Textbook Exam Flashcards
Which of the following is part of the central processing unit?
Arithmetic/logic unit
The Internet is composed of…
An international collection of networks of independently owned computers
A system that stores transactions in a single database, but processes them at various sites is referred to as…
Distributed system
When calculating budgeted hardware and software costs, it should be factored in…
How much sales are projected to increase
Proper segregation of duties for control purposes involves segregation of authorization, approval, execution and…
Record keeping
In project management, a technique that involves classifying tasks into categories based on how urgent they are is referred to as…
ABC analysis
A common input device is a…
Point of sale recorder
Which of the following is most likely to be considered an advantage of a sophisticated multiuser database?
Information may be retrieved quickly
Using sophisticated techniques from statistics, artificial intelligence, and computer graphics to explain, confirm or explore relationships among data is referred to as…
Data mining
As used in information technology, a protocol is a set of rules for…
Exchanging data between 2 computers
When allocating costs using the step method, the costs in the denominator are from…2
1 All other production and service departments
2 just not from department being allocated
What is the best measure of risk for a well diversified portfolio?
Beta
The economic order quantity for inventory is higher for an organization that has…
Higher fixed inventory ordering costs
Core competency risk is not a risk of…
Not a risk of outsourcing
In encryption, a value that must be placed into the algorithm to decode an encrypted message is referred to as a…
Key
