FIS Quiz Group 1

In a manufacturing organization, the supply chain is a key value chain whose primary activities include all of the following EXCEPT _____.

• finance and accounting

• inbound logistics

• marketing and sales

• customer service

_____ are responsible for running and maintaining information system equipment and also for scheduling, hardware maintenance, and preparing input and output.

• Data-entry operators

• Web operators

• System operators

• Local area network operators

A(n) _____ innovation initially provides a lower level of performance than the marketplace has grown to accept but is improved to provide some new performance characteristics and becomes more attractive to users in a new market, eventually displacing the former product or way of doing things.

• organizational

• disruptive

• sustaining

• culture

The central processing unit (CPU) and the primary storage of a computer are housed in the same box call the _____.

• system unit

• main memory

• motherboard

• chip set

A type of memory whose contents are not lost if the power is turned off or interrupted is said to be _____.

• inaccessible

• nonadjacent

• unarbitrary

• nonvolatile

_____ are used to support engineering and technical users who perform heavy mathematical computing, computer-assisted design (CAD), video editing, and other applications requiring a high-end processor.

• Desktops

• Notebooks

• Workstations

• Netbooks

_____ is an operating system used with special-purpose computers.

• Symbian

• Unix

• Google Android

• Linux

With _____, a software engineer drags and drops graphical objects such as buttons and menus onto an application form.

• assembly language

• machine code

• visual programming

• fourth generation language

One advantage of proprietary software versus off-the-shelf software is that _____.

• the initial cost is lower

• the software provides a company a competitive advantage by solving problems in a unique manner

• the software is likely to meet the basic business

• the software is likely to be of high quality because many customer firms have tested the software and helped identify its bugs

The smallest piece of data used by a computer is a(n) _____.

• entity

• bit

• byte

• character