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Computer Selection & Training
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Computer Science
Undergraduate 3
04/25/2006

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What is End-User Information systems?
Definition
They can be thought of as the application of information technology to support workplace performance.
Term
Differntiate between the internet and an intranet
Definition
The internet is available world wide, the intranet is only available behind a firewall.
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How can project management software help a manager make decisions?
Definition
The software can show critical paths, and resource loading, as well as what if analysis on projects.
Term
what is asynchronous groupware?
Definition
software that time and place are not affected by. Such as e-mail, bulletin boards, and calendars.
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Identify a major problem associated with knowledge management.
Definition
Getting workers to give up information for fear of a loss of power or job security.
Term
What circumstances lead organizations to develop training programs for themselves?
Definition
The type, amount or cost or training may not be available from anyone else.
Term
What is IVR, and how is it used?
Definition
Interactive voice respose is used as a part of customer service help lines. There are menus you can navigate through using your voice or the phone keypad.
Term
How are software bugs different from computer viruses?
Definition
Bugs happen accidentally while composing the software code. Viruses are malicious and put there intentionally.
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What is a payback period?
Definition
The amount of time the software is in use before it pays to have installed it.
This is often a straight forward mathematical approach that may leave out other less tangible reasons.
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How have computers contributed to medical ailments in the workplace?
Definition
Repetive motion with the mouse or long term arm and hand positions on the keyboard has contributed to carpel tunnel syndrome.
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What are Lewin's Three phases of change?
Definition
Unfreezing phase,
Change Phase,
Refreeze phase
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What is the objective of employee empowerment?
Definition
To push the responsibility down the organization hierarchy to the level where the work is down.
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Why is innovation a two edged sword?
Definition
It is both applauded and feared. The values of new ideas are valued but seldom fostered or rewarded.
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What is QWL analysis?
Definition
It analyses a job for the quality of work life.Because EUIS change the way work is done QWL analysis can improve workers job satisfaction and productivity.
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What is a Request for Proposal?
Definition
An invitaion for vendors to propose their solutions for a problem.
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Why do some systems fail?
Definition
Orgainzational barriers,
People barriers,
Implementation barriers,
Technology barriers
Term
True or False?

Workflow analysis is an industrial engineering technique that has been applied frequently to job design for clerical personnel and factory production workers?
Definition
TRUE
Term
True/False

The impact that demographic diversity has had in the past will slowly start to decrease in the future?
Definition
FALSE
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Knowledge workers are.
Definition
Well trained specialized personnel.
Term
Which of the following terms are associated with e-mail vocabulary?
Definition
d.All of the above
Term
True/False

Knowledge management is the concept of managing organizational knowledge?
Definition
TRUE
Term
The four steps in the training cycle are:
Definition
Evaluation,
Assesment,
Design,
Implementation
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The goal of online help is to help users help _________?
Definition
Themselves
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______ is a detailed, written explanation of how a computer program works?
Definition
Documentation
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Productivity = _____ / ______
Definition
Output / Input
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Name three (3) different types of software interfaces.
Definition
Command based,
Menu based,
Icon based,
Natural language or pen based
Term
True/False

A change agent is an individual or team responsible for designing and introducing a change?
Definition
TRUE
Term
Compare and contrast job enlargement and job rotation?
Definition
Job enlargement: an approach to job design that expands jobs to include a variety of similar task.

Job rotation: an approach that moves workers from one job to another rather than changing the task that make up the jobs.
Term
According to the OTA model, when enterprises adopt new technology, what three kinds of effects are likely?
Definition
subsitiution,
adaptation,
transformation
Term
True/False

Using an information resource management (IRM) approach, the analyst regards information as a resource of the organization to be managed much like any other resource?
Definition
TRUE
Term
True/False

Secondary data is found in books, journals, files, and so on - it may provide valuable information about a specific problem?
Definition
TRUE
Term
A _______ is a planned and managed installed of end-user computing support that serves as a modle for providing the same support on a larger scale.
Definition
Pilot
Term
Which terms describe an industrial engineering technique that has been applied frequently to job design for clerical personnel and factory production workers?
Definition
Workflow analysis
Term
The byword in networked organizations is?
Definition
Just-in-time
Term
Which systems were considered tools for secretaries and administrative assistants to schedule meeting for others?
Definition
calendaring
Term
Which systems are used to support individual job performance and learning- a kind of just-in-time learning to help?
Definition
document management
Term
Which term is used to describe learning experiences that may include a minilecture, but are small enough to include opportunities for trainees to interact with the lecturer and with each other?
Definition
seminar
Term
Which term describes a way of accessing text as well as graphics, video, and audio informtion?
Definition
Hypermedia
Term
Which method is based on identifying shadow functions?
Definition
Quality of work life
Term
Which of these refers to duplicate copies of electronically stored data?
Definition
backup
Term
What is another term used to describe the size of the entire monitor, not just the screen?
Definition
Footprint
Term
Which variables refer to the tools and method used to accomplish work and solve problems?
Definition
Technological variables
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Which of the following is not part of implementation?
Definition
Pilot testing
Term
Which of these is not the stategic planning process?
Definition
Innovation requires flexible management
Term
Which of the following stage is the installation of the intervention designed in the second stage?
Definition
Implementation
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Which method is the oldest method of problem solving?
Definition
observation
Term
Which of these is not part of systems fail?
Definition
Information barriers
Term
Define CIO
Definition
Chief information officer CIO is the highest ranking executive at a corporate, business unit or functional division level with primary responsibility for information systems.
Term
What does NGI stand for?
Definition
Next generation internet
Term
What is project management software?
Definition
Managers use project management software to outline all required tasks, estimate starting and ending dates, assign staff resources, and analyze projects cost. It automates planning techniques.
Term
What is an electronic arrow?
Definition
Misdirected e-mail
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What are data mining tools used for?
Definition
To analyze data from a warehouse and convert it into usable knowledge for decision making.
Term
What are Androgogy and Pedagogy?
Definition
Androgogy: Learner directed learning experience.

Pedoagogy: Teacher directed learning experience.
Term
What is the first problem a Help desk agent should do when recieving a phone call from the user with a problem?
Definition
Display empathy to their problem.
Term
What does VAR stand for?
Definition
Value Added Resellers
Term
True/False

Productivity is hard to define and measure; generally it is seen as means to increase bottom line profit.
Definition
TRUE
Term
True/False

QWERTY is a name for a standard typewriter (keyboard) layout, one that is used as standard nowadays. The name comes from the first 6 letters of the top row keys.
Definition
TRUE
Term
Lewin's three phases of change are unfreeze,change, and refreeze?
Definition
TRUE
Term
Describe in a sentence or two job rotation approach design.
Definition
Job rotation approach moves workers from one job to another. It is use to train workers and to expose them to a variety of jobs and skills.
Term
True/False

There is nothing more diffucult to plan, more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to manage then the creation of a new system.
Definition
TRUE
Term
Define open system characteristic?
Definition
Open system is a system that is greatly affected by outside occurrences that are not under its control.
Term
What is the first step in defining the project scope?
Definition
Defining business objectives.
Term
True/False

Technology is useful even when it is not used!
Definition
FALSE
Term
What is just-in time?
Definition
Matter of time
Term
What is managers' information Dilemma?
Definition
C. Both
Term
What is E-mail
Definition
Systems send messages or documents from location to location without the need for physical transfer of paper.
Term
What is PSS stand for?
Definition
Performance support system
Term
The four steps to the training cycle is.
Definition
a.Assessment, design, implementation, and evaluation
Term
How should a help desk person response to the user's.
Definition
D. listen to the user then ask question until you understand the user problem.
Term
What is a computer virus?
Definition
A computer virus is a type of program that can replicate itself by making copies of itself through the computer by means of a host.
Term
What is stategic planning for EUIS?
Definition
Strategic planning is a process of defining business goals and objectives. It determines what an enterprise should do.
Term
What is a project management defined?
Definition
Project management is a structured process for planning, directing, and monitoring task and resources required to acheive some business result.
Term
Why some systems fail.
Definition
System fail because of poor planning, or lack of attention to organizational issues than because of hardware of software problems.
Term
Define the role of the CIO
Definition
B. Highest ranking executive at the corporate, business unit, or funtional division level with primary responsibility for IS.
Term
In the global digital economy, what frequency does buisiness operate?
Definition
24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Term
What does the acronym DSS stand for?
Definition
c. Decision support system
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What does the acronym GSS stand for?
Definition
a. Group support systems
Term
Which of the following ar AI technologies?
Definition
genetic algorithms, neural networks and Bayesian resoning.
Term
Which of the following are instructional strategies per the text?
Definition
Web-based training and support, print-based tutorials and interactive multimedia systems.
Term
What answer best describes an Expert System?
Definition
c. A computer program that incorporates the knowledge of an expert.
Term
What is causing havoc among computers in a corporate network?
Definition
c. Trojan horses and worms
Term
What answer best describes the Hedonic Wage Model?
Definition
b. A two part proceedure that first measures work and then applies dollar values to that work.
Term
What does the acronym PACT stand for as in the PACT model?
Definition
b. Personal perference, Aesthetics, Cost and time
Term
What are elements of the Basic Innovation Model?
Definition
Innovation, infusion and assimilation
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Project management involves the coordination of what?
Definition
D. Activities and task, budgets and time schedules.
Term
Who would most likely be reviewing existing documentation on a project?
Definition
a. Analyst
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