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CLEP MIS: Management Information Systems
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1. The technical staff at an organization are most likely to be users of a(n)
100 megabits
Spreadsheet
Knowledge work system (KWS)
Contingency
2. Which of the following personnel would be considered part of the development team in an MIS department?
Simplified testing and documentation procedures
Maintenance programmer
Electronic bulletin board
Supercomputer
3. Which of the following statements about database management systems is generally FALSE? They
Calculus
Physical facilities - telecommunications - control systems - and manual procedures
Half duplex
Involve slight increases in program development and maintenance costs
4. Which of the following is a characteristic of data warehouse data? They
Include enterprise-wide data - collected from legacy systems
Manual procedures
A modem or modems
Information superhighway
5. Which of the following are LEAST likely to be an input into a management information system (MIS)?
Design specifications
Consultancies/service organizations
Index server
Object-oriented
6. The predefined packet of data in some LANs - which includes data indicating the sender - receiver - and whether the packet is in use - is known as a
Hospital information system
Solicitations
Token
Design specifications
7. Which of the following types of organizations is LEAST likely to make use of a hierarchical database?
Analysis
Ordinality
Gateway
Consultancies/service organizations
8. Which of the computer hardware generations involved vacuum tube technology?
Dialog
Systems study
Hospital information system
First
9. Which of the following storage media generally has the slowest access speed?
Manual procedures
Error handling
Systems study
Magnetic disk
10. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of an enterprise MIS?
Personal e-mail received from outside by the organization's system
Protocols
Homogeneous data
Known users who are dissatisfied with an application's performance
11. The main advantage of digital private branch exchanges over other local networking options is that they
Make use of existing phone lines
System residence drive
Generally better suited for larger applications
Transaction processing system (TPS)
12. One of the core capabilities of a decision support system (DSS) is the logical and mathematical manipulation of data _____ a capability referred to as
Include enterprise-wide data - collected from legacy systems
Automation
Data bus width
Operations
13. Which of the following types of applications is generally most dependent on the graphical user interface (GUI) environment?
Implementation
Desktop publishing
Goals
Java
14. What is the term for the capacity of a communications channel as measured by the difference between the highest and lowest frequencies that can be transmitted by that channel?
Uncertainty
Bandwidth
Loan officers at a bank enter application information into a central system so that the application can be evaluated by many people at once.
Token
15. Routines performed to verify input data and correct errors prior to processing are known as
Protocols
Using serif typefaces in graph labels
Simplified testing and documentation procedures
Edit checks
16. In the traditional systems life cycle model - which of the following states occurs EARLIEST?
Systems study
Protocols
System residence drive
Spreadsheet
17. Of the following statements about the evolutionary planning method of strategic information systems design - which is FALSE?
Conducting data conferences
Half duplex
A top-down method
Magnetic disk
18. Which of the following is NOT a typical characteristic of hypertext and hypermedia applications?
Information superhighway
Design specifications
Independence from GUI environment
Homogeneous data
19. In an individual MIS - the most commonly used analytical application is a
Data models
Semantic nets
Spreadsheet
Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)
20. Which of the following is an advantage associated with the LAN model of multi-user systems?
Reliability of many computers
Reasonableness check
30-50
Data conversion
21. In an enterprise information system - which of the following is considered to be an input control?
Using serif typefaces in graph labels
Analysis
Verification of control totals
Heterarchy
22. A form of organization resembling a fishnet or network - in which authority is determined by knowledge and function is a
Data models
Protocols
Heterarchy
Frame relay
23. What is the term for the final step in system reengineering - when the revised specifications are used to generate new - structure program code for a structured and maintainable system?
Token
Decision support system (DSS)
Personal e-mail received from outside by the organization's system
Forward engineering
24. Low-speed transmission of data that occurs on character at a time is described as
Generally better suited for larger applications
Asynchronous
Include enterprise-wide data - collected from legacy systems
Verification of control totals
25. What is the term for the methodical simplification of a logical data model?
Transaction processing system (TPS)
Uncertainty
Logical
Normalization
26. Which of the following styles of systems development is most often used for information systems at the enterprise level?
Data conversion
Traditional life cycle
Source
Knowledge work system (KWS)
27. The functions of knowledge workers in an organization generally include each of the following EXCEPT
Managing documentation of knowledge
Sequential
Linear
Knowledge work system (KWS)
28. In an individual MIS - the most commonly-used technique for conducting operations research is ______ programming.
Bandwidth
OSI
Manual procedures
Linear
29. A processing system rejects an order transaction for 10 -000 units - on the basis that no order larger than 70 units had been placed previously. This is an example of a
Data conversion
Automation
Acceptance
Reasonableness check
30. Which of the following is NOT an example of an output control associated with information systems?
Implementation
First
Gateway
Error handling
31. The primary memory of most microcomputers is measured in
Bottom-up
Homogeneous data
Kilobytes
Tuple
32. A purpose of a file server in a network is to
Store programs
First
Implementation
Protocols
33. Which of the following is most likely to rely on parallel processing?
Supercomputer
Decision support system (DSS)
Traditional life cycle
Transduction
34. In imaging systems - what is the term for the device that allows a user to identify and retrieve a specific document?
Physical facilities - telecommunications - control systems - and manual procedures
Operations
Index server
Transaction processing system (TPS)
35. Which of the following statements about the prototyping approach to systems development is FALSE?
Design specifications
Generally better suited for larger applications
Logical
Simplified testing and documentation procedures
36. The central liability-related ethical issue raised by new information technologies is generally considered to be
Gateway
Frame relay
Linear
Whether individuals and organizations that create - produce - and sell systems are morally responsible for the consequences of their use
37. What is the term for a set of rules that govern the manipulation of characters in a system?
Calculus
Parallel
Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)
Data bus width
38. In what type of processing can more than one instruction be processed at once - by breaking down a problem into smaller parts and processing them simultaneously?
Error handling
Parallel
Verification of control totals
Data conversion
39. Of the following file organization methods - the only one that can be used on magnetic tape is
Design specifications
Uncertainty
Sequential
Manual procedures
40. A transmission over a telecommunications network in which data can flow two ways - but in only one direction at a time - is described as
Maintenance programmer
Logical
With high levels of technical complexity
Half duplex
41. What is the term used to describe the approach to software development that combines data and procedures into a single item?
Acceptance
System residence drive
Forward engineering
Object-oriented
42. Which of the following is an example of work-flow management?
Half duplex
Frame relay
Loan officers at a bank enter application information into a central system so that the application can be evaluated by many people at once.
Reasonableness check
43. Which of the following terms is used to describe a system in which the internal parameters can be changed when necessary through feedback?
Design specifications
Transduction
Heuristic
Fuzzy logic
44. Approximately what percentage of an organization's software development budget will be expended on testing?
Java
30-50
Systems study
Parallel
45. ______ code is the term for program instructions written in a high-level language before translation into machine language.
Sequential
Source
Maintenance programmer
30-50
46. Which of the following is a disadvantage associated with the use of relational databases?
Heterarchy
Verification of control totals
Relatively slower speed of operation
Analysis
47. Which of the following is an example of the administrative message switching application of telecommunications technology?
Electronic mail
Consultancies/service organizations
Information superhighway
100 megabits
48. Which of the following is a commercial digital information service that exists to provide business information?
Desktop publishing
Fuzzy logic
Data conversion
Dialog
49. In its current form - the technology of electronic data interchange (EDI) is appropriate for transmitting all of the following EXCEPT
Information superhighway
Decision support system (DSS)
Contingency
Solicitations
50. According to Simon's description - there are four stages in any decision-making process. Decision support systems are designed primarily to help monitor the ______ stage.
Systems study
Hospital information system
Implementation
Maintenance programmer