IT in Business Pre-Test Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores the pivotal role of information technology (IT) in modern business environments. Students will examine how organizations deploy IT solutions to improve operations, drive innovation, enhance decision-making, and maintain competitive advantage. Key topics include IT infrastructure, data management, enterprise software, digital transformation, cybersecurity, and the strategic alignment of IT with business objectives. Through case studies and practical assignments, learners will gain insight into current trends and challenges at the intersection of business and technology.
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Introduction to Information Systems 2nd Edition by Patricia Wallace
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Chapter 1: Information Systems and People
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Q1) Raw facts that are available in different formats and sizes are called ________.
A) information
B) data
C) insights
D) knowledge
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following refers to facts that are assembled and analyzed to add meaning and usefulness?
A) insights
B) information
C) knowledge
D) systems
Answer: B
Q3) Which of the following is a constraint on crisis management teams?
A) They lack backup systems.
B) They have very little time to react and take action.
C) They lack tools to identify the source of security breaches.
D) They have limited organizational policies to guide them in such situations.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Information Systems and Strategy
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Q1) Which of the following is true of an ecosystem?
A) An ecosystem insulates Porter's five forces against disruptive innovations.
B) Events in one arena of an ecosystem can affect all players involved.
C) The power of suppliers and the threat of new entrants are reduced in an ecosystem.
D) An ecosystem can reduce the complementary effect between products and services.
Answer: B
Q2) In the context of Porter's five forces, what impact will patents have on a business?
A) Patents will increase market competition.
B) Patents will increase the number of substitutes for a given product.
C) Patents will reduce the threat of new entrants in an industry.
D) Patents will reduce the bargaining power of suppliers.
Answer: C
Q3) A benchmark is a baseline measurement considered as optimal, though it is sometimes simply an industry average.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Information and Communications
Technologies: The Enterprise Architecture
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Q1) Which of the following is a characteristic of random access memory (RAM)?
A) RAM is more easily accessed and searched than hard disk memory.
B) RAM stores memory permanently for use by the central processing unit.
C) RAM refers to a computer's secondary storage area.
D) RAM is volatile storage that is erased when power is turned off or lost.
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following is a function of operating systems?
A) scanning for viruses
B) maintaining file structures
C) compressing and backing up files
D) performing cleanup routines
Answer: B
Q3) Which of the following statements is true about in-memory computing?
A) It refers to the use of secondary storage as the main place information is stored.
B) It is used for applications that benefit from high speed, real-time access.
C) It is mainly used for backup and recovery.
D) It slows down processes to a great extent.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Databases and DataWarehouses
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Q1) Batch processing is defined as ________.
A) the sequential execution of operations on each record in a large set
B) the arrangement of data in a table as records and fields
C) the removal of duplicates from a set of data
D) the strategy of defining and linking records
Q2) One goal of normalization is to ________.
A) duplicate essential information
B) assign primary keys to every table
C) reduce the number of foreign keys
D) make data functionally dependent
Q3) In Aster Limited, the HR department did not include interns as employees in their database, while the finance department included them. Such inconsistencies can be avoided through ________.
A) shadow system
B) normalization
C) database schema
D) master data management
Q4) What are the characteristics of high-quality information?
Q5) 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) Giving clear definitions and tags to financial terms using eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) makes data ________.
A) less transparent
B) manually manageable
C) concise and error-free
D) computer-readable
Q2) Which of the following components of the HCM systems focuses on employee life cycle and career development?
A) workforce management modules
B) social networking software
C) service delivery modules
D) talent management applications
Q3) Identifying high-cost points along the supply chain is the first step toward reducing operational costs.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How do supply chains benefit from sensing technologies?
Q5) What is sentiment analysis? Explain, with an example, how it can help businesses.
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Q1) Which of the following websites would have the highest web accessibility?
A) a website which is designed in the classic gray-white-blue color scheme that is pleasant to the eye and allows visitors to focus on texts and information
B) a website that has a search functionality which confines the search to the website rather than the whole web, to make it easy for visitors to locate relevant information
C) a website which uses search engine optimization, which is linking certain keywords to the website so that anybody searching for these words on a search engine will be directed to the site
D) a website in which text and images are large and/or enlargeable, to make it easier for users with poor sight to read and understand the content
Q2) Which of the following elements of website usability refers to the mistakes made by users when they attempt to accomplish a task and how easy it is to recover from those mistakes?
A) trial rate
B) error rate
C) attrition rate
D) churn rate
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Chapter 7: Business Intelligence and Decision Making
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Q1) The term ________ refers to an approach to aggregating content from internal and external sources on customizable web pages that relies on Web 2.0 technologies.
A) mashup
B) neural network
C) expert system
D) portal
Q2) The term ________ refers to data associated with revealing customer behavior patterns, such as time spent on the page, the URL the visitor just left, and the visitor's IP address.
A) packet data
B) Internet traffic
C) keystroke log
D) clickstream data
Q3) The term ________ refers to quantifiable metrics used to evaluate an organization or an individual's success in a particular activity.
A) dashboards
B) key performance indicators
C) mashups
D) portal
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Chapter 8: Collaborating with Technology
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Q1) Poise, a fashion apparel brand, intends to increase its online presence by creating online communities with its customers as members. The customers can interact with each other as well as the company. The generated information can then be used for developing future products. Which of the following is the company most likely to make use of?
A) electronic mail system
B) instant messaging system
C) social networking system
D) video conferencing system
Q2) Disinhibition is extremely high in relatively anonymous text-based online environments.
A)True
B)False
Q3) On microblogging sites, a hashtag is used to indicate that ________.
A) a set of posts are on a similar topic
B) users are away from their systems
C) a post links away from the site
D) a user posts objectionable content
Q4) How are group dynamics in virtual teams different from those in real-world teams?
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Chapter 9: Knowledge Management and E-Learning
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Q1) Which of the following is a feature of human capital?
A) It represents the knowledge that a company's customers have about its products.
B) It refers to the knowledge stored as documentation about patents, contracts, and policies.
C) It consists of competencies and knowledge possessed by an organization's employees.
D) It refers to the number and quality of all the relationships an organization's employees maintain.
Q2) What is a semantic web?
Q3) Knowledge that is elusive in nature and encompasses insights, judgment, creative processes, and wisdom that come with long experience in a field, as well as many trials and errors is known as ________.
A) inert knowledge
B) tacit knowledge
C) explicit knowledge
D) metaknowledge
Q4) Discuss the key steps involved in knowledge management.
Q5) How is explicit knowledge different from tacit knowledge?
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Chapter 10: Ethics, Privacy, and Security
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true of natural laws and rights?
A) Natural laws and rights does not consider the actual consequences of an action when judging its morality.
B) Natural laws and rights is an ethical framework that takes into account the effects of an action, weighing its good effects against its harmful ones.
C) Natural laws and rights involves judging what action would create the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
D) Natural laws and rights is a framework based on the central tenet that states, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
Q2) Digitization of intellectual property (IP) results in better enforcement of IP laws. A)True B)False
Q3) Discuss how malware and botnets threaten the security of intellectual property.
Q4) What is digital rights management? Explain some challenges faced while using DRM schemes.
Q5) What is the purpose of a risk matrix in an organization?
Q6) Write a brief note on encryption of digital information.
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Chapter 11: Systems Development and Procurement
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Q1) A phased implementation is an expensive process that launches a new system while the old one is still running.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the ________, tasks are not sequenced according to the SDLC and many activities occur simultaneously.
A) V-model method
B) agile method
C) iterated method
D) waterfall method
Q3) What is a request for information (RFI) invitation? How is it related to a request for proposal (RFP)?
Q4) A use case diagram is used to indicate how ________.
A) direct implementation is carried out in companies
B) users can switch from one operating system to another
C) database tables are interconnected with one another
D) different types of users will interact with a system
Q5) What are the different steps in the systems development life cycle (SDL C)? What does the first step of the SDLC entail?
Q6) What is a requirements analysis? Explain.
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Chapter 12: Project Management and Strategic Planning
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Q1) A ________ refers to the tendency to underestimate the time it will take to complete a task.
A) regression fallacy
B) planning fallacy
C) deductive fallacy
D) continuum fallacy
Q2) A(n) ________ is an initiating process where stakeholders meet one another, sometimes for the first and only time.
A) kickoff meeting
B) board meeting
C) pre-bid meeting
D) annual general meeting
Q3) A ________ is a document that authorizes a project and includes a clear statement of objectives, estimated start and end dates, the names of the relevant people and their roles, a tentative budget, criteria for success, and other pertinent information.
A) project charter
B) burn down chart
C) business case
D) project proposal
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