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What is the primary purpose of an Information System in a business context?

• To gather, process, store, and distribute information

• To sell products to customers

• To reduce the need for human labor

• To eliminate the use of software
  
  

• To replace all managerial roles

Which of the following is a component of an Information System?

• Hardware

• Furniture

• Electricity
  
  

• Transportation

• Real estate

What type of system processes data and generates meaningful information?

• Information System

• Mechanical System

• Ecological System
  
  

• Closed System

• Open-loop System

   

In the MIS context, what does GUI stand for?

• Graphical User Interface

• General Usage Indicator

• Graphic Utility Integration

• General User Inclusion

• Graphical Unit Information

What does the economic dimension of information evaluate?

• The cost and benefits of obtaining information

• The environmental impact of data

• The speed of data retrieval

• The security level of data

• The marketing value of reports

What type of system consists of components like hardware and people?

• Physical system
  
  

• Abstract system

• Closed system

• Imaginary system

• Automated system

What is the main goal of MIS?

• To provide management with accurate information

• To store large amounts of data

• To manage employees directly

• To replace decision makers

• To build websites

What characteristic defines a relational data model?

• Data stored in tables

• Data stored as unstructured files

• Data stored in audio form

• No use of keys
  
  

• Only images are stored

What is a primary key?

• A unique identifier for each row in a table
  
  

• A password to access the database

• A formula for data calculations

• A tool for editing tables

• A shortcut for writing SQL

What does normalization in DBMS aim to eliminate?

• Data redundancy

• Query execution

• User accounts

• Storage devices

• Data mining