Exam 2: Business Processes, Information, and Information Systems

Which of the following is true regarding characteristics of good information?

In a business process flowchart,activities are shown in ________.

Explain data with an example.

Roles are shown as scrolls in a business process flowchart.

Which of the following components provide branching points within the flow of a business process?

What are resources in a business process?

________ are shown as scrolls in a business process flowchart.

Information systems should not be subjected to the same financial analyses that other assets are subjected to.

The outermost components of the symmetrical five-component framework of an IS are data and procedures.

________ are collections of related tasks that receive inputs and process those inputs to produce outputs.

Automation is the process in which instructions for humans are transferred to instructions for hardware.

________ are sets of procedures.

Information is data presented in a meaningful context.

Data that is summed is called information.

Explain the importance of just barely sufficient information in the information age we live in.

________ information is information that directly pertains to both the context and to the subject it references.

The higher you rise in management,the more information you will need to ignore.

A(n)________ is a network of activities,roles,resources,repositories,and data flows that interact to accomplish a business function.

Which of the following components of a business process holds the collective memory of an organization?

Procedures act as the bridge between the computer and human sides of the five-component framework of an IS.