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70 Cards in this Set
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1. Why do students need to study information technology?
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Information Technology is everywhere in business.
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2. Understanding information technology begins with gaining an understanding of how businesses function and IT's role in creating efficiencies and effectiveness across the organization. How do typical businesses operate?
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By functional areas
By silos By functional silos |
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3. What must an individual anticipating a successful career in business, whether it is in accounting, finance, human resources, or operations management, understand?
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Information technology basics
Roles and responsibilities in information technology Measuring information technology's success |
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4. Which of the following is considered data?
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Quantity Sold
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5. Which of the following is not one of Porter's Five Forces?
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Threat of Substitute Buyers
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6. Which of the following is an example of the way that information technology can reduce supplier power for an organization?
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Reverse Auction
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7. What type of metrics measure throughput, transaction speed, and system availability?
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Efficiency IT metrics
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8. Almost all organizations today have an internal IT department, often called Information Technology (IT), Information Systems (IS), or Management Information Systems (MIS).
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True
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9. The four common information sharing cultures include information-functional culture, information-sharing culture, information-inquiring culture, and information-discovery culture.
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True
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10. Customer power, supplier power, threat of products or services, threat of new entrants, and rivalry among existing competitors are all included in Porter's Five Forces Model.
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False
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11. Measuring the amount of website traffic is the best way to determine a websites success.
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True
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12. What is information technology?
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Any computer-based tool that people use to work with information and support the information and information-processing needs of an organization
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13. What is software?
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The set of instructions that the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks
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14. What is hardware?
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Consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system
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15. What is a CPU?
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The actual hardware that interprets and executes the program (software) instructions and coordinates how all the other hardware devices work together
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16. What is the arithmetic logic unit?
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Performs all arithmetic operations (for example, addition and subtraction) and all logic operations (such as sorting and comparing numbers)
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17. What is the number of bits (0s and 1s) that can be processed by the CPU at any one time?
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Word length
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18. What is a protected memory space created by the CPU allowing the computer to create virtual machines?
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Virtualization
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19. What is roughly 1 million bytes?
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Megabyte
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20. What is an older secondary storage medium that uses a strip of thin plastic coated with a magnetically sensitive recording medium?
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Magnetic tape
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21.What is a form of a stationary mouse on which the movement of a finger causes the pointer on the screen to move?
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Touch pad
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22.What detects the presence or absence of a mark in a predetermined place (popular for multiple-choice exams)?
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Optical-mark recognition
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23.What is system software?
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Controls how the various technology tools work together along with the application software
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24.What is application software?
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Used for specific information processing needs, including payroll, customer relationship management, project management, training, and many others
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25.What organizes information on a hard disk in the most efficient way?
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Disk Optimization
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26.What provides the tools for data retrieval, modification, deletion, and insertion?
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Data Management
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27.Utility software provides additional functionality to the operating system.
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True
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28.Disk optimization software helps save information if a computer crashes.
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False
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29.A tablet is a pen-based computer that provides the screen capabilities of a PDA with the functional capabilities of a laptop or desktop computer.
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True
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30.Which of the following is not a reason for the growth of decision-making information systems?
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People no longer have to worry about protecting the corporate asset of organizational information
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31.What factor significantly contributed to people's needs to use information systems to make decisions?
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The amount of information people must understand to make good decisions is increasing exponentially
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32.Which of the following is a not a type of organizational information system?
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Analysis processing system
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33.What can a model accomplish?
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Calculate risks
Understand uncertainty Manipulate time |
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34.What is drill-down capability?
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Enables users to get details, and details of details, of information
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35.What is slice-and-dice capability?
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The ability to look at information from different perspectives
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36.What are various commercial applications of artificial intelligence?
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Intelligent System
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37.What is a category of AI that attempts to emulate the way the human brain works?
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Neural Network
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38.Which of the following is the most commonly used form of AI in the business arena?
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Expert System
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39.What is a special-purpose knowledge-based information system that accomplishes specific tasks on behalf of its users?
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Intelligent Agent
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40.What is an artificial intelligence system that mimics the evolutionary, survival-of-the-fittest process to generate increasingly better solutions to a problem?
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Genetic Algorithm
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41.What can AI scientists learn by observing parts of the ecosystem, like ant or bee colonies, and using hardware and software models that incorporate insect characteristics and behavior?
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Learn how people-based systems behave
Predict how they will behave under a given set of circumstances Improve human systems to make them more efficient and effective |
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42. Which of the following represents the top-down (executives to analysts) organizational levels of information technology systems?
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EIS, DSS, TPS
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43.What type of AI system is best for making decisions including identifying patterns or image recognition?
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Neural Network
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44.Which type of AI system assigns values of 0 and 1 to vague or ambiguous information?
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Fuzzy Logic
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45.What is a business process?
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A standardized set of activities that accomplish as specific task, such as processing a customer's order
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46.What is business process reengineering?
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The analysis and redesign of workflow within and between enterprises
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47.What is the purpose of business process reengineering?
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To make all business processes best-in-class
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48.What is a customer facing process?
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Result in a product or service that is received by an organization's external customer
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49.What is the business process improvement model?
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Attempts to understand and measure the current process, and make performance improvements accordingly.
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50.What is the analysis and redesign of workflow within and between enterprises?
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Business process reengineering
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51.What is a graphic description of a process, showing the sequence of process tasks, which is developed for a specific purpose and from a selected viewpoint?
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Business Process Model
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52.Purchasing stocks is an example of analytical information.
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False
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53.Sensitivity analysis, what-if analysis, and market basket analysis are the three quantitative models typically used by a DSS.
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False
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54.A shopping bot is one of the simplest examples of an intelligent agent.
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True
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55.What is the strategic management info system
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EIS
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56.Expert and novice problem solvers are equally good at recognizing patterns in data.
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False
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57.Critical success factors (CSF) are used in neural nets.
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False
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58.Kitchen Metaphor
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Hardware- Kitchen
OS- cooks Application Software- wait User- Customer |
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59.Information must have
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relevance
meaning context |
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60.The input of an information system is data.
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True
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61.People think in bits but computers use "concepts".
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False
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62.Business are usually "subsystems" of Information Systems.
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False
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63.During the 1960's MIS departments in most organizations were
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centralized
used computer mainframes |
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64.A microwave oven would likely have more RAM (memory) than ROM (memory).
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False
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65."Logically" a computer would need to have parallel circuits to represent an "or" truth table.
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True
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66.A computer with "5" switches can represent how many unique (different) patterns of 1s and 0s.
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32
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67.The clock speed of a the computer's CPU is measured in millibits.
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False
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68.A program is a set of step by step instructions that the computer can understand.
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True
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69.Which of the following would NOT be consider a "higher" programming language.
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machine language
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70.Primary memory is faster but usually smaller in storage capacity than secondary memory.
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True
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