Question 1

The information age is the present time, during which infinite quantities of facts are widely available to anyone who can use a computer.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

How does the text recommend that a company operate if it wants to be successful in the information age?

Accepted Answer

A) Functionally independent between departments. 
B) Interdependently between departments. 
C) Together as one department with little or no independence. 
D) Each department acting as its own individual business unit. 
A) Functionally independent between departments. 
B) Interdependently between departments. 
C) Together as one department with little or no independence. 
D) Each department acting as its own individual business unit.

Question 3

What type of report can include a sales report from last year or salary report from five years ago?

Accepted Answer

A) Static report 
B) Dynamic report 
C) Variable report 
D) Structured report 
A) Static report 
B) Dynamic report 
C) Variable report 
D) Structured report

Question 4

The sales department needs to rely on information from operations to understand _________.

Accepted Answer

A) Inventory 
B) Customer orders 
C) Demand forecasts 
D) All of these 
A) Inventory 
B) Customer orders 
C) Demand forecasts 
D) All of these

Question 5

Information is data converted into useful, meaningful context.What are data characteristics that change or vary over time?

Accepted Answer

A) Facts 
B) Variables 
C) Supplies 
D) Services 
A) Facts 
B) Variables 
C) Supplies 
D) Services

Question 6

Cooking a patty and putting the ingredients together are included in the process of making a hamburger.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Unstructured data is data that has a defined length, type, and format and includes numbers, dates, or strings such as Customer Address.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

The business decisions made by the marketing department include promotional data, sales data, and advertising data.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Cars, groceries, and clothing are all examples of goods.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

What is the rate at which goods and services are produced based upon total output given total inputs?

Accepted Answer

A) Goods 
B) Services 
C) Production 
D) Productivity 
A) Goods 
B) Services 
C) Production 
D) Productivity

Question 11

Companies update business strategies continuously as internal and external environments change.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

The challenge that companies today sometimes have is that they are departmentalized and act independently of each other.One solution that can help a company work ___________ includes management information systems.

Accepted Answer

A) Variables 
B) Human resource data 
C) Interdepartmentally 
D) Resource information systems 
A) Variables 
B) Human resource data 
C) Interdepartmentally 
D) Resource information systems

Question 13

Which of the following is considered data?

Accepted Answer

A) Quantity sold 
B) Best customer by month 
C) Best-selling item by month 
D) Worst-selling item by month 
A) Quantity sold 
B) Best customer by month 
C) Best-selling item by month 
D) Worst-selling item by month

Question 14

Cheryl Steffan is the operations manager for Nature's Bread Company, which specializes in providing natural products for health-conscious individuals.Cheryl is responsible for compiling, analyzing, and evaluating daily sales numbers to determine the company's profitability and forecast production for the next day.Which of the following is an example of knowledge that Cheryl would be using to successfully perform her job?

Accepted Answer

A) Craig Newmark is customer number 15467. 
B) Flour Power is supplier number 8745643. 
C) Best-selling product by day. 
D) Best-selling product changes when Tony, the best baker, is working. 
A) Craig Newmark is customer number 15467. 
B) Flour Power is supplier number 8745643. 
C) Best-selling product by day. 
D) Best-selling product changes when Tony, the best baker, is working.

Question 15

What is the science of fact-based decision making?

Accepted Answer

A) Business intelligence 
B) Information 
C) Knowledge 
D) Analytics 
A) Business intelligence 
B) Information 
C) Knowledge 
D) Analytics

Question 16

What data is created by a machine without human intervention?

Accepted Answer

A) Human-generated 
B) Machine-generated 
C) Machine-to-machine (M2M) 
D) Unstructured data 
A) Human-generated 
B) Machine-generated 
C) Machine-to-machine (M2M) 
D) Unstructured data

Question 17

The business decisions made by the accounting department include employee data, promotion data, and vacation data.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

MIS is a business function.Which of the following does MIS perform to help aid the company in decision making and problem solving?

Accepted Answer

A) Moves information about people. 
B) Moves processes across the company to improve systems. 
C) Moves information about products. 
D) All of these. 
A) Moves information about people. 
B) Moves processes across the company to improve systems. 
C) Moves information about products. 
D) All of these.

Question 19

What are goods?

Accepted Answer

A) Material items or products that customer's will buy to satisfy a want or need. 
B) Tasks performed by people that customer's will buy to satisfy a want or need. 
C) The process where a business takes raw materials and processes them or converts them into a finished product for its goods or services. 
D) The rate at which goods and services are produced based upon total output given total inputs. 
A) Material items or products that customer's will buy to satisfy a want or need. 
B) Tasks performed by people that customer's will buy to satisfy a want or need. 
C) The process where a business takes raw materials and processes them or converts them into a finished product for its goods or services. 
D) The rate at which goods and services are produced based upon total output given total inputs.

Question 20

Top managers use social intelligence to define the future of the business, analyzing markets, industries and economies to determine the strategic direction the company must follow to remain unprofitable.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 1: Business Driven Technology

The information age is the present time, during which infinite quantities of facts are widely available to anyone who can use a computer.

How does the text recommend that a company operate if it wants to be successful in the information age?

What type of report can include a sales report from last year or salary report from five years ago?

The sales department needs to rely on information from operations to understand _________.

Information is data converted into useful, meaningful context.What are data characteristics that change or vary over time?

Cooking a patty and putting the ingredients together are included in the process of making a hamburger.

Unstructured data is data that has a defined length, type, and format and includes numbers, dates, or strings such as Customer Address.

The business decisions made by the marketing department include promotional data, sales data, and advertising data.

Cars, groceries, and clothing are all examples of goods.

What is the rate at which goods and services are produced based upon total output given total inputs?

Companies update business strategies continuously as internal and external environments change.

The challenge that companies today sometimes have is that they are departmentalized and act independently of each other.One solution that can help a company work ___________ includes management information systems.

Which of the following is considered data?

What is the science of fact-based decision making?

What data is created by a machine without human intervention?

The business decisions made by the accounting department include employee data, promotion data, and vacation data.

MIS is a business function.Which of the following does MIS perform to help aid the company in decision making and problem solving?

What are goods?

Top managers use social intelligence to define the future of the business, analyzing markets, industries and economies to determine the strategic direction the company must follow to remain unprofitable.

Identifying Competitive Advantages

Strategic Initiatives for Implementing Competitive Advantages

Measuring the Success of Strategic Initiatives

Organizational Structures That Support Strategic Initiatives

Valuing and Storing Organizational Information Databases

Accessing Organizational Information Data Warehouses

Understanding Big Data and Its Impact on Business

Enabling the Organization Decision Making

Extending the Organization Supply Chain Management

Building a Customer-Centric Organization Customer Relationship Management

Integrating the Organization From End to End Enterprise Resource Planning

Creating Innovative Organizations

E-business

Creating Collaborative Partnerships

Integrating Wireless Technology in Business

Developing Software to Streamline Operations

Methodologies for Supporting Agile Organizations

Managing Organizational Projects

B: Extension: A Business Basics

B: Extension: A Business Process

B: Extension: A Hardware and Software Basics

B: Extension: A Mis Infrastructures

B: Extension: A Networks and Telecommunications

B: Extension: A Information Security

B: Extension: A Ethics

B: Extension: A Operations Management

B: Extension: A Sustainable Mis Infrastructures

B: Extension: A Business Intelligence

B: Extension: A Global Information Systems

B: Extension: A Global Trends

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