Management Information Systems
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Course Introduction
Management Information Systems (MIS) explores the integration of information technology with business processes to support organizational operations, management, and decision-making. This course covers the fundamentals of information systems, including hardware, software, databases, telecommunications, and the internet, while emphasizing their strategic role in achieving business objectives. Students will examine how information systems are designed, implemented, and managed, and analyze their impact on organizational efficiency and competitive advantage. Through case studies and practical assignments, learners will develop skills in evaluating and applying technological solutions to real-world business challenges.
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M Information Systems 4th Edition by Paige Baltzan
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Chapter 1: Management Information Systems: Business Driven MIS
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Q1) There are many different stakeholders found in an organization.Stakeholders drive business strategies,and depending on the stakeholder's perspective,the business strategy can change.Which of the following is a main concern for shareholders/investors?
A) Maximize profits
B) Adhere to regulations/laws
C) Exceptional customer service
D) Reliable contracts
Answer: A
Q2) How are the majority of companies today typically organized?
A) By departments or functional areas
B) By departments or financial areas
C) By degree or financial areas
D) By manager or knowledge areas
Answer: A
Q3) The threat of substitute products or services refers to the power of customers to purchase alternatives.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Decisions Processes: Value Driven Business
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Q1) What improves managerial level business processes?
A) Performance measures
B) Bottlenecks
C) Redundancy
D) Streamlining
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the below represents the four main steps in the business process reengineering?
A) Set project problem,study competition,create new products,and implement solution
B) Set project scope,study competition,create new products,and implement solution
C) Set project scope,study competition,create new processes,and implement solution
D) Study competition,set project scope,create new processes,and implement solutions
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Ebusiness: Electronic Business Value
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Q1) Cybermediation refers to the creation of new kinds of intermediaries that simply could not have existed before the advent of ebusiness,including comparison-shopping sites such as Kelkoo and bank account aggregation services such as Citibank.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the follow represents a form of disruptive technology?
A) Enter the marketplace at the low-end
B) A new way of doing things that initially doesn't meet the needs of existing customers
C) Tend to open new markets and destroy old ones
D) All of these choices are included
Answer: D
Q3) A search engine is website software that finds other pages based on keyword matching similar to Google.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Ethics Information Security: MIS Business
Concerns
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Q1) As the president of a local trade company,Kristin is faced with leadership,ethical,and operational decisions on a daily basis.Kristen's responsibilities include examining the organizational resource of information and regulating its definitions,uses,value,and distribution ensuring it has the types of information required to function and grow effectively.What is Kristin overseeing for the company?
A) Information codes
B) Information management
C) Information deployment
D) Information security
Q2) Which of the following is an example of a way to maintain information security that a company should include in their information security policies?
A) Requiring computer users to log off before leaving for lunch
B) Never sharing user or password information with anyone
C) Changing passwords every 30-60 days
D) All of these choices
Q3) Decrypt information is to decode it and is the opposite of encrypt.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Identify the six epolicies organizations should implement to protect themselves.
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Chapter 5: Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies
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Q1) What is portability?
A) A system that is not operating and can't be used
B) Refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms,such as different operating systems
C) Measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction
D) The degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use
Q2) What is the difference between unavailable and high availability?
A) High availability is when the system is not operating and can't be used,where unavailable is when a system is continuously operating at all times.
B) Unavailable only refers to clients,where high availability refers to servers.
C) Unavailable is when the system is not operating and can't be used,where high availability is when a system is continuously operating at all times.
D) High availability only refers to clients,where unavailable refers to servers.
Q3) A black personal computer (black PC)is built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Data: Business Intelligence
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Q1) Data visualization tools can help uncover correlations and trends in data that would otherwise go unrecognized.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is master data management?
A) Occurs when the same data element has different values
B) Occurs when a system produces incorrect,inconsistent,or duplicate data
C) Refers to the overall management of the availability,usability,integrity,and security of company data
D) The practice of gathering data and ensuring that it is uniform,accurate,consistent,and complete,including such entities as customers,suppliers,products,sales,employees,and other critical entities that are commonly integrated across organizational systems
Q3) Which of the following is a problem associated with dirty data?
A) Inaccurate data
B) Misleading data
C) Non-formatted data
D) All of these choices
Q4) Explain ETL and the role of a data mart in business.
Q5) Explain the four primary traits that determine the value of information.
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Chapter 7: Networks: Mobile Business
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Q1) A metropolitan area network (MAN)is a large computer network usually spanning a city.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Some of the social challenges with networking occur with newsgroups or blogs where like-minded people can exchange messages.Problems can arise when sensitive social issues become the topic of discussion such as politics or religion.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What can unified communications merge?
A) IM'ing
B) Videoconferencing
C) Voice Mail
D) All of these choices
Q4) Which of the below is a WAN?
A) Home office
B) Business office
C) College dorm room
D) The Internet
Q5) Explain the different wireless network categories.
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Chapter 8: Enterprise Applications: Business Communications
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Q1) When a user enters or updates information in one ERP module,it is immediately and automatically updated throughout the entire system.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is a common customer service CRM metric?
A) Number of new prospective customers
B) Number of marketing campaigns
C) Average time to resolution
D) Revenue generated by marketing campaigns
Q3) Procurement is the purchasing of goods and services to meet the needs of the supply chain.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain integrations and the role they play in connecting a corporation.
Q5) A forward integration takes information entered into a given system and sends it automatically to all upstream systems and processes.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Identify the core and extended areas of enterprise resource planning.
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Chapter 9: Systems Development and Project Management: Corporate Responsibility
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Q1) Conversion occurs when a person or event is the catalyst for implementing major changes for a system to meet business changes.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Workshop training is held in a classroom environment and led by an instructor.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Loose coupling is the capability of two or more computer systems to share data and resources,even though they are made by different manufacturers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Process modeling illustrates the movement of information between external entities and the processes and data stores within the system.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Preventing liabilities is a business-related consequence of failed software. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Understanding Computer Hardware and Software:
From CPUs to Operating Systems
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Q1) What is a computer designed to meet the computing needs of hundreds of people in a large business environment?
A) Supercomputer
B) Mainframe computer
C) Workstation computer
D) Minicomputer
Q2) What detects the presence or absence of a mark in a predetermined place (popular for multiple-choice exams)?
A) Magnetic ink character reader
B) Optical-character recognition
C) Optical-mark recognition
D) Point-of-sale
Q3) What is a type of CPU that can recognize as many as 100 or more instructions,enough to carry out most computations directly?
A) Megahertz
B) Gigahertz
C) CISC
D) RISC
Q4) List the common input,output,storage,and communication devices.
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Chapter 11: Understanding Telecommunication Systems and Network Topologies
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Q1) What allows the management of networked nodes to be managed from a single point?
A) File transfer protocol (FTP)
B) Simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP)
C) Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)
D) Simple network management protocol (SNMP)
Q2) Which of the following represents the TCP/IP four-layer reference model?
A) Application,Internet,transport,network interfaces
B) Application,Internet,network interfaces,transport
C) Application,transport,Internet,network interfaces
D) Application,network interfaces,Internet,transport
Q3) Which of the following is not one of the differentiating factors of a network?
A) Architecture
B) Topology
C) Protocols
D) Telecommunication system
Q4) Simple network management protocol (SNMP)allows networked nodes to be managed from a single point.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Database Design and Entity Relationships
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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 occurs between two entities in which an instance of one entity can be related to only one instance of a related entity?
A) One-to-one relationship
B) One-to-many relationship
C) Many-to-many relationship
D) Composite entity
Q3) What kind of attribute is age?
A) Null-valued attribute
B) Multi-valued attribute
C) Derived attribute
D) Stored attribute
Q4) What has the potential to contain more than one value for an attribute?
A) Single-valued attribute
B) Multi-valued attribute
C) Null-valued attribute
D) All of these choices
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