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| show | False
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| Computers are required to organize or process data. | show 🗑
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| Using a computer to forecast future sales and order more inventory before a shortage can occur is an example of information system feedback. | show 🗑
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| A CBIS is a single set of hardware, software, databases, telecommunications, people, and procedures configured to collect, manipulate, store, and process data into information. | show 🗑
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| The technology infrastructure is a set of shared IS resources that form the foundation of each computer-based information system. | show 🗑
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| Today’s more advanced processor chips have the power of 1990s-era supercomputers | show 🗑
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| Teraflops is a measure of computer storage capacity | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| show | True
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| Private cloud computing applications are available to everyone. | show 🗑
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| Information about the documents on the Web and access to these documents are controlled and provided by tens of thousands of special computers called Web servers. | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| Transaction processing systems were developed in the 1950s. | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| show | True
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| Mobile commerce is the use of mobile, wireless devices to place orders and conduct business. | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| Electronic business goes beyond e-commerce and e-procurement by using information systems and the Internet to perform all business-related tasks and functions. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | True
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| A decision support system is an organized collection of people, procedures, software, databases, and devices that provides routine information to managers and decision makers | show 🗑
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| MISs typically provide standard reports generated with data and information from a TPS or ERP system | show 🗑
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| MIS reports may be generated daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | True
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| With an AI system, the computer takes on the characteristics of human intelligence. | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| show | False
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| Directional sound, tactile and force feedback devices, voice recognition, and other technologies are used to enrich the virtual reality experience. | show 🗑
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| Systems analysis defines the problems and opportunities of the existing system | show 🗑
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| ____ is an important component of every information system that helps organizations to achieve their goals. | show 🗑
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| The value of information is directly linked to how it helps decision makers achieve their organization’s ____. | show 🗑
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| show | Feedback
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| Many excellent computerized information systems follow stock indexes and markets and suggest when large blocks of stocks should be purchased or sold in a process called ____. | show 🗑
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| consists of computer equipment used to perform input, processing, and output activities. | show 🗑
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| Keyboards, automatic scanning devices, and equipment that can read magnetic ink characters are examples of ____ hardware | show 🗑
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| show | Under $200
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| consists of computer programs that govern the operation of the computer. | show 🗑
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| show | Windows Microsoft 2010
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| show | Networkds
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| show | 140 Characters
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| Another name for a Web log is ____. | show 🗑
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| show | Podcasting
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| An ____ is a network based on Web technologies that allows only selected outsiders, such as business partners and customers, to access authorized resources of a company’s intranet. | show 🗑
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| show | People
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| People who work with information systems to get results are called ____. | show 🗑
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| show | IS personnel
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| show | All of the above
-Electronic and Mobile commerce
-Transaction Processing
-Decision support
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| show | Mobile Commerce
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| The earliest type of business information system developed in the 1950s was the ____. | show 🗑
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| show | DSS
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| show | Natrual Language Processing
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| show | Outsourcing
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| show | system investigation
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| ____________________ data is a form of data that is represented by numbers, letters, and other characters. | show 🗑
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| show | Knowledge
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| show | Processing
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| show | Input
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| show | Forecasting
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| ________________________ refers to hardware, software, databases, and telecommunications. | show 🗑
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| Computerized _________________________ are being placed in vehicles to record vehicle speed, possible engine problems, driver performance, and more | show 🗑
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| Although most software can be installed from CDs, many of today’s software packages can be downloaded through the ____________________. | show 🗑
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| A(n) ____________________ is an organized collection of facts and information, typically consisting of two or more related files. | show 🗑
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| show | Telecommuting
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| show | Internet
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| ____________________ allows people to get the information they need from the Internet instead of from desktop or corporate computers. | show 🗑
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| The ____________________ is a network of links on the Internet to documents containing text, graphics, video, and sound. | show 🗑
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| The technology used to create the Internet is also being applied within companies and organizations to create ____________________, which allow people in an organization to exchange information and work on projects. | show 🗑
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| show | Procedures
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| CBIS stands for ___________________? | show 🗑
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| show | E-commerce
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| show | Transaction Processing system
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| A(n) ____________________ is a set of integrated programs that manages the vital business operations for an entire multisite, global organization. | show 🗑
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| _________, a German software company, is one of the leading suppliers of ERP software. | show 🗑
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| The focus of a DSS is on making effective ____________________ and helping a manager do the right thing | show 🗑
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| A system to create, store, share, and use the organization’s knowledge and experience is called a(n) ______________________________. | show 🗑
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| _______ is an area of artificial intelligence in which machines take over complex, dangerous, routine, or boring tasks. | show 🗑
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| The collection of rules, procedures, and relationships that must be followed by an expert system to achieve the proper outcome is contained in the expert system’s ____________________. | show 🗑
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| During the ____________________ phase of the systems development process the project team determines how the new system should be developed to meet the business needs defined during systems analysis. | show 🗑
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| The primary goal of a for-profit organization is to maximize shareholder value. | show 🗑
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| An organization is a system, which means that it has inputs, processing, outputs, and feedback. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| By adding a significant amount of value to their products and services, organizations ensure that they will exceed budgets and generate income losses. | show 🗑
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| Customer relationship management software often uses a variety of information sources. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | True
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| Sustaining change almost always harms an organization while disruptive change almost always helps an organization | show 🗑
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| Disruptive change often results in new, successful companies and offers consumers the potential of new products and services at reduced costs and superior performance. | show 🗑
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| The degree to which an organization supports the use of an information system is not an important factor that can lead to better attitudes about it. | show 🗑
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| Studies have shown that user satisfaction and technology acceptance are not particularly significant in healthcare as professionals in this industry are quick to learn and accept new technology. | show 🗑
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| An organization can have a high level of infusion in one part of its operations and a low level of diffusion overall. | show 🗑
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| If an organization has a high level of both diffusion and infusion, with computers throughout the organization, information systems are being used to their full potential. | show 🗑
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| One organization can spend less than another on information systems but still get better value. | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| When the threat of new market entrants is high, the desire to seek and maintain competitive advantage to dissuade new entrants is also usually high. | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| show | True
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| show | True
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| show | True
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| show | True
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| show | False
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| show | False
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| show | True
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| The role of a systems analyst is narrowly defined and seldom involves communications with others. | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| show | True
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| The IS support organization is a multi-faceted group providing user assistance in hardware and software acquisition and use, data administration, user training and assistance, and software development. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| Reengineering and continuous improvement mean the same thing. | show 🗑
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| show | All of the above
-Culture
-overall structure
-ability to change
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| show | Finance and Accounting
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| show | Supply change management
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| Customer relationship management programs help companies manage ____. | show 🗑
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| User satisfaction with a computer system and the information it generates often depend on the ____. | show 🗑
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| show | Technology diffusion
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| The extent to which technology permeates an area or department is called ____. | show 🗑
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| show | Often
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| Which one the following was NOT one of five forces identified in Michael Porter’s competitive forces model? | show 🗑
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| show | there tends to be more firms seeking competitive advantage
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| show | Creating new products and services
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| ____ is a competitive advantage strategy that Walmart and other retailers have followed for years and focuses on becoming more efficient and reducing costs. | show 🗑
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| show | Niche
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| show | Entry costs are low
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| In the initial phase in their use of information systems, organizations focused on ____. | show 🗑
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| show | NON OF THE ABOVE
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| show | Return on Investments (ROI)
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| Total cost of ownership includes the ____. | show 🗑
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