Business Systems Analysis
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Course Introduction
Business Systems Analysis introduces students to the fundamental concepts, methodologies, and tools used in analyzing and designing effective information systems within an organizational context. The course emphasizes the role of the business analyst in identifying business requirements, modeling processes, and translating organizational needs into technical specifications. Students learn to apply techniques such as data flow diagrams, entity-relationship modeling, use case development, and requirements elicitation through case studies and practical assignments. By the end of the course, students will have developed the analytical and communication skills needed to work collaboratively with stakeholders, bridging the gap between business objectives and technology solutions.
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Business Driven Information Systems 6th Edition by Paige Baltzan
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Chapter 1: Management Information Systems: Business Driven
MIS
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Q1) All of the following are common tools used in industry to analyze and develop competitive advantages, except ________.
A)Five Forces Model
B)Three Generic Strategies
C)Competitive analysis model
D)Value chain analysis
Answer: C
Q2) Your boss, Kerry Miller, has asked you to analyze the soft drink industry using Porter's five forces model. Which of the following represents rivalry in the soft drink industry?
A)Pepsi requires stores that carry Pepsi products to commit to minimum orders of 1,000 cases.
B)Walmart negotiates a lower cost per bottle from Coke in exchange for premium shelf space in every Walmart store.
C)Zevia Natural Diet Soda begins selling directly over the Internet.
D)Coke and Pepsi submit bids to the owner of a football stadium for the exclusive sale of their products during games.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Decisions and Processes: Value Driven Business
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Q1) An infographic (information graphic)is a representation of information in a graphic format designed to make the data easily understandable at a glance. People use infographics to quickly communicate a message, to simplify the presentation of large amounts of data, to see data patterns and relationships, and to monitor changes in variables over time.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) A machine-vision system uses a video camera to capture data and send it to the robot controller. Machine vision is similar in complexity to voice recognition and can be used for handwriting recognition, signature identification, and currency inspection. Two important specifications in any vision system are the sensitivity and the resolution.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Asking how many employees are out sick is a type of operational question.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Ebusiness: Electronic Business Value
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Q1) Many industries have taken an active role in online business including the government. Which of the following is the term that describes the use of strategies and technologies to transform government by improving the delivery of services and enhancing the quality of interaction between the citizen-consumer within all the branches of government?
A)Ecommerce
B)Information richness
C)Egovernment
D)Tacit knowledge
Answer: C
Q2) A webinar is a form of Web conferencing, which blends videoconferencing with document sharing and allows the user to deliver a presentation over the Web to a group of geographically dispersed participants.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) A URL is a program that runs within another application such as a website.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Ethics and Information Security: MIS Business
Concerns
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Q1) Fair information practices are policies that allows employees to use their personal mobile devices and computers to access enterprise data and applications.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Through social engineering, hackers use their social skills to trick people into revealing access credentials or other valuable information.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is a set of measurable characteristics of a human voice that uniquely identifies an individual?
A)Voiceprint
B)Face
C)Iris
D)All of the above
Q4) Information security policies detail how an organization will implement the information security plan.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies
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Q1) Network virtualization combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Where would you categorize a cloud computing benefit that allows a customer to store fewer applications on a client computer, which frees up the memory allowing for increases in performance?
A)Internet features
B)Increased costs
C)Increased performance
D)Increased software updates
Q3) What combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device?
A)Server virtualization
B)Network virtualization
C)Disaster recovery as a service
D)Storage virtualization
Q4) Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types. Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.
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Chapter 6: Data: Business Intelligence
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Q1) A repository is a central location in which data is stored and managed.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is master data management?
A)The time it takes for data to be stored or retrieved.
B)The practice of gathering data and ensuring that it is uniform, accurate, consistent, and complete.
C)The tests and evaluations used to determine compliance with data governance policies to ensure correctness of data.
D)When a company examines its data to determine if it can meet business expectations, while identifying possible data gaps.
Q3) Unique information asks if the information current with respect to the business needs.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A data set is an organized collection of data.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the business benefits of a data-driven website.
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Chapter 7: Networks: Mobile Business
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Q1) Explain the different wireless network categories.
Q2) A wireless MAN (WMAN)is a metropolitan area network that uses radio signals to transmit and receive data.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What can unified communications merge?
A)IMing
B)Videoconferencing
C)Voice Mail
D)All of the above
Q4) RFID innovations and technologies are being used in many industries including retail, hospitals, pharmaceuticals, and ranchers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Estimated-time-of-arrival (ETA)is the time of day of an expected arrival at a certain destination and is typically used for navigation applications.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Identify the benefits of business mobility.
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Chapter 8: Enterprise Applications: Business Communications
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Q1) What helps an organization identify its customers across applications?
A)CRM reporting technologies
B)CRM analyzing technologies
C)CRM processing technologies
D)CRM predicting technologies
Q2) Integrations provide enterprisewide support and data access for a firm's operations and business processes.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What distributes goods and services to customers?
A)Inbound logistics
B)Outbound logistics
C)Logistics
D)Cradle to grave
Q4) Which of the following represents sales force automation?
A)Helping an organization identify its customers across applications
B)Selling additional products or services to a customer
C)A system that automatically tracks all of the steps in the sales process
D)Selling larger products or services to a customer
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Chapter 9: Systems Development and Project Management:
Corporate Responsibility
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Q1) The scrum methodology uses small teams to produce small pieces of software using a series of sprints, or 30-day intervals, to achieve an appointed goal.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What contains the users' actual signatures indicating they approve all of the business requirements?
A) Requirements documentation
B) Requirements management
C) Requirements definition document
D) Sign-off
Q3) What is an activity-based process in which each phase in the SDLC is performed sequentially from planning through implementation and maintenance?
A) RAD methodology
B) Agile methodology
C) Waterfall methodology
D) Extreme programming
Q4) A web service is an open-standards way of supporting interoperability.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Hardware and Software Basics
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Q1) Secondary storage consists of equipment designed to store large volumes of data for long-term storage.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Disk optimization software helps save information if a computer crashes.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is the computer's primary working memory, in which program instructions and data are stored so that they can be accessed directly by the CPU via the processor's high-speed external data bus?
A)RAM
B)ROM
C)Volatility
D)Flash memory
Q4) 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
Q5) Define the relationship between operating system software and utility software.
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Chapter 11: Networks and Telecommunications
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Q1) Identify the different media types found in networks
Q2) Which of the following is not one of the differentiating factors of a network?
A)Architecture
B)Topology
C)Protocols
D)Telecommunication system
Q3) What allows Web browsers and servers to send and receive Web pages?
A)File transfer protocol (FTP)
B)Simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP)
C)Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)
D)Simple network management protocol (SNMP)
Q4) File transfer protocol (FTP)allows files containing text, programs, graphics, numerical data, and so on to be downloaded off or uploaded onto a network.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which of the following is not a commonly used type of guided media?
A)Twisted-pair wiring
B)Coaxial cable
C)Fiber-optic cable
D)Transmission control protocol/internet protocol
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Chapter 12: Designing Databases
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Q1) What occurs between two entities in which an instance of one entity can be related to only one instance of a related entity?
A)One-to-one relationship
B)One-to-many relationship
C)Many-to-many relationship
D)Composite entity
Q2) What is a technique for documenting the entities and relationships in a database environment?
A)Entity-relationship diagram
B)Data model
C)Database
D)Relational database model
Q3) What has the potential to contain more than one value for an attribute?
A)Single-valued attribute
B)Multi-valued attribute
C)Null-valued attribute
D)All of the above
Q4) A primary key is a field that uniquely identifies a given record in a table.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Emerging Trends and Technologies
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Q1) Why is the global economy becoming more integrated?
A)Relaxed borders in the European Union
B)The Internet
C)International outsourcing
D)All of the above
Q2) The ambient digital experience is a blend of the physical, virtual, and electronic environments creating a real-time ambient environment that changes as the user moves from one place to another.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is not a potential business impact from the world's population doubling in the next 40 years?
A)Developed nations will begin to increase immigration limits
B)Developed nations will find that retirees will have to remain on the job to remain competitive
C)Global agriculture will be required to supply as much food as has been produced during all of human history
D)The time to get products and services to market is being shortened by technology.
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