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| A computerized system that performs and records the daily dealings necessary to conduct business is classified as a(n): |
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| A one-to-many relationship between two entities is symbolized in a diagram by a line that ends |
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| A relocation control system that reports summaries on the total moving, house-hunting, and home financing costs for employees in all company divisions would fall into the category of |
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| management information systems |
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| DBMS for desktop systems. |
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| An automated or manual file that stores information about data elements and data characteristics such as usage, physical representation, ownership, authorization, and security is the |
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| An example of a business using information systems to attain competitive advantage is |
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| Toyota's legendary TPS that has created superlative efficiencies and enabled Toyota to become the world's largest auto maker. |
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| 1 Toyota RAV4 sold January 7, 2008 in Louisville, Kentucky - $28000. |
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| provides product, pricing, and availability information to individuals and businesses and generates revenue from advertising or from directing buyers to sellers. |
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| An information skill important for an accounting major would be |
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| an understanding of system and network security issues. |
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| shows how specific information systems fit into a company's overall business plan and business strategy. |
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| provides the platform on which the firm can build its information systems. |
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| aggregates content or applications from multiple sources, packaging them for distribution, and reselling them to third-party Web sites. |
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| As a technical project manager you have decided to propose implementing a prototyping methodology for a small Web-based design project. What is the order of steps you will follow in this project? |
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| Based on your reading of the chapter case, which of the four generic business strategies is eBay implementing to combat the slowing of sales growth? |
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| Based on your reading of the examples in the chapter, what would be the best use of RFID for a business? |
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| Bluetooth can be used to link up to ________ devices within a 10-meter area using low-power, radio-based communication |
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| Budgeting is typically a feature of an information system serving |
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| Changes in hardware, software, documentation, or production to a production system to correct errors, meet new requirements, or improve processing efficiencies are termed |
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| Data mining is a tool for allowing users to |
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| DBMS's typically include report-generating tools in order to: |
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| Determining methods for feedback and error handling would be defined by which system design specification category? |
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| Developing a new product, fulfilling an order, or hiring a new employee are examples of |
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| Developing an information system has been compared to the problem-solving process. Which one of the following problem-solving steps is not a part of systems analysis? |
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| Development and support services for a firms' business systems are provided by |
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| application software services |
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| Different firms can work collaboratively on product design, marketing, and production using a(n) |
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| Digital goods are goods that are |
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| Electronic computers and related software programs are the technical foundation, the tools and materials, of |
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| modern information system |
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| about their jobs, employers, or technology can have a powerful effect on their abilities to use information systems productively |
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| Employees that assist with paperwork at all levels of the firm are called |
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| End-user-developed systems |
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| can be completed more rapidly than those developed through the conventional programming tools. |
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| are designed to incorporate data about external events, but they also draw summarized information from internal MIS and DSS. |
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| Estimating the number of direct goods to reorder falls into which category of decision-making? |
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| Every record in a file should contain |
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| Exchanges proliferated during the early years of e-commerce, but many have failed, in part because |
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| Executive support systems are information systems that support the |
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| long-range planning activities of senior management. |
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| capture the knowledge of skilled employees in the form of a set of rules in a software system that can be used by others in the organization. |
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| Financial managers work directly with ________ to ensure investments in information systems help achieve corporate goals. |
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| Fourth-generation tools cannot replace conventional development tools because they |
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| is used to express relationships very generally. |
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| are used for generating solutions to problems that are too large and complex for human beings to analyze on their own. |
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| develop solutions to particular problems using techniques such as fitness, crossover, and mutation. |
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| How is the Internet and e-commerce causing severe disruption to the existing advertising business model? |
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| |Technology players such as Yahoo! seek to dominate online advertising. |
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| all-inclusive data warehouse software. |
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| Identifying a problem includes |
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| agreeing a problem exists |
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| If an organization's requirements conflict with the software package chosen and the package cannot be customized, the organization will have to |
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| if an action is not right for everyone to take, it is not right for anyone to take. |
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| in a direct cutover conversion strategy, the new system: |
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| replaces the old one at an appointed time |
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| In a relational database, a record is also called a(n) |
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| In a relational database, the three basic operations used to develop useful sets of data are: |
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| in a telecommunications network architecture, a protocol is |
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| a standard set of rules and procedures for control of communications in a network. |
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| In an object-oriented development framework for a university, how would the classes Degree, Mathematics, and Physics be related? |
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| Degree is a superclass to Mathematics and Physics |
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| Failure to address properly the organizational changes surrounding the introduction of a new system |
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| the marginal cost of producing another unit is about zero. |
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| complex groupings of data |
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| are streamlined to eliminate awkward many-to-many relationships |
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| In order to search for and retrieve knowledge objects in an enterprise content management system, the objects themselves must be |
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| tagged with a classification |
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| In terms of data relationships, associations refers to |
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| occurrences linked to a single event |
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| In the domain name "http://myspace.blogging.com", what are the root, top-level, second-level, and third-level domains, respectively? |
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| In the information age, the obligations that individuals and organizations have regarding the preservation of existing values and institutions fall within the moral dimension of |
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| Inadequate database capacity is an example of the ________ dimension of business problems. |
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| increasingly voice, video and data communications |
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| are all based on Internet technology |
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| exists when one party in a transaction has more information for the transaction than the other party. |
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| total amount and quantity of information available to all market participants. |
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| information supplied by an enterprise system |
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| raise new ethical questions. |
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| intellectual property can be described as |
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| intangible property created by individuals or corporations. |
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| rely primarily on the use of collaborative information systems. |
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| can reside in e-mail, voice mail, graphics, and unstructured documents as well as structured documents. |
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| Maintaining online directories of employees with special areas of expertise |
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| Management can control the development of end-user applications in part by |
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| establishing standards for project requirements. |
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| management information systems |
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| provide information on the firm's performance. |
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| Microsoft SQL Server is a(n) |
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| Object-oriented development could potentially reduce the time and cost of writing software because |
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| Object-oriented modeling is based on the concepts of |
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| OLAP is a tool for enabling |
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| users to obtain online answers to ad hoc questions in a rapid amount of time. |
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| ONE PROBLEM WITH PROTOYPING |
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| Is that the systems constructed thereby may not be able to handle large quantities of data in a production environment. |
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| provide a digital environment where buyers and sellers can establish prices for products. |
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| are slower than relational DBMS. |
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| Operational management typically makes which type of decisions? |
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| DBMS for small handheld computing devices. |
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| Policies that determine which information technology will be used, when, and how are provided by |
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| Poor business processes and unsupportive culture are examples of the ________ dimension of business problems. |
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| Pricing analysis is an example of a |
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| sales and marketing information system serving middle management. |
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| Reducing the business process layers in a distribution channel is called: |
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| Selling the same goods to different targeted groups at different prices is called: |
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| Simon's four different stages in decision making are, in order from first to last |
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| intelligence, design, choice and implementation |
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| System design specifications that address database issues will include specifications for: |
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| volume and speed requirements |
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| System design specifications that address input issues will include specifications for |
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| specifies how the new system will fulfill the information requirements. |
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| The ________ divide refers to large disparities in access to computers and the Internet among different social groups and different locations? |
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| The act of engaging consumers in a dialog that dynamically adjusts the experience to the individual describes which dimension of e-commerce technology? |
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| The confusion created by ________ makes it difficult for companies to create customer relationship management, supply chain management, or enterprise systems that integrate data from different sources. |
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| The cost to a merchant of changing the price of a product is called a ________ cost |
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| drawback to copyright protection |
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| that the underlying ideas behind the work are not protected, only their manifestation in a product |
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| The electronic payment system in which users make micropayments and purchases on the Web, accumulating a debit balance on their credit card or telephone bill is called a(n) ________ payment system: |
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| accumulated balance digital |
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| The entire system-building effort is driven by |
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| user information requirements |
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| The ethical rules discussed in the textbook |
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| cannot be guides to actions |
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| The failure of NASA's initial solution to preventing the space shuttle shedding foam illustrates |
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| the continuous nature of problem solving. |
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| The Federal Trade Commission FIP principle of Notice/Awareness states that |
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| Web sites must disclose their information practices before collecting data. |
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| The final step in the four-step model of business problem solving is: |
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| The fundamental set of assumptions, values, and ways of doing things, that has been accepted by most of a company's members is called its |
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| The Girl Scouts' conversion strategy of first introducing the modules for ordering cookies and then introducing the modules for transmitting orders and instructions to the cookie factory and shipper is called a(n) ________ strategy. |
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| The integration of video, audio, and text marketing messages into a single marketing message and consumer experience describes which dimension of e-commerce technology? |
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| shrinks information asymmetry |
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| combines relational tables to provide the user with more information than is otherwise available |
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| The lowered costs of information storage, processing, and communication, along with the improvement of data quality, have resulted in which unique quality of e-commerce? |
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| The moral dimensions of the information society: |
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| cut across individual, social, and political levels of actions. |
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| The most basic business database is comprised of |
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| five tables: for customers, employees, suppliers, products, and sales. |
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| The move of retail banking to use ATMs after Citibank unveiled its first ATMs illustrates the information system business objective of |
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| The oldest method for building information systems is |
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| the systems development lifecycle |
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| The open-source Web server that controls 70 percent of the market is: |
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| The organizational department responsible for handling customer service issues is the |
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| The P3P standard is concerned with |
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| blocking or limiting cookies |
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| The process in law-governed societies in which laws are known and understood and there is an ability to appeal to higher authorities to ensure that the laws are applied correctly is called |
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| The process of creating workable information systems in a very short period of time is called |
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| The process of sourcing goods and materials, negotiating with suppliers, paying for goods, and making delivery arrangements is called |
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| The process of streamlining data to minimize redundancy and awkward many-to-many relationships is called |
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| creates a subset consisting of columns in a table. |
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| The project risk will rise if the project team and the IS staff lack |
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| The quality of ubiquity, as it relates to e-commerce, is illustrated by |
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| the availability of Internet technology everywhere and anytime. |
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| creates a subset consisting of all records in the file that meets stated criteria. |
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| The specialized language programmers use to add and change data in the database is called |
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| data manipulation language |
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| The system is not in production |
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| The term structured , when discussing structured methodologies, refers to the fact that |
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| the techniques are step by step, with each step building on the previous one. |
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| The term "management information systems" designates a specific category of information systems serving |
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| middle management functions. |
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| The three activities in an information system that produce the information organizations use to control operations are |
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| input, processing, and output. |
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| The three principal levels of hierarchies within a business organization are |
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| senior management, middle management, and operational management. |
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| The tool that enables users to view the same data in different ways using multiple dimensions is |
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| The total amount of digital information that can be transmitted through any telecommunications medium is measured in |
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| The type of database management approach that can handle multimedia is the |
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| The type of logical database model that treats data as if they were stored in two-dimensional tables is the |
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| The U.S. CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 |
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| requires spammers to ID themselves |
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| There is no way that firms today can perform even basic accounting functions |
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| without extensive investment in systems. |
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| These systems are designed to summarize and report on the company's basic operations |
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| Management information systems |
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| These systems are designed to support organization-wide process coordination and integration. |
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| These systems are especially suited to situations in which the procedure for arriving at a solution may not be fully predefined in advance |
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| These systems are typically a major source of data for other systems |
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| Transaction processing systems |
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| This type of systems development is characterized by significantly speeding up the design phase and the generation of information requirements and involving users at an intense level |
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| Through what channel did e-commerce first evolve? |
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| To automate routine tasks to help firms search for and filter information for use in electronic commerce and supply chain management a firm would most likely use |
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| to connect two computers together in the same office |
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| you must have a computer network. |
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| To show each level of a system's design, its relationship to other levels, and its place in the overall design structure, structured methodologies use |
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| Together, a protocol prefix, a domain name, a directory path, and a document name, are called a |
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| uniform resource locator. |
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| Tools for consolidating, analyzing, and providing access to vast amounts of data to help users make better business decisions are known as |
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| Tools that compare user behavior and interests to make purchasing recommendations to users are called ________ tools. |
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| Tools that record customer activities at Web sites and store them in a log for further analysis are called ________ tools |
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| save users money and time by processing online sales dealings. |
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| transaction processing system |
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| are the basic business systems that serve the operational level of the organization. |
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| Transferring transaction data from a legacy system to the new system would be defined by which system design specification category? |
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| can communicate even if they are based on different hardware and software platforms. |
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| U.S. businesses are allowed to use personal data from EU countries if they |
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| develop a safe harbor framework for the data. |
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| tests each program separately |
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| UPS's use of Web-based tools that allow customers to embed UPS functions such as tracking and cost calculations into their own Web sites |
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| was an information systems solution used to achieve customer intimacy |
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| are oriented to facilitating organizational tasks and solving business problems. |
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| Varying a product's price according to the supply situation of the seller is called ________ pricing. |
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| Verizon's implementation of a Web-based digital dashboard to provide managers with real-time information such as customer complaints is an example of: |
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| Virtual reality applications for the Web use a standard called: |
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| provide drug designers, architects, engineers, and medical workers with precise, photorealistic simulations of objects. |
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| Web browser software requests Web pages from the Internet using which protocol? |
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| What are the relationships that the relational database is named for? |
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| Relationships between entities |
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| What is the most important benefit of an enterprise application? |
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| Enabling business functions and departments to share information. |
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| What problem in their existing information systems did Eastern Mountain Sports plan to address in their implementation of a new system? |
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| Poor integration between disparate existing systems |
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| What service converts IP addresses into more recognizable alphanumeric names? |
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| What type of model asks what-if questions repeatedly to determine the impact on outcomes of changes in one or more factors? |
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| What was the primary problem facing the Girl Scouts regarding their supply chain problems? |
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| Ordering process was inefficient for a large volume of orders |
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| works forward from known or assumed conditions. |
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| Where there is no well-understood or agreed-on procedure for making a decision, it is said to be |
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| Which dimension of quality means that a decision faithfully reflects the concerns and interests of affected parties? |
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| Which dimension of quality means that a decision should reflect a rational process? |
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| Which generation of network are wireless cellular phone systems entering? |
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