Multiple Choice Flashcards
True/False: An information system collects, processes, stores, analyzes, and disseminates information for a specific purpose using a computer.
Answer: True
True/False: IT is enabling more and more people to communicate, collaborate, and compete, thereby leveling the digital playing field.
Answer: True
True/False: A combination of your high school grades, application essays, letters of recommendation, and Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores would be considered information.
Answer: True
True/False: Information technology deals with the planning, development, management, and use of management information tools to help people perform all the tasks related to information processing and management.
Answer: True
Which of the following is not a benefit of being an informed user of IT?
a) Understanding what is “behind” applications you use in your organization.
b) Providing input to enhance your organization’s applications
c) Helping to select new applications
d) Keeping abreast of new technologies
e) Working in the IT side of the organization.
Answer: e) Working in the IT side of the organization.
The title of the executive who is in charge of the people who design and build information systems, the people who use those systems, and the people responsible for managing those systems is the
a) CEO
b) CFO
c) CIO
d) CIS
e) CIT
Answer: c) CIO
If Amazon uses a list of all your purchases (books bought, price paid, dates) to recommend other books to you, then it is applying its _____.
a) data
b) information
c) knowledge
d) experience
e) wisdom
Answer: c) knowledge
08) A purchase of books in the college bookstore is ___________. The report at the end of the day showing sales totals for the day is ____________.
a) information, knowledge
b) information, data
c) data, information
d) data, database
e) data item, business intelligence
Answer: c) data, information
An organization’s information technology architecture:
a) provides a guide for current operations.
b) provides a blueprint for future directions.
c) integrates the information requirements of the organization and all users.
d) is analogous to the architecture of a house.
e) all of these
Answer: e) all of these
10) Knowledge workers
a) handle day-to-day operations within an organization.
b) make tactical decisions.
c) advise middle managers
d) make routine decisions.
e) are generalists
Answer: c) advise middle managers
11) Which of the following statements about your future role as a manager is false?
a) The people I manage will likely be dispersed geographically.
b) The size of my team will likely be smaller than teams of today.
c) There will be less emphasis on office politics.
d) Many of my decisions will be “real time”.
e) I will need IT tools to handle the data I utilize to make decisions.
Answer: b) The size of my team will likely be smaller than teams of today.
True/False: An organization’s business processes can create a competitive advantage.
Answer: True
True/False: Business process management includes methods and tools to support the design, analysis, implementation, management, and optimization of business processes.
Answer: True
True/False: Globalization is the integration and interdependence of many facets of life made possible by rapid advances in information technology.
Answer: True
True/False: The information technology environment is the combination of social, legal, economic, physical, and political factors that affect business activities.
Answer: False
5) Managing account collections is an example of a(n):
a) Accounting Business Process
b) Finance Business Process
c) Marketing Business Process
d) Production Business Process
e) Management Information Systems Business Process
Answer: b) Finance Business Process
Which of the following processes involves the warehouse, purchasing, and accounting functional areas?
a) Procurement
b) Fulfillment
c) Order entry
d) Accounts receivable
e) Payroll
Answer: a) Procurement
Which of the following is not a role that information systems play in businesses processes?
a) Establish standards
b) Execute the process
c) Capture and store process data
d) Monitor process performance
e) Detect problems with the process.
Answer: a) Establish standards
The workforce in developed countries is exhibiting all of the following trends except:
a) It is becoming more diversified.
b) It includes more women.
c) It includes more single parents.
d) It includes fewer persons with disabilities.
e) It includes more minority-group members.
Answer: d) It includes fewer persons with disabilities.
True/False: A code of ethics is a collection of principles that are intended to guide decision making by members of the organization.
Answer: True
True/False: When you interview for a job at a company, it is likely that the company will Google you and search social networking sites for information on you.
Answer: True
True/False: The opt-out model of informed consent allows a company to collect personal information until the customers specifically requests otherwise.
Answer: True
The ____________ ethical standard states that an ethical action is the one that provides the most good or does the least harm.
a) Common good
b) Fairness
c) Rights
d) Utilitarian
e) Well-being
Answer: d) Utilitarian
_____________ means accepting the consequences of your decisions and actions.
a) Privacy
b) Responsibility
c) Transferability
d) Accountability
e) Liability
Answer: b) Responsibility
What is the relationship between advances in information technology and the practice of profiling?
a) Advances in IT make it more difficult to profile individuals.
b) Advances in IT have no impact on profiling.
c) Advances in IT make it more expensive to profile individuals.
d) Advances in IT make it easier to profile individuals.
Answer: d) Advances in IT make it easier to profile individuals.
Data aggregators sell digital dossiers to companies that want to know their customers better. This practice is called ________.
a) Customer relationships
b) Customer profiling
c) Customer intimacy
d) Customer knowledge
e) Spying
Answer: c) Customer intimacy
True/False: Having one backup of your business data is sufficient for security purposes.
Answer: False
True/False: Trojan horses are software programs that hide in other computer programs and reveal their designed behavior only when they are activated.
Answer: True
True/False: Cyberterrorism and cyberwarfare can attack supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems to cause widespread physical damage.
Answer: True
In its study of various organizations, the Ponemon Institute found that the most common cause of data breaches was:
a) weak passwords.
b) unattended computers.
c) employee negligence.
d) contract labor, such as consultants.
e) poor antivirus software.
Answer: c) employee negligence
Which of the following factors is not increasing the threats to information security?
a) smaller computing devices
b) downstream liability
c) the Internet
d) limited storage capacity on portable devices
e) due diligence
Answer: d) limited storage capacity on portable devices
Employees in which functional areas of the organization pose particularly grave threats to information security?
a) human resources, finance
b) human resources, management information systems
c) finance, marketing
d) operations management, management information systems
e) finance, management information systems
Answer: b) human resources, management information systems
True/False: Data warehouses are invaluable decision-making tools.
Answer: True
True/False: Cardinality and modality are the indicators of the business rules in a relationship
Answer: True
True/False: 3) Data normalization is a method for analyzing and reducing a relational database to its most streamlined form for minimum redundancy
Answer: True
True/False: 4) Primary key is an identifier field or attribute that has some identifying information, but typically does not identify the file with complete accuracy.
Answer: True
5) By using relational databases we can maximize:
a. Data security
b. Data integrity
c. Data independence
d. All of the above
Answer: d. All of the above
6) Using relational databases some of the following problems are minimized:
a. Data isolation
b. Data Redundancy
c. Data inconsistency
d. All of the above
Answer: d. All of the above
True/False: Network interface cards are special adapters that link an individual device to the communications medium on a local area network.
Answer: True
True/False: An intranet is a network that uses Internet technologies and is designed to serve the information needs of a single organization.
Answer: True
_____ refers to the range of frequencies available in any communications channel.
a) Protocol
b) Broadband
c) Capacity
d) Narrowband
e) Bandwidth
Answer: e) Bandwidth
Which of the following are advantages of computer networks?
a) They enable organizations to be more flexible.
b) They enable companies to share hardware, computer applications, and data.
c) They enable geographically dispersed employees to work together.
d) They provide a critical link between businesses and their customers.
e) All of these
Answer: e) All of these
A _____ connects dissimilar networks.
a) Router
b) Network interface card
c) Bridge
d) Gateway
e) File server
Answer: d) Gateway
Workflow, groupware, and telepresence systems are examples of which network application?
a) Discovery
b) Communications
c) Collaboration
d) Web services
e) None of these
Answer: c) Collaboration
True/False: Forward auctions are auctions that sellers use as a channel to many potential buyers.
Answer: True
True/False: Channel conflict occurs when click-and-mortar companies have problems with their regular distributors when they sell directly to customers online.
Answer: True
In _______ e-commerce, the sellers and buyers are organizations.
a) government-to-citizen
b) consumer-to-consumer
c) business-to-business
d) business-to-consumer
e) consumer-to-business
Answer: c) business-to-business
If you are a worker managing your fringe benefits over your company’s intranet, you are engaging in _________ e-commerce.
a) business-to-business
b) business-to-consumer
c) consumer-to-consumer
d) business-to-employee
e) government-to-citizen
Answer: d) business-to-employee