IT in Business Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
This course explores the strategic role of Information Technology (IT) within modern business environments, focusing on how digital systems and solutions can drive efficiency, innovation, and competitive advantage. Students will learn about the integration of IT with business processes, data management, e-commerce, cybersecurity, and emerging digital trends. Through case studies and practical applications, the course emphasizes decision-making, project management, and the ethical considerations involved in leveraging IT to solve business challenges.
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Business Driven Information Systems 5th Edition by Paige Baltzan
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Chapter 1: Management Information Systems: Business Driven
MIS
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Q1) Businesses rarely need to update business strategies as the business environment remains relatively stable.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) What is supplier power?
A)the ability of buyers to affect the price they must pay for an item
B)the suppliers' ability to influence the prices they charge for supplies (including materials, labor, and services)
C)high when it is easy for new competitors to enter a market and low when there are significant entry barriers to joining a market
D)high when there are many alternatives to a product or service and low when there are few alternatives from which to choose
Answer: B
Q3) Buyer power is included as one of Porter's three generic strategies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Decisions and Processes: Value Driven Business
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Q1) A business management system is a graphic description of a process, showing the sequence of process tasks, which is developed for a specific purpose and from a selected viewpoint.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which type of AI system assigns values of 0 and 1 to vague or ambiguous information?
A)genetic algorithms
B)artificial intelligence
C)fuzzy logic
D)intelligent agents
Answer: C
Q3) What is a graphical display of patterns and complex relationships in large amounts of data?
A)visualization
B)model
C)table
D)digital spreadsheet
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Ebusiness: Electronic Business Value
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Q1) What caused Polaroid to go bankrupt?
A)It failed to have innovative technology and a captive customer base.
B)One-hour film processing and digital cameras stole its market share.
C)People who want instant access to their pictures also want a third party involved.
D)Internet websites such as Flickr and Facebook stole its market share.
Answer: B
Q2) An Internet service provider (ISP) is a company that provides access to the Internet for a monthly fee.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) What occurs when a new radical form of business enters the market that reshapes the way companies and organizations behave?
A)ecommerce model
B)eshop sale
C)paradigm shift
D)Web 1.0
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Ethics and Information Security: Mis Business
Concerns: Module 2: Technical Foundations of MIS
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Q1) Users would agree to all of the following in a typical acceptable use policy except
A)not using the service as part of violating any law
B)not posting commercial messages to groups where the employee has received user consent
C)not performing any nonrepudiation
D)not attempting to break the security of any computer network
Q2) Ethics and security are two fundamental building blocks for all organizations.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Through social engineering, hackers use their social skills to trick people into revealing access credentials or other valuable information.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Cyberbullying is an act or object that poses a danger to assets.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the ethical issues in the use of information technology.
Q6) Describe the relationships and differences between hackers and viruses.
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Chapter 5: Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies
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Q1) What is network virtualization?
A)combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device
B)combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device
C)combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications
D)cffers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster
Q2) What is usability?
A)a system that is not operating and cannot be used
B)refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems
C)the degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use
D)describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth
Q3) Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.
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Chapter 6: Data: Business Intelligence
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Q1) Which of the choices below does not represent an organization that requires up-to-the-second information?
A)911 response center
B)stock traders
C)banks
D)construction companies
Q2) A DBMS provides details about data.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Unique information asks if the information is current with respect to the business needs.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Web analytics analyzes unstructured data to find trends and patterns in words and sentences.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A field is a collection of related data elements.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Networks: Mobile Business: Module 3: Enterprise
MIS
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Q1) What occurs when paper maps are laid edge to edge and items that run across maps but do not match are reconfigured to match?
A)automatic vehicle location
B)geographic information system
C)cartography
Q2) IP address is a simple network protocol that allows the transfer of files between two computers on the Internet.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is a coding process that takes a digital map feature and assigns it an attribute that serves as a unique ID (tract number, node number) or classification (soil type, zoning category)?
A)geocoding
B)geocache
C)geocoin
D)All of these are correct.
Q4) Identify the challenges of business mobility.
Q5) Explain the different wireless network business applications.
Q6) Explain the different wireless network categories.
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Chapter 8: Enterprise Applications: Business Communications
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Q1) Which of the following is not one of the five basic components of supply chain management?
A)plan
B)source
C)sale
D)deliver
Q2) Interactive voice response directs customers to use touch-tone phones or keywords to navigate or provide information.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which ERP component is a credit management feature typically included in?
A)accounting and finance components
B)production and managerial management components
C)human resource components
D)production and materials management components
Q4) Cross-selling is increasing the value of the sale.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) Explain integrations and the role they play in connecting a corporation.
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Chapter 9: Systems Development and Project
Management: Corporateresponsibility
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Q1) What is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements?
A)project management
B)project management software
C)scope
D)None of these are correct.
Q2) What is the critical path?
A)the path from resource to task that passes through all critical components of a project plan
B)the path between tasks to the project's finish that passes through all critical components of a project plan
C)the sequence of activities that determine the earliest date by which the project can be completed
D)the path from start to finish that passes through all the tasks that are critical to completing the project in the longest amount of time
Q3) User acceptance testing tests individual units or pieces of code for a system.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Hardware and Software Basics
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Q1) What is the number of billions of CPU cycles per second?
A)megahertz
B)gigahertz
C)CISC
D)RISC
Q2) What is a computer that has a flat screen and uses a mouse or fingertip for input instead of a keyboard?
A)tablet
B)PDA
C)laptop computer
D)desktop computer
Q3) Magnetic medium is a secondary storage medium that uses magnetic techniques to store and retrieve data on disks or tapes coated with magnetically sensitive materials.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Identify the different computer categories and explain their potential business uses.
Q5) Describe the six major categories of hardware and provide an example of each.
Q6) Explain the difference between primary and secondary storage.
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Chapter 11: Networks and Telecommunications
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Q1) What is a peer-to-peer network?
A)a network that enables the transmission of data over public or private networks
B)a communications, data exchange, and resource-sharing system created by linking two or more computers and establishing standards, or protocols, so that they can work together
C)any network without a central file server and in which all computers in the network have access to the public files located on all other workstations
D)a computer that is designed to request information from a server
Q2) List and describe the four components that differentiate networks.
Q3) Wireless media are transmission material manufactured so that signals will be confined to a narrow path and will behave predictably.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is a computer that is designed to request information from a server?
A)client
B)packet-switching
C)peer-to-peer network
D)network operating system
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Knowledge-Glossary
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Q1) A primary key is a field that uniquely identifies a given record in a table.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is composed of rows and columns that represent an entity?
A)field
B)table
C)record
D)key
Q3) Date of birth would be a stored attribute.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What occurs between two entities in which an instance of one entity can be related to many instances of a related entity?
A)one-to-one relationship
B)one-to-many relationship
C)many-to-many relationship
D)composite entity
Q5) A field is composed of rows and columns that represent an entity.
A)True
B)False
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