Introduction to Information Systems
Midterm Exam
Course Introduction
Introduction to Information Systems explores the fundamental concepts, technologies, and strategies that shape the role of information systems in contemporary organizations. The course covers the basics of hardware, software, databases, networks, and the internet, along with critical issues such as data security, privacy, and ethical implications. Students learn how information systems support business operations, decision making, and competitive advantage, and analyze real-world cases to understand how organizations leverage technology for innovation and efficiency. Through lectures, discussions, and practical exercises, students gain an appreciation for the significance of information systems in both business and society.
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M Information Systems 3rd Edition by Baltzan Paige
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Chapter 1: Management Information Systems: Business Driven MIS
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Q1) If a supplier has high power what can it do to influence its industry?
A)Charge higher prices.
B)Shift costs to industry participants.
C)Limit quality or services.
D)All of the above.
Answer: D
Q2) Assume you are in the business of producing and selling cars.If you could produce more cars with the same input what would happen to your productivity and profits assuming the price of your cars remains the same?
A)Increase in productivity,decrease in profits
B)Increase in productivity,increase in profits
C)Decrease in productivity,decrease in profits
D)Decrease in productivity,increase in profits
Answer: B
Q3) The __________ department tracks strategic financial issues including money,banking,credit,investments,and assets.
Answer: Finance
Q4) A hair cut is an example of a ________.
Answer: Service or Services
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Chapter 2: Decisions Processes: Value Driven Business
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Q1) __________ information systems is a specialized DSS that supports senior-level executives and unstructured,long-term,nonroutine decisions requiring judgment,evolution and insight.
Answer: Executive
Q2) Chuck Biggs has been hired to oversee all of the plans that the city of Denver has created to expand its train transportation system by adding six more lines to the metro area.Chuck will be responsible for planning the project,managing the processes,and finalizing each new line as it is completed.How would you categorize the majority of the decisions Chuck will have to make to complete his job?
A)Unstructured decisions
B)Semistructured decisions
C)Structured decisions
D)Strategic decisions
Answer: B
Q3) The President and Vice-President of a company are typically found in the _______________ level of the business structure.
Answer: Strategic
Q4) A model is a simplified representation or abstraction of _________. Answer: Reality
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Chapter 3: Ebusiness: Electronic Business Value
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Q1) Mass customization occurs when a company knows enough about a customer's likes and dislikes that it can fashion offers more likely to appeal to that person,say by tailoring its website to individuals or groups based on profile information,demographics,or prior transactions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which of the following is not an example of explicit knowledge?
A)Patent
B)Trademark
C)Employee opinion
D)Marketing research
Answer: C
Q3) One of the main challenges that ___________ face is ensuring consumer protection,guarding them against unsolicited goods and invasion of privacy.
Answer: Ebusiness or E-business
Q4) Mobile business is just now emerging and is also referred to as mcommerce or
Answer: M-business
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Chapter 4: Ethics Information Security: MIS Business
Concerns
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Q1) What is ediscovery?
A)The unauthorized use,duplication,distribution,or sale of copyrighted software.
B)Refers to the ability of a company to identify,search,gather,seize,or export digital information in responding to a litigation,audit,investigation,or information inquiry.
C)Passed to protect minors from accessing inappropriate material on the Internet.
D)A technological solution that allows publishers to control their digital media to discourage,limit,or prevent illegal copying and distribution.
Q2) Describe the relationships and differences between hackers and viruses.
Q3) Enter white or black in the space below:
___________ hat hackers break into other people's computer systems and may just look around or may steal and destroy information.
Q4) ___________ is a method for confirming users' identities.
Q5) A Zombie is a program that secretly takes over another computer for the purpose of launching attacks on other computers.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies
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Q1) A _______ site of the support disaster recovery system separates facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.
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) Moore's law refers to the computer chip performance per dollar doubles every 18
Q4) What is an infrastructure built for notifying people in the event of an emergency?
A)Business operational plan
B)Business continuity plan
C)Emergency notification service
D)Emergency continuity plan
Q5) _________ in which each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system.
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Chapter 6: Data: Business Intelligence
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Q1) Relational integrity constraints are rules that enforce basic and fundamental information-based constraints.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following stores information about a person,place,thing,transaction,or event,and is usually referred to as a table?
A)Entity
B)Extraction
C)Attribute
D)Foreign key
Q3) Data mining is the process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw _______ alone.
Q4) _________ information includes fixed data incapable of change in the event of a user action.
Q5) Organizational information comes at different levels and in different formats and granularities.
A)True
B)False
Q6) _____________ provides details about data.
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Chapter 7: Networks: Mobile Business
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Q1) An ___________ is an extension of an intranet that is available only to authorized outsiders,such as customers,partners,and suppliers.
Q2) _________________ Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)allows dynamic IP address allocation so users do not have to have a preconfigured IP address to use the network.
Q3) A metropolitan area network (MAN)is a large computer network usually spanning a _________.
Q4) The largest and most important network,the ______________,is like a network made up of millions of smaller networks able to operate independently.
Q5) Routing information,sending information alerts,mapping densities and quantities are all examples of ___________ information systems.
Q6) Protecting against theft can expose a company to many significant risks such as stolen IDs,__________,encryption keys,and even confidential company information.
Q7) War ___________ is deliberately searching for Wi-Fi signals while driving by in a vehicle.
Q8) A _________ is a single unit of binary data routed through a network.
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Chapter 8: Enterprise Applications: Business Communications
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Q1) _____________ ERP components are the traditional components included in most ERP systems and they primarily focus on internal operations.
Q2) What is increasing the value of the sale?
A)Cross-selling
B)Up-selling
C)Campaign management system
D)Customer service and support
Q3) ___________ systems provide enterprisewide support and data access for a firm's operations and business processes.
Q4) What is an organization performing when it asks questions such as "which customers are at risk of leaving"?
A)CRM reporting technologies
B)CRM analyzing technologies
C)CRM processing technologies
D)CRM predicting technologies
Q5) Materials flow from suppliers and their _______________ suppliers at all levels.
Q6) ___________ management systems guide users through marketing campaigns performing such tasks as campaign definition,planning,scheduling,segmentation,and success analysis.
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Chapter 9: Systems Development and Project
Management: Corporate Responsibility
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Q1) Explain the three different types of outsourcing along with their benefits and challenges.
Q2) _____________ reports present data that is distributed inside the organization and is intended for employees within an organization.
Q3) __________ testing tests individual units or pieces of code for a system.
Q4) A project _____________ is any measurable,tangible,verifiable outcome,result,or item that is produced to complete a project or part of a project.
Q5) What is an arrangement by which one organization provides a service or services for another organization that chooses not to perform them in-house?
A)In-sourcing
B)Outsourcing
C)Business process outsourcing
D)Offshore outsourcing
Q6) Development Testing assess if the entire system meets the design requirements of the users.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Describe the seven phases of the systems development life cycle.
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