Deck 1: Introduction to Information Systems

Question 1

The Emerging Technologies Manager forecasts technology trends; evaluates and experiments with new technologies.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The grade point average (GPA)values coupled with appropriate student names of a class would be considered as information.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

An information system collects, processes, stores, analyzes, and disseminates information for a specific purpose.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

If you want to run a multinational company, you need to rent office space and hire at least few employees.

Question 5

A university registrar who uses her experience with university admissions in reviewing the applicant grades, application essays, and letters of recommendation, would be applying her knowledge in your application process.

Question 6

End-user computing has two components: end-user data entry, reporting, and inquiry (commonly referred to as simply users); and end-user development, where users develop usable systems, such as spreadsheets or programs using programming languages or other development tools.

Question 7

A systems analyst focuses on determining the information requirements and technical specifications for new applications.

Question 8

Information technology and information systems are the same thing.

Question 9

An auditing manager focuses on the ethical and legal use of information systems and evaluates the quality or effectiveness of such systems.

Question 10

The CIO of an organization supervises the day-to-day operations of the data and/or computer centre.

Question 11

In general, informed users tend to get more value from whatever technologies they use.

Question 12

The Information Systems functional area, a department of Information technology, deals with the planning, development, management, and use of management information tools to help people perform all the tasks related to information processing and management.

Question 13

IT is enabling more and more people to communicate, collaborate, and compete, thereby leveling the digital playing field.

Question 14

A list of football scores with the names of the teams that played the games would be considered information.

Question 15

The grade point average (GPA)values of a class would be considered as information.

Question 16

Information technology relates to any computer-based tools that people use to work with information and to support the information and information-processing needs of an organization.

Question 17

An organization must be large to benefit from IT.

Question 18

Managing the IS function within an organization is the exclusive responsibility of the IS department in contemporary organizations.

Question 19

A student's decision to drop one course and add another would be considered a transaction to the university's information system but not to its accounting system.

Question 20

An informed user of IT can enhance his or her organization's competitive position.

Question 21

An emerging technologies manager _____.

A)forecasts evaluates new technologies
B)manages data networks
C)manages the ethical and legal use of information systems
D)is responsible for strategic planning
E)creates the Web sites and pages

Question 22

Digital dashboards are special information systems that that support all managers of the organization.

Question 23

An organization's IT infrastructure consists of the IT components and IT services.

Question 24

What does a systems analyst do?

A)Manages an IS service
B)Writes computer code.
C)Determines information requirements and technical specifications for new applications.
D)Forecasts technology trends
E)Creates Web sites and pages

Question 25

Which of the following statements concerning the complexity of management of information resources is not true?

A)Information systems have an enormous strategic value within an organization and therefore firms rely on them heavily.
B)Information systems are expensive to acquire, operate, and maintain.
C)Computers are decentralized throughout the organization, which makes it harder to manage.
D)Managing mainframes has become more difficult.
E)Managing information resources is divided between the MIS department and end users and there is no standard way to divide responsibility between them.

Question 26

Which of the following is the correct hierarchy from the lowest level to the highest level?

A)knowledge, information, data
B)information, data, knowledge
C)data, information, knowledge
D)data, experience, information
E)information, experience, wisdom

Question 27

Meaningful knowledge is information and meaningful information is data.

Question 28

IT only positively affects our quality of life.

Question 29

IT personnel use the IT infrastructure to develop information systems.

Question 30

Information is data that have been organized so that they have meaning to provide value to the recipient.

Question 31

The title of the executive who is in charge of the people, who design and build information systems, the people who use those systems, and the people responsible for managing those systems is the

A)CEO
B)CFO
C)CIO
D)CIS
E)CIT

Question 32

An organization's supply chain starts at the supplier and ends at the customer.

Question 33

The Supply Chain Management system is an interorganizational information system.

Question 34

Which of the following is a benefit of being an informed user of IT?

A)Understanding what is "behind" applications you use in your organization
B)Providing input to enhance your organization's applications
C)Helping to select new applications
D)Keeping abreast of new technologies
E)All of the above

Question 35

You should seek to be an informed user of IT because ____________.

A)it is easy to understand how IT works
B)you could end up working in the IT department in your organization
C)everyone uses IT
D)you will be in a position to enhance the quality of IT applications

Question 36

Knowledge is data that have been organized so that they have meaning to provide value to the recipient.

Question 37

_________ is a traditional function of the MIS Department.

A)Managing system integration including the Internet, intranets, and extranets
B)Educating the non-MIS managers about IT
C)Providing technical services
D)Creating business alliances with business partners

Question 38

Knowledge is data and information that have been organized and processed to convey understanding, experience, accumulated learning, and expertise applied to a current problem.

Question 39

E-commerce systems are a type of interorganizational information systems.

Question 40

An Electronic Commerce (e-Commerce)system is an intraorganizational information system.

Question 41

A(n)_____________ is a computer program designed to support a specific task or business process.

A)Interface
B)Application
C)Functional area
D)Network
E)Database

Question 42

Who manages all systems throughout the organization and the day-to-day operations of the entire IS organization?

A)IS Director
B)Information center manager
C)Project Manager
D)Operations Manager
E)Programming manager

Question 43

A listing of all courses offered at your university would be considered _____, whereas a listing of all courses required in your major would be considered _____.

A)information, data
B)knowledge, information
C)information, knowledge
D)data, information
E)data, knowledge

Question 44

_____ is (are)data that have been organized to have meaning and value to a recipient.

A)Insights
B)Information
C)Knowledge
D)Experience
E)Wisdom

Question 45

IT personnel use _____ to develop _____.

A)IT components, IT services
B)computer-based information systems, IT architecture
C)IT infrastructure, IT architecture
D)IT infrastructure, IT platform
E)IT components, IT architecture

Question 46

As a manager in your company, you expect to retrieve ______ from operational systems and present it as _________ to your boss, who will react based on his ____________.

A)knowledge, information, data
B)information, data, knowledge
C)data, information, knowledge
D)data, experience, information
E)information, experience, wisdom

Question 47

An organization's _____ consists of the physical facilities, IT components, IT services, and IT management that will support the entire organization.

A)information technology architecture
B)information technology infrastructure
C)information technology
D)information system
E)computer-based information system

Question 48

If Amazon uses a list of all your purchases (books bought, price paid, dates)to recommend other books to you, then it is applying its _____.

A)data
B)information
C)knowledge
D)experience
E)wisdom

Question 49

_____ is/are the computer hardware, software, and communications technologies that are used by IT personnel to produce IT services.

A)IT components
B)IT services
C)Information technology
D)An information system
E)A computer-based information system

Question 50

An organization's IT components include all of the following except:

A)a network.
B)programs
C)procedures
D)a database
E)monitors

Question 51

You have just been hired by the largest manufacturer in your area to join their management trainee program.You enjoyed your "computer course" in college and hope that you'll be able to put that knowledge to good use.Which of the following might you expect to do during the management training program?

A)Code a new application
B)Recommend new technologies that might impact the organization
C)Design a new application
D)Become familiar with tools to support using data for decision making
E)Work 9-5 in your office.

Question 52

Enterprise resource planning systems:

A)were designed to process transactions faster.
B)evolved because newer technologies made older systems obsolete.
C)use a common database for all functional areas.
D)are utilized to conduct site analyses.
E)All the above statements are true.

Question 53

Which of the following statements is false?

A)An application is a computer program designed to support a specific business process.
B)Each functional area within an organization has only one application.
C)A functional area information system is the same as a departmental information system.
D)A functional area information system can obtain data from other functional area information systems.
E)App, application, and application program all mean the same thing.

Question 54

The list of all your purchases from Amazon (books bought, price paid, dates)is defined as ___________.

A)data
B)information
C)knowledge
D)experience
E)wisdom

Question 55

In your new position, you are told that you will be working with a business analyst.What would you expect this work to entail?

A)Review computer code.
B)Explain the business process
C)Test programs
D)Identify new technology that might benefit the organization
E)Create Web sites and pages

Question 56

_____ conveys understanding, accumulated learning, and expertise as they apply to a current problem.

A)Data
B)Information
C)Knowledge
D)Database
E)None of the above

Question 57

A purchase of books in the college bookstore is ___________.The report at the end of the day showing sales totals for the day is ____________.

A)information, knowledge
B)information, data
C)data, information
D)data, database
E)data item, business intelligence

Question 58

The IT infrastructure is comprised of _______ and ________.

A)IT components, IT personnel
B)IT components, IT services
C)IT services, IT personnel
D)IT personnel, computer-based information systems
E)Computer-based information systems, IT personnel

Question 59

You are registering for the next semester at your university. You take into account your major, the courses you need, the prerequisites for each course, the times you take each course, and the professors teaching each section, as well as your work schedule.You are using _____ to select your class schedule.

A)information
B)knowledge
C)experience
D)wisdom
E)data

Question 60

The Software Project Manager is responsible for:

A)strategic planning.
B)day-to-day operations of the entire organization.
C)manages IS services such as help desks, hot lines, training, and consulting.
D)manages a particular existing system.
E)manages a particular new systems development project.

Question 61

___________ include B2B and B2C.

A)Enterprise resource planning systems
B)Computer-based information systems
C)Functional area information systems
D)Intraorganizational information systems

Question 62

Office automation systems:

A)support only the clerical staff.
B)are comprised of software that is only used to develop documents and spreadsheets
C)include report generators.
D)are a type of interorganizational system.
E)are usually developed in-house.

Question 63

Knowledge workers:

A)handle day-to-day operations within an organization.
B)make tactical decisions.
C)advise middle managers
D)make routine decisions.
E)are generalists