Mis 235 Final

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What is an information system?

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A group of components that interact to produce information.

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What is MIS?

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An information system that helps businesses achieve their goals and objectives

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How does IT differ from IS?

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Information Technology refers to the methods, inventions, standards, and product.

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The five components of IS are...

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Hardware, Software, Data, Procedure, and People

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Five rules for creating a strong password...

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1.) Seven or more characters
2.) No username, real name, or company name.
3.) No complete dictionary word.
4.) Different from previous passwords.
5.) Both uppercase & lowercase, numbers, and characters.

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What does security of Information Systems depend on?

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Behavior of it's users.

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The most important component of any Information System.

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People.

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A business process model is an example of which five components?

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Procedures.

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Microsoft Word is an example of which five components?

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Software.

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Words and sentences are examples of which of the five components?

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Data.

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In a grocery Store, the clerk scans the UPC code on the item, which is read and transmitted to the computer. The actual scanner device is an example of which component?

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Hardware.

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The development and use of information systems that help businesses achieve their goals and objectives.

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MIS

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Methods, inventions, standards, and products.

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Information Technology

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Raw technology, concerning the hardware, software, and data components.

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Information Technology.

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A system of hardware, software, data, procedures, and people that produce information.

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Information System.

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Correct and complete data that has been processed as expected.

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Accurate.

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Saving data in a batch and processing it some hours later to save money.

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Timely

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Information that is summarized to an appropriate level, i.e. context. For example, using a pivot table to access average wage information.

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Relevant.

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A report that gives short-term interest rates for possible lines of credit, i.e. subject at hand.

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Relevant.

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Generation of a daily report for the number of buildings on campus.

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Variable (Worth the cost)

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A case of milk.

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resources.

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A monthly sales report.

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information

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A student's banner ID

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information.

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Entering a new customer record.

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activities.

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Follows a set of rules and procedures to perform a task.

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activities.

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A customer relationship management system used to target potential customers.

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Marketing and Sales.

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An auto rental company installing GPS, global positioning systems, in their rental cars to assist customers in finding their way in a strange city.

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service.

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Proctor and Gamble automatically sending more Tide to Wal-Mart based on a system that alerts P&G every time a box is sold.

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out-bound logistics

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Using an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to automatically schedule production and request materials from the warehouse to be used for production.

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operations.

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Using an RFID, radio frequency identification, tag to automate the receipt of raw materials from a supplier.

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in-bound logistics

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Toyota's purchase of auto paint.

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strong customer bargaining power.

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Patients who use the only drug effective for an illness.

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Weak threat of substitution.

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A university raising tuition in your last year of college.

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strong bargaining power of suppliers.

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professional football team

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weak threat of new entrants

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used car of dealers

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strong industry rivalry.

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True or False: Building an “as-is” model that documents the current business process is performed during the first stage of the BPM process.

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True.

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True or False: Business process is a network of activities, resources, facilities, and information that interact to achieve some business function.

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True.

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True or False: Business process management, or BPM, is a standard technique or method for describing business processes.

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False.

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True or False: Information is data presented in a meaningful context

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True

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True or False: Information is knowledge derived from data.

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True

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True or False: Interactions across value chain activities are called linkages, such as a manufacturer using a production plan to automatically determine materials requirements and generating purchase orders.

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True

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True or False: One of the biggest problems with a process that is “cross-functional” in scope is that it leads to islands of automation.

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False.

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True or False: One way a content provider could increase switching costs would be by providing a “free” device that only plays content from that provider.

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True

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True or False: People and software are considered actors, because they both can take actions.

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False.

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True or False: Procedures are instructions for hardware.

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False.

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A network of activities, resources, facilities, and information is a...

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Business Process

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Another name for a business process.

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Business System.

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What are the components of a business process?

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Activities, Resources, Suppliers, Facilities, and Information.

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Transforms resources and information of one type into resources and information of another type.

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Activities.

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Items of value, such as customers, suppliers, employees, distributors, and so on.

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Resources.

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Structures used within resources. Example: inventories, database

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Facilities.

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Activities use info to know how to transform inputs to outputs.

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Information.

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Five characteristics of Good information

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Accurate
Timely
Relevant to both context and subject
Just barely sufficient
worth it's cost

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Correct and Complete
Crucial for management
Cross-check info to ensure accuracy is...

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Accurate

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Sufficient for the purpose for which generated.
Do not need too much or extraneous info.

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Just barely sufficient.

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Relationship between cost and value.
Information systems cost money to develop, maintain, and use.
Must be worth the cost (time & money)

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Worth it's cost

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Produced in time for extended use.

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Timely.

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Information is...

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Knowledge derived from data, where data is defined as recorded facts or figures.

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What is the role of information in business processes?

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The business process generates information by bringing together important items of data in a given context.