Strategic Information Systems
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Course Introduction
Strategic Information Systems explores the role of information systems in supporting and shaping business strategies and organizational goals. The course examines how organizations leverage information technologies to gain competitive advantage, improve performance, and enable innovation. Topics include the alignment of IT and business strategies, the analysis and design of systems to solve complex business problems, the evaluation of emerging technologies, and the ethical and managerial challenges related to implementation. Through case studies and real-world examples, students learn to critically assess and develop IT strategies that drive business success.
Recommended Textbook 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 a home theater system, which of the following represents the outputs?
A)the DVD player, DVD movie, speakers, TV, and electricity
B)playing the movie including the audio through the speakers and the video on the TV
C)a message stating that the disk is dirty and cannot be played
D)spinning the disk to play, pause, rewind, or fast forward
Answer: B
Q2) What is the rate at which goods and services are produced based upon total output given total inputs?
A)goods
B)services
C)production
D)productivity
Answer: D
Q3) A leadership plan that achieves a specific set of goals or objectives is a business strategy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Decisions and Processes: Value Driven Business
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Q1) What is slice-and-dice capability?
A)involves the aggregation of information and features simple roll-ups to complex groupings of interrelated information
B)the ability to look at information from different perspectives
C)enables users to get details, and details of details, of information
D)finds the inputs necessary to achieve a goal such as a desired level of output
Answer: B
Q2) What are operational business processes?
A)dynamic, nonroutine, long-term business processes such as financial planning, expansion strategies, and stakeholder interactions
B)semidynamic, semiroutine, monthly business processes such as resource allocation, sales strategy, or manufacturing process improvements
C)static, routine, daily business processes such as stocking inventory, checking out customers, or daily opening and closing processes
D)None of these are correct.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Ebusiness: Electronic Business Value
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Q1) What is an ISP?
A)Instant service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet for a monthly fee.
B)Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet for a monthly fee.
C)Internet sales provider is a company that provides access to the Internet for a monthly fee.
D)Instant sales provider is a company that provides access to the Internet for a monthly fee
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is a reason for the growth of the World Wide Web?
A)the microcomputer revolution
B)advancements in networking hardware
C)web pages being easy to create and flexible
D)All of these are correct.
Answer: D
Q3) A selfie is a self-photograph placed on a social media website.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Ethics and Information Security: Mis Business
Concerns: Module 2: Technical Foundations of MIS
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Q1) What is phishing?
A)reroutes requests for legitimate websites to false websites.
B)a technique to gain personal information for the purpose of identity theft, usually by means of fraudulent emails that look as though they came from legitimate businesses
C)a masquerading attack that combines spam with spoofing
D)a phishing expedition in which the emails are carefully designed to target a particular person or organization
Q2) What is a masquerading attack that combines spam with spoofing?
A)pharming
B)phishing
C)phishing expedition
D)spear phishing
Q3) What is a policy that allows employees to use their personal mobile devices and computers to access enterprise data and applications?
A)cyberbullying
B)fair information practices
C)click-fraud
D)bring your own device
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Chapter 5: Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies
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Q1) Maintainability means the system quickly transforms to support environmental changes.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Hardware consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system, where software is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which characteristics support an agile MIS infrastructure?
A)accessibility, availability, maintainability, portability, reliability, scalability, usability
B)backup and recovery plan, disaster recovery plan, business continuity planning
C)grid computing, cloud computing, and virtualization
D)storage, network, and server virtualization
Q4) Server virtualization combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Data: Business Intelligence
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Q1) Some of the serious business consequences that occur due to using low-quality information to make decisions are all of the following except
A)inability to accurately track customers.
B)inability to identify selling opportunities.
C)the success of the organization depends on appreciating and leveraging the low-quality information.
D)lost revenue opportunities from marketing to nonexistent customers.
Q2) What is a collection of large, complex data sets, including structured and unstructured data, which cannot be analyzed using traditional database methods and tools?
A)big data
B)distributed computing
C)advanced analytics
D)data scientist
Q3) What determines which things go together?
A)classification
B)estimation
C)affinity grouping
D)clustering
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Chapter 7: Networks: Mobile Business: Module 3: Enterprise
MIS
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Q1) What is the efficient coexistence of telephone, video, and data communication within a single network, offering convenience and flexibility not possible with separate infrastructures?
A)network protocol
B)networking category
C)network convergence
D)network communication
Q2) Mobile and wireless networks are identical and the terms can be used synonymously.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is the time remaining before reaching a destination using the present speed and is typically used for navigation applications?
A)estimated time of arrival
B)estimated time en route
C)latitude
D)longitude
Q4) Peer-to-peer uses IP technology to transmit telephone calls.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Enterprise Applications: Business Communications
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Q1) RFM stands for Regency, Frequency, and Monetary.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The bullwhip effect is a standard format for the electronic exchange of information between supply chain participants.
A)True
B)False
Q3) CRM predicting technologies help organizations predict customer behavior, such as which customers are at risk of leaving.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What includes activities that govern the flow of tangible, physical materials through the supply chain such as shipping, transport, distribution, and warehousing?
A)procurement
B)logistics
C)materials management
D)bullwhip effect
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 created that highlights how to use the system and how to troubleshoot issues or problems?
A)detailed user documentation
B)requirements definition document
C)scope document
D)All of these are correct.
Q2) Which programming language looks similar to human languages?
A)first generation machine language
B)second generation machine language
C)third generation machine language
D)fourth generation machine language
Q3) What is a graphical network model that depicts a project's tasks and the relationships between those tasks?
A)Gantt chart
B)PERT chart
C)dependency
D)All of these are correct.
Q4) Conversion modifies software to meet specific user or business requirements.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Hardware and Software Basics
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Q1) Desktop publishing transforms a computer into a desktop publishing workstation.Leading packages include Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe PageMaker, and QuarkXpress.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What allows more than one piece of software to be used at a time?
A)system software
B)operating system software
C)embedded operating system
D)multitasking
Q3) What performs all arithmetic operations (for example, addition and subtraction) and all logic operations?
A)CPU
B)control unit
C)ALU
D)primary storage
Q4) List the common input, output, storage, and communication devices.
Q5) Disk optimization software helps save information if a computer crashes. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Networks and Telecommunications
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Q1) A protocol 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
Q2) A wide area network (WAN) spans a large geographic area, such as a state, province, or country.WANs often connect multiple smaller networks, such as local area networks or metropolitan area networks.The world's most popular WAN is the Internet.A metropolitan area network (MAN) is a large computer network usually spanning a city.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Explain topology and the different types found in networks.
Q4) Topology includes peer-to-peer networks and client/server networks.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which of the following is not a commonly used type of guided media?
A)twisted-pair wiring
B)coaxial cable
C)fiber-optic cable
D)transmission control protocol/internet protocol
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Chapter
Knowledge-Glossary
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Q1) 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
Q2) What is a technique for documenting the entities and relationships in a database environment?
A)entity-relationship diagram
B)data model
C)database
D)relational database model
Q3) Date of birth would be a stored attribute.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is a collection of related data elements?
A)field
B)table
C)record
D)key
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