Business Information Systems
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Course Introduction
Business Information Systems explores the role of information technology in supporting, shaping, and transforming business operations and decision-making processes. The course covers the fundamentals of systems analysis, design, and implementation, as well as the strategic importance of information systems in achieving organizational objectives. Topics include databases, enterprise systems, e-commerce, data security, and the ethical and social issues arising from the use of business technology. Through case studies and real-world examples, students gain practical insights into how organizations leverage information systems to enhance efficiency, innovation, and competitiveness in a global marketplace.
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Business Driven Information Systems 6th Edition by Paige Baltzan
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Chapter 1: Management Information Systems: Business
Driven MIS
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Q1) Which of the following includes the roles and responsibilities of the CDO?
A)Determining the types of information the enterprise will capture, retain, analyze, and share.
B)Ensuring the ethical and legal use of information within a company.
C)Ensuring the security of business systems and developing strategies and safeguards against attacks by hackers and viruses.
D)Ensuring that MIS strategically aligns with business goals and objectives.
Answer: A
Q2) A grilled cheese sandwich is considered the final output of a making-a-sandwich process.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which data types are typically found in the human resources department?
A)Promotion data, sales data, advertising data.
B)Employee data, promotion data, vacation data.
C)Investment data, monetary data, reporting data.
D)Transactional data, purchasing data, payroll data, tax data.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Decisions and Processes: Value Driven Business
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Q1) The structure of an organization is similar to a pyramid. The different levels require different types of information to assist with which of the following?
A)Decision making
B)Problem solving
C)Opportunity capturing
D)All of the above
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following is a potential feature of a digital dashboard?
A)A hot list of KPIs refreshed every 15 minutes
B)A running line graph of planned versus actual production for the past 24 hours
C)A graph of stock market prices
D)All of the above
Answer: D
Q3) Effectiveness MIS metrics measure the impact MIS has on business processes and activities, including customer satisfaction and customer conversion rates.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Ebusiness: Electronic Business Value
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Q1) What is the current version of HTML that delivers everything from animation to graphics and music to movies?
A)HTML 5
B)URL 3
C)HTML 4
D)IICANN 5
Answer: A
Q2) What occurs when a new radical form of business enters the market that reshapes the way companies and organizations behave?
A)Domain name
B)Domain name hosting
C)Applet
D)Paradigm shift
Answer: D
Q3) Many businesses are using instant messaging as a way to answer and resolve questions or problems quickly.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Ethics and Information Security: MIS Business
Concerns
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Q1) An acceptable use policy (AUP)requires a user to agree to follow it to be provided access to corporate email, information systems, and the Internet.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Different organizations and countries have their own terms for these concerns. The United Kingdom terms it "Data Protection," and the European Union calls it "Personal Data Privacy"; the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)has written Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What kind of policy can a company implement that can help diminish the activity of sending unsolicited email?
A)Email privacy policy
B)Spam policy and procedures
C)Anti-spam policy
D)Internet user policy
Q4) Identify the six epolicies organizations should implement to protect themselves.
Q5) Describe the relationships and differences between hackers and viruses.
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Chapter 5: Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies
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Q1) What is performance?
A)A system that is not operating and cannot be used.
B)Refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems.
C)Measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction.
D)The degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use.
Q2) A warm site is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Multi-tenancy occurs in the cloud means that a single instance of a system serves multiple customers. In the cloud, each customer is called a tenant and multiple tenants can access the same system.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Scalability measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Data: Business Intelligence
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Q1) Business analysis is difficult to achieve from operational databases. Which of the following is not a reason why?
A)Inconsistent data definitions.
B)Lack of data standards.
C)Effective direct data access.
D)Poor data quality.
Q2) A data lake is a business that collects personal information about consumers and sells that information to other organizations.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Relational integrity constraints enforce business rules vital to an organization's success and often require more insight and knowledge than relational integrity constraints.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Organizational data includes simple structured data elements in a database.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Identify the business advantages of a relational database.
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Chapter 7: Networks: Mobile Business
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Q1) An intranet is a restricted network that relies on Internet technologies to provide an Internet-like environment within the company for information sharing, communications, collaboration, Web publishing, and the support of business processes.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Passive RFID tags have their own transmitter and a power source (typically a battery).
A)True
B)False
Q3) Explain the different wireless network business applications.
Q4) LANs, WANs, and MANs all provide users with an accessible and reliable network infrastructure. Which of the below are the most important network differentiating dimensions?
A)Reliability and timing
B)Confidentiality and performance
C)Security and cost
D)Cost and performance
Q5) Explain the different wireless network categories.
Q6) Identify the challenges of business mobility.
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Chapter 8: Enterprise Applications: Business Communications
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Q1) What occurs when a website can know enough about a person's likes and dislikes that it can fashion offers that are more likely to appeal to that person?
A)Operational CRM
B)Analytical CRM
C)Website personalization
D)List generators CRM
Q2) The evolution of CRM is reporting, analyzing, and predicting.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is key for business process support that spans functional areas and legacy systems?
A)Software customization
B)Data integration is key for business process support that spans functional areas and legacy systems.
C)Elogistics manages the transportation and storage of goods.
D)Eprocurement is the business-to-business (B2B)online purchase and sale of supplies and services.
Q4) Identify the core and extended areas of enterprise resource planning.
Q5) Explain integrations and the role they play in connecting a corporation.
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Chapter 9: Systems Development and Project
Management: Corporate Responsibility
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Q1) What are defects in the code of an information system?
A) Testing
B) Bugs
C) Insects
D) All of the above
Q2) Which of the following is not one of the four gates in the RUP methodology?
A) Inception
B) Collaboration
C) Construction
D) Transition
Q3) What measures how well a solution meets the identified system requirements to solve the problems and take advantage of opportunities?
A) Economic feasibility
B) Operational feasibility
C) Schedule feasibility
D) Technical feasibility
Q4) Post-implementation reports are formal reports or audits of a project after it is up-and-running.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Hardware and Software Basics
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Q1) What uses programs such as Window Washer which erases file histories, browser cookies, cache contents, and other crumbs that applications and Windows leave on a hard drive?
A)Preventative security software
B)Safe mode software
C)Crash-proof software
D)Disk image software
Q2) What is a computer dedicated to a single function, such as a calculator or computer game?
A)Tablet
B)PDA
C)Appliance
D)Minicomputer
Q3) What is equipment used to capture information and commands?
A)Input device
B)Output device
C)Magnetic tape
D)Magnetic medium
Q4) Define the relationship between operating system software and utility software.
Q5) Describe the six major categories of hardware and provide an example of each.
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Chapter 11: Networks and Telecommunications
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Q1) Protocols includes bus, star, ring, hybrid, and wireless.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A peer-to-peer (P2P)network is a computer network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than a centralized server.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The network interface layer places data packets on the network for transmission.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Packet-switching occurs when the sending computer divides a message into a number of efficiently sized units of data called packets, each of which contains the address of the destination computer.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Network transmission media refers to the various types of media used to carry the signal between computers.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Designing Databases
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Q1) What is a technique for documenting the entities and relationships in a database environment?
A)Entity-relationship diagram
B)Data model
C)Database
D)Relational database model
Q2) What is a characteristic of a table?
A)Field
B)Table
C)Record
D)Key
Q3) Which of the following is a type of attribute?
A)Single-valued attribute
B)Multi-valued attribute
C)Null-valued attribute
D)All of the above
Q4) A one-to-many relationship occurs between two entities in which an instance of one entity can be related to only one instance of a related entity.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Emerging Trends and Technologies
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Q1) Trend analysis is the examination of a trend to identify its nature, causes, speed of development, and potential impacts.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is a self-managing computing model named after, and patterned on, the human body's autonomic nervous system?
A)Autonomic computing
B)Real-time adaptive security
C)Autonomous agent
D)Machine learning
Q3) Which of the following is not a potential business impact created by the growth in information industries?
A)Top managers must be computer-literate
B)Knowledge workers are generally higher paid
C)Entry-level positions will require less education
D)Downsizing will continue
Q4) People in undeveloped countries are living longer.
A)True
B)False
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