Information Systems in Organizations
Midterm Exam
Course Introduction
This course explores the fundamental role of information systems within contemporary organizations, highlighting how technology supports and shapes business processes, decision-making, and competitive advantage. Students will examine the organizational and managerial impacts of information systems, including topics such as systems development, data management, enterprise resource planning, and the ethical and global implications of technology in the workplace. The course also covers the alignment of information systems strategy with organizational strategy and the challenges associated with implementing and managing evolving technologies in diverse organizational environments.
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MIS 8th Edition by Hossein Bidgoli
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Chapter 1: Information Systems: An Overview
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Q1) The main difference between an intranet and the Internet is that intranets are public and the Internet is private.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) _____ is a database management system (DBMS) that is suitable for a large organization.
A) Microsoft Access
B) FileMaker Pro
C) Oracle
D) Java
Answer: C
Q3) In designing a management information system (MIS), the first task is to collect data and analyze it.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Computers: The Machines Behind Computing
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Q1) An object code must be translated into source code for a computer to read and execute it.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Microsoft PowerPoint is the most commonly used _____software.
A) desktop publishing
B) presentation
C) graphics
D) project management
Answer: B
Q3) Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) circuits were introduced in fifth-generation computers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) A byte is a single value of 0 or 1.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Database Systems, Data Warehouses and Data
Marts
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Q1) Briefly explain the responsibilities of a database administrator (DBA).
Answer: Answers will vary.A DBA's responsibilities include the following:
a.Designing and setting up a database
b.Establishing security measures to determine users' access rights
c.Developing recovery procedures in case data is lost or corrupted
d.Evaluating database performance
e.Adding and fine-tuning database functions
Q2) In the context of data warehouses, briefly explain extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL).
Answer: Answers will vary.ETL refers to the processes used in a data warehouse.Extraction means collecting data from a variety of sources and converting it into a format that can be used in transformation processing.The extraction process can also parse (divide into pieces) data to make sure it meets the data warehouse's structural needs.Transformation processing is done to make sure data meets the data warehouse's needs.Loading is the process of transferring data to the data warehouse.Depending on the organization's needs and the data warehouse's storage capacity, loading might overwrite existing data or add collected data to existing data.
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Chapter 4: Personal, Legal, Ethical and Organizational Issues of Information Systems
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Q1) Which of the following can help offset the digital divide?
A) Increasing the speed of the Internet for the information rich
B) Increasing the number of computers in public places
C) Reducing the number of computer equipment at schools
D) Reducing the Internet bandwidth for the information poor
Q2) Information technologies have decreased the ease of access to information for hackers as well as for legitimate organizations.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A common way to index and link databases is by using _____.
A) key customer numbers
B) Virtual Account numbers
C) Social Security numbers
D) protected electronic numbers
Q4) _____is computing that promotes a sustainable environment and consumes the least amount of energy.
A) Digital computing
B) Soft computing
C) Green computing
D) Cyber computing
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Chapter 5: Protecting Information Resources
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Q1) _____ is also known as secret key encryption.
A) Symmetric encryption
B) Auto key generation
C) Public key cryptography
D) Message authentication
Q2) _____ is a commonly used encryption protocol that manages transmission security on the Internet.
A) Application Layer
B) Secure Sockets Layer
C) Transmission Control Protocol
D) User Datagram Protocol
Q3) In the context of intentional computer and network threats, social engineers protects the integrity of information resources.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following statements is true of symmetric encryption?
A) It uses two different keys to encrypt and decrypt a message.
B) It requires more processing power than asymmetric encryption.
C) It is difficult to share a key over the Internet in symmetric encryption.
D) It is impossible to create digital signatures using symmetric encryption.
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Chapter 6: Data Communication
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Q1) In a(n) _____, if any link between nodes is severed, the entire network is affected, and failure of a single node disrupts the entire network.
A) star topology
B) ring topology
C) octagonal topology
D) mesh topology
Q2) The data transfer speeds of local area networks (LANs) are typically below 100 Mbps.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The process of deciding which path data takes on a network is called _____.
A) converging
B) diverging
C) roaming
D) routing
Q4) _____ have the highest bandwidth of any communication medium.
A) Coaxial cables
B) Fiber-optic cables
C) Twisted pair copper cables
D) Ethernet cables
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Chapter 7: The Internet, Intranets, and Extranets
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Q1) Briefly explain the two kinds of directories on the Web.
Q2) Which of the following statements is true of an intranet in an organization?
A) It can be used by trusted business partners with a password.
B) It is a public network that can be used by external users.
C) It is not dependent on Internet Protocols and technologies.
D) It will not allow employees to post information on their departmental Web servers.
Q3) _____is an Internet service for communicating with others via a private "chat room" on the Internet.
A) Instant messaging
B) Electronic mail
C) Short message service
D) Video telephony
Q4) Which of the following statements is true of an intranet?
A) It increases the costs and time of document production.
B) It aids the duplication and distribution of documents.
C) It helps organizations move from a calendar-based document-publishing strategy to one that is based on events.
D) It inhibits the sharing of software, such as an office suite or a database management system.
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Chapter 8: E-Commerce
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Q1) The _____, a widely used business model in e-commerce, refers to generating revenue from more than one source.
A) merchant model
B) brokerage model
C) mixed model
D) infomediary model
Q2) In the context of e-government applications, e-training for government officials is categorized as a _____ application.
A) government-to-citizen
B) government-to-business
C) government-to-government
D) government-to-employee
Q3) A popular application of the_____, which is a major business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce model, is e-procurement.
A) seller-side marketplace model
B) buyer-side marketplace model
C) third-party exchange market-place model
D) trader-side marketplace model
Q4) Describe micropayments.
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Chapter 9: Global Information Systems
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Q1) What are the requirements for designing tax-risk management systems?
Q2) In the context of a global information system (GIS), a global network must have _____ to guide packets to their destinations.
A) firewalls
B) cookies
C) switching nodes
D) proxy servers
Q3) Which of the following countries was among the top Asia Pacific offshore locations for outsourcing in 2016?
A) India
B) Nepal
C) Japan
D) North Korea
Q4) In the context of the requirement of skilled analysts for implementing a global information system (GIS), there is a severe shortage of qualified information systems:
A) professionals in the United States.
B) consultants in Korea.
C) project managers in Germany.
D) quality analysts in Japan.
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Chapter 10: Building Successful Information Systems
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Q1) In the context of the planning phase of the systems development life cycle (SDLC), which of the following is an example of an internally identified problem in information systems?
A) Distributers demanding an increase in their profit margin before the launch of the system
B) Suppliers noting inefficiency in the inventory control procedure
C) Management voicing concern about the organization's lack of a competitive edge in the marketplace
D) Government regulations that need to be followed by the system for its approval in the global marketplace
Q2) _____ is one of the most common cost-effectiveness analysis methods.
A) DuPont analysis
B) Joint application design
C) SWOT analysis
D) Net present value
Q3) Information system projects are often an extension of existing systems or involve replacing an old technology with a new one.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Enterprise Systems
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Q1) Describe customization with an example.
Q2) Which of the following components of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system provides information on marketing?
A) The purchasing component
B) The sales component
C) The manufacturing component
D) The accounting component
Q3) In the context of customer relationship management (CRM) applications, which of the following approaches is chosen by organizations with an established IT infrastructure?
A) Subscription-oriented CRM
B) Cloud-based CRM
C) Web-based CRM
D) On-premises CRM
Q4) In the context of knowledge management, tacit knowledge can be captured easily in data repositories.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Briefly explain the marketing strategies in a customer relationship management (CRM) system.
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Chapter 12: Management Support Systems
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Q1) _____ can be automated because a well-defined standard operating procedure exists for these types of decisions.
A) Structured decisions
B) Semistructured decisions
C) Unstructured decisions
D) Pseudostructured decisions
Q2) Semistructured decisions are often used in _____.
A) payroll development
B) record keeping
C) sales forecasting
D) hiring and firing
Q3) The _____ of an executive information system (EIS) is responsible for managing data access.
A) administrative module
B) builder module
C) tracking module
D) runtime module
Q4) Discuss the role of a model builder in the decision-making process with an example.
Q5) List the major components of a decision support system (DSS).
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Chapter 13: Intelligent Information Systems
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Q1) Intelligent agents demonstrate _____, which is the ability to select problems or situations that need attention and act on them.
A) adaptability
B) collaborative behavior
C) humanlike interface
D) reactivity
Q2) Briefly discuss shopping and information agents.
Q3) TVs that adjust screen color and texture for each frame and stabilize the volume based on the viewer's location in the room demonstrates the use of _____.
A) fuzzy logic
B) finite automata
C) artificial neural capabilities
D) virtual reality simulations
Q4) _____ are used when data is fuzzy and uncertainty is involved.
A) Virtual reality simulations
B) Artificial neural networks
C) Backtracking algorithms
D) Monitoring and surveillance agents
Q5) Discuss the advantages that an expert system has over humans.
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Chapter 14: Emerging Trends, Technologies, and Applications
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Q1) _____ is the provision of IT services on demand.
A) Utility computing
B) Grid computing
C) Mobile computing
D) Portable computing
Q2) Describe the challenges of representing sound in a virtual reality (VR) system.
Q3) Saving data on the application service provider's (ASP's) servers instead of on users' own workstations might cause:
A) inconvenience for those who work in different locations.
B) the data to be exposed to theft by attackers.
C) the data to become immune to change.
D) problems related to the compatibility of the software versions.
Q4) Discuss the applications of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags.
Q5) Discuss some of the future uses of nanotechnology.
Q6) A(n)_____ is a 2D or 3D graphical representation of a person in the virtual world, used in chat rooms and online games.
A) entity
B) schema
C) avatar
D) relvar
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