Quiz on Management Information Systems

________ states that the number of transistors per square inch on an integrated chip doubles every 18 months.

• Nielsen's Law

• Faraday's Law

• Moore's Law

• Newton's Law

• Metcalfe's Law

According to Moore's Law, the ________.

• price of an integrated chip reduces once in 18 months

• performance of each transistor on a square inch of an integrated chip doubles every year

• number of transistors per square inch on an integrated chip doubles every 18 months

• density of a transistor decreases every year

• rate of innovation increases exponentially

________ states that network connection speeds for high-end users will increase by 50 percent per year.

• Nielsen's Law

• Kryder's Law

• Moore's Law

• Bell's Law

• Metcalfe's Law

Which of the following ratios has fallen as a result of Moore's Law?

• price/performance

• demand/supply

• profit/loss

• debt/equity

• price/earnings

In 1972, computer scientist ________ recognized that digital devices would change the world as they evolved and became widely used.

• Gordon Bell

• Robert Metcalfe

• Gordon Moore

• Jakob Nielsen

• Sam Flynn

________ states that the value of a network is equal to the square of the number of users connected to it.

• Moore's Law

• Metcalfe's Law

• Bell's Law

• Nielsen's Law

• Flynn's Law

Google's Project Loon is a major effort to ________.

• decrease the size of storage devices, while increasing their capacity

• facilitate the use of Internet on submarines, while they are submerged

• promote the use of virtual machines, that operate on voice command

• bring Internet access to everyone using a network of inflated balloons

• reduce the rate of decay in magnetic disks

According to Bell's Law, ________ will evolve so quickly they will enable new platforms every 10 years.

• systems thinking

• human interactions

• digital devices

• television

• technology companies

Because of Moore's Law, the ________ of data processing is approaching zero.

• cost

• power

• speed

• use

• applications

A primary metric for social media companies is ________.

• revenue

• the number of monthly active users

• the number of ads shown to users

• the total number of users

• how much it costs the company to maintain social media connections