Business Information Systems
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Business Information Systems explores the role of information technology in modern organizations, focusing on how businesses use computer systems and digital tools to achieve strategic goals, enhance decision-making, and streamline operations. The course examines core concepts such as data management, system development, enterprise resource planning, and e-commerce, as well as cybersecurity and the ethical implications of information systems. Students will learn how to analyze, design, and implement effective information systems solutions to address business challenges in a dynamic, technology-driven environment.
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MIS Essentials 4th Edition by David M. Kroenke
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Chapter 1: The Importance of MIS
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Q1) A group of components that interact to achieve some purpose is referred to as a(n)________.
A) system
B) element
C) process
D) entity
Answer: A
Q2) How can a strong password be made memorable?
Answer: One technique for creating memorable,strong passwords is to base them on the first letter of the words in a phrase.The phrase could be the title of a song or the first line of a poem or one based on some fact about your life.For example,you might take the phrase,"I was born in Rome,New York,before 1990." Using the first letters from that phrase and substituting the character for the word "before",you create the password IwbiR,NY<1990.
Q3) Define management information systems.What are the key elements of its definition?
Answer: Management information system is the management and use of information systems that help businesses achieve their strategies.This definition has three key elements: management and use,information systems,and strategies.
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Chapter 2: Business Processes, information Systems, and Information
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Q1) Describe relevant data.Explain the importance of relevant data in an organizational context.
Answer: Relevant data is data that directly pertains to both the context and the subject.Considering context,a CEO needs data that is summarized to an appropriate level for his job.A list of the hourly wage of every employee in the company is unlikely to be useful.More likely,the CEO needs average wage information by department or division.A list of all employee wages is irrelevant in this context. Data should also be relevant to the subject at hand.If data about short-term interest rates is required to find a possible line of credit,then a report that shows 15-year mortgage interest rates is irrelevant.
Q2) Which of the following is a characteristic of good information?
A) It must be freely available.
B) It must be more than just barely sufficient.
C) It must be based on incomplete data.
D) It must be contextually relevant.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Organizational Strategy, information Systems, and Competitive Advantage
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Q1) What is the criterion on which business processes should run?
Answer: According to Porter,whether business processes are low-cost or high-service,these processes and systems used must create sufficient value that they will more than cover their costs.If not,the margin of those systems will be negative.If a value chain's margin is negative,the company must make some change.Either the value must be increased,or the costs of the value chain need to be reduced.
Q2) According to Porter,to be effective,an organization's goals and activities must be consistent with the organization's strategy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Explain value chain linkages.
Answer: Porter's model of business activities includes linkages,which are interactions across value activities.For example,manufacturing systems use linkages to reduce inventory costs.Such a system uses sales forecasts to plan production; it then uses the production plan to determine raw material needs and then uses the material needs to schedule purchases.The end result is just-in-time inventory,which reduces inventory sizes and costs.
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Chapter 4: Hardware and Software
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Q1) What is an operating system? How is it different from an application program?
Q2) What are the two important software constraints? Explain with suitable examples.
Q3) Optical disks are the most common storage devices.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain how computer programs are licensed to individuals and organizations.
Q5) Which of the following is true of a 32-bit CPU?
A) It cannot effectively utilize more than 4GB of main memory.
B) It has a higher speed than any other processor.
C) It is ideal for creating large, complicated spreadsheets.
D) It is more expensive than the 64-bit CPU.
Q6) Which of the following is an open-source operating system?
A) Opera
B) Windows
C) Linux
D) Mac OS
Q7) A server farm can process only one service request per minute.
A)True
B)False
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Q8) Explain the four major nonmobile client operating systems and their functions.
Chapter 5: Database Processing
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Q1) A(n)________ is a program that is used to create,process,and administer a collection of self-describing integrated records.
A) decision support system (DSS)
B) knowledge management system (KMS)
C) database management system (DBMS)
D) enterprise planning system (EPS)
Q2) In a database,a key is a column or group of columns that identifies a unique row in a table.
A)True
B)False
Q3) All traditional databases require the Internet to transmit traffic between a user's computer and a DBMS server computer.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Browser applications are thin-client applications that need not be pre-installed on the users' computers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the differences between a spreadsheet and a database?
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Chapter 6: The Cloud
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Q1) Content delivery networks (CDNs)increase Web sites' load time.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Before the creation of personal computers,time-sharing vendors provided slices of computer time on a use-fee basis.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A VPC allows organizations to gain the advantages of cloud storage for the portion of data that need not be physically controlled.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is true of Web services?
A) They are SOA-designed programs that comply with Web service standards.
B) They are programs that comply with IEEE 802.3 protocol standard and cannot be used for cloud processing.
C) They are programs that comply with Web service standards and can only run as an independent program.
D) They can be used only with other programs from the same vendor.
Q5) What is infrastructure as a service (IaaS)?
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Chapter 7: Organizations and Information Systems
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Q1) Sales forecasting and brand management are information systems applications that support an organization's ________.
A) accounting department
B) human resources department
C) sales and marketing department
D) customer service department
Q2) When an organization has inconsistent duplicated data,it is said to have a data integrity problem.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Information silos help in resolving any problem that may arise due to isolated information systems.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Business process reengineering is extremely fast and economical.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Information silos can result in increased cost for an organization.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Social Media Information Systems
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Q1) According to McAfee,Enterprise 2.0 workers prefer to navigate content structures rather than searching for content.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Since the benefits of Enterprise 2.0 result from emergence,there is no way to control for either effectiveness or efficiency.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The application of social media to facilitate the cooperative work of people inside organizations is called enterprise resource planning.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How does social capital add value?
Q5) SM sponsors employ browsers and native mobile applications to read and submit data.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are the six characteristics of Enterprise 2.0?
Q7) What are social media application providers?
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Chapter 9: Business Intelligence Systems
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Q1) Business intelligence enables police departments to better utilize their personnel through predictive-policing.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A printed sales analysis is an example of a dynamic report.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the ________ phase,a BigData collection is broken into pieces and hundreds or thousands of independent processors search these pieces for something of interest.
A) crash
B) control
C) Pig
D) Map
Q4) The granularity in clickstream data is too coarse.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Differentiate between static reports and dynamic reports.
Q6) How does business intelligence help marketers identify changes in the purchasing patterns of customers?
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Chapter 10: Information Systems Development
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Q1) Testing is often called product quality assurance (PQA).
A)True
B)False
Q2) Define the terms technical feasibility and organizational feasibility.
Q3) Which of the following personnel design the procedures for a business information system?
A) testers
B) programmers
C) systems analysts
D) business analysts
Q4) ________ testing is the process of allowing future system users to try out the new system on their own.
A) Unit
B) Alpha
C) Integration
D) Beta
Q5) Explain how the software component of an information system is designed.
Q6) Explain the importance of the requirements analysis phase of the SDLC.
Q7) What is systems development? How is it different from program development?
Q8) What are the five phases of the systems development life cycle (SDLC)?
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Chapter 11: Information Systems Management
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Q1) In organizations that operate significant nonaccounting information systems,such as manufacturers,a reporting arrangement wherein the CIO reports to the ________ is more common and effective.
A) CTO
B) CFO
C) CSO
D) CEO
Q2) Knowledge of the responsibilities and duties of the IS department helps one become a better consumer of the IS department's services.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A technical writer writes program documentation,help-text,procedures,job descriptions,and training materials.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Implementation risk is increased by outsourcing IS services.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the different functions in planning the use of information systems?
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Chapter 12: Information Security Management
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Q1) The loss of encryption keys by employees is referred to as key escrow.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ________ determine whether to pass each part of a message by examining its source address,destination addresses,and other such data.
A) Perimeter firewalls
B) Internal firewalls
C) Packet-filtering firewalls
D) Application firewalls
Q3) A user name ________ a user.
A) authenticates
B) identifies
C) conceals
D) encrypts
Q4) Incident-response plans should provide centralized reporting of all security incidents.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the concept of denial of service (DOS)in information management.
Q6) Describe an incident-response plan.
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Chapter 13: Extension A1: Collaboration Information Systems
for Decision Making,problem Solving,and Project Management
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Q1) Differentiate between cooperation and collaboration with examples.
Q2) Business professionals are primarily concerned about the successful outcome of collaboration.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The purpose of the ________ phase of project management is to ensure that tasks are accomplished on time.
A) finalizing
B) starting
C) doing
D) planning
Q4) It is essential for team members to express any differences in perceptions of data.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Schedules,tasks,budgets,and other managerial data are examples of project metadata.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Differentiate between project data and project metadata. Page 15
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Chapter 14: Extension A2: Collaborative Information
Systems for Student Projects
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Q1) Which of the following statements regarding Google Drive is true?
A) Users receive an email when a document is made available to them.
B) A Google account is not essential to use Google Drive.
C) A Google account is the same as a Gmail account.
D) Microsoft Excel documents cannot be uploaded to Google Drive.
Q2) With the ________ collaboration tool set,a participant has the ability to conduct multiparty audio and video virtual meetings,and he/she will also have support for concurrent access to document,spreadsheet,and presentation files.
A) minimal
B) optimal
C) good
D) comprehensive
Q3) A Google account is not essential to access Google Drive.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Systems that provide version management track changes to documents and provide features and functions to accommodate concurrent work.
A)True
B)False
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