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| Masquerading means an imposter trying to appear as a legitimate user (true or false) |
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| Internet is a threat to industries with undifferentiated products (true or false) |
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A student’s decision to drop one course and add another would be considered
a transaction to the university’s information system but not to its accounting system. (true or false) |
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You are registering for the next semester at your university. You take into account your major, the courses you need, the prerequisites for each course, the times you take each course, and the professors teaching each section, as well as your work schedule. You are using _____ to select your class schedule.
a. information
b. knowledge
c. experience
d. wisdom
e. data |
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Michael Porter concludes that the overall impact of the Internet is to
increase competition, which generally diminishes a firm’s profitability. (true or false) |
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The primary activities in the value chain create the value for which
customers are willing to pay. (true or false) |
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Ted works in his family’s bakery business. They supply bread and rolls to neighboring restaurants, and they have their own store front where they sell breads, rolls, pastries, cookies and cupcakes. Ted wants to start a Cookie Club that gives each member (joining is free) a free cookie after they have purchased a dozen. This idea Reflects which one of Porter’s five competitive forces?
a. threat of entry of new competitors
b. bargaining power of suppliers
c. bargaining power of customers
d. threat of substitute products
e. rivalry among existing firms in an industry |
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| c. bargaining power of customers |
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You have moved to a different apartment, but your electricity bill continues to be sent to your old address. The Post Office in your town has which problem with its data management?
a. Data redundancy
b. Data inconsistency
c. Data isolation
d. Data security
e. Data dependence |
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In a database, the primary key field is used to _____.
a. specify an entity
b. create linked lists
c. identify duplicated data
d. uniquely identify a record
e. uniquely identify an attribute |
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| *d. uniquely identify a record |
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An organization would prefer to convert tacit knowledge to explicit
knowledge so that it can be captured and coded more easily (true or false) |
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Which of the following concepts help us link different files in a database?
a. Primary key
b. Normalization
c. Foreign Key
d. Secondary Key
e. Entity |
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Global outsourcing helps an organization to:
a. Find the best person for the job.
b. Find more economical resources.
c. Implement spatial and temporal flexibility.
d. All of these. |
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Managing information systems in a modern organization is challenging because:
a. The systems are very expensive to acquire, operate, and maintain.
b. The systems are critical to the organization’s operations.
c. The systems are easily replaced.
d. Both of the following are correct: the systems are very expensive to acquire, operate, and maintain; and the systems are critical to the organization’s operations.
e. Both of the following are correct: the systems are very expensive to acquire, operate, and maintain; and the systems are easily replaced. |
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| *d. Both of the following are correct: the systems are very expensive to acquire, operate, and maintain; and the systems are critical to the organization’s operations. |
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