Digital Literacy
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Course Introduction
Digital Literacy equips students with the essential skills and knowledge needed to navigate, evaluate, and create information using digital technologies. This course covers fundamental concepts such as online safety, responsible use of social media, critical evaluation of digital sources, and the basics of digital communication and collaboration tools. Students will develop practical competencies in using various software applications, understanding digital citizenship, and adapting to the rapidly changing technological landscape, preparing them for academic, professional, and personal success in a digitally connected world.
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Using Information Technology Complete Edition 10th Edition by Brian Williams
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Chapter 1: Information Systems and People
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true of management information systems?
A)The management information systems discipline had been in existence prior to the invention of the first generation computer.
B)Management information systems lack the ability to support tactical decision making at the managerial level.
C)The management information systems discipline draws interest from researchers and practitioners only from the computer science field.
D)The study of information systems that includes how people, technology, processes, and data work together is called management information systems.
Answer: D
Q2) The use of information systems in achieving excellence in operations can result in ________.
A)higher cost savings
B)improved organizational justice
C)increased brand dilution
D)increased employee turnover
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Information Systems and Strategy
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Q1) Why do nonprofit organizations stand to gain from using information systems, just like business?
A)Nonprofits, like businesses, spend huge amounts on IT maintenance.
B)Nonprofits and businesses have the same set of primary activities and secondary activities.
C)Like business, nonprofits are answerable to shareholders and stakeholders.
D)The operational requirements to run nonprofits are similar to the operational requirements for businesses.
Answer: D
Q2) Since the operational requirements for nonprofits are completely different from businesses, information systems do not offer any strategic uses to nonprofits.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Rivalry within an industry will be high if firms compete mainly on price.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Information and Communications
Technologies: The Enterprise Architecture
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Q1) Which of the following best describes wavelength?
A)It is the maximum transmission, in bit rate, across a channel.
B)It is the number of cycles that a wave repeats per second.
C)It is the distance between one peak of an electromagnetic wave to the next.
D)It is the speed at which a wave travels through a physical medium or through a vacuum.
Answer: C
Q2) Application software includes operating system software and utilities.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Which of the following is a drawback of using circuit-switched network?
A)It often wastes capacity.
B)It requires the strings of digital data to be broken into packets before being transmitted.
C)It slows down communication after establishing a channel.
D)It remains unreliable for communication even after establishing a channel.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Databases and Datawarehouses
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Q1) While using a word processor to create a project report, Ashley includes the subject, title, and the author's name in the report's properties. What type of information is Ashley adding to her report?
A)metadata
B)count data
C)boolean data
D)binary data
Q2) Which product allows voice commands, sequenced like a natural conversation, as a means to access a database?
A)Yelp
B)MySQL
C)Oracle
D)Siri
Q3) Shadow systems are managed by individuals or departments and not by the central IT staff in an organization.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe performance tuning and the trade-offs associated with it.
Q5) What does functional dependence mean? Illustrate with an example.
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Chapter 5: Information Systems for the Enterprise
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Q1) ________ involves the automatic tagging of unusual events in financial transactions and is used to spot mistakes and fraudulent activities.
A)Exception reporting
B)Compliance reporting
C)Human capital management
D)Electronic data interchange
Q2) ________ encompasses the strategies, processes, and information systems that an organization uses to build and maintain relationships with the current and prospective users of its products or services.
A)Enterprise resource planning
B)Customer relationship management
C)Human capital management
D)Supply chain management
Q3) Twitter is growing as a way to provide customer support, largely because it can reach customers in near real-time.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are some of the causes for the lack of visibility of supply chain metrics?
Q5) Explain how e-marketing information systems track customer behavior.
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Chapter 6: The Web, E-Commerce, and M-Commerce
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Q1) Web marketers launch link-building campaigns to improve their brand image.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The unique global address for a web page or other resource on the Internet is called the ________.
A)extensible resource identifier
B)uniform resource locator
C)solution deployment descriptor
D)internationalized resource identifier
Q3) A ________ is a visual depiction of keywords related to the search, with font size and position indicating relevance.
A)concordance
B)mashup
C)tag cloud
D)folksonomy
Q4) Search engine marketing is far less intrusive than banner ads or pop-up windows.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe some of the ways in which web developers can scam search engines.
Q6) What is meant by the "Internet of things"?
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Chapter 7: Business Intelligence and Decision Making
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true of portals?
A)They are gateways that provide access to a variety of relevant information from many different sources on one screen.
B)They are quantifiable metrics that measure an individual's contribution to his organization's success.
C)They mimic the reasoning of a human expert, drawing from a base of knowledge about a particular subject area to come to a decision or recommendation.
D)They are graphical user interfaces that organize and summarize information vital to a user's role and the decisions that user makes.
Q2) A standardized and regularly updated output from a publisher that can be embedded in a customized mashup is known as a ________.
A)dashboard
B)pixel
C)web feed
D)portlet
Q3) What is forecasting and how does it work?
Q4) What are the three key types of decision-making levels?
Q5) What are the different functions performed by bots or intelligent agents?
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Chapter 8: Collaborating With Technology
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Q1) Which of the following is a characteristic of online communications?
A)fewer nonverbal cues to clarify meaning
B)a more well-defined audience than in-person interactions
C)less anonymity than in-person interactions
D)greater media richness than in-person interactions
Q2) Which of the following functions is performed by texting?
A)synchronous collaboration among users
B)telepresence between users
C)transfer of photos and videos
D)creation and maintenance of databases
Q3) What are blogs and how can they benefit organizations?
Q4) Which of the following is true of iCalendars?
A)They analyze the success rate of events.
B)They flag events that stretch over months or years.
C)They create advertising tools for events.
D)They help budget and maintain the costs of large-scale events.
Q5) What is media richness?
Q6) Media richness measures how well a communication medium can generate revenues.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Knowledge Management and E-Learning
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true of intellectual capital?
A)The value of an organization's intellectual capital is best reflected in conventional accounting reports.
B)Intellectual capital consists of all the intangible assets of an enterprise that contribute to its competitive advantage.
C)Intellectual capital is hard to distinguish from other sources of capital owned by an organization.
D)Intellectual capital does not include the knowledge stored as documentation about business processes, procedures, policies, contracts, and patents.
Q2) Explicit knowledge can be documented and codified, whereas tacit knowledge encompasses insights, judgment, creative processes, and wisdom that come from learning through several trials and errors.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is knowledge management?
Q4) What are the components of a successful e-learning management team?
Q5) What is self-paced e-learning?
Q6) Discuss the key steps involved in knowledge management.
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Chapter 10: Ethics, Privacy, and Security
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Q1) Which of the following functions does a firewall perform?
A)It ensures security by using multiple authentication strategies for employees.
B)It attracts malicious attacks to study their properties and origins.
C)It defines which IP addresses or domain names should be blocked.
D)It encodes sensitive data to ensure safe transmission across unsecured networks.
Q2) According to the incidence response plan, which of the following would be most useful in containing any damage caused by a security threat?
A)preserve evidence of damage done
B)reevaluate risk matrix
C)restrict system access
D)investigate system logs for evidence
Q3) Plagiarism refers to borrowing the words of another and crediting the source.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the purpose of using surveillance technologies in organizations? How do they help in protecting information and monitoring productivity?
Q5) What is digital rights management? Explain some challenges faced while using DRM schemes.
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Chapter 11: Systems Development and Procurement
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Q1) ________ is a type of testing for information systems that involves programmers checking the functionality of small modules of code during the development phase of the SDLC.
A)Unit testing
B)System testing
C)Integration testing
D)Acceptance testing
Q2) Which of the following types of testing for information systems is conducted to assess how well a system performs under peak loads?
A)stress testing
B)parallel testing
C)unit testing
D)system testing
Q3) Which of the following is an advantage of prepackaged software?
A)It requires a short implementation time.
B)It includes new features that a company requires.
C)It is always well-fitted to enterprise architecture.
D)It has high overall costs.
Q4) What is a version control software?
Q5) What is a parallel implementation process? Discuss its advantages and drawbacks.
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Chapter 12: Project Management and Strategic Planning
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Q1) Which of the following best describes project portfolio management?
A)a process that oversees all projects and selects which projects to pursue
B)a process that integrates a company's project with a prospective external project
C)a process that creates and visualizes projects from scratch
D)a process that tracks the progress of projects and adjusts their scope accordingly
Q2) Why is it a challenging task to calculate a project's return on investment (ROI)?
A)It involves differentiating between the costs and savings, which are often hard to distinguish.
B)Estimating ROI for projects that involve information systems involves specialized accounting knowledge.
C)It is difficult to estimate ROI for projects where costs rise unexpectedly and revenue increases are hard to predict.
D)When project costs remain stable throughout the duration of the project, they become hard to keep track of.
Q3) Write a brief note on the executing processes for a project.
Q4) What is a project management plan? Explain its significance.
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