Test #1 Items

"The list of all YOUR personal purchases from Amazon (books bought, price paid, dates) is defined as ___________. "

information

Information-based industries are most susceptible to which one of Porter`s five forces?

threat of substitute products

Enterprise resource planning systems:

use a common database for all functional areas.

"Which of the following is a TRADITIONAL function of the Management Information Systems (MIS) department (I am not asking for the the New Functions, but rather the traditional)?"

"Staffing, training, and developing IS skills"

_______________ is a set of programs that provide users with tools to create and manage a database.

A DBMS

Which of the following is a reason why managing data is difficult over time?

All of these are reasons why managing data is difficult over time.

You want to open your own restaurant. You know you will be able to purchase foods from many different distributors. You have evaluated the _________ in Porter`s competitive forces model.

Bargaining power of suppliers

Which one of the following statements is True?

Businesses tend to view government regulations as expensive constraints on their activities

The person in an organization who is usually directly responsible for the IT function is the:

CIO

The MIT Technology Review refers to you as Homo _________ because you are the most connected generation in history.

Conexus

0.16 is an example of which of the following:

Data

____________ refers to the wide gap between those individuals who have access to information and communications technology and those who do not.

Digital divide

An increased focus on manufacturing is one way organizations have responded to increased business pressure. True/False?

False

Data rot refers to the quality of the data itself

False

Managing information resources in a modern organization is an actually an easy task given the wide range of available tools.

False

Normalization is a process that eliminates redundancies in a relational database module.

False

"According to Friedman`s Book, the world is:"

Flat

A customer number in an order table would be a __________ key.

Foreign

"Which of these Government Regulations Allowed commercial banks, investment banks, securities firms and insurance companies to consolidate"

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

Most database management systems do not support __________ relationships.

Many-to-many

Who benefits from switching costs?

Supplier

"If you were a manager in the future, which of the following statements would most likely be the most true?"

The size of my team will likely be larger than teams of today.

How does IT change managers jobs?

They have more real-time information and can make better decisions

"Tacit Knowledge is the cumulative store of subjective or experiential learning. In an organization, this type of knowledge consists of an organization s experiences, insights, expertise, know-how, trade secrets, skill sets, understanding, and learning. It is generally imprecise and costly to transfer."

True