MIST 2090 Quizzes

Brook's Law (for the man who wrote the book, The Mythical Man Month) states that

Adding more people to an already late project will make it later.

Which of the following is NOT an example of an organization maintaining a customer relationship

Airlines paying Rolls-Royce a fee for servicing airline engines

Which of the following is/are a true statement about the business model canvas?

All of the above statements are true.

BYOD stands for

Bring Your Own Device

The "Smart Creative" person is one that combines

Business expertise + technical knowledge + creativity

Which of the following refers to the range of instances of an entity participating in a relationship

Cardinality

According to the article "Optimizing Your Digital Business Model," what are the three components of every digital business model?

Content, Experience, and Platform

The Innosight reading recommends which strategy for big companies innovating in the context of creative destruction?

Create, Operate, Trade

The notation used in E-R diagrams for relationships between 2 entities is

Crow's foot notation

Which of the following is not a key business process

Data modelling

Which of the following is important to keep in mind when developing a Gnatt chart

Dependencies and milestones

A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a ______.

Description of tasks, numbered and arranged in layers of detail

Which of the following does NOT describe a type of key resource

Designing, making and delivering a product in substantial quantities

Which of the following is NOT a role of Enterprise Systems?

Document the organizational process

The system that manages the financial, accounting, HR process within an organization is known as

ERP

Which of the following BPMN elements refer to things that happen instantaneously, often to kick off a process?

Event

A query/retrieval of data that is based on the primary key attribute of an entity/table retrieves 2 or more rows from the associated table.

False

An "invention" is putting an innovation into practice

False

Data mining is the tailoring target messages to small slices of audiences or small segments of markets.

False

Integrity is the necessary level of secrecy is enforced at each junction of data processing and prevents unauthorized disclosure.

False

Internet Protocol as a hub for the processing of packets and retransmitting of packets to the correct destination.

False

You have to go to lab sessions during Part A of the MIST 2090 course

False

Which of the following is not true of a "lean start-up"

Favors Elaborate planning over experimentation

Which of the following is NOT a notation used for business processes

Gantt charts

The concept of the long-tail refers to which of the following

How organizations are able to target niche customers in a market.

A business model canvas CANNOT be used to do which of the following

Identify the sequence of primary and support activities within the organization used to generate value for the customer and margin to the organization.

Which of the following statements is NOT true

In the old way of maintaining customer relationships, the company reaches out to peers of the consumers.

Which of the following is NOT a consequence of poor-coordination?

Increased visibility across the processes within the organization

Which of the following matches what an Exclusive decision gateway does?

Indicates locations within a business process where the sequence flow can take one of two or more alternative paths.

Which of the following is NOT one of the triple constraints of project management?

Information

According to our class discussion of business processes, which of the following is emerging as the standard for modeling business processes? (Hint: it is the one we teach at UGA).

Lack of structure

Which of the following is NOT true for a Consulting Career

Lower work intensity

The acronym MVP in the "Lean Startup" article stands for

Minimum Viable Product

What business model involves serving two or more interdependent market segments, and typically involves a platform to bring the two customers together?

Multi-sided

Which of the following is NOT an ability provided by an ERP system for an organization

Multiple different versions of the data across the organization

Two-sided markets rely on which effect to be successful

Network Efffects

Which of the following is not a type of relationship in the ER model

None-to-none

According to McKinsey, which of the following is NOT one of the 5 areas of technology-based transformation

Office Automation

Which of the following is not a fundamental component of an information system

Pivot

Which of the following is not an element of the ER model

Pools

Which of the following is NOT one of the phases of the SDLC?

Position the organization to generate value

The name of the professional organization for project managers that issues the PMBOK is known as

Project Management Institute

The system development life cycle (SDLC) method for leading IT-enabled change to work systems would typically take place in which stage of the project?

Project execution & control

According to the reading, which of the following is NOT a type of process flow in an organization

Project flow

Which one of the following companies is not considered one of the "Big 4"

Protiviti

What of the following best describes the "bait and hook" business model?

Provide products for low or no cost and then make up the profits on complementary products.

Which of the following is NOT one of the 4 P's associated with the traditional form of maintaining customer relationships?

Purchase

Which of the following is NOT a state of a process that is modelled using BPMN

Random process

The benefits of adhering to project management strategies helps

Reduce risks, cut costs and improve success rates.

Which of the following is NOT a revenue stream for the organization as they provide a value proposition

Reduction of risk and uncertainty

Which of the following is a problem where the scope of a project is never clearly defined?

Scope grope

You are required to attend one professional development activity organized by SMIS. SMIS stands for

Society for Management Information Systems

The role of technology in the digital era as identified by KPMG is

Strategic

Resources classes are captured using

Swimlanes

"Attackers Advantage" refers to

The ability of newcomers to take advantage of new technologies to be profitable

According to KPMG, the digital era was based on the introduction of what disruptive technology

The internet

Key Resources

The most important assets required to make a business model work.

Which of these is not a disadvantage of cloud computing to an organization?

The organization focuses on its core competency

Which of the following is NOT true of the silo'ed organization?

The structure of a silo'ed organization is incredibly effective for communication and collaboration between functions.

A business model canvas can be used to identify the various aspects of the canvas that generate profit for the business.

True

The foreign key goes into the table on the many side in the one-to-many relationship.

True

Which of the following is not a characteristic of big data?

Vicinity

According to the video on visualization, which of the following is NOT TRUE?

When collaborating in a meeting, it is easier to deal with primarily text-based reports.

Customer Segment

a group of customers with common needs, common behaviors, or other attributes

Which of the following is NOT a deliverable

a signoff by the sponsor on the phase of the project

Functions in a functional organization refers to

closely related set of tasks or activities

Cost Structure

describes all costs incurred to operate a business model

The agile approach of systems development is NOT characterized by

freezing of a phase before moving on to the next phase

Value Proposition

the benefit or bundle of benefits that a company offers customers