere and anytime by anyone; and can be done by anyone?
"The Steriods"
The symbol we use in MS Excel for Absolute Addressing is what?
$ (US Dollar Sign)
Taxes, FICA and other Payroll Deductions can easily be what percentage of a person's paycheck?
35%
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
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 offenders
Thought Question: Walmart's strategic focus is on Everyday low prices and maximum efficiency. You are a Walmart Manager and have been presented with 4 alternative IT ideas, which one should almost automatically float to the top?
A new system for routing distribution that will save 10% of the total distribution costs
In the IT Strategic Planning Video Case, it discussed showing the _______ between all the IT projects and the overall business strategy? We also discussed this specific topic in class and explained it's meaning and why it mattered.
Alignment
What is the name of a highly popular crowdsourcing Internet marketplace enabling individuals and businesses (known as Requesters) to coordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are currently unable to do?
Amazon Mechanical Turk
One key differentiator of Zara from competitors is it owns it's supply chain, unlike retailers such as H&M or Uniqlo, and it also owns 50% of it's manufacturing. This approach means Zara is not only more nimble, but in general doesn't have to contend with which of Porter's four external (out side the industry) forces in the same way the other retailers do?.
Bargaining Power of Suppliers
With respect to Porter's Forces, which of the five factors would have be the LEAST (weakest) impact on Starbuck's business model?
Bargaining power of suppliers
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 judgements about the performance of referees/umpires/ or coaches?
Baseball and the Strike Box
What term is used to describe the most successful solutions or problem-solving methods for achieving a business objective?
Best practices
What implementation approach mixes and matches core ERP modules as well as other extended ERP modules from different software providers to best fit their unique internal processes and value chains?
Best-of-breed approach
What is the name of the system used by Raytheon that allows technical blueprints to come to life so engineers engineers and customers can make quick changes to technical specifications and adjust equipment according to their needs using the "the common language of visualization."
CAVE
Which of the following states has a Social Media Privacy law specifically related to prohibiting employers from requesting passwords to personal Internet accounts to get or keep a job, or prohibiting colleges and universities from requiring access to students' social media accounts?
California
What are the equivalent concepts in Excel to the following database terms: Field, Record, and a Table, respectively?
Cell, Row, Worksheet
[Disintermediation] What term is describes the conflict when manufacturers (brands) disintermediate their channel partners, such as distributors, retailers, dealers, and sales representatives, by selling their products directly to consumers through general marketing methods and/or over the Internet.
Channel Conflict
Which of the following types of analysis would be used to produce the Clery report, which is a public annual security report (ASR) that includes statistics of campus crime for the preceding 3 calendar years identifying the crimes committed in physical (geographic) proximity to a college campus as an effort to improve campus safety?
Cluster
Identifying patterns in data based on common temporal (time) or spatial (geographic) traits is based on what type of data mining analysis?
Clustering
What term refers to the process where two or more entities (individuals, teams, groups, or organizations) who work together to accomplish certain tasks, such as a work group or virtual team?
Collaboration
Which of the following is NOT a disadvantage of web-based call centers located overseas?
Cost
What is the name of the Regents Professor and founding chair of the MIS Department that pioneered the field of Group Decision Support Systems?
Dr. Jay Nanamaker
[ERPModules] Which of the following is typically not considered a "core" ERP module?
E-Business
When information systems were first introductd into organizations, the primary focus of their use was what?
Efficiency
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
Exceptiuon Reporting
School of Arts: What domain of education in the art school emphasizes experimental contemporary studio practice that includes combined media installation, performance, environmental and site-specific art, 3D modeling, digital fabrication, video, audio and AR/VR installations, community based practice, and interactive and relational strategies?
Extended Media
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
What network security control prevents information from moving between two networks?
Firewall
Car payments and rent are examples of what type of expenses?
Fixed
When budgeting, the amount you spend for rent is considered as:
Fixed expenses
Related to the concepts of globalization, what computer "law" states that the bandwidth (speed) of data networks will double approximately every 24 months?
Gilder's Law
What is NOT a benefit of telemedicine?
It requires traveling so doctors can see their patients in person
Making the Adobe Creative Cloud is now available to UofA students. What approach for software acquisition did the UoA used to allow students to have access to this software?
Lease (Right to Use Product)
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
In the Personal Branding video case, which of the following online platforms was idenfied as being primarily a business networking tool?
Understanding the question and responding with the right answer for a question in the lightning round depends most on what?
People
Official-sounding emails that demand you reply immediately to confirm your personal information or you will lose access to your account are a software attack known as:
Phishing Attack
Which phase of of PowerPoint Presentations do professionals spend the most time on?
Practicing
If we are trying to select the projects to do first, what projects should we select?
Projects that easy to do and also have a high value proposition
In a decision matrix, a "weighting" allows what additional information to be included in the analysis?
Relative importance
Internet-enabled globalization does the following:
Removes geography as a barrier to relationships
As discussed in class, what company was founded in the Globalization 2.0 era based on the business model of selling discontinued product lines directly to consumers by using a new transportation infrastructure to reach a geographically distributed customer base?
Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Which of the following is a problem with BYOD?
Security
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
What is the most important rule in presenting?
Show your passion
Information systems professionals understand business needs and analyze processes, methods and data to create customer-oriented solutions. The value proposition for MIS was described more briefly by Dr. Jay Nunamaker, Regents Professor and founding chair of the MIS Department, as a discipline focused on doing what for business?
Solving real problems
Your username (UANetID) is your claim of identify to a computer system. When the computer system verifies your identify by requiring you to enter a password is an example of what type of authentication?
Something a user knows
A Mekko, or Marimekko or market map chart, which paints a picture of the overall market and helps to drive discussions about growth opportunities or acquisitions by showing the relationship between each segment or bar to the total. A Mekko chart is similar to what other type of chart discussed in class?
Stacked Bar Chart
Donut Charts are difficult to read, Microsoft recommends what as an alternative?
Stacked Column or Bar Charts
When Planning the presentation, what is the number one rule?
Start with the end in mind
When classifying items on an I^2 diagram, we depend on individuals with domain knowledge and consultants about the items. What name do we use to describe an individual with domain knowledge?
Subject-matter Expert
Tacit or "sticky" knowledge, is based on information that is:
Subjective and cognitive
Each long vertical or horizontal element in a cross-functional flowchart we put processes and decisions into is called what?
Swimlane
_______________ is knowledge that is generally imprecise, costly to transfer, and difficult to formalize or codify.
Tacit knowledge
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 to small business people?
Telepresence
Porters five forces focuses on what part of competition?
The Business Environment
Before paying an invoice in the procurement process, the accounting team checks that the purchase order, the goods receipt document (bill-of-lading), and the vendor's invoice all match. What is the term that is used to describe this auditing process?
Three-way Match
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
In a vertical cross-functional diagram, items are ordered in one coumn relates to what?
Time
In the decision matrix example shown below, which of the answers would have the highest score for Project A?
Time to complete
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
in the College Money Management 101 Video Case - What was Lesson 1, the very first thing students should start doing?
Track Expenses
In financial markets, a "ticker symbol" identifies what?
Traded Company
Which of the following is *NOT* a behavioral issue for meetings?
Wrong people
You have a MAC running OSX, which of these is NOT true?
You must have a MS Windows VM for Assignments and Exams
Of the items used that identify you uniquely at the University of Arizona, which one can be used as a primary key (unique identifier) outside the University?
Your UA email address
