Mis 305 exam 2
Which of the following is an example of a systems integrator
A consultant who ensures that hardware and software components of an IS work together
Which of the following is an example of typosquatting
A person registers the domain name "currentaffairs.net" to take advantage of the huge popularity of the e-newspaper currentaffairs.org to divert traffic to his webpage and make money by selling advertising space.
Which of the following websites uses a sequential architecture?
A website that provides online counseling requires a visitor to enter certain information on the home page, which would then lead him to the subsequent page, until he is matched with a suitable counselor.
Which of the following is true regarding the use of electronic data interchange (EDI) between partner companies in a supply chain
A) EDI often relies on private networks and proprietary software.
Which of the following is the primary function of supply chain management and companies?
A) optimizing the flow of products and services from their source to the customer
Which of the following is true regarding customer retention
Attracting new customers is often more difficult and expensive than retaining existing ones.
A ___ is an e-commerce application that facilitates online shopping by mediating the inter connections to the merchants Bank, the bank or the entity that issued the card, and then back to the original website to approve or decline the purchase.
Payment gateway
___ is the first step in the systems development lifecycle (SDLC), which defines the business need for a project, assesses its importance to the company, and determines whether the project is feasible.
Planning
A chemical company shipping high-risk materials closely monitors the location and status of their shipments using ___.
RFID
___ are attached to packages or crates and can transmit data as they pass by readers at Seaports, railway stations, or warehouses.
RFID chips
A steel manufacturing company that follows a low-cost leadership strategy does not accept any product returns from its customers. The company's "no-return" policy aims to ___.
Reduce supply chain cost
A ___ is a component of a web address that maps to the unique IP address of the destination location
Registered domain name
___ is a process in which stakeholders identify the features that a product will need and then prioritize them as mandatory, preferred, or nonessential.
Requirements
Systems ability to handle rapidly increasing demand is called ___.
Scalability
___ is an Internet marketing strategy used to increase the quantity and quality of traffic from search engines, often by improving the site's position in result lists.
Search engine optimization
The IT department of Detroit University decides to create a website with the primary goal of facilitating offline relationships with students. Which of the following would best help the university to reach this goal?
The website should allow prospective students to access virtual tours of the campus.
Which of the following is an advantage of a parallel implementation of an information system?
There are two systems processing the same case, both of which should have the same output.
Which of the following best defines agile methods
They involve characteristics of cohesiveness and trust.
Which of the following parts of the URL "http:// www.timesonline.co.uk" represents the top-level domain?
Uk
The unique global address for a web page or other resource on the Internet is called the
Uniform Resource Locator
The ___ refers to a process which organizations put into place to manage in prioritize requests to add new features to an information system.
Change control process
Which of the following is true of compliance reporting?
Compliance reports relying on XBRL are more advanced than electronic PDFs.
Which of the following is an advantage of customizing a packaged solution?
Customization adds competitive advantage to processes that an organization cannot alter.
An integrated collection of information that is logistically related and stored to minimize duplication and facilitate rapid retrieval is called a ___.
Databaee
The goal of using XBRL in compliance reporting is to
Develop a common language
A ___ relationship is a or an e-commerce relationship in which organizations by and sell products or services online from or to one another
B2b
Which of the following are design tips for improving website accessibility?
Bold headings
Robots in supply chains offer what benefits?
Both
Joshua Lee, an engineer at Footprints Inc., is provided with a design by the creative team in his company for creating a software that would help travel agents answer and track traveler requests efficiently. He is now converting the design into an operational information system. Which of the following phases of the SDLC is the software currently in?
Development phase
Which of the following is an example of crowdsourcing?
Electrogadgets.com, a site that provides information on a range of electronic gadgets, encourages members to publish their reviews and user guides.
The human capital metric that observes measures of job satisfaction, usually assessed through employee surveys or exit interviews is called ___.
Employee satisfaction
An integrated application suite to support a whole establishment that includes modules to manage financials, human resources, supply chain, customer relationships, and other business processes is called ___.
Enterprise Resource Planning
Michael hammer's business process reengineering was criticized because it ___.
Failed human element
Demand forecast accuracy is important because overestimating demand leads to ___.
Higher storage costs
Which of the following is a transmission protocol which specifies that the resource is a web page containing code the web browser can interpret and display?
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Though every device connected to the net has an IP address, the Internet's designers added the Domain Name System (DNS) because ________.
IP addresses are numerical and cannot be easily remembered by users
The financial management system of a software company automatically updates the general ledger whenever there are any transactions in the company's accounts receivable and accounts payable. This is an example of the financial system's ___.
Integration of components
Which of the following is one of the advantages of database systems over file processing systems?
Integrity and Accur
Which of the following is a characteristic of structured information
It can be broken down into component parts and organized in hierarchies.
Which of the following is a drawback of the waterfall method?
It is unable to adapt to changes in the business landscape.
What is the main drawback of using unstructured information?
It makes retrieving data very difficult.
___ is a language used to add interactivity to web pages.
JavaScript
Which of the following elements of website usability refers to the effort it takes to regain the same level of proficiency when a user returns to a website after a period of time
Memorability
While using a word processor to create a project report, Ashley includes the subject, title, and the author's name in the report's properties. What type of information is Ashley adding to her report?
Metadata
Sam, the CEO of a product development company, is planning to implement an ERP system in his company. However, most of his colleagues advise him against implementing such a system saying that such systems have more weaknesses than strengths. Why should Sam still go ahead with the implementation?
Once in place, the ERP can dramatically enhance operational efficiencies and reduce costs.
___ refers to how easily people with disabilities can access and use web resources.
Web accessibility
Which of the following includes a high-level description of a system that an organization is on the lookout for
a request for information
Which of the following functions does the version control software perform?
allowing developers to track versions of the source code during development
Which process assigns incremental numbers to records, as they are created to ensure that each record has a unique primary key
autonumbering
________ is a metric used to assess the impact of an online ad.
click through rate
A central data repository containing information drawn from multiple sources that can be used for analysis, intelligence gathering, and strategic planning is called a ________.
data warehouse
Databases are created and handled using
database management software
A ___ switches off the old system and launches all the modules of the new one on a single, very hectic go live date, sometimes called the Big Bang
direct implementation
A website that facilitates transactions by bringing together buyers and sellers from all over the world is called a(n) ________.
e-marketplace
Which of the following is the central element of the human capital management (HCM) information system?
employee record
Modules such as budget planning, debt management, travel and expense management, and contracts management are typically included in a ________ management system.
financial
Which of the following is a good master data management strategy
focusing on key areas
Which of the following occurs during a phased implementation?
focusing on launching modules in steps rather than all at once
In a university database, the student table, with student ID as a primary key, is linked to the university department table through its primary key-department ID. In the student table, department ID is a ________.
foreign key
Which of the following devices receives signals from orbiting satellites that transmit time and location data?
global positioning systems device
An operational database is not a good candidate for high-level management reporting because it is not equipped to ___.
handle complex queries for strategic planning
The website of Vogue, a hair and beauty salon chain, allows visitors to upload their photographs and try virtual hairstyles and virtual makeovers. In this example, the primary web goal of the salon is to ________.
influence the audience
Lee works for Pink Net Worldwide Inc., an advertising company in California. Lee is developing software to improve the process of coordination with clients. Which of the following requirements is he concentrating on if he is interfacing the clients' software with a few of the information systems that are currently functioning within the company?
integration requirements
In comparison with unstructured information, semi structured information
is easier to query and aggregate
Which of the following is a disadvantage of prepackaged software?
it requires an organization to change its business processes
A drawback of the hierarchical database was that ________.
it was ineffective at handling many-to-many relationships
Which of the following functions does a project and issue tracking software perform
maintaining a complete history of project activity, including dates and tasks assigned
One goal of normalization is to ________.
make data functionally dependent
Kris, an IT manager at Park Infosystems, is handling four projects simultaneously. Each project has loaned and shared resources from other teams. The relationship between Kris and the project that he is working on represents a ________.
many-to-many relationship
Which of the following is a function of normalization
minimizing duplication of information
___ is a website structure with several links to pages at all levels, allowing visitors numerous paths through the site
multidimensional website architecture
Which of the following is the best way to handle complex relationships, such as the data for a company where employees can be assigned to more than one project, and each project can have more than one employee assigned to it?
normalizing the relationship between "employees" records and "projects" records
Roman Jade, an interior decorations company, stores employee details in its employee information system. The birth date of each employee is stored along with other details, including employee names. The relationship between the employee names and employee birth dates is a ________.
one-to-one relationship
A company resorts to discount blowouts to get rid of excess merchandise. Which of the following scenarios is most likely to have triggered this action?
overestimation of demand
Which of the following is a type of testing for information systems where developers use the same input and compare the new systems output to the output generated by the system. It is replacing?
parallel testing
A field or a group of fields that make a record unique in a table is called a(n) ________.
primary key
Independent testers are critical and testing information systems mainly because
programmers are inept at testing their own code
After a discussion with his investors, the owner of a newly launched online video site decides that entertaining his audience will be the primary web goal of the website. Which of the following actions will best support his decision?
providing free access to quality content and selling advertising space on the website
Aban Constructions Limited, a construction company, maintains data in the form of records within tables, and the tables are interconnected by linking matching fields. Which type of database architecture does Aban Constructions Limited use?
relational database
Which of the following is the most widely used database architecture?
relational database
Mike, a research analyst, is in the analysis phase of a project, the goal of which is the development of smile shutter technology in cameras. Mike first identifies and analyzes the integral elements that need to be included in the technology such as red eye removal, blink detection, and face identification and then prioritizes them as mandatory, preferred, or nonessential. Which of the following processes is being illustrated in the given scenario?
requirements analysis
Which of the following will typically have a major impact on global supply chain costs?
restrictions on carbon emissions
Which of the following is a function of the Internet corporation for assigned names and numbers (ICANN)?
settling disputes over domain names
Which of the following uses databases without boundaries?
social networking website
Exception reports that are generated by financial information systems help organizations primarily in ___.
spotting fraudulent transactions and mistakes that require a manual review
The bullwhip effect can be reduced if
suppliers have real-time access to up-to-date retail sales data
Which of the following best describes service oriented architecture (soa)?
systems assembled from relatively independent software components
Which of the following is the measure of the satisfaction level of website usability
the ratings of individual experiences on the website by the users ranging from pleasant to frustrating
Batch processing is defined as ___.
the sequential execution of operations on each record in a large set
The ________ phase is a technical blueprint for a whole system which captures all aspects of how the system's components will function together to accomplish goals, using descriptions, diagrams and models.
to design
Which of the following supply chain management software is used to manage and optimize shipping, logistics, fleet routing, and scheduling?
transportation management software
The percentage of workers who left an organization and were replaced during a time period is called employee ________.
turnover
___ refers to an approach in which organizations strongly prefer systems that are offered by a single vendor, which also supplies the ERP.
unified procurement
___ is a type of testing for information systems that involves programmers checking the functionality of small modules of code during the development phase of the systems development life cycle (SDLC)
unit testing
White and Brown, a legal firm, stores details of each case in physical files and folders. The firm has a back room stacked with boxes containing hundreds of files. White and Brown's storage structure resembles ________.
unstructured information
Screen attractiveness is an example of the ________ included in an RDD.
usability requirements
An online retail website has a low rate of customer retention. Which of the following would be the most effective way to help the company increase its retention rate?
using a CRM system to track customer behavior when they visit the site
A ___ is a software application that retrieves, interprets, and displays web resources
web browser
Which of the following components of the HCM systems would airport managers use for optimizing task schedules of ground personnel?
workforce management modules
