Business Information Systems
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Course Introduction
Business Information Systems explores the role of information technology in modern organizations, focusing on how businesses leverage information systems to improve operations, decision-making, and strategic advantage. Students will gain an understanding of key concepts such as systems analysis and design, databases, enterprise systems, e-commerce, and the ethical challenges associated with information systems. Through case studies and practical examples, the course illustrates how information systems support business functions and processes across various industries, preparing students to effectively manage and implement technology-driven solutions in a competitive business environment.
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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) Which of the following analyzes a company's business processes and is useful for determining how to create the greatest possible value for customers?
A)product analysis
B)primary supplier power
C)value chain analysis
D)buyer chain analysis
Answer: C
Q2) A stakeholder is a person or group that has an interest or concern in an organization.Stakeholders drive business strategies, and depending on the stakeholder's perspective, the business strategy can change.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Porter has identified three generic business strategies including focused, broad cost leadership, and switching strategy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Decisions and Processes: Value Driven Business
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Q1) Changing business processes with MIS outlines how to improve the three levels of business processes: operational, managerial, and strategic.From operational to strategic, what are the three major improvement strategies that the author describes?
A)automation - streamlining - reengineering
B)artificial intelligence - streamlining - reengineering
C)automation - workflow - reinvention
D)automation - consolidating - restructuring
Answer: A
Q2) What is anything that happens during the course of a business process?
A)BPMN event
B)BPMN activity
C)BPMN flow
D)BPMN gateway
Answer: A
Q3) Investment companies use genetic effectiveness metrics to help in trading decisions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Ebusiness: Electronic Business Value
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Q1) What is a business that operates in a physical store without an Internet presence?
A)brick-and-mortar business
B)click-and-mortar business
C)virtual business
D)pure-play business
Answer: A
Q2) Information richness measures the number of people a firm can communicate with all over the world.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) A videoconference allows people at two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously as well as share documents, data, computer displays, and whiteboards.Point-to-point videoconferences connect two people, and multipoint conferences connect more than two people at multiple locations.
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 a mail bomb?
A)sending a massive amount of email to a specific person or system resulting in filling up the recipient's disk space
B)a contractual stipulation to ensure that ebusiness participants do not deny their online actions
C)sending a few emails to a specific person or system resulting in filling up the recipient's disk space
D)a contractual stipulation to ensure that ebusiness participants deny their online actions
Q2) What uses a zombie farm, often by an organized crime association, to launch a massive phishing attack?
A)zombie
B)zombie farm
C)pharming attack
D)time bomb
Q3) Black-hat hackers work at the request of the system owners to find system vulnerabilities and plug the holes.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies
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Q1) What identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them?
A)emergency
B)emergency preparedness
C)business Impact analysis
D)technology failure
Q2) Vulnerability is a system weakness that can be exploited by a threat.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The information MIS infrastructure supports the day-to-day business operations and plans for ________.
A)security breaches and theft
B)floods and earthquakes
C)malicious internet attacks
D)All of these are correct.
Q4) Incident management is the process responsible for managing how incidents are identified and corrected.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.
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Chapter 6: Data: Business Intelligence
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Q1) What is social media analytics?
A)analyzes text flowing across the Internet, including unstructured text from blogs and messages
B)the process of analyzing recorded calls to gather information; brings structure to customer interactions and exposes information buried in customer contact center interactions with an enterprise
C)analyzes unstructured data to find trends and patterns in words and sentences
D)analyzes unstructured data associated with websites to identify consumer behavior and website navigation
Q2) Relationship integrity criteria are rules that enforce basic and fundamental information-based constraints.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is a problem associated with dirty data?
A)nonformatted data
B)misleading data
C)incorrect data
D)All of these are correct.
Q4) Identify the business advantages of a relational database.
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Chapter 7: Networks: Mobile Business: Module 3: Enterprise
MIS
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Q1) A voice over LTE is the computer or network device that serves as an interface between devices and the network.Each computer initially connects to the access point and then to other computers on the network.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electronic tags and labels to identify objects wirelessly over short distances.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Mobile device management (MDM) remotely controls smart phones and tablets, ensuring data security.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why would a company use an intranet?
A)Intranets are used for business operations and management.
B)Intranets are used for communications and collaboration.
C)Intranets are used for web publishing.
D)All of these are correct.
Q5) Identify the challenges of a connected world.
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Chapter 8: Enterprise Applications: Business Communications
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Q1) Partner relationship management provides web-based self-service tools that streamline and automate the human resource department.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Cross-selling is increasing the value of the sale.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How are integrations achieved?
A)connecting the plans, methods, and tools aimed at integrating separate enterprise system
B)using middleware-several types of software that sit between and provide connectivity for two or more software applications
C)sending information entered into a given system automatically to all downstream systems and processes
D)providing enterprisewide support and data access for a firm's operations and business processes
Q4) Inventory cycle time is the frequency of inventory replacement.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Systems Development and Project
Management: Corporateresponsibility
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Q1) Extensible Markup Language is an open-standards way of supporting interoperability.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following represents the phases in the SDLC?
A)plan, analysis, design, test, maintain, develop, implement
B)analysis, plan, design, test, develop, maintain, implement
C)plan, analysis, design, develop, test, implement, maintain
D)analysis, plan, develop, design, test, implement, maintain
Q3) In-sourcing has been instrumental in creating a viable supply of IT professionals and in creating a better quality workforce combining both technical and business skills.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How many days is a typical sprint in the Scrum methodology?
A)2 days
B)10 days
C)30 days
D)90 days
Q5) Summarize the different software development methodologies.
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Chapter 10: Hardware and Software Basics
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Q1) What removes any software that employs a user's Internet connection in the background without the user's knowledge or explicit permission?
A)preventive security software
B)spyware software
C)crash-proof software
D)disk image software
Q2) Utility software provides additional functionality to the operating system.Utility software includes antivirus software, screen savers, and anti-spam software.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A personal computer is a computer that is operated by a single user who can customize the functions to match personal preferences.
A)True
B)False
Q4) An iPod has a single-purpose embedded operating system.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the six major categories of hardware and provide an example of each.
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Chapter 11: Networks and Telecommunications
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Q1) What is transmission material manufactured so that signals will be confined to a narrow path and will behave predictably?
A)wire media
B)network transmission media
C)fiber-optic cable
D)transmission control protocol/internet protocol
Q2) Compare LANs, WANs, and MANs.
Q3) Media includes coaxial, twisted-pair, and fiber-optic.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following represents the bus topology?
A)All devices are connected to a central cable or backbone.
B)All devices are connected to a central device, called a hub.
C)All devices are connected to one another in the shape of a closed loop, so that each device is connected directly to two other devices, one on either side of it.
D)Groups of star-configured workstations are connected to a linear bus backbone cable.
Q5) Explain topology and the different types found in networks.
Q6) Describe TCP/IP along with its primary purpose.
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Knowledge-Glossary
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Q1) What is a primary key?
A)a field that uniquely identifies a given record in a table
B)a primary key of one table that appears as an attribute in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship between the two tables
C)a table that uniquely identifies a given record in a field
D)a foreign key of one table that appears as an entity in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship between the two records
Q2) What is composed of rows and columns that represent an entity?
A)field
B)table
C)record
D)key
Q3) What occurs when two entities can be related to each other in many instances?
A)one-to-one relationship
B)one-to-many relationship
C)many-to-many relationship
D)composite entity
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