IT and Organizational Transformation Test Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores the dynamic relationship between information technology (IT) and organizational transformation, examining how technological innovations drive strategic change within modern enterprises. Students will analyze case studies of successful IT implementations, evaluate methods for aligning IT initiatives with business goals, and consider the impact of emerging technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and big data. The course also addresses organizational change management, resistance to transformation, and strategies for cultivating an agile, technology-driven culture that is responsive to market shifts and continuous improvement.
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Using MIS 8th Edition by David M. Kroenke
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Chapter 1: The Importance of MIS
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Q1) Carlos is a business student doing an internship at Bruno and Venus, a firm specializing in the export of sophisticated equipment to other countries. He finds that he is unable to create a representative chart depicting the relation between processes such as procurement, shipping, and billing. This indicates that he lacks ________ skills.
A) abstract reasoning
B) collaborative
C) experimental
D) systems thinking
Answer: A
Q2) Erin is a manager for a reputed software firm. She typically monitors and evaluates the existing working procedures of her subordinates. She constantly changes these working procedures so that they are consistent with the company's resources. This shows her ability to ________.
A) participate in systems thinking
B) experiment
C) make abstractions
D) collaborate
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Collaboration Information Systems
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Q1) Identify a primary purpose of collaboration.
A) eliminating individual tasks
B) making decisions
C) evaluating coworkers
D) performing routine tasks
Answer: B
Q2) An organization uses a formula to compute the reorder quantity of an item in inventory. This is an example of a(n) ________ decision process.
A) structured
B) unstructured
C) corporate
D) strategic
Answer: A
Q3) Version management systems ________.
A) lack the features needed to track changes to shared documents
B) provide features and functions to accommodate concurrent work
C) prevent more than one user from checking out the same document
D) provide version control to limit and direct user activity
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Strategy and Information Systems
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Q1) A business with a differentiation strategy will add cost to an activity only as long as the activity has a positive margin.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Establishing alliances with other organizations increases purchasing costs, though they do provide competitive advantages.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) An organization implements an information system to optimize its supply chain. The system helps the organization to reduce wastes. In this scenario, implementing the information system has helped the organization to gain a competitive advantage by
A) locking in customers
B) reducing costs
C) locking in suppliers
D) differentiating the products
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Hardware, Software, and Mobile Systems
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Q1) Why are mobile systems important?
Q2) ________ refers to data delivered to the user at the precise moment it is needed.
A) Asynchronous data
B) Just-in-time data
C) Source code
D) Payload
Q3) In ________ process, a server hosts many versions of desktop operating systems.
A) PC virtualization
B) server virtualization
C) desktop virtualization
D) application virtualization
Q4) A central processing unit (CPU) is also called "the brain" of a computer.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A BYOD (bring your own device) policy is a statement concerning employees' permissions and responsibilities when they use their own device for organizational business.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Database Processing
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Q1) NoSQL databases refer to nonrelational databases that support very high transaction rates processing relatively simple data structures, replicated on many servers in the cloud.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Identify an open source DBMS product.
A) MySQL
B) DB2
C) Access
D) Oracle Database
Q3) A(n) ________ is a program used to create, process, and administer a database.
A) operating system
B) database management system
C) information system
D) database system
Q4) A database is used instead of a spreadsheet when ________.
A) lists of data involve a single theme
B) structures of data lists are simple
C) lists involve data with multiple themes
D) users do not want to store all data in one place
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Chapter 6: The Cloud
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Q1) In three-tier architecture, the server tier consists of computers, phones, and other mobile devices that have browsers that request and process Web pages.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is a characteristic of in-house hosting?
A) in-depth visibility of disaster preparedness
B) small capital requirements
C) industry-wide economies of scale
D) known cost structure
Q3) The most basic cloud offering is platform as a service (PaaS) that is the cloud hosting of a bare server computer or data storage.
A)True
B)False
Q4) For communications equipment, M stands for ________.
A) 1000
B) 1024
C) 1000000
D) 500
Q5) List the functions of an Internet Service Provider (ISP).
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Chapter 7: Processes, Organizations, and Information Systems
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Q1) What are the four challenges of implementing new enterprise systems?
Q2) A stored procedure is a ________.
A) program stored in a database that keeps the database consistent when certain conditions arise
B) history of actions executed by a database management system
C) computer program stored in a database that is used to enforce business rules
D) data structure that improves the speed of data-retrieval operations in a database
Q3) List the problems associated with information silos.
Q4) What are the major ERP products of Microsoft Dynamics?
A) AX, Nav, GP, and Solomon
B) PeopleSoft and Siebel
C) Baan, Zoho, and NetSuite
D) FoxPro, DB2, IDOL, CMDB, and Omi
Q5) Which of the following workgroup processes is related to human resources?
A) lead tracking
B) customer support
C) assessment
D) order management
Q6) Describe the two categories of ERP training.
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Chapter 8: Social Media Information Systems
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Q1) Which of the following is a significant risk of using social media for inbound and outbound logistics?
A) loss of control
B) loss of credibility
C) loss of privacy
D) loss of effectiveness
Q2) Being linked to a network of highly regarded contacts is a form of ________.
A) social credential
B) viral marketing
C) crowdsourcing
D) human capital
Q3) Social media has been widely used in businesses-to-consumer (B2C) relationships to market product to end users.
A)True
B)False
Q4) When problematic content causes an organization to do something positive as a result, it is best for the organization to ignore the issue without responding to the content.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Business Intelligence Systems
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of a supervised data mining technique?
A) cluster analysis
B) market-basket analysis
C) regression analysis
D) click streaming
Q2) Which of the following terms is used as a synonym for data mining?
A) regression analysis
B) data warehousing
C) knowledge discovery in databases (KDD)
D) parallel processing in databases (PPD)
Q3) Ajax Inc. is one of the customers of a well-known linen manufacturing company. Ajax has not ordered linen in some time, but when it did order in the past it ordered frequently, and its orders were of the highest monetary value. Under the given circumstances, Ajax is most likely to have an RFM score of ________.
A) 155
B) 511
C) 555
D) 151
Q4) Describe expert systems and their primary disadvantages.
Q5) Describe the functions of data warehouses and the need for them.
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Chapter 10: Information Systems Security
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Q1) Define encryption and explain symmetric and asymmetric encryption for computer systems.
Q2) Users of smart cards are required to enter a ________ to be authenticated.
A) Social Security number
B) public key
C) personal identification number
D) private key
Q3) What is the basic information that a security policy must stipulate?
Q4) ________ occurs through human error when employees do not follow proper procedures or when procedures have not been well designed.
A) Unauthorized data disclosure
B) Incorrect data modification
C) Denial of service
D) Loss of infrastructure
Q5) An Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is a sophisticated computer hack that is perpetrated by large, well-funded organizations such as governments.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What is a virus? Differentiate between Trojan horses and worms.
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Chapter 11: Information Systems Management
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Q1) An outsource vendor changes its strategic direction. Under which of the following outsourcing risks can this be associated?
A) de facto sole source
B) superfluous chief information officer (CIO)
C) diseconomies of scale
D) loss of control
Q2) It is impossible to cap financial risk by outsourcing.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A steering committee is a group of senior managers from the major business functions that works with the chief information officer (CIO) to set the information systems (IS) priorities.
A)True
B)False
Q4) An organization should protect a user's computer and its files. A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain how the benefits of outsourcing are outweighed by its long-term costs.
Q6) Describe the chief information officers, or CIO's typical reporting relationships.
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Chapter 12: Information Systems Development
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Q1) In a Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) diagram, a ________ represents an activity.
A) dotted arrow
B) rectangle
C) diamond
D) solid arrow
Q2) What are the phases of the systems development life cycle (SDLC)?
Q3) What are the principles of agile development?
Q4) In the system definition phase of the systems development life cycle (SDLC), schedule feasibility is difficult to determine because it is hard to estimate the time it will take to build the system.
A)True
B)False
Q5) An information system need not relate to any business process, but a business process should relate to at least one information system.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are the types of arrows used in the swim-lane layout of Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)?
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