Database Management Systems
Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Database Management Systems is a comprehensive course that explores the fundamental concepts, architectures, and applications of modern database systems. Students will examine data modeling techniques, relational database design, and the use of SQL for data definition, manipulation, and querying. The course covers essential topics such as normalization, indexing, transaction management, concurrency control, and database security. Additionally, students will be introduced to contemporary database paradigms, including NoSQL and distributed databases, equipping them with the skills to design, implement, and manage efficient and robust database solutions for a variety of real-world scenarios.
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Management Information Systems 10th Edition by James A.
OBrien George M. Marakas
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Chapter 1: Foundations of Information Systems in Business
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Q1) Information systems that focus on operational and managerial applications in support of basic business functions, such as accounting or marketing, are known as
A) functional business systems
B) strategic information systems
C) executive information systems
D) knowledge management systems
Answer: A
Q2) E-business uses Internet technologies to work and empower _______________.
A) business processes
B) electronic commerce
C) collaboration among business teams
D) All of the choices are correct.
Answer: D
Q3) Most end users in business are referred to as knowledge workers, people who spend most of their time communicating, collaborating, and creating, using, and distributing information.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Competing With Information Technology
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Q1) If a company has successfully increased the amount of investment or the complexity of the technology required to compete in an industry or a market segment, it has raised _______________ that would discourage or delay other companies from entering the market.
Answer: barriers to entry
Q2) Although the potential payback of reengineering is high, so is the risk of failure and level of disruption to the organizational environment of the firm.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The value chain framework can be used to view a firm as a series, a chain, or a network of basic activities that:
A) Add value to its products and services, and thus add a margin of value to the firm.
B) Lower costs along the product development chain.
C) Create the perception of value and goodwill to employees.
D) Create a smooth-flowing chain of events between the supplier and the customer.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Computer Hardware
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Q1) Which of the following best describes optical scanning devices?
A) Hand-held wands used to read data on merchandise tags
B) Photoelectric devices that scan data
C) Converts reflected light patterns into electronic impulses, which are accepted as input into the computer system
D) All of the choices are correct.
Answer: D
Q2) A touchpad is best described as a:
A) Small, rectangular, touch-sensitive surface usually placed below the keyboard
B) Stationary device containing a roller ball whose top is exposed outside its case
C) Pen-shaped device with a ballpoint at the end
D) Device rolled along the desktop in order to move the cursor on the screen
Answer: A
Q3) Mainframe computers are sometimes used as front-end computers in order to assist midrange computers in performing telecommunications processing and network management.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Computer Software
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Q1) When using a spreadsheet package to answer "what if" questions, the user must change:
A) Only a selected variable to see the impact of that change
B) A number of variables to make a single change to the spreadsheet output
C) All the formulas in order to calculate new values
D) Nothing - spreadsheets cannot be used to answer "what if" questions
Q2) Linux, the most talked-about open-source product today, is a totally reengineered version of the _______________ operating system.
A) Unix
B) BASIC
C) COBOL
D) Windows
Q3) A computer equipped with _______________ memory capability can process larger programs and greater amounts of data than the capacity of its memory circuits would normally allow.
Q4) An example of _______________ is a computer that appears to perform several computing tasks in a seemingly simultaneous fashion.
Q5) Three main types of user interfaces are __________-driven, menu-driven, and graphical.
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Chapter 5: Data Resource Management
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Q1) Database administrators and database design analysts work with end users and systems analysts to do all of the following except:
A) Model business processes and the data they require
B) Determine what data definitions should be included in the database
C) Determine what structure or relationships should exist among the data elements
D) Enter live data into the system until it has proven to be reliable
Q2) A _______________ is an overall logical view of the relationships among the data elements in a database.
A) schema
B) subschema
C) logical data model
D) conceptual design
Q3) The _______________ stage of database development translates the conceptual models into the data model of a DBMS.
A) data planning
B) requirements specification
C) conceptual design
D) logical design
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Chapter 6: Telecommunications and Networks
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Q1) Most of the institutions and commercial partners on the Internet2 network are connected via _______________, a network backbone that will soon support throughput of 10 Gbps.
A) Abilene
B) Phoenix
C) Enterprise
D) Indiana
Q2) All cellular and PCS telephone systems divide a geographic area into small areas, or __________, typically from one to several square miles in area.
Q3) Which of the following best describes how star, ring, and bus networks differ?
A) Performance and reliability
B) Performance, reliability, and cost
C) Reliability and cost
D) Performance and cost
Q4) The network-centric concept views the PC as the central computing resource of any computing environment.
A)True
B)False
Q5) _______________ are the most common type of communications processor.
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Chapter 7: Electronic Business Systems
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Q1) Human resource information systems are designed to support most common human resource functions, such as recruitment, selection, hiring, job placement, performance appraisals, and training over corporate intranets.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Computer integrated manufacturing is an overall concept that stresses using computer-based systems in manufacturing to do all the following, except:
A) Simplify production processes
B) Automate production processes
C) Integrate all production and support processes
D) Integrate collaboration and communication throughout the organization
Q3) _______________ are events that occur as part of doing business, such as sales, purchases, deposits, withdrawals, refunds, and payments.
A) Items
B) Transactions
C) Occurrences
D) Processes
Q4) A transaction is _______________.
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Chapter 8: Enterprise Business Systems
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Q1) Which of the following is a tactical SCM objective?
A) Deploying resources to match supply to demand
B) Monitoring, controlling, and adjusting production
C) Changing transportation methods
D) Establishing objectives and policies
Q2) Supply chain event management applications let companies see, from a historical perspective, if their existing supply chain management systems are working.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Because each supply chain process should add value to the products or services a company produces, a supply chain is frequently called a __________ chain.
Q4) The growth of the Internet and corporate _______________ and _______________ prompted software companies to build Web interfaces and networking capabilities into ERP systems.
Q5) The three steps in the customer life cycle are _______________, _______________, and _______________.
Q6) Most businesses start out with _______________ CRM systems, such as sales force automation and customer service centers.
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Chapter 9: Electronic Commerce Systems
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Q1) E-commerce does not include such things as extranet access of inventory databases by customers and suppliers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Searching for a product by its description, such as "girls red gym shorts," is an example of a _______________ search.
Q3) Some companies are attempting to copy the successful consumer-to-consumer market model in the business-to-business marketplace.
A)True
B)False
Q4) E-business _______________ systems ensure that the proper transactions, decisions, and work activities are performed, and that the correct data and documents are routed to the right employees, customers, suppliers, and other business stakeholders.
Q5) An _______________ channel is the marketing or sales channel created by a company to conduct and manage its chosen e-commerce activities.
Q6) Most _______________ e-commerce ventures take the form of retail business sites on the World Wide Web.
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Chapter 10: Decision Support Systems
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Q1) According to the text, all of the following are major limitations of an expert system except:
A) It has a limited focus
B) Users of the system have a high learning curve
C) It is unable to learn
D) It is costly to develop
Q2) Portals are designed for use by executives, not the average employee.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The type of information required by decision makers in a company is directly related to the level of management decision making and the amount of _______________ in the decision situations they face.
A) financial risk
B) structure
C) variable information
D) urgency
Q4) Hundreds of rules may be required to capture the assumptions, __________, and reasoning that are involved in even simple problem situations.
Q5) Information has three dimensions: time, content, and _______________.
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Chapter 11: Developing Businessit Strategies
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Q1) Having a _______________ perspective means measuring financial performance, such as number of debtors, cash flow, or return on investment.
A) learning and growth
B) customer
C) financial
D) business process
Q2) The _______________ model uses the Internet to streamline the interactions among all parties in the supply chain to improve operating efficiency.
A) self-service innovator
B) supply chain innovator
C) channel mastery
D) market creator
Q3) Which of the following is an action that would normally be taken while trying to build commitment to an impending change?
A) Develop leadership capability
B) Transfer knowledge and skills
C) Create a compelling change story
D) Implement culture change
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Chapter 12: Developing Businessit Solutions
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Q1) The most basic protection against accidental lost or damage to end user files is to simply make backup copies on a frequent and systematic basis.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Systems analysts may recycle back at any time during the systems development cycle in order to modify and improve a system under development, but users do not.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The performance of hardware and software can nearly always be determined by obtaining and reading the documentation and case studies supplied by hardware and software suppliers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) One way of practicing systems thinking is to try to find systems, subsystems, and components of systems in any situation you are studying. This is known as using a systems context or having a _______________ of a situation.
Q5) A __________ is a special set of activities with a clear beginning and end.
Q6) The single most important tool for project control is the _______________.
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Chapter 13: Security and Ethical Challenges
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Q1) To use public domain software legally, a company:
A) Must purchase individual copies or a site license for a certain number of copies
B) Can examine a single copy of the software for 30 days and then purchase as many copies as needed
C) Can make as many copies as desired because the software is not copyrighted
D) None of the choices are correct.
Q2) Computer monitoring has been criticized as unethical because no one is overseeing the person who monitors the workers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is the purpose of external firewalls?
A) To prevent users from accessing sensitive human resource or financial data
B) To limit access of intranet resources to specific users
C) To avoid creating security holes to back-end resources
D) To keep out unauthorized Internet users from intranet networks
Q4) A ________________ plan is a method for ensuring that an organization recovers from natural and human-caused disasters that affect its computer-based operations. These plans specify items such as hardware, software, employee duties, and facilities to be used.
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Chapter 14: Enterprise and Global Management of Information Technology
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Q1) According to the text case, the primary objective of the Convention on Cybercrime treaty is to break the bottlenecks in international cyber investigations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A "best of breed" approach to technology management may sacrifice match-with-business needs for vendor homogeneity and technology platform choices.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A chief information officer (CIO):
A) Directs day-to-day information services activities
B) Develops and administers training programs for information services personnel and computer users
C) Is expected to closely supervise the internal operations of the information services department, but has limited responsibility for interfacing with other departments
D) Has major responsibility for long-term information system planning and strategy
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