MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS A

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System is an important factor of MIS. There are various types of systems. Which one of the following is not a system?

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A) physical system

B) integrated system

C) open system

D) probabilistic system

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In management information system which is the correct order of the reference of activities that the manager processes?

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A) planning, organizing, staffing, coordinating, directing, controlling

B) planning, organizing, staffing, coordinating, controlling, directing

C) planning, staffing, coordinating, organizing, directing, controlling

D) planning directing, organizing, staffing , coordinating, controlling

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Marketing myopia concept was developed by

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A) Philip Kotler

B) Peter Drucker

C) Theodore C. Levitt

D) K. Prahlada

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The term financial engineering is related to

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A) financial restructuring

B) cost of production

C) capital issue

D) product planning

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When a report is produced periodically, it is called what?

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A) demand report

B) scheduled report

C) key-indicator report

D) drill-down report

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The Hawthorne Studies:

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A) found that workers accept a managerial directive only if it is acceptable in terms of their personal interests

B) found that when workers know they are being watched, their productivity increases

C) found that a worker is inherently lazy and will use any excuse not to perform their duties

D) found that to increase worker efficiency, management must analyze and minimize the motions required to complete a task

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What is the activity of creating a detailed flow chart of a work process showing its inputs and tasks in a structured sequence?

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A) business process management

B) business process modeling

C) business process reengineering

D) business process model

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What are the resources within an organization that are used to achieve its goal?

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A) workers motivation

B) the external environment

C) social responsibility

D) the internal environment

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Which of the following is the most commonly used form of AI in the business arena?

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A) expert system

B) neural network

C) intelligent system

D) artificial intelligence

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What is a global public network of computer networks that pass information from one to another using common computer protocols?

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A) world wide web

B) hypertext transport protocol

C) internet

D) protocol

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What is a graphic description of a process, showing the sequence of process tasks, which is developed for a specific purpose and from a selected viewpoint?

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A) Business process model

B) Business process management

C) Business process reengineering

D) Business process modeling

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All of the items below are advantages e-mail holds over traditional or snail mail EXCEPT for

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A) e-mail is an easy way to correspond with people all over the world

B) e-mail messages travel faster

C) e-mail requires specialized stationary

D) responses to e-mail can be faster

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Facebook and MySpace are examples of which kind of Web site?

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A) Educational

B) Informational

C) Social networking

D) Web application

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What do we call two or more computers physically connected by cables to share information or hardware?

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A) url

B) network

C) server

D) modem

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What concerns the legal right or general expectation of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when and to what extent information about them is communicated to others?

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A) transborder data flows

B) deperimterization

C) information privacy

D) information security

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What is deperimeterization?

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A) occurs when an organization moves employees outside its network

B) occurs when an organization moves employees outside its firewall

C) occurs when an organization moves partners and suppliers outside its network

D) occurs when an organization moves partners and suppliers outside its firewall

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The term used to describe those people whose jobs involve sponsoring and funding the project to develop, operate, and maintain the information system is

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A) systems owner

B) internal system user

C) external system user

D) information worker

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The person who ensures that systems are developed on time, within budget, and with acceptable quality is a

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A) systems builder

B) project manager

C) systems designer

D) systems owner

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If a university sets up a web-based information system that faculty could access to record student grades and to advise students, that would be an example of a/an

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A) CRM

B) intranet

C) extranet

D) ERP

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Which of the following is a deliverable of the system implementation phase in a formal system development process?

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A) technical hardware and software solution for the business problem

B) technical blueprint and specifications for a solution that fulfills the business requirements

C) statement of the system users' business requirements

D) business problem statement

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Decision makers who are concerned with tactical (short-term) operational problems and decision making are

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A) supervisors

B) mobile managers

C) middle managers

D) executive managers

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A problem solver is a style of problem solving reflected by the manager

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A) who confronts the problem, reacts to it, and makes those changes necessary to solve it.

B) who seeks to maintain status quo.

C) who notices a problem and does not react

D) who actively looks at situations, searching for problems or anticipating possible problems so that corrective action can be taken before the problem grows

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How do decision-making information systems work?

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A) by building models out of analytical information

B) by building models out of statistical information

C) by building models out of organizational information to lend insight into important business issues and opportunities

D) by building models out of transactional information only to lend insight in into important business issues and opportunities

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Which of the following is not a type of organizational information system?

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A) executive information system

B) transactional processing system

C) analysis processing system

D) decisions support system

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Which of the following best describes data warehousing?

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A) compiling and storing organization-wide data to assist in decision making

B) backing up an organization's data to an off-site location

C) moving data that have not been accessed for some time to an alternate storage system

D) storing all of an organization's data in two-dimensional tables

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An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is what type of control?

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A) a recovery control

B) a preventive control

C) a directive control

D) a deterrent control

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What encompasses all of the information contained within a single business process or unit of work and its primary purpose is to support the performing of daily operational tasks?

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A) analytical information

B) quality

C) transactional information

D) timeliness

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Which type of firewall can be used to track connectionless protocols such as UDP and RPC?

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A) application level firewalls

B) circuit level firewalls

C) packet filtering firewalls

D) stateful inspection firewalls

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What is mass customization?

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A) It allows businesses to generate commissions or royalties from an Internet site

B) A technique that induces websites or users to pass on a marketing message to other websites or users

C) The ability of an organization to give its customers the opportunity to tailor products or services to a customer's specifications

D) A box running across a web page that is often used to contain advertisements

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A receiver's response to your written communication is most influenced by

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A) your criticism.

B) your tone.

C) your goodwill.

D) your attitude.

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Which one is not an ethical concern in the use of information technology?

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A) ergonomic/health issues

B) piracy

C) plagiarism

D) design of the office break room

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What is the most common type of defense within detection and response technologies?

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A) malicious code

B) token

C) antivirus software

D) user id

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A movement to inform consumers and protect them from abusive practices is

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A) consumerism

B) entrepreneurship

C) environmentalism

D) affirmative action

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Strategic planning

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A) addresses the organization's basic mission or business

B) involves managers in each unit of an organization who are responsible for achieving the unit's objectives within a specified period of time

C) includes planning that has measurable targets, schedules, and timetables

D) looks specifically at resources, finances, and market conditions to determine ways to accomplish the overall plans of the organization

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The SWOT approach assesses an organization'

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A) Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

B) Structure, Workforce, Organization, Types

C) Speed, Wants, Order, Timing

D) Signs, Worries, Objectives, Techniques

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Which of the following is the most common type of departmentalization?

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A) customer/market departmentalization

B) method departmentalization

C) process departmentalization

D) function departmentalization

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Which one is not a characteristic of feedback?

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A) It should be specific

B) It should be constructive

C) The timing should be good

D) It should be judgmental

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What kind of organizational structure is the simplest form and has clear lines of authority and ease of decision making?

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A) line

B) line and staff

C) vertical

D) staff

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The management of people should be handled by what department in an organization?

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A) customer service

B) human resources

C) administration

D) information systems

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The use of the Web to handle supply chain management has the following effect:

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A) It reduces cost and improves response times

B) It involves more computers

C) It increases the number of man hours required to handle transactions

D) It requires more paperwork

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A budget is what type of control?

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A) standard

B) process

C) behavioral

D) financial

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What is one of the biggest pitfalls associated with real-time information?

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A) It continually changes

B) It rarely changes

C) It is only available to high-level executives due to the expense

D) It is available in aggregate levels of granularity

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Why do relational databases use primary keys and foreign keys?

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A) to create physical relationships

B) to create a database

C) to create dynamic relationships

D) to create logical relationships

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What are the rules that help ensure the quality of information?

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A) relational integrity constraints

B) integrity constraints

C) information integrity

D) business-critical integrity constraints

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What is a business organization that is owned, and usually managed, by one person?

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A) sole proprietorship

B) s-corporation

C) corporation

D) partnership

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A patent is a legal protection for an inventor of a product or process giving them an exclusive right to produce or use it in production for a period of

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A) 17 years

B) 7 years

C) 25 years following the death of the inventor

D) 25 years

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When the supply of a product is greater than the demand for that product, which condition exists?

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A) profit

B) shortage

C) surplus

D) deficit

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What does ROI mean?

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A) refund on invoice

B) return on interest

C) return on investment

D) rate of income

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What is the first step in the decision making process?

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A) evaluate the outcome

B) identify the problem

C) consider the choices

D) evaluate the choices

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What is data mining?

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A) the common term for the representation of multidimensional information

B) process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone

C) a particular attribute of information

D) uses a variety of techniques to find patterns and relationships in large volumes of information

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