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Principles of Management Information Systems

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Course Introduction

Principles of Management Information Systems introduces students to the fundamental concepts and technologies underlying modern information systems in organizations. The course explores how businesses utilize information systems to achieve operational efficiency, support decision-making, and gain a competitive advantage. Topics include system components, data management, information system development, and ethical issues in IT. By the end of the course, students will understand how to analyze business problems and design information system solutions that align with organizational goals.

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Experiencing MIS 7th Edition by David M. Kroenke

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Chapter 1: The Importance of Mis

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Q1) Which of the following is an impact of rapid technological change on job security?

A)Routine skills have more demand.

B)Nonroutine cognitive skills have gained more market value.

C)Nonroutine jobs are outsourced, thus reducing the need of an in-house workforce.

D)Routine skills are no longer required to complete a task.

Answer: B

Q2) When a user is provided with an unfamiliar program and asked to use it, he or she is being tested on their ability to collaborate effectively.

A)True

B)False

Answer: False

Q3) Information systems can be bought, whereas information technology cannot be bought.

A)True

B)False

Answer: False

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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 or her 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) A swimlane diagram is a graphical arrangement in which all the activities for a given role are shown in a single vertical lane.

A)True

B)False

Answer: True

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Chapter 3: Organizational Strategy, Information Systems

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Q1) Which of the following describes suppliers in a position of strong bargaining power?

A)coffee planters during a season of frost that decreases production

B)domestic suppliers of corn in the event of removal of import duties on corn

C)providers of logistic support when fuel prices have been reduced

D)temporary part-time gym instructor at a well-known gym

Answer: A

Q2) Which of the following is least likely to be an outcome of organizations forming alliances with each other?

A)promotion of product awareness

B)development of market size

C)establishment of standards

D)increment of purchasing costs

Answer: D

Q3) The strength of bargaining power of the customer does not depend on the availability of substitutes.

A)True

B)False

Answer: False

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Chapter 4: Hardware and Software

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Q1) The central processing unit is referred to as the brain of a computer.

A)True

B)False

Q2) Computer hardware consists of electronic components that input, process, output, and store data.

A)True

B)False

Q3) Some computers have two or more central processing units (CPUs).

A)True

B)False

Q4) A virtual machine does not have a disk space.

A)True

B)False

Q5) A host operating system controls the activities of the virtual machines it hosts.

A)True

B)False

Q6) What is virtualization?

Q7) Explain the basic constituents and the different types of computer hardware.

Q8) What is unique about Linux as an operating system?

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Chapter 5: Database Processing

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Q1) Browser-based database applications differ from traditional applications in that they ________.

A)have no security requirements

B)are used only by corporates

C)are usually open to the public

D)fail to support graphical queries

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) The administrative functions of a database management system (DBMS)include backing up database data.

A)True

B)False

Q4) All traditional databases require the Internet to transmit traffic between a user's computer and a database management system (DBMS)server computer.

A)True

B)False

Q5) What is a database application?

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Chapter 6: The Cloud

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Q1) What is a virtual private cloud? What are its advantages?

Q2) Which of the following is a reason for an internal information system that uses Web services to not be considered a cloud?

A)The number of servers is fixed and is not made elastic.

B)Idle servers are dynamically re-allocated.

C)Data transfer is enabled without dependency on the Internet.

D)Web service standards are not followed, as they are confined within the limits of a company.

Q3) What are the advantages of building an internal information system using Web services?

Q4) Teleaction increases the value of local mediocrity.

A)True

B)False

Q5) Content delivery networks (CDNs)are used to store and deliver content that rarely changes.

A)True

B)False

Q6) What are the disadvantages of cloud-based hosting?

Q7) Why is cloud hosting preferred to in-house hosting?

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Q8) Explain why cloud-based hosting does not make sense for some organizations.

Chapter 7: Organizations and Information Systems

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Q1) SAP offers industry-specific packages that customize its product for particular uses.

A)True

B)False

Q2) Inherent processes are ________.

A)time-consuming business processes that involve substantial investment

B)predesigned procedures for using software products

C)the set of procedures that help companies implement business process reengineering

D)business process reengineering techniques with low success rates

Q3) Which of the following is most likely to make use of an enterprise information system?

A)hospitals

B)drug salespersons

C)PRIDE systems

D)physician partnerships

Q4) Enterprise information systems have procedures that are formalized and extensively documented.

A)True

B)False

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Chapter 8: Social Media Information Systems

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Q1) According to business literature, describe three types of capital that are used.

Q2) A social networking user gains social capital by adding more friends and by strengthening relationships with existing friends.

A)True

B)False

Q3) Social media's flow cannot be designed or diagrammed as it is very ________.

A)dynamic

B)static

C)confounding

D)simple

Q4) If a reasoned, nondefensive response generates continued and unreasonable user-generated content from that same source, it is best for an organization to delete it.

A)True

B)False

Q5) Explain the social customer relationship management (CRM)process.

Q6) Capital is defined as the investment of resources for future profit.

A)True

B)False

Q7) According to Nan Lin, how do people benefit from social capital?

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Chapter 9: Business Intelligence Systems

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Q1) ________ process operational and other data in organizations to analyze past performance and make predictions.

A)Virtualization techniques

B)Live migration techniques

C)Business intelligence systems

D)Windowing systems

Q2) The goal of ________, a type of business intelligence analysis, is to create information about past performance.

A)push publishing

B)data mining

C)reporting analyses

D)BigData

Q3) Regression analysis is used to identify groups of entities that have similar characteristics.

A)True

B)False

Q4) Differentiate between push publishing and pull publishing.

Q5) Explain supervised data mining.

Q6) What are business intelligence systems?

Q7) What are the functions of a data warehouse?

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Chapter 10: Information Systems Security

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Q1) ________ are viruses that masquerade as useful programs like a computer game, an MP3 file, or some other useful innocuous program.

A)Key loggers

B)Trojan horses

C)Worms

D)Payloads

Q2) Malware protection is an example of a technical safeguard.

A)True

B)False

Q3) Pretexting occurs when someone deceives by pretending to be someone else.

A)True

B)False

Q4) Damages to security systems caused by natural disasters are minimal when compared to the damages due to human errors.

A)True

B)False

Q5) A user name authenticates a user, and a password identifies that user.

A)True

B)False

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Chapter 11: Information Systems Management

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Q1) Large-scale project managers require deeper project management knowledge than small-scale managers.

A)True

B)False

Q2) A(n)________ committee is a group of senior managers from the major business functions that works with the chief information officer to set information systems (IS)priorities and decide major IS projects and alternatives.

A)enforcement

B)disciplinary

C)administrative

D)steering

Q3) The ________ group within the information systems (IS)department manages the process of creating new information systems as well as maintaining existing information systems.

A)technology

B)operations

C)development

D)data administration

Q4) What are the different functions in planning the use of information systems?

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Chapter 12: Information Systems Development

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Q1) Which of the following statements is true of systems development for bigger systems and longer projects?

A)The diseconomies of scale are reduced.

B)The changes in requirements are increased.

C)The average contribution per worker is increased.

D)The project budgeting and scheduling becomes easy.

Q2) What is a test plan?

Q3) While designing ________, a development team must produce design documentation for writing program code.

A)off-the-shelf with alteration software

B)custom-developed programs

C)off-the-shelf software

D)cloud-based programs

Q4) Procedures for a business information system are designed usually by ________.

A)testers

B)programmers

C)systems analysts

D)business analysts

Q5) Explain the tasks performed during the system definition phase of the systems development life cycle.

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Chapter 13: Collaboration Information Systems for Decision Making

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Q1) Strategic decisions are almost always collaborative.

A)True

B)False

Q2) Most collaboration systems are hosted on client computers.

A)True

B)False

Q3) In project management, setting the ground rules for a project and its team is the fundamental purpose of the ________ phase.

A)finalizing

B)starting

C)executing

D)planning

Q4) Which of the following tasks is performed during the finalizing phase of project management?

A)solving problems

B)documenting and reporting project progress

C)revising budget

D)preparing archival documents

Q5) What are the three levels of decision making?

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Chapter 14: Collaborative Information Systems for Student Projects

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Q1) VOICE is a marketing and media firm.One of its corporate policies is the sole use of synchronous communication within the organization.VOICE is expanding its customer base in the coming year and needs to prepare a plan of action.Given its corporate policy regarding communication, which of the following modes are its team members most likely to use?

A)email

B)team survey

C)multiparty text chat

D)discussion forum

Q2) With the ________ collaboration tool set, participants have the ability to conduct multiparty audio and video virtual meetings and the support for concurrent access to document, spreadsheet, and presentation files, but they will have to rely on third-party tools to use surveys, wikis, and blogs.

A)Minimal

B)Optimal

C)Good

D)Comprehensive

Q3) What are the three sets of collaboration tools?

Q4) Explain the importance of Microsoft SharePoint in task management.

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Chapter 15: Mobile Systems

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Q1) Which of the following is true of push data?

A)It is data that a device requests from a server.

B)It is less impressive to users than pull data.

C)It is uploaded by the user onto a server.

D)The user needs to do nothing to receive it.

Q2) Which of the following statements is true of Web applications developed for mobile systems?

A)They can be developed by professional programmers and technically oriented Web developers or business professionals.

B)They are more expensive than native applications of equivalent complexity.

C)It is easier to earn money from a thin-client application.

D)Thin-client applications require multiple versions.

Q3) The advantages of employees using their mobile systems at work include cost savings and greater employee satisfaction.

A)True

B)False

Q4) Web applications are limited by the capabilities of the browser.

A)True

B)False

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Chapter 16: Introduction to Microsoft Excel 2013

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Q1) The ________ section of the ribbon in Excel enables selected text to be centered both horizontally and vertically in a cell.

A)font

B)alignment

C)styles

D)editing

Q2) Joe is working on a business presentation on his company's sales figures for the previous quarter.He needs to add a graph to his Excel worksheet showing the difference in sales figures of different quarters.Which of the following tabs will Joe use to add the graph?

A)DATA

B)FORMAT

C)VIEW

D)INSERT

Q3) In Excel, the FORMULAS tab is used for creating complex formulas.

A)True

B)False

Q4) An Excel workbook is a collection of one or more worksheets.

A)True

B)False

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Chapter 17: Database Design

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Q1) Which of the following is true of entities?

A)Entities have an identifier whose value is associated with every entity in the data model.

B)Entities can only represent a logical construct or transaction, not a physical object.

C)The characteristics of entities are described by attributes.

D)The names of entities are always plural.

Q2) Normalized tables eliminate ________.

A)data dependency

B)data duplication

C)data insufficiency

D)data conversion

Q3) Which of the following notations signifies that an adviser can be related to many students and that a student can be related to many advisers?

A)1:N

B)N:M

C)N:1

D)N:N

Q4) How is a data model transformed into a database design?

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Chapter 18: Using Microsoft Access 2013

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Q1) Microsoft Access opens a new database by creating a default table named Table A.

A)True

B)False

Q2) Explain the procedure for establishing a relationship between two tables in Microsoft Access.

Q3) All relational database management system (DBMS)products can process the ________ query language.

A)SQL

B)PHP

C)DB10

D)HTML

Q4) In Microsoft Access, after creating a relationship between two tables, the user cannot and need not assign values for the ________.

A)queries

B)primary key

C)foreign key

D)add-ons

Q5) Explain the different alternatives provided by Microsoft Access for creating data entry forms.

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Chapter 19: Using Excel and Access Together

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Q1) To create a column chart, the data is highlighted and the Column option in the Charts section of the Insert tab is selected.

A)True

B)False

Q2) Which of the following shows the correct sequence of steps for creating a column chart in Microsoft Excel?

A)Diagrams Illustrations Column

B)Add-Ins Charts Column

C)Insert Illustrations Column

D)Insert Charts Column

Q3) Explain the significance of using Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel together.

Q4) How are group totals created in Microsoft Access?

Q5) Delimited text files can be imported to Microsoft Access by selecting the ________ tab.

A)Home

B)Create

C)Database Tools

D)External Data

Q6) Explain the procedure for creating graphs in Microsoft Excel.

Q7) How can Microsoft Excel be used to graph Microsoft Access data?

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Chapter 20: Network and Cloud Technology

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Q1) A(n)________ is a set of rules that programs on two communicating devices follow.

A)domain

B)attribute

C)protocol

D)markup language

Q2) What is the TCP/IP Protocol architecture? Where are the various application-layer protocols?

Q3) What is the difference between a local area network (LAN)and a wide area network (WAN)? Give an example of how each one could be used in businesses.

Q4) Which of the following protocols is commonly used for wireless local area networks (LANs)?

A)IEEE 802.11

B)Distributed Data Interface

C)DSL

D)IEEE 802.3

Q5) The Hypertext Transport Protocol (http)is a TCP/IP application-layer protocol.

A)True

B)False

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Chapter 21: Enterprise Resource Planning Erpsystems

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Q1) Nolan works for a food processing company that has an annual sales of $200 million.He heads the IT department in his organization.Given that Nolan's organization is midsized, which of the following statements is most likely to be true of the effect of enterprise resource planning (ERP)on his department's staff?

A)His staff is often isolated from senior management.

B)ERP implementation in his organization will be part of a strategic process and, once begun, will have the full backing of the entire executive group.

C)Specialists in his department are spread very thin and often are in over their heads during an ERP implementation.

D)His organization employs only one or two IT specialists.

Q2) Explain briefly the steps for implementing enterprise resource planning (ERP)systems.

Q3) Which of the following is a major disadvantage of mobile devices?

A)inability to process ERP applications

B)unsuitable for employees in all departments

C)security threat

D)not portable

Q4) What is the primary purpose of an enterprise resource planning (ERP)system?

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Chapter 22: Supply Chain Management

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Q1) A major factor that affects supply chain performance is the ________.

A)number of work-centers

B)working capital

C)competitors

D)facilities

Q2) The phenomenon in which the variability in the size and timing of orders increases at each stage up the supply chain is referred to as the ________.

A)synergistic effect

B)flanging effect

C)stack effect

D)bullwhip effect

Q3) Explain inter-enterprise IS processes with an example.

Q4) Which of the following is used as the measure of supply chain speed?

A)dollar value of goods exchanged in a given period of time

B)amount of goods exchanged in a given period of time

C)total profit generated by the components of supply chain

D)time taken to transport goods from one component to another

Q5) Information systems do not support just-in-time inventory.

A)True

B)False

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Chapter 23: Enterprise Social Networks and Knowledge Management

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Q1) Conversion rate refers to the percent of people that visit a Web site and then immediately leave.

A)True

B)False

Q2) It is often easier for an employee of an organization to find a document of the organization using Google than using an in-house search engine.

A)True

B)False

Q3) ________ are rule-based systems that encode human knowledge in the form of If/Then rules.

A)Document management systems

B)Expert systems

C)Content management systems

D)Enterprise resource planning systems

Q4) What are expert systems?

Q5) In-house systems have considerably more functionality than off-the-shelf products and are far less expensive to maintain.

A)True

B)False

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Q1) In RFM analysis, an R score of 5 shows that ________.

A)a customer has not made any recent purchases

B)a customer has bought the most expensive items

C)a customer has frequently ordered expensive items

D)a customer has purchased the least expensive items

Q2) ________ is a way of analyzing and ranking customers according to their purchasing patterns.

A)Composite forecast

B)RFM analysis

C)Regression analysis

D)Delphi technique

Q3) Which of the following RFM scores refers to the most valuable customer?

A)111

B)555

C)123

D)333

Q4) What are decision trees? How do they classify people into groups?

Q5) Data mining techniques are essential for database marketing.

A)True

B)False

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Q1) Amy eagerly awaits the launch of the summer flash sale on her favorite online shopping site.She registers her cell phone number and email ID on the site to receive a notification when the sale begins.The notification that Amy will receive from the shopping site is an example of a(n)________.

A)query report

B)subscription

C)exception report

D)alert

Q2) An online analytical processing (OLAP)server reads data from an operational database, performs preliminary calculations, and stores the results of those calculations in an OLAP database.

A)True

B)False

Q3) Which of the following report media is used for delivering a query report?

A)paper and PDF file

B)digital dashboard

C)Web site

D)alerts via email

Q4) How does a reporting system obtain the necessary data to generate reports?

Q5) Describe online analytical processing (OLAP).

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Q1) Executives, managers, and all systems personnel of an organization discuss the actions to be taken by each employee in case a data breach occurs.They identify areas that would need immediate attention and assign specific responsibilities to each employee.The employees of the organization are performing a(n)________.

A)exfiltration

B)documentation

C)walkthrough

D)case study

Q2) Which of the following is true of the measures to be taken by an organization in the event of a data breach?

A)The organization must delay informing its users so that the occurrence of data breach remains private.

B)The organization must not involve additional technical or law enforcement professionals, as it may lead to further damage to its data.

C)The organization must destroy the evidence of the breach to avoid future security problems.

D)The organization must respond quickly to mitigate the amount of damage hackers can do with the stolen data.

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Q1) In the context of combatting the challenges of international information systems (IS)management, defining a set of standard business processes requires conversion of the organization to different work processes.

A)True

B)False

Q2) How does the global economy change competitive strategy?

Q3) Joe's company has set up a new branch in a small town in Spain.He is working on translating Microsoft Outlook into Spanish to help the new recruits from the town learn how to use the program.Joe is involved in the process of ________.

A)differentiating

B)stringing

C)localizing

D)optimizing

Q4) Which of the following was a consequence of Henry Ford's unprecedented move of increasing his workers' pay?

A)The workers left Ford's company in search of better standards of living.

B)The price of the automobiles increased dramatically.

C)The demand for Ford's automobiles increased.

D)Ford's company suffered a huge loss due to the increased expenses.

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Chapter 28: Systems Development Project Management

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Q1) ________ is the process by which users agree to one set of conditions, then add a bit more, then add a bit more, and so forth.

A)Requirements creep

B)Diseconomies of scale

C)Configuration control

D)Coordination

Q2) A(n)________ is the sequence of activities that determine the earliest date by which a project can be completed.

A)Gantt chart

B)critical path

C)encryption algorithm

D)scatter plot

Q3) Larger projects with longer development intervals will find it easier to meet baseline requirements.

A)True

B)False

Q4) What are the trade-offs in a systems development project's requirements, cost, and time?

Q5) What is a critical path? How is a critical path analysis done?

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Q1) The systems development life cycle (SDLC)gained popularity when the U.S.Department of Commerce stipulated that it would be used for all software development contracts.

A)True

B)False

Q2) Why is the systems development life cycle (SDLC)called the waterfall method?

A)It does not return to a development phase that has been completed.

B)It uses feedback from team members to schedule tasks.

C)It delivers a working version of the product at frequent intervals.

D)It can be used only for projects on information systems.

Q3) Extreme programming is one of the alternatives to the systems development life cycle (SDLC).

A)True

B)False

Q4) In software development, where requirements change periodically, the waterfall model works well.

A)True

B)False

Q5) What are the principles of agile development methodologies?

Q6) Why is the systems development life cycle (SDLC)losing credibility?

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Chapter 30: Business Process Management

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Q1) Which of the following statements is true about choosing whether to develop information systems (IS)or business processes first?

A)For a business process that is being constructed, building an information system (IS)after creating the business process is likely to cause problems.

B)If an information system is built after the creation of business processes, other business processes that use the same information system (IS)can be integrated easily.

C)If business processes are built after the information system (IS)development process, activities that are not part of the IS may not be considered.

D)If an information system (IS)is built first, the development team should determine the requirements by itself.

Q2) In which of the following types of business process management (BPM)scopes does problem resolution via committee and policy occur?

A)functional

B)departmental

C)inter-enterprise

D)enterprise

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