OBM301 CHAPTER 1

____________ empowers people to achieve great results and leads to success.

• Knowledge

• Information

• Data

• Records

Which of the following is use to answer the questions that begin with words such as 'who', 'what', 'when' and 'how many'?

• Records

• Knowledge

• Information

• Data

Data can be defined as :

• The result of manipulating and exploiting the available data, organizing and restructuring all the information from the data and transforms it into something useful.

• Facts and figures that has been organized as a result of observations, surveys or research

• The product of the interaction between the source and the receiver which includes data, images, sounds, signals, emotional responses, videos, or any other forms

• An structured data, which has been processed become information has relevance for a specific purpose or context, and is therefore meaningful, valuable, useful and relevant.

All of the following is the main elements of information EXCEPT:

• Lead to understanding and decrease uncertainty

• Accurate and timely

• Considered to be personal, organizational and national resource of great value.

• Specific and organized

____________ is the result of manipulating and exploiting the available data, organizing and restructuring all the information from the data and transforms it into something useful.

• Knowledge

• Information

• Data

• Records

The situation where there is too much information available and there is an increasing difficulty to get the exact information needed at a certain period of time is best described to:

• Information literacy

• Information overload

• Information study

• Information skills

All of the following is the consequences of information overload EXCEPT:

• Difficult to determine the relevant information from the irrelevant.

• Does not know the existence of certain information

• Feel amazed by the amount of information available

• Destroys information without evaluating it.

Too voluminous to allow sense to be made of it where the quality of information is much important compare to quantity is referred to which types of information?

• Information overload

• Irrelevant

• Swamping

• Concise

____________ knowledge that is not printed or publish and normally resides in person’s memory.

• Non-published information

• Explicit

• Tacit

• Printed

Easy to communicate, store, and distribute and is the knowledge found in books, on the web, and other visual and oral means is referred to

• Explicit knowledge

• Published information

• Tacit knowledge

• Audio Visual information