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Technology and Organization explores the dynamic relationship between technological innovation and organizational structures, processes, and strategies. The course examines how emerging and established technologies impact organizational design, workflows, decision-making, and competitive advantage across various industries. Students analyze case studies and theoretical frameworks to understand how technology influences communication, collaboration, leadership, and change management within organizations. Special attention is given to the social, ethical, and managerial implications of integrating new technologies, preparing students to navigate and leverage technological advancements effectively in modern organizational environments.

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MIS 8th Edition by Hossein Bidgoli

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Chapter 1: Information Systems: An Overview

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Q1) An effective financial information system should provide timely, accurate, and integrated information about the marketing mix-4Ps: price, promotion, place, and product.

A)True

B)False

Answer: False

Q2) Describe how information systems differ from information technologies.

Answer: Answers will vary.Information systems are broader in scope than information technologies, but the two overlap in many areas.Both are used to help organizations be more competitive and to improve their overall efficiency and effectiveness.Information technologies offer many advantages for improving decision making but involve some challenges, too, such as security and privacy issues.

Q3) According to Porter's Five Forces Model, ____is low when customers have more options.

A) supplier power

B) buyer power

C) new entrant power

D) competitor power

Answer: A

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Chapter 2: Computers: The Machines Behind Computing

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Q1) Discuss single processor and multiprocessor computers.

Answer: Answers will vary.Some computers have a single processor; other computers, called multiprocessors, contain multiple processors.Multiprocessing is the use of two or more CPUs in a single computer system.Generally, a multiprocessor computer performs better than a single-processor computer in the same way that a team would perform better than an individual on a large, time-consuming project.

Q2) The hardware component of a computer system consists of programs written in computer languages.

A)True

B)False

Answer: False

Q3) _____, which is used for online storage and backup, involves multiple virtual servers that are usually hosted by third parties.

A) Kernel storage

B) Buffer storage

C) Cache storage

D) Cloud storage

Answer: D

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Chapter 3: Database Systems, Data Warehouses and Data

Marts

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Q1) In the context of data warehouses, briefly explain extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL).

Answer: Answers will vary.ETL refers to the processes used in a data warehouse.Extraction means collecting data from a variety of sources and converting it into a format that can be used in transformation processing.The extraction process can also parse (divide into pieces) data to make sure it meets the data warehouse's structural needs.Transformation processing is done to make sure data meets the data warehouse's needs.Loading is the process of transferring data to the data warehouse.Depending on the organization's needs and the data warehouse's storage capacity, loading might overwrite existing data or add collected data to existing data.

Q2) The variety dimension of big data refers to the combination of _____.

A) data warehouses and data marts

B) object-oriented data models and relational data models

C) structured data and unstructured data

D) data definition and data manipulation

Answer: C

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Chapter 4: Personal, Legal, Ethical and Organizational Issues of Information Systems

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Q1) According to the principle of Internet neutrality, Internet service providers (ISPs) and government agencies should _____.

A) cease charging different rates on data

B) treat data based on the types of application

C) start blocking data traffic to specific users

D) discriminate data based on content

Q2) A patent protects product names and identifying marks.

A)True

B)False

Q3) _____are networks of independent companies, suppliers, customers, and manufacturers connected via information technologies so that they can share skills and costs and have access to each other's markets.

A) Virtual organizations

B) Collated organizations

C) Merged organizations

D) Pool organizations

Q4) List eight moral imperatives as put forth by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Q5) When can public information be censored?

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Chapter 5: Protecting Information Resources

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Q1) When planning a comprehensive security system, the first step is designing _____, which use a combination of hardware and software for improving reliability-a way of ensuring availability in case of a system failure.

A) fault-tolerant systems

B) vulnerability-evade systems

C) primary-defense systems

D) database-resilient systems

Q2) Which of the following statements is true of firewalls?

A) They protect against external access, but they leave networks unprotected from internal intrusions.

B) They can identify attack signatures, trace patterns, and generate alarms for a network administrator.

C) They monitor network traffic and use the "prevent, detect, and react" approach to security.

D) They cause routers to terminate connections with suspicious sources.

Q3) Viruses can be transmitted through a network or through e-mail attachments.

A)True

B)False

Q4) Briefly explain the McCumber cube.

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Chapter 6: Data Communication

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Q1) The Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) uses _____ to obtain a master key, which is in turn used to negotiate for a key that will be used for a session.

A) Internet Protocol

B) Service Set Identifier

C) Wired Equivalent Privacy

D) Extensible Authentication Protocol

Q2) Transmission Control Protocol operates at the _____ of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model.

A) Network layer

B) Physical layer

C) Transport layer

D) Data Link layer

Q3) _____ have the highest bandwidth of any communication medium.

A) Coaxial cables

B) Fiber-optic cables

C) Twisted pair copper cables

D) Ethernet cables

Q4) Describe a star topology.

Q5) List the common applications of convergence.

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Chapter 7: The Internet, Intranets, and Extranets

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Q1) Which of the following Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) services has a lower transmission rate upstream than downstream?

A) Asymmetric DSL

B) Symmetric DSL

C) Very High-Speed DSL

D) High-bit-rate DSL

Q2) Telepresence surgery allows surgeons to operate all over the world without physically traveling anywhere.

A)True

B)False

Q3) Which of the following is a similarity between the Internet and an intranet?

A) Both use similar languages for developing applications.

B) Both differ in the protocols they use.

C) Both are private networks.

D) Both cannot be used by users without approval.

Q4) List some banking services available via the Internet.

Q5) Briefly describe navigational tools.

Q6) Describe the learningware application of Internet2 (I2).

Q7) Discuss the different types of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) services.

Q8) Briefly explain the two kinds of directories on the Web.

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Chapter 8: E-Commerce

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Q1) In Web marketing, with _____, information is sent to users based on their previous inquiries, interests, or specifications.

A) pull technology

B) push technology

C) stack technology

D) queue technology

Q2) Describe micropayments.

Q3) _____ encompasses all the activities a company performs in selling and buying products and services using computers and communication technologies.

A) E-procurement

B) Marketing and sales

C) E-business

D) Web marketing

Q4) In the context of Web marketing, a cookie is:

A) the information that users save on the hard drive for later use.

B) the information a Web site stores on a user's hard drive.

C) a list of sites visited by a user in a day or the last few days.

D) a list of sites that users bookmark on a browser for reference.

Q5) Discuss five common ways to optimize a Web site's traffic.

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Chapter 9: Global Information Systems

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Q1) How does e-business build on the advantages and structures of traditional business?

Q2) _____ of a global information system (GIS) concentrates on medium-range activities that move an organization toward achieving long-term goals.

A) Differential support

B) Strategic support

C) Operational support

D) Tactical support

Q3) Discuss the four issues that must be addressed before adding a global information system (GIS) to an existing organization.

Q4) Describe strategic planning support of a global information system (GIS).

Q5) In a multinational structure, financial management is decentralized.

A)True

B)False

Q6) As e-business matures and more companies conduct business online, consumers can engage in comparison shopping more easily.

A)True B)False

Q7) Describe an organization with a transnational structure.

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Chapter 10: Building Successful Information Systems

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Q1) Which of the following is categorized as a tangible benefit of an information system?

A) Improved employee morale

B) Better customer satisfaction

C) Increased company profits

D) Increased flexibility in business operations

Q2) _____ refers to the trend of end users developing their own information systems with little or no formal assistance from an information systems team.

A) Insourcing

B) Outsourcing

C) Self-sourcing

D) Crowdsourcing

Q3) _____ are small-scale versions of information systems, which are built before building the entire system, and are used to illustrate the system's benefits and allow users to offer feedback.

A) Structured systems

B) Prototypes

C) Flowcharts

D) Context diagrams

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Chapter 11: Enterprise Systems

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Q1) In the context of knowledge management, which of the following tasks is performed by the chief knowledge officer (CKO) in an organization?

A) Ensuring that key knowledge resources are properly collected, stored, and disseminated among the consumers

B) Ensuring that the organization profits from knowledge resources

C) Focusing on gaining and leveraging a keen understanding of consumers

D) Identifying groups of people based on common interests and recommending products or services

Q2) The_____ area in a manufacturing firms' supply chain management (SCM) system oversees order transmissions throughout the order-processing cycle.

A) product flow

B) information flow

C) finances flow

D) cash flow

Q3) Discuss what an organization can do with a customer relationship management (CRM) system.

Q4) Briefly explain an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

Q5) Describe customization with an example.

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Chapter 12: Management Support Systems

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Q1) A(n) _____ captures, stores, processes, and displays information in a topographical context, such as showing the location of all streetlights on a map.

A) executive information system

B) electronic meeting system

C) group support system

D) geographic information system

Q2) Which of the following is a task performed by a geographic information system (GIS)?

A) Finding zip codes of areas with high population

B) Recognizing the location where an accident has occurred

C) Identifying areas with less oxygen

D) Showing the number of people walking across a bridge

Q3) Describe the four features that decision support systems (DSSs) include to support decision making.

Q4) Decision support systems (DSS) are focused on efficiency rather than effectiveness. A)True B)False

Q5) What are the benefits of video teleconferencing?

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Chapter 13: Intelligent Information Systems

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Q1) In a natural-language processing (NLP) system, the _____ activity involves accepting human language as input, carrying out the corresponding command, and generating the necessary output.

A) interfacing

B) knowledge acquisition

C) analysis

D) data warehousing

Q2) Decision makers use the "what-is" analysis to monitor the effect of a change in one or more variables.

A)True

B)False

Q3) Robots are one of the most successful applications of artificial intelligence (AI).

A)True

B)False

Q4) In the context of an expert system, briefly explain the meta-knowledge component of a knowledge base.

Q5) Discuss an application of intelligent agents that is in use today.

Q6) Briefly explain data-mining agents.

Q7) List few tasks where artificial neural networks (ANNs) are used.

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Chapter 14: Emerging Trends, Technologies, and Applications

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Q1) Explain Bluetooth technology.

Q2) Which of the following is true of biometrics?

A) They form the basis of radio frequency identification.

B) They can enhance Web page security and reduce defacing.

C) They form a virtual world and enable users to enter using avatars.

D) They can scan quick response codes to identify various products.

Q3) A _____ is a small electronic device consisting of a microchip and an antenna and performs the same task as bar codes.

A) global positioning system

B) bluetooth low energy device

C) quick response code

D) radio frequency identification tag

Q4) With _____, a Web server delivers information to users, who have signed up for the service, instead of waiting for them to request the information be sent to them.

A) push technology

B) pull technology

C) virtual reality technology

D) radio frequency identification technology

Q5) Discuss the use of biometrics in passports and secure government ID cards.

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