Information Systems Fundamentals
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Information Systems Fundamentals provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the principles, concepts, and technologies that form the backbone of modern information systems. The course explores how data is collected, organized, stored, and utilized within organizations to support decision-making and achieve strategic objectives. Topics include an overview of hardware and software components, databases, networking, system development life cycles, security issues, and the ethical and social implications of information systems. Through case studies and practical exercises, students gain foundational knowledge to analyze, design, and manage information resources effectively in a variety of organizational contexts.
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Information Systems in Organizations People Technology and Processes 1st Edition by Wallace
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Chapter 1: Information Systems and People
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Q1) It is important to appreciate the ethical issues involved in the development and use of information systems because ________.
A) the data they contain is so vast and personal
B) they are closely tied to the revenue of organizations
C) they are not regulated by any governmental bodies
D) they can be mass-produced
Answer: A
Q2) The information that managers use to make decisions, drawn from the company's own information systems or external sources is called ________.
A) business intelligence
B) data-driven decision making
C) internal data
D) operations-related data
Answer: A
Q3) Research of the impact of IT on markets increased substantially because of the Internet.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 11: Systems Development and Procurement
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Q1) The type of testing which involves end users performing final testing to determine whether the project is complete as specified is known as ________.
A) stress testing
B) parallel testing
C) unit testing
D) acceptance testing
Answer: D
Q2) The ________ phase is a technical blueprint for the whole system which captures all aspects of how a system's components will function together to accomplish goals, using descriptions and models.
A) maintenance
B) design
C) testing
D) implementation
Answer: B
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Chapter 12: Project Management and Strategic Planning
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Q1) When an employee's e-mail might contain wording that implies a firm contract, a disclaimer for implied contractual obligations ________.
A) states that any contract must be confirmed by the employee's manager
B) warns recipients against disclosing information contained in the e-mail
C) warns recipients that they are responsible for checking the message for malicious content
D) includes wording that the message is intended only for the addressee
Q2) Which of the following is a critical factor that causes the failure of projects?
A) limited scope
B) low customization
C) high stakeholder involvement
D) unrealistic time frames
Q3) A project is a temporary activity that is launched for a specific purpose, to carry out a particular objective.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Briefly describe the phenomenon of "escalation of commitment."
Q5) Discuss the differences between processes and projects.
Q6) What is a black swan in a business environment? Explain.
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Chapter 2: Information Systems and Strategy
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Q1) Do you think the strategic importance of IT has reduced? Explain your answer.
Q2) Network effects refer to the ________.
A) increased value of a product or service resulting simply because there are more people using it
B) process of selling a product or service through well established networks and consumer chains
C) value obtained from providing fine services to a complex product or service
D) increased value attached with a product or service that can be used for networking purposes
Q3) What is a disruptive innovation? How is it different from sustaining technologies?
Q4) Identify the project for which governmental funding is most critical.
A) a project to launch a new, low-cost car
B) a scheme to improve the financial status of a company
C) a research project on hybrid oil
D) an infrastructure project that should be completed in one year
Q5) Explain the threat of new entrants to businesses.
Q6) Explain various competitive strategies in business, with examples.
Q7) Explain the importance of IT for nonprofit organizations.
Q8) Explain the power of suppliers with an example.
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Chapter 3: Information and Communications
Technologies: The Enterprise Architecture
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Q1) ________ transmission sends signals in the gigahertz range to relays in the line of sight.
A) Longitudinal wave
B) Microwave
C) Radio wave
D) Infrared
Q2) Which of the following is a part of the suit of protocols used for Internet communications that connect Ethernet and other networks together?
A) File Transfer Protocol
B) Transmission Control Protocol
C) Hypertext Transfer Protocol
D) Routing Information Protocol
Q3) What are RFID tags and why was the RFID "sniffer" invented?
Q4) ________ refers to technology that manages all the office phone lines, voice mail, internal billing, call transfers, forwarding, conferencing, and other voice services.
A) PBX
B) PSTN
C) POTS
D) ATM
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Chapter 4: Managing Information Resources with Databases
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Q1) In an organization, each employee might work for one or more projects, as well as for different employers. In such a case, the best approach by a database manager would be to create multiple records for the employee.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which database is especially used for managing web content and web-based resources?
A) relational database
B) hierarchial database
C) object-oriented database
D) XML database
Q3) The operational database is not a good candidate for high-level management reporting because it is not equipped to ________.
A) handle complex queries for strategic planning
B) support a format that is easily applied to what-if type questioning
C) manipulate business performance related information
D) draw high-quality information from an organization's databases
Q4) How did Cuong Do manage the sudden explosion of visitors to YouTube?
Q5) How does metadata differ for different types of information?
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Chapter 5: Information Systems for the Enterprise
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Q1) "Sometimes companies choose to go upstream and become their own suppliers." Explain this statement with an example.
Q2) Wikis and blogs are included in which module of human capital management systems?
A) core human resources management application
B) service delivery module
C) workforce management module
D) social software
Q3) The information systems used by customer relationship management (CRM) are often ________.
A) outdated
B) unified
C) fragmented
D) redundant
Q4) ________ describes how easily managers can track timely and accurate supply chain metrics.
A) Malleability
B) Ductility
C) Flexibility
D) Visibility
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Chapter 6: The Web and E-Commerce
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Q1) What is the Adwords program?
Q2) Which of the following is an example of crowdsourcing?
A) An advertising agency contracts a group of bloggers to write and publish articles about their client's products.
B) Electronicgadgets.com, a site that provides information on a range of electronic gadgets, encourages members to publish their reviews and user guides.
C) A publisher pays famous writers to provide short reviews of each others' newly-published books for his e-magazine.
D) An online financial services organization hires finance students as freelance workers to do many routine tasks and write reports.
Q3) Software programs, used by search engines, that crawl the web visiting sites to analyze the key words, headers, content, and links to other sites are called ________.
A) search aggregators
B) lexical analyzers
C) spiders
D) data harvesters
Q4) Describe some of the ways in which web developers scam search engines.
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Chapter 10: Ethics, Privacy, and Security
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Q1) Biometric identifiers refer to something the user knows, such as a user ID, password, PIN, or answer to a security question.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A drawback of using proxy servers for online anonymity is the need to rely on the company that operates the proxy servers and its promise to protect its customers' identities.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The term ________ refers to a collection of computers that have been compromised by malware, often through some vulnerability in their software or operating system.
A) honeypot
B) botnet
C) Trojan horse
D) black swan
Q4) What are phishing and distributed denial of service attacks?
Q5) Discuss the pros and cons of anonymity in the online world.
Q6) Write a brief note on encryption of digital information.
Q7) Discuss two kinds of authentication strategies used in organizations.
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Chapter 7: Business Intelligence and Decision Support
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Q1) ________ is a discovery process which relies on semantic structures, linguistic relationships, and common phrases to extract meaningful information.
A) Market basket analysis
B) What-if analysis
C) Text mining
D) Goal seeking analysis
Q2) iTicket, an online event-ticketing site, recently discovered that most of its good seats for a widely anticipated concert were preemptively booked in bulk by brokers. This resulted in a shortage of tickets that the public could have bought themselves. Which of the following would have best helped the brokers to book tickets in such large numbers?
A) neural nets
B) dashboards
C) bots
D) mashups
Q3) Companies use intelligent agents to extract useful business intelligence from private inaccessible Web sites.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Collaborating with Technology
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Q1) The context indicator lets users display their exact geographical locations to their contacts through the GPS navigation system.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is the function of an SMTP server?
A) It handles and sends outgoing e-mail.
B) It translates metadata into microformats.
C) It enables web browsers to access the Internet.
D) It stores incoming mail received by users.
Q3) Which of the following performs the same function as the Internet mail access protocol?
A) post office protocol
B) open settlement protocol
C) application configuration access protocol
D) simple mail transfer protocol
Q4) What is the function of microformats like hCard?
A) the electronic exchange of business card information
B) the creation of multimedia files for wikis
C) the storage and retrieval of incoming e-mails
D) the maintenance of a database of a user's web history
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Chapter 9: Knowledge Management and E-Learning
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true of structural capital?
A) It consists of electronically documented knowledge of a company's operations.
B) It consists of hierarchical relationships that an organization's employees maintain amongst one another.
C) It consists of structured relationships that the company's employees maintain with their clients.
D) It consists of knowledge of an organization that cannot be documented.
Q2) What are the components of a successful e-learning management team?
Q3) ________ is often stored electronically and left behind with an organization even when an employee is no longer with the organization.
A) Structural capital
B) Social capital
C) Venture capital
D) Human capital
Q4) Structural knowledge is in the minds of employees and is difficult to locate because employees may not realize that they possess it.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How do simulations help in making an e-learning program successful?
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