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Fundamentals of Information Systems introduces students to the core concepts, technologies, and applications that underpin modern information systems in business and organizational settings. The course covers the role of information systems in facilitating decision-making, streamlining operations, and enhancing competitive advantage. Students will explore essential topics such as system components, databases, networks, cybersecurity, enterprise solutions, and ethical considerations. Through case studies and practical exercises, the course emphasizes how information systems support strategic objectives and improve efficiency across a variety of industries.
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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) The challenge that companies today sometimes have is that they are departmentalized and act independently of each other.One solution that can help a company work interdepartmentally includes ___________.
A)System processes.
B)Human resources.
C)Management information systems.
D)Resource information systems.
Answer: C
Q2) Your boss, Ty Jacob, has asked you to analyze the music industry using Porter's Five Forces Model.Which of the following represents buyer power in the music industry?
A)Established record labels like EMI, Sony, Universal.
B)Walmart, Target, iTunes.
C)Independent record labels.
D)Game systems like Wii, social networks like Facebook.
Answer: B
Q3) A __________ strategy is a leadership plan that achieves a specific set of goals or objectives.
Answer: Business
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Chapter 2: Decision and Processes: Value Driven Business
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Q1) CSFs and KPIs are the two core metrics used within a business to track progress or success.What is the relationship between CSFs and KPIs?
A)CSFs are business strategy elements, where KPIs measure the progress of the CSFs.
B)CSFs build the business environment, where KPIs explain how to build the CSFs.
C)KPIs are used first, where CSFs are applied after.
D)KPIs promote employees on their performance, where CSFs demote employees based on their performance level.
Answer: A
Q2) The primary goal of an As-Is process model is to simplify, eliminate, and improve the To-Be processes.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) At Microsoft's headquarters in Washington, they have implemented a __________ workforce to help alleviate congestion, save on real estate, and potentially increase worker production.
Answer: Virtual
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Chapter 3: Ebusiness: Electronic Business Value
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Q1) When evaluating the business value of disintermediation the more ____________ that is(are) cut from the distribution chain, the lower the product price.
A)Technology
B)Customers
C)Data stream
D)Intermediaries
Answer: D
Q2) What is the difference between a business model and an ebusiness model?
A)A business model details how a company creates, delivers, and generates revenue; an ebusiness model does all of the same, except on the Internet.
B)A business model and an ebusiness model are identical.
C)A business model and an ebusiness model are complete opposites
D)An ebusiness model details how a company creates, delivers, and generates revenue; a business model does all the same, except on the Internet.
Answer: A
Q3) _____ and-mortar business operates in a physical store without an Internet presence.
Answer: Brick
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Chapter 4: Ethics and Information Security: MIS Business
Concerns
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Q1) Information technology _________ is tracking people's activities by such measures as number of keystrokes, error rate, and number of transactions processed.
Q2) Employee monitoring policies explicitly state how, when, and where the company monitors its employees.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is a data file that identifies individuals or organizations online and is comparable to a digital signature?
A)Digital code
B)Digital sign
C)Digital certificate
D)Digital card
Q4) Spyware is software that, while purporting to serve some useful function and often fulfilling that functions, also allows Internet advertisers to display advertisements without the consent of the computer user.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Tokens are small electronic devices that change user passwords __________.
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Chapter 5: Infrastructure: Sustainable Technologies
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Q1) The __________ MIS infrastructure identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured.
A)Sustainable
B)Information
C)Virtualized
D)Agile
Q2) Within the sites that support disaster recovery, __________ is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.
A)Hot site
B)Cold site
C)Warm site
D)Disaster site
Q3) What is a widely held but difficult to achieve standard of availability for a system?
A)"Five 9s" availability
B)"1%" minimum availability
C)The "five's accessibility" code
D)"Five 10s" availability
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Chapter 6: Data: Business Intelligence
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Q1) What is another term for information cleansing?
A)Information mining
B)Information scrubbing
C)Information scrapping
D)Information marts
Q2) Information can tell an organization how it's currently performing and help it estimate and strategize for future plans and performance.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following refers to immediate, up-to-date information?
A)Daily information
B)Strategic information
C)Real-time information
D)Crisis information
Q4) Which of the following provides real-time information in response to requests?
A)Sales system
B)Transactional system
C)Real-time system
D)Salary system
Q5) Explain the four primary traits that determine the value of information.
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Chapter 7: Networks: Mobile Business
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Q1) What is a method of sending audio and video files over the Internet in such a way that the user can view the file while it is being transferred?
A)Streaming
B)Streamlining
C)Networking
D)Wireless
Q2) Wireless ____________ is a means by which portable devices can connect wirelessly to a local area network, using access points that send and receive data via radio waves.
Q3) The bandwidths associated with wi-fi are separated according to several wireless networking standards, known as ___________, for carrying out wireless local area network communication.
A)Bits
B)802.11
C)80118091
D)91210
Q4) Identify the benefits of a connected world.
Q5) Identify the challenges of a connected world.
Q6) Explain the different wireless network business applications.
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Chapter 8: Enterprise Applications: Business Communications
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Q1) Which of the following is a common customer service CRM metric?
A)Number of new prospective customers
B)Number of marketing campaigns
C)Average time to resolution
D)Revenue generated by marketing campaigns
Q2) What compiles customer information from a variety of sources and segments the information for different marketing campaigns?
A)Campaign management system
B)Cross-selling
C)Up-selling
D)List generator
Q3) What can analytical CRM modeling tools discover?
A)Identify opportunities for expanding customer relationships
B)Identify opportunities for cross-selling
C)Identify opportunities for up-selling
D)All of these
Q4) Human resource components track ___________ information, including payroll, benefits, compensation, and performance assessment and assumes compliance with the legal requirements of multiple jurisdictions and tax authorities.
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Chapter 9: Systems Development and Project
Management: Corporate Responsibility
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Q1) A (An) _________ is a logical relationship that exists between project tasks or between a project task and a milestone.
Q2) What is the logical relationship that exists between project tasks or between a project task and a milestone?
A)Resource
B)Task
C)Dependency
D)Activity
Q3) Which methodology ends each day or begins with a stand-up meeting to monitor and control the development effort?
A)Scrum
B)XP
C)RUP
D)RAD
Q4) Project milestones are any measurable, tangible, or verifiable outcome, result, or item that is produced to complete a project or part of a project.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Hardware and Software
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Q1) What has the potential to contain more than one value for an attribute?
A)Single-valued attribute
B)Multi-valued attribute
C)Null-valued attribute
D)All of these
Q2) What is a primary key?
A)A field that uniquely identifies a given record 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 between the two tables
C)A table that uniquely identifies a given record in a field
D)A foreign key of one table that appears as an entity in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship between the two records
Q3) A field is composed of rows and columns that represent an entity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ____________ expresses the specific number of instances in an entity.
Q5) A (An) _______________ relationship occurs between two entities in which an instance of one entity can be related to many instances of a related entity.
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Chapter 11: Networks and Telecommunications
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Q1) What is designed to connect a group of computers in close proximity to each other, such as in an office building, a school, or a home?
A)Local area network
B)Wide area network
C)Metropolitan area network
D)Peer-to-peer network
Q2) ____________ is a physical and data layer technology for LAN networking.
Q3) What is a telecommunications system?
A)A system that enables the transmission of data over public or private networks
B)A communications, data exchange, and resource-sharing system created by linking two or more computers and establishing standards, or protocols, so that they can work together
C)Any network without a central file server and in which all computers in the network have access to the public files located on all other workstations
D)A computer that is designed to request information from a server
Q4) A (An) ____________ network topology has groups of star-configured workstations connected to a linear bus backbone cable.
Q5) Describe TCP/IP along with its primary purpose.
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Chapter 12: Designing Databases
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Q1) ____________ is the set of instructions that the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.
Q2) Explain the difference between primary and secondary storage.
Q3) List the common input, output, storage, and communication devices.
Q4) What is the arithmetic logic unit?
A)The actual hardware that interprets and executes the program (software) instructions and coordinates how all the other hardware devices work together
B)Equipment that interprets software instructions and literally tells the other hardware devices what to do, based on the software instructions
C)A type of CPU that can recognize as many as 100 or more instructions, enough to carry out most computations directly
D)Equipment that performs all arithmetic operations (e.g., addition and subtraction) and all logic operations (such as sorting and comparing numbers)
Q5) Magnetic _________ is a secondary storage medium that uses magnetic techniques to store and retrieve data on disks or tapes coated with magnetically sensitive materials.
Q6) Define the relationship between operating system software and utility software.
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