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Information Systems

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1. In IT, you will make decisions that are routine choices, day to day, affecting operations decisions. What level of Granularity and what operational support systems would you use according to the learning resources? - Fine, and OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) - CRM and Artificial intelligence - Course, and OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) - Fine, and OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) 2. You are looking to do outsourcing on a upcoming project, which one of the is not part of the common reasons according to the learning resources. - Rapid Growth - Financial savings - Wide Area Networks and local resources - Core competencies 3. What is the function of return on investment (ROI) as a financial analysis ratio? - It determines the volume of business required to make a profit at the current prices. - It estimates what the stream of money will be in the coming months or years. - It indicates the earning power of a project. - It identifies the rate at which the net present value of an investment equals zero 4. What are ethics and why are they important to a company? - It prevents Black-hat hackers from breaking into other people’s computer systems. - Contains general principles to guide user behavior. - Ethics are the legal standards by which all company's create their policies and can be enforced easily with legal system. - A segment of business that create a specific business function. 5. What is a relational database management system? - An agent that acts as a liaison between the MIS department and the business responsible for ensuring that policies and procedures are implemented across an organization. - A program that creates, reads, updates, and deletes data in a database while controlling access and security. - An agent responsible for creating the original website content. - A data model for organizing information 6. One phase of the data mining process is data preparation. What is the role of this phase? - To analyze trends and patterns to assess the potential for solving the problem - To gather and organize data in the correct formats and structures for analysis - To analyze all current data along with identifying any data quality issues. - To gain a clear view of the problem that must be solved and how it affects the company
7. How does a router interface with packet-switching? - Is an intelligent connecting device that examines each packet of data it receives and then decides which way to send it onward toward its destination. - It provides the technical foundation for the packets to go to public Internet as well as for large numbers of private networks. - Is the operating system that runs a network, steering information between computers and managing security and users. - Is a standard that specifies the format of a data packet as well as the rules to be followed during transmission. 8. As the IT Director, you need to implement an ERP. What is not considered a core component of ERP? - Customer Relationship Management - Production and materials management - Accounting and finance - Human resource 9. You're evaluating the challenges of your Ebusiness. You think you have narrowed down the four challenges, which one is not one of the challenges that Ebusiness faces? - Managing Consumer Trust - Ensuring Consumer Protection - Adhering to Taxation Rules - Ensuring Company Protection 10. What is data visualization? - The science of fact-based decision-making - A method of utilizing technologies to view data and transform information into a business perspective - The process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone - The process of identifying rare or unexpected items or events in a data set that do not conform to other items in the data set 11. As a new CIO, ERP implementations are a significant decision. Two of the primary forces driving ERP failure include software customization and ERP costs. According to the learning resource, which of the following would be considered software customization and not an ERP cost? - Testing that all functionality works correctly along with testing all integrations. - Customization to reports, documents, and forms - Moving data from old system to new ERP system - Training all users and creating training manuals 12. SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) concepts ensure that MIS systems can adapt quickly, easily, and economically to support rapidly changing business needs. What is not part of the three components of SOA - Direct-constant communication - Services - Loose coupling - Interoperability
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