Information Systems Final Exam

Software used to apply the computer to a specific task for an end user is called

Application software

Which of the following is not one of the five steps discussed in the chapter as a process for analyzing an ethical issue?

Assign responsibility

Which of the following would be a typical production report for an organization's financial division?

Cash Flow

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

Culture

What service converts IP addresses into more recognizable alphanumeric names?

DNS

All of the follow can be considered managerial responsibilities except

Designing new information systems

Reducing the business process layers in a distribution channel is called

Disintermediation

A company's organizations and processes for distributing and delivering products to the final customers is the

Downstream portion of the supply chain.

An information system can enhance core competencies by

Encouraging the sharing of knowledge across business units.

Which of the following is not true about enterprise systems?

Enterprise software is expressly built to allow companies to mimic their unique business practices.

A business process is a single step taken in a set of logically related activities that accomplish a specific business task

False

Advances in data storage have made routine violation of individual privacy more difficult

False

Allowing departments to make their own software and hardware purchases increases efficiency and minimizes the need for centralized support

False

E-commerce refers to the use of any networking technologies to transact business

False

Executive support systems focus on using parameterized reports and data mining to analyze large pools of data in major corporate systems

False

HTML5 is the latest evolution of HTML, and is designed to make it much easier to embed third-party add-ons, such as Flash animations, in web pages

False

IT infrastructure technology is the set of physical devices required to operate the entire enterprise

False

Information systems literacy describes the behavioral approach to information systems, while computer literacy describes the technical approach

False

More timely information is a tangible benefit of information systems

False

Supply chain management systems are a type of enterprise system

False

The term cracker is used to identify a hacker whose specialty is breaking open security systems

False

Which type of information system uses data visualization technology to analyze and display data for planning and decision making in the form of digitized maps?

GIS

In network economics, the value of a commercial software vendor's software products

Increases as more people use them

A scheduling system for minimizing inventory by having components arrive exactly at the moment they are needed and finished goods shipped as soon as they leave the assembly line best describes a ________ strategy

Just-in-time

Which of the following is not one of the unique considerations in developing applications for a mobile platform?

Keyboard configuration

Electronic data are more susceptible to destruction, fraud, error, and misuse because information systems concentrate data in computer files that

May be accessable by anyone who has access to the same network

The ________ strategy concentrates financial management and control out of a central home base while decentralizing production, sales, and marketing operations to units in other countries

Multinational

NORA is a

New data analysis technology that finds hidden connections between data in disparate sources.

The process of streamlining data to minimize redundancy and awkward many-to-many relationships is called

Normalization

A field identified in a table as holding the unique identifier of the table's records is called the

Primary key

Converting raw data into a more meaningful form is called

Processing

The use of computers to combine data from multiple sources and create electronic dossiers of detailed information on individuals is called

Profiling

The effort required to locate a suitable product is called

Search costs

_______ refers to all of the methods, policies, and organizational procedures that ensure the safety of the organization's assets, the accuracy and reliability of its accounting records, and operational adherence to management standards

Security

The three principal levels of hierarchies within a business organization are

Senior management, middle management, and operational management

The type of decision that can be made by following a definite procedure is called a(n) ________ decision

Structured

Order the following steps in the systems development lifecycle in the correct sequence

Systems analysis, systems design, programming, testing, conversion, production and maintenance

System Testing

Tests the functioning of the system as a whole.

The quality of ubiquity, as it relates to e-commerce, is illustrated by

The availability of the Internet everywhere and anytime.

A business model describes how a computer produces, delivers, and sells a product or service to create wealth

True

A decision can be said to have improved if it can be made more quickly

True

A native app is one that is designed to run on a specific platform

True

A primary challenge in BPM is employee resistance

True

Data cleansing is the same process as data scrubbing

True

Decision-support systems often use information from external sources

True

Enterprise systems include analytical tools

True

Fiber-optic cable is more expensive and harder to install than wire media

True

Privacy is the right to be left alone when you want to be, without surveillance or interference from other individuals or organizations

True

Smartphones have the same security flaws as other Internet-connected devices

True

Software localization refers to the entire process of converting software to operate in a second language

True

Telephone networks are fundamentally different from computer networks

True

The Internet shrinks information asymmetry

True

Transaction processing systems are the basic business systems that serve the operational level of the organization

True

Viruses can be spread through e-mail

True

Web 3.0 is a collaborative effort to add a layer of meaning to the existing Web in order to reduce the amount of human involvement in searching for and processing Web information

True

Web mining is the discovery of useful patterns on the Web

True

A virtual company

Uses the capabilities of other companies without being physically tied to those companies.

T-Lines

are high-speed, leased data lines providing guaranteed service levels.

The most basic business database is comprised of

five tables: for customers, employees, suppliers, parts, and sales.

The five basic entities that make up any business are suppliers, customers, employees, products and services, and

invoices and payments