Final Quiz (BIS001)

Information systems that monitor the elementary activities and transactions of the organizations are:

• A. Management-level systems.

• B. Operational-level systems.

• C. Knowledge-level systems.

• D. Strategic-level systems.

The three activities in an information system that produce the information organizations use to make decisions, control operations, analyze problems, and create new products are:

• A. information, research, and analysis.

• B. input, output, and feedback.

• C. data, information, and analysis.

• D. input, processing, and output.

Management information systems usually:

• A. Serve managers interested in weekly, monthly, and yearly results, not day-to-day activities.

• B. Help managers make decisions that are unique, rapidly changing, and not easily specified in advance.

• C. Provide managers with a generalized computing and telecommunications capacity that can be applied to a changing array of problems.

• D. Perform and record the daily routine transactions necessary to the conduct of business.

________ is a global network that uses universal standards to connect millions of different networks around the world.

• A. An extranet

• B. The World Wide Web

• C. The Internet

• D. An intranet

________ is an electronic device which converts raw data into meaningful information.

• A. Computer.

• B. Hardware.

• C. Software.

• D. Compiler.

Process of gathering data for an application and make it ready for processing is called ______.

• A. data collection

• B. data capture

• C. source documents

• D. primary documents

Phase of information development which is concerned with the specification of system's goal is known as ______.

• A. system analysis

• B. system design

• C. system development

• D. system implementation

Which of the following isn't used in the storage phase of a computer-based information system?

• A. Magnetic

• B. Keyboard

• C. Diskette

• D. Hard disk

The arranging of data in a logical sequence is called:

• A. sorting

• B. classifying

• C. reproducing

• D. summarizing

Raw data is processed by the computer into

• Updates

• Paragraphs

• Number sheets

• Information