Enter Your PSEUDONYM:         

Question 1:    Information technologies are playing an expanding role in business in terms of:

                         Workgroup collaboration
                          Increasing Digital Divides
                          Managerial Decision Making
                          A and B
                          A and C

Question 2:   In the earlier days of computers, the IS area:

                         Was often a subfunction of accounting
                          was referred to as Electronic Data Processing
                          was a department under Marketing
                          A and B
                          B and C

IQuestion 3:    In this text, when we discuss Management Challenges, we are referring to:

                         Fundamental behavioral, technical, business and managerial concepts about IS components and IS roles
                          Major concepts, developments and management issues in issues in IS Technology
                          The major uses of Information Technologies for operations, management and competitive advantages
                          How information professionals and specialists plan, develop and implement information systems to meet business opportunities
                          The challenges of effectively and ethically managing information systems at the end-user, enterprise, and global levels of the business

Question 4:    A system is:

                         An assembly of resources and procedures each of which accomplishes an independent function
                          A collection of unrelated procedures and functions
                          A collection of components working together toward a single goal
                          A and B
                          A and C

Question 5:    Which of the following is NOT a component of a system?

                         output
                          input
                          interfaces
                          Control
                          feedback

Question 6:    In the information systems concept, the output function involves

                         Capturing and assembling elements that enter the system to be processed
                          Transformation processes that convert input into output
                          transferring elements that have been produced by a transformation process to their ultimate destination
                          Monitoring and evaluating feedback to determine whether a system is moving toward the achievement of its goal
                          None of the above

Question 7:    Closed systems refer to::

                         systems which lack interact with the environment
                          systems which interact with their environment
                          all mechanical systems
                          A and C
                          None of the above

Question 8:    The 'software' component of information system resources includes

                         the operating system
                          applications programs
                          Web Browsers
                          All of the above
                          A and B

Question 9:    In an information system, software resources would include all of the following except

                         System software
                          Operating system program
                          Telecommunications networks
                          applications programs
                          All are software resources

Question 10:  Telecommunications networks consist of:

                         Computers, Internet, intranets, and extranets
                          Communications processors
                          Devices interconnected by communications media and controlled by communications software
                          All of the Above
                          None of the above

Question 11:  How do information systems and information technologies differ?

                         The terms information systems and information technologies are essentially the same and can be used interchangeably
                          The term information systems describes all the components and resources necessary to deliver its information and functions to the organization. The term information technology refers to the various hardware and software components necessary for the system to operate
                          Information technology can contain simple hardware components such as pencil-and-paper while information systems rely on computer based technologies
                          The term information technologies describes all the components and resources necessary to deliver its information and functions to the organization. The term information systems refers to the various hardware and software components necessary for the system to operate
                          None of the above

Question 12:  Your text classifies information systems as either operations or management support information systems. Which one of the following would be classified as an operations support system?

                         Management information systems
                          Process control systems
                          Executive information systems
                          Decision support systems
                          All of the above

Question 13:  Executive information systems (EIS) are management information systems, which are tailored to meet the strategic information needs of which one of the following management levels?

                         Top management (strategic)
                          Middle management (tactical)
                          Lower management (operational)
                          Support Staff (Staff)
                          All of the above

Question 14:  Which one of the following statements best describe knowledge workers?

                         People who spend most of their time communicating and collaborating in teams and workgroups and creating, using, and distributing information
                          People who work in manufacturing production operations
                          People who use an information system or the information it produces
                          People who are experts in a specific field
                          All of the above

Question 15:  Strategic Information Systems:

                         People who spend most of their time communicating and collaborating in teams and workgroups and creating, using, and distributing information
                          Are systems developed with capabilities normally associated with human intelligence, such as reasoning, learning, and problem solving
                          Are systems developed in order to help knowledge workers create, organize, and share important business knowledge wherever and whenever needed
                          Are Systems that support processes that provide a firm with strategic products, services, and capabilities for competitive advantage
                          Are Information Systems that focus on operational and managerial applications of business functions

Question 16:  The business applications of information systems have expanded significantly over the years. The expanding roles of information systems from the early 1950s to the present in sequential order are:

                         Management reporting, decision support, enterprise internetworking, data processing, strategic and end user support
                          Data processing, management reporting, strategic and end user support, enterprise internetworking, decision support
                          Data processing, management reporting, decision support, strategic and end user support, enterprise internetworking
                          Enterprise internetworking, management reporting, data processing, strategic and end user support, decision support
                          Enterprise internetworking, management reporting, data processing, decision support, strategic and end user support

Question 17:  In the internet-worked E-business enterprise, an extranet refers to:

                         A network inside the enterprise
                          A network between an enterprise and its trading partners
                          A local area network within the enterprise
                          A wide area network within the enterprise
                          A network available to everyone

Question 18:  The third step in developing information systems is:

                         analysis
                          investigation
                          design
                          maintenance
                          implementation

Question 19:  Developing information system solutions to business problems in an organization is the responsibility of:

                         Information system specialists
                          Computer programmers
                          Systems Designers
                          Systems analysts
                          All information systems users throughout the organization

Question 20:  The IS function:

                         helps in developing competitive products and services that give an organization a strategic advantage
                          is a secondary functional area of business
                          is a major source of information and support which promotes effective decision making
                          A and B
                          A and C