Mis 1-3

Front 1

Which of the following information cultures would have the greatest negative impact on Apple's business?

Back 1

Information-functional culture

Front 2

Which of the following represents the relationship between functional areas in a business?

Back 2

Interdependent

Front 3

Almost all organizations today have an internal IT department, often called Information Technology (IT), Information Systems (IS), or Management Information Systems (MIS).

Back 3

True

Front 4

What is a field concerned with the use of technology in managing and processing information?

Back 4

Information Technology (IT)

Front 5

Which information culture can cause an organization to have a great degree of difficulty operating?

Back 5

Information-functional culture

Front 6

Information technology equals business success and innovation.

Back 6

False.

Front 7

Which information culture allows employees across departments to search for information to better understand the future and align themselves with current trends and new directions?

Back 7

Information-inquiring culture

Front 8

What is the name of a company's internal IT department?

Back 8

All of the above

Front 9

Which of the following is considered data?

Back 9

Quantity Sold

Front 10

Which information culture allows employees across departments to use information (especially about problems and failures) to improve performance?

Back 10

Information-sharing culture

Front 11

Which information culture encourages employees across departments to be open to new insights about crisis and radical changes and seek ways to create competitive advantages?

Back 11

Information-discovery culture

Front 12

Which of the following is not one of Thomas Friedman's 10 forces that flattened the world?

Back 12

Microsoft IPO

Front 13

What are raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event?

Back 13

Data

Front 14

Which of the following represents the order of priority for the three primary organizational key resources?

Back 14

People, information, information technology

Front 15

What can IT enable an organization to accomplish?

Back 15

All of the above

Front 16

What is a general name for the business function and academic discipline covering the application of people, technologies, and procedures—collectively called information systems—to solve business problems?

Back 16

Management information systems

Front 17

Why do students need to study information technology?

Back 17

nformation technology is everywhere in business

Front 18

Which of the following statements is true?

Back 18

IT enables business success and innovation

Front 19

Common departments found in an organization include accounting, management information systems, operations management, and delivery.

Back 19

False

Front 20

What did Thomas Friedman believe happened to the world because of the unplanned cascade of technological and social shifts?

Back 20

The world became flat

Front 21

Which information culture allows employees to use information as a means of exercising influence or power over others?

Back 21

Information-functional culture

Front 22

If supplier power is high, how can the supplier directly influence the industry?

Back 22

All of the above

Front 23

Which of the following is an example of a loyalty program?

Back 23

All of the above

Front 24

What is an entry barrier?

Back 24

A product or service feature that customers have come to expect from organizations in a particular industry and must be offered by an entering organization to compete and survive

Front 25

Which of the following is Hyundai using as its generic strategy?

Back 25

Broad coast leadership

Front 26

An entry barrier is typically used to influence the rivalry among existing competitors.

Back 26

False

Front 27

Which of the following is Hummer using as its generic strategy?

Back 27

Focused differentiation

Front 28

What are costs that can make customers reluctant to switch to another product or service?

Back 28

switching costs

Front 29

All of the following are part of Porter's Three Generic Strategies, except

Back 29

Business process strategy

Front 30

Which of the following forces is commonly reduced through the use of a loyalty program?

Back 30

Buyer power

Front 31

What is the acquisition and analysis of events and trends in the environment external to an organization?

Back 31

Environmental scanning

Front 32

Which of the following supports the primary value activities in the value chain?

Back 32

Support value activities

Front 33

Which company uses environmental scanning to determine everything from how well competing products are selling to the strategic placement of its own products?

Back 33

Frito Lay

Front 34

What is high when competition is fierce in a market and low when competition is more complacent?

Back 34

Rivalry among existing competitors

Front 35

Kia is following a broad differentiation strategy.

Back 35

False.

Front 36

Which of the following is considered a business process?

Back 36

All of the above

Front 37

What occurs when an organization can significantly impact its market share by being the first to market with a competitive advantage?

Back 37

First-mover advantage

Front 38

Which of the following can an organization use to evaluate the effectiveness of its business processes?

Back 38

Value chain

Front 39

Which part of the value chain includes firm infrastructure, human resources management, technology development, and procurement?

Back 39

Support value activities

Front 40

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.

Back 40

True.

Front 41

What detects the presence or absence of a mark in a predetermined place (popular for multiple-choice exams)?

Back 41

Optical-mark recognition

Front 42

What provides the tools for data retrieval, modification, deletion, and insertion?

Back 42

Data management

Front 43

Utility software provides additional functionality to the operating system.

Back 43

True

Front 44

What is an older secondary storage medium that uses a strip of thin plastic coated with a magnetically sensitive recording medium?

Back 44

Magnetic tape

Front 45

What is the size of the internal electrical pathway along which signals are sent from one part of the computer to another?

Back 45

Bus width

Front 46

What is a protected memory space created by the CPU allowing the computer to create virtual machines?

Back 46

Virtualization

Front 47

What is roughly 1 million bytes?

Back 47

megabyte

Front 48

What is a form of a stationary mouse on which the movement of a finger causes the pointer on the screen to move?

Back 48

Touch pad

Front 49

What is system software?

Back 49

Controls how the various technology tools work together along with the application software

Front 50

What is software?

Back 50

The set of instructions that the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks

Front 51

What organizes information on a hard disk in the most efficient way?

Back 51

Disc Optimization

Front 52

Complex instruction set computer chips limit the number of instructions the CPU can execute to increase processing speed.

Back 52

False

Front 53

Which of the following represents megahertz?

Back 53

The number of millions of CPU cycles per second

Front 54

What is a CPU?

Back 54

The actual hardware that interprets and executes the program (software) instructions and coordinates how all the other hardware devices work together

Front 55

What is hardware?

Back 55

Consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system

Front 56

What is information technology?

Back 56

Any computer-based tool that people use to work with information and support the information and information-processing needs of an organization

Front 57

What is similar to a desktop but has more powerful mathematical and graphics processing capabilities and can perform more complicated tasks in less time?

Back 57

Workstation

Front 58

Which type of software supports the application software and manages how the hardware devices work together?

Back 58

Operating system software

Front 59

Which computer offers both a horizontal and vertical system box and is usually placed on a desk or on the floor within a work area?

Back 59

Desktop computer