FINAL B6

Question 1

What is a Decision support system?

Answer 1

computer-based information systems that provide interactive support to managers or others during the decision-making process

Question 2

What are examples of DSS

Answer 2

Database query applications
Financial modeling applications
Sensitivity analysis application

Question 3

What is the primary objective of data security controls?

Answer 3

To ensure that storage media are subject to authorization prior to access, change, or destruction

Question 4

What is the impact of JIT inventory on suppliers

Answer 4

few number of suppliers

Question 5

What is six sigma?

Answer 5

Quality improvement program that uses metrics to evaluate the achievement of goals. A improvement process include reducing defective products outputs

Question 6

What are the disadvantages of outsourcing?

Answer 6

Quality of service, security issues and language barriers

Question 7

What are the parts of TQM?

Answer 7

Customer needs
continuous improvement
Quality circles

Question 8

What is the objective of lean manufacturing?

Answer 8

Waste reduction ( NOT quality)

Question 9

Define Kaizen analysis

Answer 9

occurs at mfg stage where there is ongoing search for cost reductions take the form of analysis to ensure that resource uses stay within target costs

Question 10

What is an ERP designed to do?

Answer 10

Integrate data from all aspects of an organizations activities

Question 11

What are the components of a Business Information System?

Answer 11

Hardware, software, network, people, and data

Question 12

What is a reason a company would switch to cloud computing?

Answer 12

Lower upfront costs for equipment and maintenance

Question 13

What is an Executive Information system?

Answer 13

Provides senior executives with immediate and easy access to internal and external information to assist the executives in strategic issues (analysis of cyclical data, acquisitions and competitor behavior)

Question 14

Define a hot site

Answer 14

Location that is equipped with the necessary hardware and possibly software

Question 15

Define decryption

Answer 15

the intended recipient converts the cipher text into plain text

Question 16

What is a Public Key Infrastructure?

Answer 16

Refers to the system and processes used to issue and manage asymmetric keys and digital certificate

Question 17

What is used as a method of to encrypt and decrypt a message in asymmetric encryption?

Answer 17

a public key is used to encrypt the message and a private key is used to decrypt the message

Question 18

what is one way to detect computer-related fraud

Answer 18

Reviewing the systems-access log

Question 19

Define a denial of service attack

Answer 19

attack in which one computer bombards another computer with a flood of information

Question 20

Define transaction processing

Answer 20

term used to describe processing large number of common business events that are processed in a predefined highly structed way

Question 21

What is the role of a database admin?

Answer 21

Maintains and supports its database systems

Question 22

What is the role of a network admin?

Answer 22

Supports it own internal networks by monitoring performance of those networks and troubleshoot any problems

Question 23

Can a database admin and network admin be the same person?

Answer 23

yes

Question 24

Define cloud computing

Answer 24

Allows organizations to use the internet to access and use services and applications that run on remote TP tech infrastructure

Question 25

What is the adv of an ERP over a multi independent functional system?

Answer 25

Increased responsiveness and flexibility while aiding in the decision-making process

Question 26

What is a predictive analytic

Answer 26

Uses statistical techniques and forecasting models to predict what could happen

Question 27

What is a descriptive analytic

Answer 27

describes events that have already happened