Information Technology Management Review Questions
Course Introduction
Information Technology Management explores the strategic role of IT in organizations, focusing on how information systems and digital innovations drive business value and operational efficiency. The course covers topics such as IT infrastructure, systems development, data management, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies. Students learn to align IT strategy with business goals, manage IT-enabled projects, and understand the ethical and global implications of digital transformation. Practical case studies and real-world scenarios enable students to develop the skills needed to oversee technology initiatives and support organizational decision-making.
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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) Electronic documents cover a wide scope, and they can be quite slippery as people edit, cut and paste, and make copies. As a result of this ________.
A) more than 75 percent of U.S. corporations have solid retention policies in place
B) organizations find it difficult to manage the retention process
C) companies no longer find it necessary to invest in e-discovery
D) organizations invest a lot of money in business process automation
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is true of data, information, and knowledge?
A) They blend together and form a continuum.
B) They are mutually exclusive categories.
C) They fail to help in understanding how information systems work.
D) They are diverse terms and may not be used interchangeably.
Answer: A
Q3) Most of the information in Wikipedia is ________.
A) collaborative information
B) collective intelligence
C) creative commons
D) user-generated content
Answer: D
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Chapter 11: Systems Development and Procurement
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Q1) ________ is a process in which stakeholders identify the features that a project will need and then prioritize them as mandatory, preferred, or nonessential.
A) Requirement analysis
B) Informative modeling
C) Acceptance testing
D) Feasibility study
Answer: A
Q2) A process diagram traces how each process operates from beginning to end in a way that is clear to all the stakeholders.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) A direct implementation process launches the new system while the old one is still running and employees either do their jobs twice, once on each system, or two separate teams handle the same processes, one team on each system.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 12: Project Management and Strategic Planning
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Q1) Which of the following functions does a project charter perform?
A) measuring the outcomes of the project
B) assessing the progress of the project
C) stating the reasoning behind initiating the project
D) estimating start and end dates for the project
Q2) What is a hindsight bias and how is it different from a confirmation bias? Explain.
Q3) Which of the following best describes a hindsight bias?
A) the tendency to rely on one piece of information, however irrelevant
B) the tendency to claim more responsibility for successes than failures
C) the tendency to choose information that supports our existing position
D) the belief that an actual event was predictable even if it was not
Q4) What are the essential characteristics that a project manager should possess?
Q5) The critical path in a Gantt chart is the shortest path through the project and identifies those tasks that can be delayed without affecting the finish date.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Why is it important to document the lessons learned during the course of a project?
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Chapter 2: Information Systems and Strategy
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Q1) 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
Q2) Do you think the strategic importance of IT has reduced? Explain your answer.
Q3) "low-cost leaders must automate their processes." Which of the following is the most compelling reason to support this argument?
A) Automation will help them differentiate their products.
B) Automation will help them achieve significant improvements in quality.
C) Automation will help them eliminate costly human labor.
D) Automation can help the company improve its brand image.
Q4) Procurement and technology support are primary activities of a value chain.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A low-cost leadership strategy means offering a highly differentiated product at a price that is lower than the market price.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 3: Information and Communications
Technologies: The Enterprise Architecture
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Q1) What are the various functions of the operating system (OS)?
Q2) ________ 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
Q3) Which of the following computer components accepts signals and converts them to a digital format that matches the signal's meaning?
A) a screen
B) a hard disk
C) a keyboard
D) a speaker
Q4) Companies felt the need for virtualization because mainframe computers
A) required too many specialized professionals
B) were very unstable
C) often wasted resources
D) required expensive software
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Q5) What are the four components of computers? Give an example of each component.
Chapter 4: Managing Information Resources with Databases
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Q1) Which of the following is a type of intelligence gathering that uses statistical techniques to explore records in a data warehouse, hunting for hidden patterns and relationships that are undetectable in routine reports?
A) data mining
B) data extracting
C) scaling
D) normalizing
Q2) Data stewards ensure that people adhere to the definitions for the master data in their organizational units.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A person who ensures that people adhere to the definitions for the master data in their organizational units is called a(n) ________.
A) data steward
B) database administrator
C) information systems educator
D) management analyst
Q4) What are the ways in which information is classified in terms of structure? Explain with examples.
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Chapter 5: Information Systems for the Enterprise
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Q1) IBM hosts dozens of communities for developers who use their software tools. This is a customer relationship management strategy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The advantage of using a suite with synchronized modules is that ________.
A) modules are integrated at the edges
B) a common architecture overlays the systems to improve consistency across the modules
C) data integrity is high, with consistent, up-to-date, and nonduplicated elements
D) modules can have very rich functionality and can be implemented individually, reducing risk
Q3) Explain, with an example, how a company can reduce the costs of serving each customer without diminishing customer satisfaction.
Q4) Describe how Dell reduced its operating costs.
Q5) Companies have replaced sharing information through electronic markets with electronic data interchange.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 6: The Web and E-Commerce
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Q1) Which of the following is a measure of the satisfaction level of website users?
A) the extent to which a user can accomplish simple tasks on the first visit to the site
B) how quickly and efficiently a user performs tasks after learning the site's basic design
C) the number of mistakes users make when they attempt to accomplish a task and how easily they can recover from those mistakes
D) the ratings of individual experiences on the website by the users
Q2) Though every device connected to the net has an IP address, the Internet's designers added the Domain Name System (DNS) because ________.
A) the enormous growth of the Internet led to the depletion of available IP addresses
B) IP addresses are not displayed in human-readable notations
C) IP addresses are numerical and cannot be easily remembered by users
D) the IP addresses changed each time the device connected to the net
Q3) What are the uses of shopping cart software?
Q4) What is a cookie? How does it help e-commerce websites?
Q5) What is the Adwords program?
Q6) Describe some of the challenges faced by online marketers.
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Chapter 10: Ethics, Privacy, and Security
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Q1) According to the incidence response plan, which of the following actions best contains any damage caused by a security threat?
A) preserve evidence of damage done
B) reevaluate risk matrix
C) restrict systems access
D) investigate system logs for evidence
Q2) The term ________ refers to software that monitors a user's activity on the computer and on the Internet, often installed without the user's knowledge.
A) honeypot
B) browser
C) black swan
D) spyware
Q3) Which of the following is an element of privacy?
A) the right to be left alone
B) the right to view, correct, and edit private, protected information
C) the right to withhold information
D) the right to demand information
Q4) What is an incidence response plan and what are the steps involved in it?
Q5) Write a brief note on encryption of digital information.
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Chapter 7: Business Intelligence and Decision Support
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Q1) A ________ is a graphical user interface that organizes and summarizes information vital to the user's role and the decisions that user makes.
A) mashup
B) tool bar
C) dashboard
D) portal
Q2) The online analytical processing system allows users to slice and dice massive amounts of data stored in data warehouses to reveal significant patterns and trends.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following holds true of neural nets?
A) They borrow a human's approach by using neural signals instead of digital ones.
B) They imitate service robots using neural networks.
C) They borrow the brain's approach, using digital signals in place of neural ones.
D) They aim to achieve higher productivity by imitating robots in domestic operations.
Q4) What is an online analytical processing system and how does it work?
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Chapter 8: Collaborating with Technology
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of a browser-based software tool that allows web conferences and webinars?
A) Excel
B) Tumblr
C) WebEx
D) Wordweb
Q2) Which of the following is true of a vCard?
A) It must be scanned and saved in a contact management system.
B) It requires the use of optical character recognition software.
C) It is used to exchange business card information electronically.
D) It can be imported into a contact management system, but cannot be attached to e-mails.
Q3) Which of the following is true of asynchronous discussion forums?
A) They help users to communicate via interactive video chat.
B) They do not allow users to post anonymously, thus enhancing safety for users.
C) They allow users to communicate with moderators and each other in real time.
D) They allow users to post text messages and reply to others at any time.
Q4) What are are the advantages of using instant messaging in the workplace?
Q5) What are the advantages of text messaging in emergency situations?
Q6) What is microblogging?
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Chapter 9: Knowledge Management and E-Learning
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true of intranets?
A) Their functionality is restricted to organizing employee information and distributing announcements.
B) They are accessible only to authorized individuals through the organization's portal.
C) They are networks of networks consisting of private, public, academic, business, and government networks.
D) They are open systems and are accessible to all users surfing the web.
Q2) What were the initial differences between corporate and educational e-learning that were observed?
Q3) A majority of retail companies in Arizona are increasingly using a certain strategy to capture tacit knowledge which is helping them to successfully handle knowledge management. Which of the following processes would help such users add and edit articles about specific topics and discuss the contents of each article with other editors?
A) wikis
B) portals
C) blogs
D) dashboards
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