Information Systems Management Pdac

Front 1

What is the difference between data and information as they relate to business functions?

Back 1

Data is processed to get information

Front 2

What is business intelligence?

Back 2

Collective information

Front 3

Which business strategy is a large computer company using if it offered products with several appearances and screen interfaces?

Back 3

Differentiation

Front 4

What is the difference between data and information in information systems?

Back 4

Information is processed data

Front 5

A company would like to implement a new software system. The company is looking for a system that will provide management functions of financial, production, and distribution operations at the same time.

Which system should this company use?

Back 5

Enterprise resource planning

Front 6

How do information systems support accounting functions?

Back 6

By generating balance sheets and income statements

Front 7

Which type of computer system would an employee need to complete a project requiring a spreadsheet?

Back 7

Microcomputer

Front 8

A computer's main memory is directly accessible to the CPU and consists of random access memory (RAM), cache memory, and read-only memory (ROM).

What is this called?

Back 8

Primary storage

Front 9

Which type of software application is most effective for analyzing small to medium sets of numbers?

Back 9

Spreadsheets

Front 10

Which types of software manages the users and contains an array of programs that ensure that data is being transmitted to the correct user, computer, or other devices?

Back 10

Network operating system

Front 11

What is a requirement of a field when it is in a table and is defined as the primary key?

Back 11

The field must have unique values

Front 12

What is true of a relational database?

Back 12

It provides relational integrity for the database

Front 13

A sales manager for a national chain wants to provide customer demographics and historical sales data to staff in the sales and production departments to help them determine how many products to make and ship to each retail location for the upcoming holiday season.

Which approach would allow the staff to most efficiently extract that information?

Back 13

Data warehouse

Front 14

A database administrator is creating a new relational database table to track products brought in for warranty service. The warranty service table links to the customer information table so the repaired product can be shipped back to the right person. It also links to the parts table to track which parts were used to make the repairs.

Which relational database feature is this an example of ?

Back 14

Foreign Keys

Front 15

Which networking standard is used by businesses to transfer information through radio waves over distances up to several miles?

Back 15

WiMAX

Front 16

A real estate office has several divisions located in different states.

Which type of network should the real estate company implement to connect their divisions?

Back 16

WAN

Front 17

What is the primary networking standard used to communicate over the internet?

Back 17

TCP/IP

Front 18

Which technology would allow a company to host a computing service on an encrypted internal network and restrict it to employees within the organization?

Back 18

Virtual private network

Front 19

Which application is utilized by both GPS and GIS?

Back 19

Location-based services

Front 20

What is telematics?

Back 20

A blend of computers and wireless telecommunications technologies

Front 21

What are three models of e-business?

Back 21

G2B, G2C, G2G

Front 22

Which type of commerce model is used when a company sells tires to automobile companies?

Back 22

B2B

Front 23

Which e-business tool converts an audio broadcast to a file that can be played on a digital music player?

Back 23

Podcasting

Front 24

What is the main challenge to growth encountered when e-business is used?

Back 24

Product or service limitations

Front 25

Which type of emerging computing technology allows a computer to diagnose its own failure and develop a workaround that enables the computer to continue to function?

Back 25

Autonomic

Front 26

A company engineer would like to produce a new product that stores, views, and analyzes data to create multidimensional charts for the chief financial officer (CFO).

Which decision support system should be the foundation for this new product?

Back 26

Executive information systems

Front 27

A company wants to find a technique that will provide the best value for the target variable.

Which analysis should the company select?

Back 27

Optimization

Front 28

A strategic team is using the aggregate results from the decision support system to support long-term decisions that require judgement.

Which systems being used by the team?

Back 28

Executive information system

Front 29

Match each feature with its artificial intelligence technology.

Answer options may be used more than once or not all. Select your answers from the pull-down list.

Back 29

Realistic Training - Virtual reality

Monitoring events - Intelligent agents

Working from home - Virtual reality

Managing personal data - Intelligent agents

Simulating physical worlds - Virtual reality

Front 30

An internet service provider offers subscribers e-mail accounts and would like to develop software to identify spam.

Which type of artificial intelligence technology should this provider use?

Back 30

Fuzzy logic

Front 31

Which investigative tool is used during the analysis phase of systems development to guide process imporvements?

Back 31

A data flow diagram

Front 32

Which risk is reduced when the investigations step is well executed during the planning and analysis phases of systems development?

Back 32

Scope Creep

Front 33

Which investigative activity must occur during the analysis phase of a project?

Back 33

Gathering the business requirements

Front 34

Why would a company consider using a prototype when converting an existing order entry system to a web-based system?

Back 34

It supports change through iteration

Front 35

Which term is used to describe an iterative approach to building a system?

Back 35

Prototyping

Front 36

What can happen when project requirements are not clearly defined?

Back 36

It can lead to feature creep

Front 37

What is a drawback of outsourcing systems development projects?

Back 37

It leads to a loss of confidentiality

Front 38

Which method measures the ease with which people perform transactions or find information?

Back 38

Usability

Front 39

What measures computer speed?

Back 39

CPU

Front 40

Which conversion implementation should a company use if it plans to discontinue using the legacy payroll system on Friday and begin using a new payroll system on Monday?

Back 40

Plunge

Front 41

A development team is creating a new reporting system to track vacation and expenses. Which conversion implementation should the team use if it uses the new vacation reporting module first and implements the expense reporting module two months later?

Back 41

Phased

Front 42

A company has recently acquired a former distribution competitor in another country. The new subsidiary uses obsolete CRM software. To streamline integration with the new subsidiary, the CEO and CIO have decided to replace the outdated software with the system the company currently uses.

What is a political challenge to implementing this decision?

Back 42

Prohibitions against the transfer of certain technologies across national boundaries

Front 43

A company has recently acquired a former distribution competitor in another country. The new subsidiary is found to use obsolete CRM software, so the company decides to create a new, proprietary CRM solution to be used company-wide. The company proposes to use a multinational team to develop the new software.

Why has this approach been proposed.=?

Back 43

It takes into account the needs of end users

Front 44

An individual writes a program that will take over a computer for the purpose of launching attacks on additional computers

Which type of threat is being used?

Back 44

Zombie

Front 45

An individual writes software that collects personal data about a user from a computer and transmits the data over the internet without the user's knowledge.

Which type of threat is this?

Back 45

Spyware

Front 46

An employee downloads software that claims to improve computer performance. Instead, it introduces system vulnerabilities.

Which type of threat is this software?

Back 46

Trojan horse

Front 47

Which security technique helps protect systems by examining each message as it enters the system and blocking improper or unauthorized messages?

Back 47

Firewalls

Front 48

Which security technique uses private key and public key pairs to protect sensitive information?

Back 48

Encryption

Front 49

A company wants to discourage someone from inappropriately accessing the company's technology resources for personal use.

Which step should the company take?

Back 49

Write guidelines for usage of technology

Front 50

An employee works as an engineer at a software firm and often checks personal e-mail while at work. Due to the long hours at the office, the employee does not have any time to check e-mail at home and feels that these actions are acceptable even though it is company's internet use policy.

Which method could be used to appropriately discourage this employee's behaviors?

Back 50

Offering an ethics training program

Front 51

A contractor is bidding on a system to help a dental office schedule patient appointments and payments.

Which law would the contractor need to understand?

Back 51

HIPAA

Front 52

What is the federal bill that addresses computer monitoring of employees?

Back 52

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act

Front 53

Why would a school administration choose to utilize Microsoft Office?

Back 53

It provides many personal productivity applications

Front 54

Why would a vendor choose to utilize electronic data interchange (EDI)?

Back 54

It permits secure transmission of business information.

Front 55

What would be the impact of a hospital using a medication system that automatically distributes prescriptions in the hospital pharmacy

Back 55

It would decrease errors in medications.