IT Strategy and Management Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
IT Strategy and Management explores the alignment of information technology with organizational goals to drive business value and competitive advantage. The course covers strategic planning frameworks, governance structures, and leadership principles necessary for effective IT management. Key topics include assessing emerging technologies, managing IT investments, risk management, digital transformation, and the development of IT policies. Students will gain practical skills in analyzing business requirements, formulating IT strategies, and leading technology-driven change in diverse organizational settings.
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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) If you were thinking about an oven as a system, which of the following represents the feedback?
A)the uncooked food
B)the cooked food
C)a light indicating that the oven has reached the preheated temperature
D)the oven running at 350 degrees for 20 minutes
Answer: C
Q2) Why do students need to study information technology?
A)Information technology is everywhere in business.
B)Information technology is rarely discussed in business.
C)Information technology is rarely used in organizations.
D)Information technology is found in only a few businesses.
Answer: A
Q3) Which department records, measures, and reports monetary transactions?
A)sales
B)operations management
C)accounting
D)finance
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Decisions and Processes: Value Driven Business
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Q1) What would a company like eBay or Amazon be constantly benchmarking?
A)MIS efficiency
B)MIS effectiveness
C)MIS efficiency and MIS effectiveness
D)usability metrics only
Answer: C
Q2) What form of processes include loan processing for a bank, claims processing for an insurance company, reservation processing for a hotel, and baggage handling for an airline?
A)customer-facing processes
B)business-facing processes
C)industry-specific customer-facing processes
D)All of these are correct.
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following is an example of static processes?
A)employee layoffs
B)order level changes based on currency rates
C)canceling business travel due to extreme weather
D)creating financial statements
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Ebusiness: Electronic Business Value
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Q1) The network effect describes how products in a network increase in value to users as the number of users increases.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) What is an open system?
A)any proprietary software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder
B)any software whose source code is made available free for any third party to review and modify
C)contains instructions written by a programmer specifying the actions to be performed by computer software
D)consists of nonproprietary hardware and software based on publically known standards that allow third parties to create add-on products to plug into or interoperate Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Ethics and Information Security: Mis Business
Concerns: Module 2: Technical Foundations of MIS
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Q1) Which of the following is not an example of unplanned downtime?
A)power outages
B)tornados
C)a system upgrade
D)network failure
Q2) What is a data file that identifies individuals or organizations online and is comparable to a digital signature?
A)digital certificate
B)encryption
C)decrypt
D)cryptography
Q3) What is the process of monitoring and responding to what is being said about a company, individual, product, or brand?
A)social media monitoring
B)social media manager
C)social media policy
D)anti-spam policy
Q4) Ethics and security are two fundamental building blocks for all organizations.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies
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Q1) What is scalability?
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
Q2) What is a widely held but difficult to achieve standard of availability for a system?
A)"five 9s" availability
B)"1%" minimum availability
C)the "five's accessibility" code
D)"five 10s" availability
Q3) Cloud fabric is the software that makes the benefits of cloud computing possible, such as multi-tenancy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.
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Chapter 6: Data: Business Intelligence
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Q1) Optimization is a statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Determining if all total columns equal the true total of the individual item is an example of a consistent characteristic of high-quality information.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Big data is a collection of large, complex data sets, including structured and unstructured data, which cannot be analyzed using traditional database methods and tools.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Structured data has a defined length, type, and format and includes numbers, dates, or strings such as Customer Address.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Identify the business advantages of a relational database.
Q6) Explain the four primary traits that determine the value of information.
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Chapter 7: Networks: Mobile Business: Module 3: Enterprise
MIS
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Q1) What receives and repeats a signal extending its attenuation or range?
A)proxy
B)broadband over power line
C)attenuation
D)repeater
Q2) What is Bluetooth?
A)means the technology can travel with the user; for instance, users can download software, email messages, and web pages onto a laptop or other mobile device
B)refers to any type of operation accomplished without the use of a hard-wired connection
C)a wireless PAN technology that transmits signals over short distances among cell phones, computers, and other devices
D)provides communication for devices owned by a single user that work over a short distance
Q3) The main challenges facing networks include security and social, ethical, and political issues.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the different wireless network categories.
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Chapter 8: Enterprise Applications: Business Communications
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Q1) In which of the five basic supply chain activities do you support customers and product returns?
A)plan
B)source
C)deliver
D)return
Q2) Supply chain visibility ensures supply chain cohesion by automating the different activities of the supply chain.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Balanced scorecard is a management system, as well as a measurement system, that a firm uses to translate business strategies into executable tasks.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Logistics includes activities that govern the flow of tangible, physical materials through the supply chain such as shipping, transport, distribution, and warehousing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Systems Development and Project
Management: Corporateresponsibility
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Q1) What is a data flow diagram (DFD)?
A)an illustration of the movement of information between external entities and the processes and data stores within the system
B)software suites that automate systems analysis, design, and development
C)a formal, approved document that manages and controls the entire project
D)a graphical representation of the processes that capture, manipulate, store, and distribute information between a system and its environment
Q2) Which methodology aims for customer satisfaction through early and continuous delivery of useful software components developed by an iterative process with a design point that uses the bare minimum requirements?
A)RAD methodology
B)agile methodology
C)waterfall methodology
D)extreme programming
Q3) Offshore outsourcing uses organizations from developing countries to write code and develop systems.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Hardware and Software Basics
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Q1) What is similar to a desktop but has more powerful mathematical and graphics processing capabilities and can perform more complicated tasks in less time?
A)tablet
B)PDA
C)workstation
D)minicomputer
Q2) An appliance is a computer dedicated to a single function, such as a calculator or computer game.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What software helps save information if a computer crashes?
A)disk optimization software
B)safe mode
C)crash-proof software
D)disk image software
Q4) Gigahertz is the number of millions of CPU cycles per second.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the difference between primary and secondary storage.
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Chapter 11: Networks and Telecommunications
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Q1) Which of the following is not a network topology?
A)bus
B)ring
C)ethernet
D)star
Q2) File transfer protocol (FTP) allows files containing text, programs, graphics, numerical data, and so on to be downloaded off or uploaded onto a network.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A network operating system (NOS) is the operating system that runs a network, steering information between computers and managing security and users.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Wireless media are transmission material manufactured so that signals will be confined to a narrow path and will behave predictably.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Compare LANs, WANs, and MANs.
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Knowledge-Glossary
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Q1) A foreign key is a primary key of one table that appears as an attribute in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship between the two tables.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A one-to-many relationship occurs between two entities in which an instance of one entity can be related to only one instance of a related entity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What kind of attribute can be calculated using the value of another attribute?
A)single-valued attribute
B)multivalued attribute
C)derived attribute
D)stored attribute
Q4) Which of the following statements is accurate?
A)A correct business rule for one organization may not be correct for another organization.
B)Each business rule will have entities and sometimes even attributes.
C)A typical business may have hundreds of business rules.
D)All of these are correct.
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