MIS Midterm

Approximately how much revenue was generated by e-commerce in 2017

About $700 billion

How much did American businesses spend on information systems hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment in 2017

About &1 trillion

Which of the following is a private corporate network extended to authorized users outside the organization?

An extranet

Which of the following is an example of a keystone firm within a business ecosystem?

Apple and the mobile platform ecosystem

A(n) ___ is used to communicate between a user and an organization's back-end systems.

Application server

Which of the following statements about business processes is not true

Business processes are typically unaffected by changes in information systems

Which of the following enables you to create a script that allows a web server to communicate with a back-end database

CGI

Which of the following is a leading networking hardware provider

Cisco

Which of the following is a routine question that might be answered by a MIS system?

Compare planned to actual sales for each quarter

Which of the following statements about cookies is not true

Cookies are installed only at the user's request

Microsoft SQL Server is an

DBMS for midrange computers

DBMSs typically include report generating tools in order to

Display data in a more structured and polished format than would be possible just by querying

The four major types of enterprise applications are

ERP, SCM, CRM, and KMS

What is the most important function of an enterprise application?

Enabling business functions and departments to share information

Which of the following is an example of a cross functional business process

Fulfilling a customer order

Which of the following involves practices and technologies to minimize the environmental effects of manufacturing and managing computing devices

Green computing

A man steals from the grocery store in order to feed his family. Which of the following explains the humanitarian principle in evaluating this situation

His action is acceptable, because the higher social value is the survival of the family

Which main business function is responsible for maintaining employee records

Human resources

Which of the following statements is not true

In 2017 American businessses spent $500 billion on business and management consulting and information technology services

Which of the following is not one of the current key technology trends that rises ethical issues

Increase in data quality

Which of the five moral dimensions of the information age do the central business activities of Double Click involve

Information rights and obligations

Which of the following statements about the technical view of organizations is not true

It emphasizes group relationships, values, and structures

Which of the following best describes the effect that new information technology has on society

It has a ripple effect, raising new ethical, social, and political issues

If sales of your products declined in a specific region of the country, which of the following types of system would best help you understand why?

MIS

Which of the following is a DBMS for desktop computers

Microsoft Access

MongoDB and SimpleDB are both examples of:

NoSQL databases

Which type of software is created and updated by a worldwide community of programmers and available for free?

Open source

To make sure they stock clothes that their customers will purchase, a department store implements a new application that analyzes spending levels at their stores and cross-references this data to popular clothing styles. Which of the following business objectives is this information intended to support?

Operational excellence

Which of the following is the most prominent data manipulation language today

SQL

Which of the following is not one of the techniques used in web mining

Server mining

which ethical rule states that if an action cannot be taken repeatedly it is not right to take it at all

Slippery-slope rule

Which type of system integrates supplier, manufacturer, distributor, and customer logistics processes?

Supply Chain management system

All of the following are capabilities of enterprise social networking tools except

Supply chain management

A(n) ___ is typically a major source of data for other systems

TPS

Which of the following is a support activity in a firm's value chain

Technology

which of the following is an example of a social complementary asset

Technology and service firms in adjacent markets

Which of the following best illustrates the relationship between entities and attributes

The entity CUSTOMER with the attribute PURCHASE

Which of the following constitutes an organizational element in the UPS tracking system described in the chapter?

The specification of procedures for identifying packages with sender and recipient information

Which of the following is an example of a legacy system

Transaction processing system running on a mainframe

Which of the following factors does not help explain why computing resources today are even more available than in previous decades

Widespread rejection of technology standards

Telepresence technology is primarily designed to

allow employees to share ideas and plans in real time

Linux is

an example of open-source software.

The select operation

creates a subset consisting of all records in the file that meet stated criteria

All of the following are competitive forces in Poter's model except

disruptive technologies

In 2010, the FTC added all of the following recommendations to its privacy guidelines except

firms should limit the length of time that any personal data is stored to six months or less

The value chain model

highlights specific activities in the business where competitive strategies can best be applied

The internet increases the bargaining power of customers by

making information available to everyone

The ability to offer individually tailored products or services using the same production resources as bulk production is known as

mass customization

The term management information systems refers to a specific category of information systems serving:

middle management functions

In the ___ model of informed consent, personal information cannot be collected until the consumer specifically agrees that his or her data can be collected

opt-in

The logical view of a database

presents data as they would be perceived by end users.

Under Mintzberg's classification of organizational structure, the knowledge-based organization falls under the category of

professional bureaucracies

A database ___ describes a database entity

record

The ____ function is responsible for making sure customers are aware of the company's product

sales and marketing

All of the following are examples of environmental actors in an information system except

sales force

When two organizations pool markets and expertise that result in lower costs and generate profits, they are creating

synergies

In a relational database, a record is referred to in technical terms as a(n)

tuple

A client computer networked to a server computer with processing split between the two types of machines is called a(n)

two-tiered client server architecture

An ___ is a collection of independent firms that use information technology to coordinate their value chains to collectively produce a product or service for a market

value web

Which of the following is not a true statement about value webs

value webs are inflexible and cannot adapt quickly to changes in supply and demand