Essentials of Business Information Systems http://www.hocbonganh.co.uk/userfiles/Essentials%20of%20Business%20Information%20Systems.pdf Text Book: Laudon & Laudon, Essentials of Business Information Systems, 7th Edition,
Pearson (Prentice Hall), 2007
Chapter 1
Business Information Systems in Your Career
Multiple Choice Questions
1. One of the recent critical challenges facing Major League Baseball was:
a. poor coordination between local and national sales channels.
b. poorly managed sales channels.
c. outdated information systems.
d. decreasing ticket sales.
Answer: d Difficulty: Medium Reference: p. 3
2. The six important business objectives of information technology are new products, services, and business models;
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c. transfers data to the people who will use it or to the activities for which it will be used.
d. transfers processed information to the people who will use it or to the activities for which it will be used.
Answer: d Difficulty: Easy Reference: p. 11
14. Converting raw data into a more meaningful form is called:
a. capturing.
b. processing.
c. organizing.
d. feedback.
Answer: b Difficulty: Easy Reference: p. 11
15. Electronic computers and related software programs are the technical foundation, the tools and materials, of:
a. all business procedures.
b. information accumulation.
c. modern information systems.
d. all industrialized countries.
Answer: c Difficulty: Medium Reference: p. 11
16. (Analysis)
An example of raw data from a national chain of automobile stores would be:
a. 13 Toyotas sold daily in Kentucky
b. 13 Toyota RAV 4s sold during March 2006 in Louisville, Kentucky
c. 1 Toyota RAV4s sold March 3, 2005 in Louisville, Kentucky
d. All of the above
Answer: d Difficulty: Hard Reference: p. 11
Analysis in terms of categorize
17. The field that deals with behavioral issues as well as technical issues surrounding the development, use, and impact of information systems used by managers and employees in the firm is called:
a. information systems literacy.
b. information systems architecture.
c. management information systems.
d. information technology infrastructure.
Answer: c
2. Which of the following is an example of the hardware component of an information system?
1. On average, private sector IT projects underestimated budget and delivery time of systems by ________ percent.
Assorted programs that direct the performance and computing functions for a specific or specialized use of Information Systems:
5. In his twenties, Tony Hsieh sold LinkExchange to Amazon for over a quarter of a billion dollars.
1.1) Give 5 types of hardware resources and five types of data or software resources that
d) The information is acquired on the data bus and send it to TDO. (Alghafli, Jones, and Martin. 2012).
Why are databases important to business? How do databases generate sales and-or profits? What databases do you interact with, and how do they benefit you?
5. This chapter describes the concepts behind how a CPU reads the contents from RAM. Which of the following is true about the process of read data. As described in the chapter?
ii) Processor I/O : Data may be transferred to or from a peripheral device by
4. Which of the following is a detailed written definition of how software and hardware are to be used?
* Collect and store data which may be converted into information at some later point in time
Many of us shop for goods in grocery stores or department stores without considering the remarkable effort it takes to have all of those goods or services ready for consumption. There are many processes that must be observed for any business to run efficiently; such as: accounting, finance, marketing, production, human resources, and management. All of these processes require many trained individuals to make the grand machine that is business move in a direction that benefits clients and companies alike. In this paper I will examine the marketing business process of J C Penney’s as observed from experience while working there.
Phase 3 tasks 1 Components of technology systems Questions 1-4 for Group project, part 2:
(a) A data model to explain its functional requirements and to produce a formal description