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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Is responsible for ensuring the throughput - speed - accuracy - availability - and reliability of an organization information.
G I G O
Chief technology offiicer(CTO)
Balanced scorecard
Customer Service
2. Website success solely is measure by
Threat of new entrants
Countefeit software
Amount of traffic
Efficiency IT metrics
3. Is responsible for ensuing the ethical and legal use of informatio within an organization. these are lawyers
Chief privacy officer(CPO)
Business proess
Peter Drucker
Informaton
4. Means Garbage In Garbage OUt
Business proess
G I G O
Security breach
Automate
5. What is on the mind of the CEO
Enhance Customer Satisfaction
Reducing Cost/Improve Productivity
G I G O
Customer Service
6. What does CIO stands for
Chief Information Officer
Balanced scorecard
Organizatonal Informaion Cultures
Countefeit software
7. Is assessed analyzing the ability of buyers to directly impact the price they are willing to pay for an item.
Buyer power
Management Information System (MIS)
Chief security officer (CSO)
Organizatonal Informaion Cultures
8. Most information security breaches result from people misusing an organizaton's information either Intentionally or Inadvertently. misuse of passwords
Security breach
Chief technology offiicer(CTO)
Loyalty programs
Enhancing customer satisfaction
9. The Benefits and and Magnitude of Change the Process Change Spectrum what would be th small change
Effeciveness IT metics
Software failure and human error
Organizatonal Informaion Cultures
Automate
10. Consists of all parties involved - directly or indirectly - in the procurement of a poduct or raw materials
Supply chain
Balanced scorecard
Informantion accuracy
First-mover advantage
11. Reward customers based on th amount of business they do with a particuar organization.
One of the greatest challenges today
First-mover advantage
Software failure and human error
Loyalty programs
12. Raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event/information knowledge/business intelligent and competative advantage
Automate
Data
Effeciveness IT metics
Chief knowldedge officer (CKO)
13. Enables an organizatin to generate efficiencies within steps by automating and improving the information flows Wal-art and Procter&Gamble(P&G) implemented a tremedously successful SCM system. the system linked Wal-Mar's distribution centers directly
SCM - CRM - ERP AND BPR
Chief Operation Officer
SCM software
Porters's Five Forces - the three generic strategies - and value chanin analysis to adopt new business strategies
14. Is responsible for collecting - maintaining - and distributing the organization's knowledge. data has base adminstrator
Chief knowldedge officer (CKO)
Customer Relationship management(CRM)
SSL
Data
15. Supply chain strategy - suply chain partners - supply chain operation - supply chain logistics
Security breach
Customer Service
Manage - leader - communicator
The basic component of supply chain management
16. Is assessed by th supplier's ability to directly impact the price they are charging for supplies(including materials - labor - and services)
Business process
Supply chain management(SCM)
Supplier power
Reducing Cost/Improve Productivity
17. Measure the performance of the IT system itself includngthroughput - speed - and availability.
Efficiency IT metrics
SCM software
Information Technology (IT)
Enhance Customer Satisfaction
18. Integrates all departments and functins thoughout an organization into asingle IT system (or integrated set of IT systems) so that employees can ake decisions by viewing enterprisewide information on all businss operations.:is a software island of in
Chief technology offiicer(CTO)
Threat of new entrants
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Automate
19. Is a managemen system - in addition to a measurement system - that enable organization to clarify their vision and strateby and translate them into action.
Benchmarking
Balanced scorecard
Organizatonal Informaion Cultures
Informantion accuracy
20. Is data converted into a meaninfgul and useful context.
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
People
Automate
Informaton
21. The most Effectiveness IT Metrics. the ease with which people perform transactions and/or find informatin. A popular usability metric on the internet is degrees of feedom - which measures the number of clicks required to find desired infomation.
Environmental scannig
Porters's Five Forces - the three generic strategies - and value chanin analysis to adopt new business strategies
Usability
G I G O
22. Is the analysis and redesign of workflow wthin and between enteprises. ex. NetFlix - Redbox
SCM - CRM - ERP AND BPR
Buyer power
Brusiness process reengineering (BPR)
SSL
23. Occurs whn a company develops unique differences in its products with th intenet t influence demand
Information Technology (IT)
Chief Executive officer
Switching costs
Product differentiation
24. To remain sucessful - and organizatios should use what?
25. What does COO stands for
Automate
Chief Operation Officer
Balanced scorecard
Information security
26. Measures that are tied to busines drivers Metrics such as GPA(grade point average)
Threat of new entrants
Software failure and human error
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
Countefeit software
27. Is the acauisition and analysis of evenst and trends in the environment external to an organization.
Environmental scannig
SCM software
Automate
Chief information officer
28. A university professor at Harvard Business School - identified four competitive forces that can hurt potential sales.
Chief Operation Officer
Michael Porter
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Executive officer
29. Baseline values the system seesks to attain
One of the greatest challenges today
Usability
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Benchmarks
30. Is a standardized set of activities that accoplish a specific task - such as processing a customer order.
Management Information System (MIS)
Business process
The Five Forces Model
Information Discovery
31. Is responsible for (1) overseeing all uses of informatin technology (2) ensuring the strategic alignment of IT with business goals and objectives. CIO often reports directly to the CEO
Product differentiation
Customer Service
Software failure and human error
Chief information officer
32. Secure Sockets Layers: donted by th lock symbol in the lower right corner of a browser window and or he "s" in https; SSL is 128 bits. 128bit=2^128
SSL
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Benchmarking
Supply chain
33. A general name for the business function and academic discipline covering the application of people - technologies - and procedures.
Management Information System (MIS)
Benchmarks
SSL
Customer Service
34. Is high when it is easy for new cdompetitors to enter a market and low when there are significant entry barriers to entering market.
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
Chief privacy officer(CPO)
Benchmarking
Threat of new entrants
35. Mostly misuse by persons inside or outside an organization.
Buyer power
SCM software
Information security
G I G O
36. Is a field concrned with te use of technology in managing and processing information.It consist of hardware - software and telecommunication
Information Technology (IT)
Efficiency IT metrics
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
Manage - leader - communicator
37. What Concerns CIOs the most?
Brusiness process reengineering (BPR)
Management Information System (MIS)
Balanced scorecard
Enhancing customer satisfaction
38. Issuses Affected by Technology Advance: intellectual property - Copyright - fair use doctrine - pirated software and counterfeit software of these which is the worst?
Threat of substitute products or services
Countefeit software
Customer Service
Chief technology offiicer(CTO)
39. What does CFO stands for
Benchmarking
First-mover advantage
Peter Drucker
Chief Financial Officer
40. The 4 strategic initiatives
SCM - CRM - ERP AND BPR
Balanced scorecard
Comptevive advantage
Security breach
41. Is high when competition is fierce in a market and low when competition is more complacent
Management Information System (MIS)
Rivalry among existing competitors
Information Technology (IT)
Informantion accuracy
42. Employees across departments are open to new insights about crises and radical changes and seek ways to create competitive advantages.
One of the greatest challenges today
Chief Operation Officer
Business process
Information Discovery
43. The most important type of Efficiency IT Metics; the extent to which a system generates the correct results when executing the same transaction numerous times.
Customer Service
Comptevive advantage
Informantion accuracy
Chief Executive officer
44. Is high when there are many alternatives to a product or service and low when there are few alternative from which to choose.
Chief technology offiicer(CTO)
Customer Relationship management(CRM)
Software failure and human error
Threat of substitute products or services
45. What information technology projects goals has the most value?
Reducing Cost/Improve Productivity
Information Technology (IT)
Chief knowldedge officer (CKO)
Business is always #1
46. Effective communication between business personnel and IT personnel
One of the greatest challenges today
Information Technology (IT)
Switching costs
Chief security officer (CSO)
47. Is responsible for ensuring the security of IT system and developing strategies and IT safeguards against attacks fom hacker and viruses. He is call the Network Administrator
Manage - leader - communicator
Chief security officer (CSO)
Chief Information Officer
SCM - CRM - ERP AND BPR
48. Information-Functional - Information-sharing - Information-inquiring - and Information-discovery
Usability
Benchmarking
Organizatonal Informaion Cultures
Data
49. Is a product or service that an organization's customer place a greater value on than similar offerings from a competitor.
SSL
Comptevive advantage
Customer Relationship management(CRM)
Informaton
50. A process of continuously measuring system results - comparing those results to optimal system performance (benchmark values) - and identifiying steps and procedures to improve syste performance.
Security breach
Benchmarks
Benchmarking
Threat of new entrants