Information Systems for Business Review Questions
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Information Systems for Business explores the fundamental role that information systems play in modern organizations. The course covers the principles, technologies, and applications of information systems, emphasizing how they support business operations, decision-making, and strategic objectives. Students will learn about system components, data management, enterprise resource planning, e-commerce, and cybersecurity. Through case studies and practical exercises, the course highlights how businesses leverage information systems for competitive advantage and addresses issues such as ethical use, privacy, and emerging digital trends.
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Principles of Information Systems 1st Canadian Edition by Ralph Stair
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Information Systems
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Q1) What involves using information systems and the Internet to acquire parts and supplies?
A)e-commerce
B)e-business
C)mobile commerce
D)e-procurement
Answer: D
Q2) Vivek is assessing the lowest cost to build 20 computers with the shortest time frame.What measure is he interested in?
A)efficiency
B)effectiveness
C)productivity
D)net worth
Answer: A
Q3) A(n) ____________________ administrator focuses on the planning, policies, and procedures regarding the use of corporate data and information.
Answer: database
Q4) CBIS stands for ___________________________________.
Answer: computer-based information system
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Chapter 2: The Personal and Social Impact of Computers
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Q1) Many organizations use ____________________ software to provide a comprehensive display on a single computer screen of all the vital data related to an organization's security defences.
Answer: security dashboard
Q2) ____________________ issues deal with what is generally considered right or wrong.
Answer: Ethical
Q3) ____________________ is the operation of a fake website by someone trying to gain access to customer's private information.
Answer: Phishing
Q4) Software piracy is the act of authorized copying or distribution of copyrighted software.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q5) Copyright laws protect processes, machines, and compositions of matter.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Hardware: Input, Processing, and Output Devices
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Q1) Like a display screen, the quality or resolution of a printer's output depends on the number of dots per inch.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Compared to main memory, secondary storage offers the advantages of volatility, increased capacity, and lower costs.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) With ____________________ access, it is possible to go directly to and access the needed data.
Answer: direct
Q4) Support for green computing is emerging as a new business strategy for computer manufacturers to distinguish themselves from the competition.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Software: Systems and Application Software
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Q1) Utility programs help to perform maintenance, correct problems, merge and sort sets of data, keep track of computer jobs, and compress files of data.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Most software products are NOT protected by either copyright protection or licensing provisions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Claire is communicating with the computer using a set of key words in order to extract information from the database.She misspelled one of the key words and got a processing error.What is the name given to this type of error?
A)rule error
B)syntax error
C)programming error
D)grammatical error
Q4) Yahoo has developed its own Linux-based operating system called Chrome OS. A)True
B)False
Q5) What are some of the disadvantages of using proprietary software?
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Chapter 5: Database Systems, Data Centres, and Business Intelligence
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Q1) A collection of related records is called a(n) ____________________.
Q2) What tool do database designers use to show the logical mapping among data?
A)a framework
B)a decision table
C)a relational model
D)a domain diagram
Q3) Without a well-designed, accurate database, executives, managers, and others do not have access to the ____________________ they need to make good decisions.
Q4) The ____________________ is a collection of instructions and commands used to describe the logical and physical structure of the data and the relationships among the data for each user.
Q5) Oracle is currently the market leader in general-purpose databases, with about three-quarters of the multibillion-dollar database market.
A)True
B)False
Q6) A database need not reflect the business processes of the organization.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Briefly describe the hierarchy of data.
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Chapter 6: Telecommunications and Networks
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Q1) What does an asymmetric DSL provide?
A)high-speed Internet access over a subscribers cable network
B)an additional phone line to receive "always on" Internet access
C)a dedicated connection from each user to the phone company's local telephone office
D)a level of service that is independent of how far the subscriber is from the local telephone office
Q2) A(n) ____________________ is any computer that sends messages requesting services from the servers on the network.
Q3) A(n) ____________________ is a form of distance learning where students and instructor attend the online course at the same time.
Q4) Which frequency is commonly used for wireless communications?
A)3G frequency
B)radio frequency
C)wireless frequency
D)ultra-low frequency
Q5) Briefly describe a general model of telecommunications.
Q6) ____________________ refers to the rate at which data is exchanged, usually measured in bits per second.
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Chapter 7: The Internet, Web, Intranets, and Extranets
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Q1) With cloud computing, the processing and storage requirements of all of its clients can be spread over numerous ____________________.
Q2) Discuss how rich Internet applications help improve collaboration.
Q3) What can be used in an enterprise to enable the sharing of information between employees, training for new employees, or customer support for products?
A)a wiki
B)a Web portal
C)Web analytics software
D)a productivity suite service
Q4) Twitter, with its maximum of 120-character messages, has proven to be a rich source of consumer sentiment that can be tapped to improve marketing, customer relations, and product development.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Who developed the World Wide Web?
A)Tim Berners-Lee
B)Steve Jobs
C)Microsoft CEO
D)Cisco CEO
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Chapter 8: Electronic and Mobile Commerce
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Q1) The three basic components of a successful e-commerce model include content, commerce, and commodity.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What can be said about the company Amazon?
A)Amazon was immediately profitable since the year it was founded.
B)Amazon has never become fully profitable.
C)Amazon was not profitable until more than seven years after its start-up.
D)Amazon is in the business of books only
Q3) Which of the following is a characteristic of mobile coupons?
A)They have a much higher redemption rate than paper coupons.
B)They can be sent to mobile shoppers by numerous mobile coupon aggregators.
C)They can be redeemed by scanning the barcode displayed on a Web-enabled cell phone.
D)They have a greater influence on consumer behaviour compared to direct advertising.
Q4) The main measures of mobile advertising are the number of users reached, the click through rate, and the number of _____ users take.
Q5) _____ is a subset of e-commerce where all the participants are organizations.
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Chapter 9: Enterprise Systems
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Q1) Define the scope and goals of supply chain management.
Q2) Identify the common set of basic transaction processing activities performed by every TPS.
Q3) Transaction processing systems provide a high degree of support for management decision making.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A(n) ____________________ is a set of coordinated and related activities that takes one or more types of input and creates an output of value to the customer of that process.
Q5) There are many software vendors who offer ____________________ versions of their ERP or CRM software at a low monthly rental rate.
Q6) What type of system do organizations expect will ensure that data is processed accurately and completely, avoid processing fraudulent transactions, and reduce clerical and other labour requirements?
A)a batch processing system
B)a transaction processing system
C)a online processing system
D)a purchasing processing system
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Chapter 10: Information and Decision Support Systems
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Q1) An organization might hire an outside accounting firm to perform a(n) ____________________ to assess the financial condition of the firm and determine whether financial statements and reports produced by its financial MIS are accurate.
Q2) Kate was given a problem to analyze.After few hours of work, she was considering the different courses of action for the problem at hand by evaluating each one.What stage of the problem-solving process was Kate in?
A)intelligence
B)design
C)choice
D)implementation
Q3) A key-indicator report summarizes the previous day's critical activities and is typically available at the beginning of each workday.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In the ____________________ decision-making approach, members of a group offer suggestions "off the top of their heads."
Q5) In general, computerized decision support systems can either optimize or ____________________.
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Chapter 11: Knowledge Management and Specialized Information Systems
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Q1) Using a knowledge management system begins with locating the organization's knowledge, often using a ____________________ that points the knowledge worker to the needed knowledge.
Q2) At the initial artificial intelligence conference at Dartmouth College in 1956, many AI pioneers predicted that computers would be as "smart" as people someday.By what decade did they believe this would happen?
A)by the 1960s
B)by the 1970s
C)by the 1980s
D)by the 1990s
Q3) What involves using information systems to develop competitive strategies for people, organizations, or even countries?
A)informatics
B)game theory
C)assistive technology
D)virtual reality systems
Q4) A(n) ____________________ is an approach to solving large, complex problems in which many repeated operations or models change and evolve until the best one emerges.
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Chapter 12: Systems Development: Investigation and Analysis
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Q1) Apple's application store is called App World, while Blackberry's store is called App Store.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is the result of an installed and operational functioning system required by business?
A)a systems implementation
B)a systems production
C)a systems development
D)a systems maintenance and review
Q3) Identify the key participants in systems development and briefly state their roles.
Q4) The ____________________ is the date the entire project is to be complete and operational.
Q5) Data about the problems or needs for the new system can come from both sources internal and external to the organization.
A)True
B)False
Q6) A(n) ____________________ is a grid that lists activities and deadlines.
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Chapter 13: Systems Development: Design, Implementation,
Maintenance, and Review
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Q1) Acceptance testing involves conducting any additional testing required by the ____________________.
Q2) Vendor proposals are typically evaluated in a two-phase process that includes a preliminary evaluation and a final evaluation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What process involves physically placing the computer equipment on the site and making it operational?
A)site preparation
B)user acceptance
C)installation
D)start-up
Q4) The use of virtual servers can help save energy and space.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A(n) ____________________ requiring identification numbers, passwords, and other safeguards is available with most systems to improve security and unauthorized use.
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Q6) ____________________ are rules and procedures to maintain data security.