Management Information Systems
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Course Introduction
Management Information Systems explores the intersection of technology, organizations, and people, focusing on how businesses use information systems to improve efficiency, decision-making, and competitive advantage. The course covers fundamental concepts such as systems development, database management, enterprise resource planning, cybersecurity, and e-commerce. Students will examine real-world case studies and develop an understanding of how MIS supports operations, enables strategic objectives, and drives innovation across various industries. Emphasis is placed on both the technical and managerial aspects of information systems, preparing students to critically assess and implement technology solutions in a business context.
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Experiencing MIS 7th Edition by David M. Kroenke
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Chapter 1: The Importance of Mis
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Q1) A group of components that interact to achieve some purpose is referred to as a(n)________.
A)system
B)element
C)unit
D)entity
Answer: A
Q2) What is a marketable skill?
Answer: A marketable skill used to be that one could name particular skills, such as computer programming, tax accounting, or marketing, as examples of marketable skills.But today, because of Moore's Law, because the cost of data processing, storage, and communications is essentially zero, any routine skill can and will be outsourced to the lowest bidder.One has to develop strong nonroutine cognitive skills to be more successful and such skills are called marketable skills.Abstract reasoning, systems thinking, collaboration, and the ability to experiment are also classified as marketable skills.
Q3) Strong nonroutine cognitive skills are more in demand than routine skills.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Business Processes, Information Systems, and Information
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Q1) In some business cases, a role can be fulfilled by an information system.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q2) Data delivered with active graphics need not be cross-checked for accuracy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) An accountant is trying to access product data and information on prior purchases for a particular product.Which of the following does the accountant access to obtain the information?
A)Vendor Data Repository
B)sequence flow
C)Vendor Order Repository
D)data flow
Answer: A
Q4) Repositories are collections of data.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Organizational Strategy, Information Systems
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Q1) Differentiate between value and margin.
Answer: Porter defined value as the amount of money that a customer is willing to pay for a resource, product, or service.The difference between the value that an activity generates and the cost of the activity is called the margin.A business with a differentiation strategy will add cost to an activity only as long as the activity has a positive margin.
Q2) Focused differentiation is a strategy in which a product is unique and is used by a wide range of consumers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Two companies with the same value chain activities will have the same business processes.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Value chains exist in service-oriented companies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Hardware and Software
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Q1) Computer hardware consists of electronic components that input, process, output, and store data.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Magnetic and optical disks are examples of nonvolatile memory.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The central processing unit (CPU)of a computer reads data and instructions only from a read-only memory.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ________ software provides capabilities that are common across all organizations and industries.
A)Vertical-market application
B)Custom-developed
C)Horizontal-market application
D)Off-the-shelf with alterations
Q5) High-end computers can have as many as 16 central processing units.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Database Processing
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Q1) Browser applications are thin-client applications that need not be preinstalled on the users' computers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Monitoring the performance of a database after providing solutions for improving its performance is an activity of the DBMS pertaining to ________.
A)creation
B)modification
C)processing
D)administration
Q3) NoSQL database management system products are very technical and can be used only by those with a deep background in computer science.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following best describes a byte in a database?
A)It is a character of data.
B)It is a group of rows.
C)It is a collection of data.
D)It is a group of columns.
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Chapter 6: The Cloud
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Q1) What are the advantages of building an internal information system using Web services?
Q2) What is a virtual private cloud? What are its advantages?
Q3) Explain why cloud-based hosting does not make sense for some organizations.
Q4) Which of the following is an advantage of in-house hosting?
A)It requires very small capital.
B)It gives greater control over the location of data.
C)It has the ability to adapt to growing or fluctuating demands.
D)It eliminates the risk of obsolescence.
Q5) Service oriented architecture (SOA)is a way of designing computer programs so that they can be combined flexibly.
A)True
B)False
Q6) An internal information system built using Web services is said to be using the cloud if it ________.
A)allocates specific servers to each task
B)offers elasticity in the usage of servers
C)uses the Intranet
D)provides platform as a service (PaaS)
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Q7) Explain how a content delivery network ensures fast delivery of data on demand.
Chapter 7: Organizations and Information Systems
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Q1) Enterprise application integration (EAI)connects system "islands" via a new layer of software.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements is true of enterprise information systems?
A)They are information systems that are shared by two or more independent organizations.
B)The solutions to problems in these systems usually involve more than one department.
C)They typically support less than 100 users.
D)They are called personal information systems if they support a particular business function.
Q3) Inter-enterprise PRIDE systems are referred to as ________ because in such systems processing is divided across multiple computing devices.
A)distributed systems
B)departmental information systems
C)business intelligence systems
D)integrated systems
Q4) Explain the four phases of the customer life cycle.
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Chapter 8: Social Media Information Systems
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Q1) To an organization, the strength of a relationship is the likelihood that an entity in the relationship will do something that benefits the organization.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Traditional customer relationship management (CRM)flies in the face of structured and controlled processes of social CRM.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Social media (SM)application providers store and retrieve SM data on behalf of users.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Social media sites that become too defensive can be perceived as promulgating an unpopular management message.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Content data is data about relationships.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Business Intelligence Systems
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Q1) The data that an organization purchases from data vendors can act as the source data for a business intelligence system.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Explain the curse of dimensionality.
Q3) In the case of ________, data miners develop models prior to conducting analyses and then apply statistical techniques to data to estimate parameters of the models.
A)pull publishing techniques
B)supervised data mining
C)push publishing techniques
D)unsupervised data mining
Q4) Users in a data mart obtain data that pertain to a particular business function from a data warehouse.
A)True
B)False
Q5) An advantage of data warehouses is the low cost required to create, staff, and operate them.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Information Systems Security
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Q1) Malware definitions are patterns that exist in malware code.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is a data safeguard against security threats?
A)application design
B)accountability
C)physical security
D)malware protection
Q3) Pretexting occurs when someone deceives by pretending to be someone else.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The loss of encryption keys by employees is referred to as key escrow.
A)True
B)False
Q5) With asymmetric encryption, two different keys are used for encoding and decoding a message.
A)True B)False
Q6) Explain how secure sockets layer works when a user communicates securely with a Web site.
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Chapter 11: Information Systems Management
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Q1) Information Systems (IS)infrastructure is known to be very malleable.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is a responsibility of a systems analyst?
A)advising the chief information officer on emerging technologies
B)determining system requirements
C)monitoring and fixing computer networks
D)managing the IT department
Q3) Explain the rights of information systems users.
Q4) The membership of a steering committee is determined by the CEO and other members of the executive staff.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The ________ group within the information systems (IS)department manages the process of creating new information systems as well as maintaining existing information systems.
A)technology
B)operations
C)development
D)data administration
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Chapter 12: Information Systems Development
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Q1) Which of the following is the most important phase in the SDLC?
A)define the goals and scope of the new information system
B)implement the information system
C)determine the system's requirements
D)adapt systems to changes in requirements
Q2) The systems development life cycle process is supposed to operate in a sequence of nonrepetitive phases.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In pilot installation, a new system is installed in phases across an organization.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ________ testing is the process of allowing future system users to try out a new system on their own.
A)Unit
B)Alpha
C)Integration
D)Beta
Q5) What are the five phases of the systems development life cycle (SDLC)?
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Chapter 13: Collaboration Information Systems for Decision Making
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Q1) Judy heads the marketing department, which has the maximum number of employees in her organization.To improve the efficiency of the employees, Judy forms ten teams and gives each one a different target.At the end of the quarter, the most successful team would be chosen and awarded.Which of the following primary criteria should Judy use to judge the success of the teams?
A)changes in organizational structure
B)growth in team capacity
C)working in a series of stages
D)meaningful and satisfying experience
Q2) ________ is the first and most fundamental collaboration purpose.
A)Decision making
B)Informing
C)Managing projects
D)Experimenting
Q3) A cooperative result is usually better in quality than the result of someone working alone.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the three primary criteria for successful collaboration.
Q5) Differentiate between cooperation and collaboration with examples.
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Chapter 14: Collaborative Information Systems for Student Projects
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Q1) Email is a tool used for synchronous communication.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ________ are virtual meetings in which attendees view one of the attendees' computer screens for formal and organized presentations.
A)Discussion forums
B)Screen-sharing applications
C)Conference calls
D)Webinars
Q3) If a virtual meeting is synchronous, participants can interact with each other through ________.
A)discussion forums
B)videoconferencing
C)email
D)team surveys
Q4) In team surveys, one team member creates a list of questions and the other team members respond.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Mobile Systems
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Q1) ________ languages can be used to create difficult, complex applications, and, if used properly, will result in high-performance code that is easy to alter when requirements change.
A)Assembly
B)Data-oriented
C)Object-oriented
D)Hardware description
Q2) Mobile systems are information systems that support users in motion.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is true of push data?
A)It is data that a device requests from a server.
B)It is less impressive to users than pull data.
C)It is uploaded by the user onto a server.
D)The user needs to do nothing to receive it.
Q4) Native mobile applications only run on the operating system for which they are programmed.
A)True
B)False
Q5) State the primary characteristics of a quality mobile application.
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Chapter 16: Introduction to Microsoft Excel 2013
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A)True
B)False
Q2) Explain the process of naming the rows, columns, and cells in Microsoft Excel.
Q3) A user enters a formula into cell G9.Which of the following would be possible if the user presses the F2 function key after selecting the cell G9?
A)The formula in G9 can be edited without retyping the entire formula.
B)The formula can be copied to the clipboard.
C)A graph can be created based on the cells that appear in the formula.
D)The formula in the cell can be locked.
Q4) Explain the process of inserting rows and columns in Microsoft Excel.
Q5) The real power of Excel lies in its amazing computational capability.Explain.
Q6) While copying a formula, Excel can adjust the terms of the formula to refer to the cells, in the row to which it is copied.
A)True
B)False
Q7) What is a spreadsheet?
Q8) What are the different ways of entering data into an Excel worksheet?
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Chapter 17: Database Design
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Q1) The process of converting poorly structured tables into two or more well-structured tables is referred to as ________.
A)replication
B)integration
C)actualization
D)normalization
Q2) The data integrity problem can occur only if data are missing.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Database practitioners classify tables into various normal forms according to the kinds of problems they have.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the steps involved in transforming a data model into a relational database design?
Q5) The maximum number of entities that can be involved in a relationship is known as maximum cardinality.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Using Microsoft Access 2013
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Q1) In Microsoft Access, the description of fields is used to ________.
A)document the details of each field
B)define rules for how each field should behave
C)define how the fields should behave in case of exceptions
D)specify the data types of the fields
Q2) By default, for queries of two or more tables, Microsoft Access shows only those rows that have value matches in both tables.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Description field in Microsoft Access is used mainly for documentation. A)True
B)False
Q4) Before using any database management system (DBMS), a user should create a data model based on users' requirements.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the procedure for establishing a relationship between two tables in Microsoft Access.
Q6) Explain the procedure for creating a new database using Microsoft Access.
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Chapter 19: Using Excel and Access Together
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Q1) While saving data in text files, commas cannot be used to separate field data if the data itself contains commas.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In Microsoft Access, the Totals button is present in the ________ section of the Design tab.
A)Import/Export
B)Show/Hide
C)Query Type
D)Query Setup
Q3) Microsoft Access is a database management system.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A user can produce two different reports from a single set of Microsoft Excel data, by importing this data into Microsoft Access and using the Access report generator.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How are group totals created in Microsoft Access?
Q6) How can Microsoft Excel be used to graph Microsoft Access data?
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Chapter 20: Network and Cloud Technology
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Q1) An internet is a network of networks that connects local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), and other internets.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is HTTP? How does it work?
Q3) With a wide area network (WAN), an organization can place communications lines wherever it wants because all lines reside on its premises.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A(n)________ connects computers at different geographical locations.
A)local area network
B)wide area network
C)Ethernet
D)Econet
Q5) The TCP/IP Protocol architecture uses the same protocol in all its layers.
A)True
B)False
Q6) How does a Web server differ from a commerce server?
Q7) What is a domain name? What is the procedure to get a domain name?
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Chapter 21: Enterprise Resource Planning Erpsystems
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Q1) The enterprise resource planning (ERP)training sessions in which the implementing organization's employees teach the ERP trainers about the organization's processes are called train the trainer.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Oracle's enterprise resource planning (ERP)products are designed according to SOA principles and hence are adaptable and customizable.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements describes a trigger?
A)It is a computer program stored within a database that runs to keep the database consistent when certain conditions arise.
B)It is a computer program stored in a database that is used to enforce business rules.
C)It is a set of inherent procedures in an enterprise resource planning (ERP)solution that implement standard business processes.
D)It is a programming paradigm that describes computation in terms of statements that change a program state.
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Chapter 22: Supply Chain Management
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Q1) Which of the following is used as the measure of supply chain speed?
A)dollar value of goods exchanged in a given period of time
B)amount of goods exchanged in a given period of time
C)total profit generated by the components of supply chain
D)time taken to transport goods from one component to another
Q2) Every supply chain has four basic components: suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Explain the bullwhip effect with an example.
Q4) Information systems do not support just-in-time inventory.
A)True B)False
Q5) As a factor affecting supply chain performance, inventory includes all of the materials in the supply chain, including raw materials, in-process work, and finished goods.
A)True B)False
Q6) Define supply chain profitability.How is it different from individual organizational profitability?
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Chapter 23: Enterprise Social Networks and Knowledge Management
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Q1) Which of the following is a challenge for content management systems (CMS)?
A)Content databases cannot hold large numbers of documents.
B)Documents exist in isolation from each other.
C)The systems must maintain linkages among documents.
D)CMS content is static.
Q2) Using enterprise social networks (ESNs), employees can bypass managers and post ideas directly for the CEO to read.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is the first step in developing a social media information system (SMIS)?
A)Define what the organization wants to achieve with social media.
B)Identify metrics that will indicate whether an organization has achieved its goals.
C)Maximize metrics like conversion rate and bounce rate.
D)Identify the organization's target audience.
Q4) Success metrics are also known as key performance indicators (KPIs).
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the alternatives to content management applications?
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Q1) The RFM score is obtained by ranking customers based on the positive feedback for a product after purchasing it.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A reporting system that generates RFM data can be automated.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The more frequently two items occur in the same transaction, the higher the probability of them being purchased together.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Define the three market-basket terminologies: support, confidence, and lift.
Q5) The frequency of customer purchases is not a determining factor for RFM scores.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Which of the following RFM scores refers to the most valuable customer?
A)111
B)555
C)123
D)333
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Q1) For query reports, the report delivery system serves as an intermediary between a user and a report generator.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the difference between push and pull reports?
Q3) Steve, the branch manager at a brokerage firm, is concerned about the sudden dip in stock prices.He asks for a report on the current stock prices to analyze the incurred loss.The report Steve requires is an example of a(n)________.
A)static report
B)dynamic report
C)exception report
D)query report
Q4) Push reports are generated only on receiving a user request.
A)True
B)False
Q5) An online analytical processing (OLAP)cube is a characteristic of a measure in an OLAP report.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 26: Data Breaches
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Q1) A(n)________ is used to examine traffic passing through an organization's internal network.
A)honeypot
B)attack vector
C)security protocols open repository
D)network intrusion detection system
Q2) The purpose of a business continuity planning session in an organization is to
A)discuss how to return the organization to normal operations as quickly as possible after a data breach
B)build plans to increase the market presence of the organization and increase its user base
C)identify new markets that will accelerate the growth of the organization
D)understand the type of information stored by the organization and implement relevant security measures as required by regulatory laws
Q3) List some of the regulatory laws that govern the secure storage of data in certain industries.
Q4) Explain the basic countermeasures to be taken by organizations to protect themselves against data breaches.
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Q1) The emergence of ________ technologies has made it easier for companies all over the world to obtain the latest in server technology.
A)international cloud
B)big data
C)data mining
D)distributed database
Q2) Information systems are used to reduce or eliminate the bullwhip effect, hence, saving costs.
A)True
B)False
Q3) With the fall of the Soviet Union, the economies of Russia and Eastern Europe became alienated from the rest of the world market.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Due to information systems, any value chain activity can be performed from anywhere in the world.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the problems of inherent processes?
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Chapter 28: Systems Development Project Management
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Q1) ________ is the process by which users agree to one set of conditions, then add a bit more, then add a bit more, and so forth.
A)Requirements creep
B)Diseconomies of scale
C)Configuration control
D)Coordination
Q2) Which of the following is a technique that stipulates phases and processes for constructing information systems (IS)but does not address the management of large-scale projects?
A)systems development life cycle
B)rapid application development
C)agile software development
D)structured system analysis
Q3) ________ is a knowledge area that concerns contracts with outside vendors for services, materials, and outsourcing of functions.
A)Communications management
B)Quality management
C)Project integration
D)Procurement management
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Q1) Which of the following is true of paired programming?
A)Two team members get together and write two separate programs.
B)Two members share the same computer and write a program together.
C)A team member writes two programs.
D)A team member and the customer pair up to write a program.
Q2) Why is the systems development life cycle (SDLC)called the waterfall method?
A)It does not return to a development phase that has been completed.
B)It uses feedback from team members to schedule tasks.
C)It delivers a working version of the product at frequent intervals.
D)It can be used only for projects on information systems.
Q3) Extreme programming is one of the alternatives to the systems development life cycle (SDLC).
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the principles of agile development methodologies?
Q5) According to the scrum essentials, when is a project said to be done?
Q6) Agile development methodologies advocate the design of the complete system at the beginning.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 30: Business Process Management
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Q1) Creating computer programs and designing databases in-house is more affordable than buying off-the-shelf software.
A)True
B)False
Q2) An application that includes business processes as part of the package requires time for integration and training.
A)True B)False
Q3) Repositories are most often collections of data.
A)True B)False
Q4) A business process need not use just one information system.
A)True B)False
Q5) What are the three principles that relate business processes and information systems?
Q6) The relation between business processes and information systems is many-to-many.
A)True
B)False
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Q7) Describe business process management (BPM)in brief.
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