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The TPS serve two important functions. Processing transactions is one. The other is _______.
Assisting decision-making
Making decisions
Modelling business processes
Collecting essential data
________ represent(s) the application of information concepts and technology to routine, repetitive, and usually ordinary business transactions.
Management information systems
Decision support systems
E-commerce
Transaction processing systems
An SCM system coordinates all of the following functions except:
Distributing finished products or services to customers
Advertising finished products to customers
Transforming materials into intermediate and finished products or services
Procuring materials
The system helps businesses handle transactions related to customer transactions, automating the transaction process:
Automation system
Management information system
Decision support system
Transaction processing system
The ______ can help you choose a product, a solution.
Decision support system
Management information system
Office automation system
Transaction processing system
How can Information Systems (IS) support management roles?
By replacing human managers with AI systems
By automating all decision-making processes
By eliminating the need for planning and strategy
By providing data-driven insights and support
The main objective of supply chain management systems is:
Information visibility
Supply chain leverage
Far-reaching benefits
Creation of switching costs
This framework is called the ________ because it relates business strategy with IS strategy and organizational strategy.
Hypercompetition Model
Porter’s Generic Framework
Information Technology Matrix
Information Systems Strategy Triangle
Information systems that monitor the elementary activities and transactions of the organizations are:
Management-level systems
Knowledge-level systems
Operational-level systems
Strategic-level systems
What do predictive analytics use to predict future trends and behavior patterns?
Data mining techniques
Historical data and assumptions about future conditions
Statistical analysis
All
Business Intelligence and data warehousing are used for which of the following?
Analysis of large volumes of product sales data
What-if scenarios
All
Data mining
What is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system?
A set of separate software solutions for each business function
An integrated solution from just one provider for key business functions
A decentralized database system for various departments
An integrated solution from multiple providers for key business functions
Which of the following is NOT a common application area for predictive analytics?
Finance and fraud detection
Sales and marketing
Healthcare and patient care
Manufacturing and production
What is Business Intelligence (BI)?
A system that only focuses on internal data sources
A system that only provides historical data analysis
A wide range of applications, practices, and technologies for data-driven decision-making
A single application for data analysis
Data is:
Some information
Set of specific objective facts or observations
Information endowed with relevance and purpose
All
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of formal communication?
Flexibility
Consistent presentation
Accuracy
Comprehensive view
________ is a term that encompasses all forms of technology used to create, store, exchange, and use information in its various forms.
Client Server Technology
Computer Technology
Network Technology
Information Technology
Which of the following is an example of a tangible benefit from information?
Greater customer loyalty
Improved corporate culture
Reduced administration costs
Enhanced public image
What requires a unit of analysis, has been processed, and requires human mediation?
Legacy
Knowledge
Information
Data
Which type of knowledge is easily captured and stored within documents?
Explicit knowledge
Intuitive knowledge
Tacit knowledge
Experiential knowledge
What is the main objective of producing information?
To generate wisdom
To create knowledge
To meet a specific purpose or requirement
To support decision-making
Which of the following is an example of hardware?
The procedures involved in managing the system
A touch screen
Human operator
Operating system
Which of the following business processes are typically supported by ERP software?
Financial and accounting processes
Personnel processes
Manufacturing processes
All
All of the following are robust platforms EXCEPT for ________.
iPhone iOS 18.1
MS Office 2023
Windows 11
Android KitKat
This approach links a company with suppliers, manufacturing, and delivery to customers.
Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
What is a challenge associated with implementing enterprise systems?
Enterprise systems require organizations to share a lot of information and business processes
Enterprise systems are inexpensive to purchase and execute
Enterprise systems require minimal technological change
Enterprise systems have no conversion costs
Traditional organizations have one of four types of organizational design. What are these?
Hierarchical, flat, matrix, networked
Traditional, flat, matrix, technology
Matrix, networked, flat, information
Matrix, flat, networked, traditional
Which of the following is false concerning ERP?
It is inexpensive to implement
It provides and accesses information in a real-time environment
It attempts to automate and integrate the majority of business processes
It shares common data and practices across the enterprise
What are the three key elements that MIS aim to transform?
Data, information, and knowledge
Data, decisions, and wisdom
Information, knowledge, and action
Information, knowledge, and decisions
Information systems can facilitate supply chain management by:
Doing all of the above
Tracking the status of orders
Providing product specifications
Rapidly communicating orders
What is the primary objective of a Supply Chain Management (SCM) system?
To oversee the company’s human resources
To manage the company’s financial resources
To track the company’s sales and marketing efforts
To manage the flow of goods, data, and finances related to a product or service
Which dimension of information quality includes attributes such as clarity, detail, and presentation?
Time dimension
Content dimension
Form dimension
Additional dimension
The current major stage in the business use of information systems (IS) is oriented towards ________.
Cost reduction and productivity
Gaining competitive advantage
Improved customer relationship management
Strategic advantage and costs
In the early days of IT, the CIO would report to the ____ as IT was seen as a way to control costs. As technology has become more strategic and able to deliver a competitive advantage, CIOs now report directly to the _____.
CFO / COO
CEO / CFO
CFO / CEO
COO / CEO
The Nike + iPod Sports Kit creates an inter-organizational relationship that affords both Nike and Apple a business advantage. This relationship between Nike and Apple is best described as:
Dependence
Strategic alliance
Collaboration
Competition
__________ is an awareness and understanding of a set of information and ways that information can be made useful to support a specific task or reach a decision.
Knowledge
Data
A process
Feedback
Which of the following is a key function of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system?
Managing the flow of materials through the supply chain
Processing employee payroll
Managing supplier relationships
Integrating customer-related information from multiple departments
A travel agent booking travel for a university is an example of which form of e-commerce?
B2Me
B2G
B2B
B2C
Which of the following statements best defines data?
Raw facts and figures that have little meaning on their own
Knowledge that leads to wisdom
Processed information that is meaningful
Information that has been interpreted and contextualized
Risks associated with cloud computing include all of the following EXCEPT:
Security
Lack of standards for virtual infrastructures
Scalability
Increased dependency on third-party suppliers
A marketing request to align a new web site with a marketing plan so the site can support active content and permit customers to query an online catalog is being considered to translate strategy into a viable plan of action. This would be part of which of the following?
Server upgrade program
IT architecture
System architecture
IT infrastructure
This provides a blueprint for translating a business strategy into a plan for information systems (IS).
IS infrastructure
Centralized architecture
IS architecture
ERP systems
All statements below are true about a matrix organization structure EXCEPT:
Operating complexities can be reduced by sharing information among management
Workers are assigned to two or more managers
The design supports both function and purpose
One weakness is that multiple dimensions of a business are not integrated well with a matrix organization
The risks of using information resources include all of the following EXCEPT:
Demonstrating bad timing
Implementing IS poorly
Awakening a sleeping giant
Missing cooperative opportunities
Porter’s value chain framework suggests that a competitive advantage can stem from:
Optimizing internal costs
Disregarding customer data
Reducing isolated costs
Lowering costs and adding value
Which organization structure typically assigns workers two or more supervisors in an effort to make sure multiple dimensions of the business are integrated?
Networked
Matrix
Flat
Hierarchical
Two automobile manufacturers working together to develop hybrid technology. This type of relationship between the two automobile manufacturers is best described as:
Collaboration
Competition
Co-opetition
Strategic alliance
Business strategies based on hypercompetition focus on customer satisfaction and profit maximization but also build in a component of business intelligence. Business intelligence helps an agile organization to:
Manage internal challenges
React to supplier demands
Predict and respond to new opportunities
Use current information technologies less extensively
When an organization qualifies its product or service in a way that allows it to appear unique in the marketplace, this is called:
Differentiation
Cost Leadership
Business Strategy
Focus
To remain competitive, an organization’s business strategy must adapt and respond to variables. Which variable in particular does IS help to determine?
Market forces
Customer demands
The capabilities of the organization
The organization’s mission
Organizational, cultural, and control variables are considered the ______ used by decision makers to effect change in their organization.
collaboration tools
managerial levers
IS
events
What skills would be required to be a visionary manager?
All of the above
Flexibility and creativity
Communication and Information gathering
Analytical and organizational
Roles that managers fill, according to Mintzberg, include all of the following EXCEPT:
Figurehead
Disciplinarian
Entrepreneur
Disseminator
Social business strategy is designed to use social IT tools for all of the following EXCEPT:
Collaborating with stakeholders
Innovating with stakeholders
Excluding stakeholders
Building deeper connections with stakeholders
Which one of the following is NOT part of the information systems strategy matrix?
Personnel
Software
Networking
Hardware
All of the following are robust platforms EXCEPT:
iPhone iOS 12
android 10
windows 10
MS office 2019
Mac OS Mojave
Understanding the life span of the IT infrastructure and architecture is called:
IT life cycle
Strategic time frame
Architecture life cycle
IT life span
System time frame
Organizations seek to gain a competitive advantage by differentiation, cost, or _______.
focus
value
profit
service
By using IS to achieve economies of scale and generate operating efficiencies, Walmart epitomizes which one of Porter’s generic strategies?
Differentiation
Cost leadership
Focus
Broad focus
While there are many advantages to working remotely, there are potential problems. For example, once work has been successfully performed remotely, a company may find economic reasons to let go of workers and choose to ______ the work abroad.
Recruit
Automate
Outplace
Offshore
The main benefit of ________ is that users can work collaboratively to easily create and edit Web pages, and link them to useful resources.
Social networking sites
RSS (web feeds)
Wiki
Groupware
Which virtual team challenge is more difficult for managers to manage/manipulate since there may be a great deal of difference between groups and individuals?
diversity
management
technology
communication
An enterprise architecture is a complex framework for establishing an IT architecture and infrastructure by defining how IT supports the business processes of the firm.
True
False
There are very few mainframe computers still in operation today.
True
False
Which of the following best describes cloud computing?
Virtual desktop computing
Lightweight software that takes up little storage space
Computing services that can be accessed on demand across the Internet
The World Wide Web
Mobile-based social IT
Google Maps is a web mapping service that provides street maps and directions. A Google Maps component can be added to a business's web site to provide customers directions to the business location. This use of Google's service by a business is an example of _________.
Centralized architecture
Decentralized architecture
Service-oriented architecture
Internet-based architecture
Enterprise architecture
Valero's growth required a change to its IT architecture. SOA was chosen by Valero because Valero:
Needs flexibility to efficiently integrate new applications with existing independent systems
Wants to eliminate the dependency on its ERP system.
Needs to upgrade its infrastructure components to meet the increased IT demands.
Believes that SOA provides the appropriate level of security it did not have with its original architecture.
Benefits from standardizing on the SAP suite of products and reducing its reliance on multiple vendors.
The architecture that the large oil company Valero adopted enables the company to build applications from components and realize gains as a result of this flexibility. The architecture is called:
Centralized
Decentralized
Service-oriented
Internet-based
Mainframe
A manager must know enough about the IT architecture and IT infrastructure so that he or she can:
Select the correct wireless provider.
Make realistic use of IT and know what to expect from IT.
Choose the appropriate IT infrastructure components.
Limit future business options.
Ensure a rigid IT structure.
The components of enterprise architecture are: shared data, the linking and automation technology used to share the data, the people who are served by the system and: _____________.
Enterprise software
A centralized architecture
IT systems
Core business processes
A framework
This architecture is a complex framework whose main objective is to map how the organization's IT supports the business processes.
Centralized architecture
Decentralized architecture
Service-oriented architecture
Web-based architecture
Enterprise architecture
The IT infrastructure components should be evaluated based on their expected financial value. All of the following are used to evaluate the financial value of IT components EXCEPT for the:
Usability
Risks
Benefits
Costs
Maintenance
Before Kaiser Permanente adopted its new business strategy, its IS Strategy Triangle was out of _________.
alignment
adjustment
control
scope
The managerial levers identifies the crucial, interrelated components for designing an organization. The components include all of the following EXCEPT:
Incentives and rewards
Social media
Decision rights
Business processes
A bank provides its customers mobile applications that significantly simplify traditional banking activities. For example, a customer can use a smartphone to take a picture of a check and electronically deposit into an account. This unique service demonstrates the bank’s desire to practice which one of Porter’s strategies?
Broad focus
Cost leadership
Differentiation
Focus
When a company’s business strategy and technology strategy are intertwined, this situation is known as _______.
differentiation
alignment
convergence
dynamic
The plan an organization uses to provide information systems and services:
Focus
Differentiation
IS Strategy
Cost Leadership
The concept of "jobs" is being replaced with the concept of work, requiring a framework that links the IS Strategy with the organization strategy to answer all of the following EXCEPT:
Who will develop the IS?
When will the work be performed?
Who is going to do the work?
What work will be performed?
This model suggests that employee attitudes may change if they think the new system will help them to do more or better work for the same effort, and that it’s easy to use. Employee participation in the system’s design and implementation also helps.
Employee Technology Model (ETM)
Computer Access Model (CAM)
Information Management Model (IMM)
Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)
Diversity in virtual teams increases the communication challenges. However, virtual teams with diversity have demonstrated which of the following?
Equitable performance management.
More creative solutions.
Better compliance with deadlines.
Tighter security policies.
Which collaboration technology is becoming more and more popular both inside and outside organizations, consuming much of our attention on a day-to-day basis?
Social networking on mobile devices
Intranet
VoIP
Wikis
Which one of the following is NOT a factor driving the use of telecommuting?
Higher productivity
Higher job satisfaction
Stronger sense of company culture
Geographic flexibility
Which type of computer/ IT architecture is limited to a central computer system?
Web-services
Peer-to-peer
Wireless
Mainframe
"Reuse" is a benefit of service-oriented architecture because it supports
The breaking apart of functionality into small services that can be used by many different systems
Using sensitive data again and again
The selection of a specific computing device by each employee
Access to servers from many locations
An example of when a software-defined architecture is most appropriate:
Sales are expected to be very low
Resources need to be re-allocated dynamically depending on the situation or time of day
A firm can’t make the decision and wants software to do it
Sales are expected to be very high
Hypercompetition implies that any architecture must be designed with maximum scalability and ________ to ensure it can handle the imminent business changes.
Speed
Flexibility
Modularity
Sustainability
The architecture that the larger paper company Mohawk adopted enables the company to scale technology services up and down instantaneously according to its needs. The architecture is called:
Service-oriented
Centralized
Decentralized
Internet-based
Which one of the following is a valid statement?
Most jobs today have a significant information systems component.
It takes more time to access information.
The cost to access information has risen.
Personal productivity has dropped as a result of technology.
To help employees accept new technologies like an information system, a manager will do all of the following EXCEPT:
Provide minimal rationale for the new system
Demonstrate that the system will allow them do more or better work for the same amount of effort
Ensure employees find the system easy to use
Train the user on the new system
The components of enterprise architecture are: core business processes, linking and automation technology, the people who are served by the system and: ____________.
Shared data
Enterprise software
A centralized architecture
IT systems
__________ is the architecture where significant hardware, software and possibly even data elements reside on the Internet.
Internet-oriented architecture
Web or Cloud-based architecture
TCP/IP architecture
Mobile architecture
Using a cloud service from Viettel, the thanhnien.com was able to
Virtualize its mobile application.
Quickly digitize old articles without needing to purchase additional infrastructure components.
Standardize its virtualization infrastructure.
Establish a strong social media presence.
The type of software used in SOA architecture is often referred to as what?
Software-as-a-service
Systems software
Services-oriented architecture
Software-as-an-architecture
During an ice storm, Vietnam Airlines had an IT infrastructure that demonstrated which one of the following technical issues?
Security
Maintainability
Scalability
Adaptability
All of the following are reasons why a company may choose to use cloud computing for its IT infrastructure EXCEPT:
Reduce server maintenance costs
Cost savings
Speed to provision additional capacity
Reduce dependency on third-party suppliers
A small company in Hồ Chí Minh City wants to set up an IT infrastructure for its workforce. The company recently moved to an older building that has solid walls and ceilings. Furthermore, most of the staff like the flexibility of moving around the open office space to perform work on their laptops. Which communication infrastructure makes the most sense for this company?
Mainframe
Wireless
Web-services
Peer-to-peer
Which is not a question that can be used to understand organizational design?
What are the key business processes?
What are the characteristics, experiences, and skill levels of the people within the organization?
Where is the organization's headquarters located?
Who holds the decision rights to critical decisions?
Significant changes in IS should trigger a reassessment of the ______.
business strategy
data strategy
social strategy
process strategy
The organizational strategy should ideally _____ the IS strategy.
drive
ignore
dictate
complement
A company that is in a market with few buying options for the consumer is enjoying a high amount of which one of Porter's Five Competitive Forces?
Potential threat of new entrants
Threat of substitute products
Bargaining power of suppliers
Bargaining power of buyers
Zuboff studied how papermakers’ jobs were changed by the introduction of computers. What was one of her findings?
The workers felt empowered by the technology
The workers were no longer able to smell and squeeze the pulp, resulting in lower productivity
Web portals were useful in a manufacturing context
The workers sabotaged the technology
The type of controls that will be most likely be used for remote workers is
Outcome
Electric shock
All
Behavior
The qualities found in a successful remote worker include all of the following EXCEPT:
Ineffective communicator
Self-discipline
Self-starter
Socialized into the corporate culture
Tuấn works for a pharmaceutical company and he specializes in marketing and sales. He generally works from home. According to the text, what type of worker is Tuấn?
Vagabond worker
Mobile device
Global worker
Telecommuter
All of the following are new types of jobs created by the growing reliance on technology EXCEPT:
Database administrator
Editors/writers
Web site designers
Network security advisor
IT has altered employees and the way they work by doing all of the following EXCEPT:
Supporting new ways to manage talent
Creating new types of jobs
Providing distinct lines between work and play
Greatly changing day-to-day tasks
A general manager should:
Rely on IS personnel to make IS decisions
Ignore how IS are used and managed
Have a deep technical knowledge of IS
Understand the use and consequences of technologies relevant to the business
GE recognized that it could only sustain its competitive advantage for a limited time as competitors attempted to outmaneuver them. What was the model that Welch applied to help solve this problem?
Destroy your organization
Grow your organization
Destroy your system
Grow your system
Destroy your business
Through the use of various technologies, a ski resort tracks the slopes each customer skis and the times he or she skis them. Skiers then have the ability to view this information online, and can choose to seamlessly share their accomplishments on Facebook. In addition, photographers positioned at the resort post pictures on Facebook for the skier. This ski resort has worked hard to develop a strong:
IS Strategy
Social business strategy
Business strategy
Organizational strategy
Customer strategy
Technology guru Tim O'Reilly said this about the publishing industry: "To adapt, publishers need to cannibalize their own business, experimenting with new forms, new formats, and new business models." This statement is consistent with:
Generic framework
Focus strategy
Hypercompetition
Direct strategy
Forter’s generic strategies
The physical means by which information is exchanged among hardware components is called ______.
networking
hardware
software
personnel
Which of the following is not a Decisional Role?
Disturbance handler
Entrepreneur
Spokesperson
Negotiator
