Business Information Systems
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Course Introduction
Business Information Systems explores the strategic role of information technology in contemporary organizations, focusing on how businesses use information systems to improve efficiency, support decision-making, and achieve competitive advantage. The course covers the fundamentals of system development, database management, enterprise resource planning, and the integration of business processes through IT solutions. Students will examine real-world case studies, emerging technologies, and the ethical, legal, and global issues associated with digital business environments. By the end of the course, students will understand how to evaluate and leverage information systems to solve business problems and drive organizational success.
Recommended Textbook Management Information Systems 2nd Edition by Paige Baltzan
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Chapter 1: Management Information Systems: Business Driven
MIS
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Q1) MIS is a business function.Which of the following does MIS perform to help aid the company in decision making and problem solving?
A)Moves information about people.
B)Moves processes across the company to improve systems.
C)Moves information about products.
D)All of these.
Answer: D
Q2) Kevin Campbell is an incoming freshman at your college.Kevin is frustrated by the cost of books, tuition, and expenses, and he also needs to purchase a rather expensive laptop.In an effort to save money, Kevin begins a Facebook group finding other college students who need to purchase laptops.Soon, Kevin's Facebook group has close to 100,000 students.Kevin decides to collectively approach different computer companies to see if his group qualifies for a special discount.What business strategy is Kevin using to purchase laptops?
A)Collecting business intelligence.
B)Decreasing entry barriers.
C)Purchasing a substitute product.
D)Increasing buyer power.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Decision and Processes: Value Driven Business
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Q1) What is a category of AI that attempts to emulate the way the human brain works?
A)Intelligent system
B)Artificial intelligence
C)Expert systems
D)Neural network
Answer: D
Q2) System _____________ is the number of hours a system is available for use by customers and employees.
Answer: Availability
Q3) When evaluating the six-step decision making process, what occurs during the solution test step?
A)The process will begin again if the decisions made were incorrect.
B)The problem is defined as clearly and precisely as possible.
C)The details are presented of every solution possible, including ideas that seem far-fetched.
D)None of these
Answer: D
Q4) _____________ systems are various commercial applications of artificial intelligence.
Answer: Intelligent
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Chapter 3: Ebusiness: Electronic Business Value
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Q1) The Internet marketplace remains mostly free of traditional forms of sales tax, partially because ecommerce law is vaguely defined, making adhering to ___________ rules and laws a challenge of ebusiness.
Answer: Tax
Q2) Many believe that U.S.tax policy should provide a level playing field for traditional retail businesses, mail order companies, and online merchants.What form of ebusiness challenge is this statement referring to?
A)Adhering to taxation rules
B)Ensuring consumer protection
C)Identifying limited market segments
D)Managing consumer relationships
Answer: A
Q3) What is a locally stored URL, or the address of a file or Internet page saved as a shortcut?
A)Website bookmark
B)Social tag
C)Folksonomy
D)Taxonomy
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Ethics and Information Security: MIS Business
Concerns
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Q1) A ________________ key logger is a hardware device that captures keystrokes on their journey from the keyboard to the motherboard.
Q2) Which of the following should be included in a company email privacy policy?
A)Definition of legitimate email users and explanation of what happens to accounts after a person leaves the organization
B)Statement discouraging sending junk email or spam to anyone who doesn't want to receive it
C)Statement informing users that the organization has no control over email once it has been transmitted outside the organization
D)All of these
Q3) What is a method for confirming users' identities?
A)Phishing
B)Authentication
C)Authorization
D)Programming
Q4) _________-hat hackers work at the request of the system owners to find system vulnerabilities and plug the holes.
Q5) Identify the six epolicies organizations should implement to protect themselves.
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Chapter 5: Infrastructure: Sustainable Technologies
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Q1) There are three primary areas where enterprise architects focus when maintaining a firm's MIS infrastructure: information MIS infrastructure, agile MIS infrastructure, and sustainable MIS infrastructures.
A)True
B)False
Q2) One of the effects of a ___________ on a company's business operations is the halting of transportation where there is a disruption to major highways, bridges, and railroads that can slow supply deliveries and stop the shipment of products.
Q3) __________ computing refers to applications hosted remotely, and the service is changing the way everyone can access, deliver, and use information.
Q4) What is usability?
A)The system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use.
B)The system functions correctly and provides accurate information.
C)The system allows varying levels of access.
D)The system quickly transforms to support environmental changes.
Q5) A _______ site of the support disaster recovery system separates facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.
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Chapter 6: Data: Business Intelligence
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Q1) Which of the following will enforce business rules vital to an organization's success and often require more insight and knowledge than relational integrity constraints?
A)Quality business constraints
B)Critical web constraints
C)Business critical integrity constraints
D)Web integrity constraints
Q2) What is a primary key?
A)A field (or group of fields) that uniquely identifies a given entity in a table
B)A primary key of one table that appears as an attribute in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship among the two tables
C)Characteristics or properties of an entity
D)A field (or group of fields) that uniquely identifies a given attribute in a table
Q3) Many organizations find themselves in the position of being data
and information poor.Even in today's electronic world, managers struggle with the challenge of turning their business data into business intelligence.
Q4) Explain ETL and the role of a data mart in business.
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Chapter 7: Networks: Mobile Business
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Q1) What does the wireless technology WiMAX stand for?
A)Worldwide interoperability for microwave access
B)World interconnected through mobile awareness
C)World interorganizations for mobile access
D)Wide international for misinformation access
Q2) Which of the following offers a common example of a LAN?
A)College campus
B)Home office
C)City library
D)All of these
Q3) WLANs that use wi-fi have a built-in security mechanism called wi-fi protected access (WPA), a wireless security protocol to protect wi-fi networks.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A ___________ area network connects a group of computers in close proximity, such as in an office building, school, or home.
Q5) Secure socket ____________ is a standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser, ensuring that all data passed between them remain private.
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Chapter 8: Enterprise Applications: Business Communications
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Q1) Which activities do production and materials management components perform?
A)Track employee information including payroll, benefits, compensation, and performance assessment, and assume compliance with the legal requirements of multiple jurisdictions and tax authorities.
B)Handle the various aspects of production planning and execution such as demand forecasting, production scheduling, job cost accounting, and quality control.
C)Manage accounting data and financial processes within the enterprise with functions such as general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, budgeting, and asset management.
D)None of these
Q2) What automates each phase of the sales process, helping individual sales representatives coordinate and organize all of their accounts?
A)Sales management CRM systems
B)Contact management CRM systems
C)Opportunity management CRM systems
D)None of these
Q3) Most organizations manage their relationships with customers by setting ___________ limits.
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Chapter 9: Systems Development and Project
Management: Corporate Responsibility
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Q1) Which of the following is a benefit an organization can receive from outsourcing?
A)Financial savings
B)Increase technical abilities
C)Market agility
D)All of these
Q2) What are project deliverables?
A)A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service
B)The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations from a project
C)Any measurable, tangible, or verifiable outcome, result, or item that is produced to complete a project or part of a project
D)Representation of key dates when a certain group of activities must be performed
Q3) A (An) _________ is a logical relationship that exists between project tasks or between a project task and a milestone.
Q4) _________ is an arrangement by which one organization provides a service or services for another organization that chooses not to perform them in-house.
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Chapter 10: Hardware and Software
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Q1) A (An) ____________ attribute can be calculated using the value of another attribute.
Q2) What is a statement that defines an aspect of a business?
A)Attribute
B)Entity
C)Business relational diagram
D)Business rule
Q3) What kind of attribute would be age?
A)Null-valued attribute
B)Multi-valued attribute
C)Derived attribute
D)Stored attribute
Q4) Which of the following is a possible business rule?
A)A customer can purchase many DVDs.
B)DVDs can be purchased by many customers.
C)A DVD title can have many copies.
D)All of these.
Q5) A typical business may have hundreds of business ____________.
Q6) ____________ expresses the specific number of instances in an entity.
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Chapter 11: Networks and Telecommunications
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Q1) Identify the different media types found in networks.
Q2) What is TCP/IP's own messaging system for email?
A)File transfer protocol (FTP)
B)Simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP)
C)Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)
D)Simple network management protocol (SNMP)
Q3) What allows web browsers and servers to send and receive web pages?
A)File transfer protocol (FTP)
B)Simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP)
C)Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)
D)Simple network management protocol (SNMP)
Q4) What is a large computer network usually spanning a city?
A)Client/server network
B)Corporate network
C)Metropolitan area network
D)Peer-to-peer network
Q5) Describe TCP/IP along with its primary purpose.
Q6) A ____________ area network (MAN) is a large computer network usually spanning a city.
Q7) There are ____________ layers in the OSI model.
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Chapter 12: Designing Databases
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Q1) What is hardware?
A)Any computer-based tool that people use to work with information and support the information and information-processing needs of an organization
B)The set of instructions that the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks
C)The physical devices associated with a computer system
D)An electronic device operating under the control of instructions stored in its own memory that can accept, manipulate, and store data
Q2) What provides the tools for data retrieval, modification, deletion, and insertion?
A)Data management
B)Desktop publishing
C)Email
D)Groupware
Q3) A (An) ____________ device is equipment used to send information and receive it from one location to another.
Q4) Identify the different computer categories, and explain their potential business uses.
Q5) Describe the six major categories of hardware, and provide an example of each.
Q6) Describe the eight categories of computers by size.
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