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CLEP MIS: Management Information Systems

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1. The functions of knowledge workers in an organization generally include each of the following EXCEPT






2. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of an enterprise MIS?






3. What is the term for a set of rules that govern the manipulation of characters in a system?






4. Which of the following is not a management benefit associated with end-user development of information systems?






5. Which of the following systems exists at the strategic level of an organization?






6. Systems development projects _______ are most likely to benefit from the use of internal integration tools.






7. Of the types of organizational change that are enabled by information technology - which tends to be the most common?






8. Which of the following is NOT a type of knowledge work system (KWS)?






9. Which of the following is a logical design element of an information system?






10. Which of the following is the general term for high-speed digital communications networks that are national or worldwide in scope and accessible by the general public?






11. Which of the following functions to connect dissimilar networks by providing the translation from one protocol to another?






12. Representations of human knowledge used in expert systems generally include each of the following EXCEPT






13. Which of the following is a commercial digital information service that exists to provide business information?






14. The central liability-related ethical issue raised by new information technologies is generally considered to be






15. The technical staff at an organization are most likely to be users of a(n)






16. The number of ______ is NOT an example of software metrics.


17. In imaging systems - what is the term for the device that allows a user to identify and retrieve a specific document?






18. Which of the following is an element of the physical design of an information system?






19. Which of the following steps in the business systems planning (BSP) process is typically performed FIRST?






20. One of the core capabilities of a decision support system (DSS) is the logical and mathematical manipulation of data _____ a capability referred to as






21. Which of the following signifies the international reference model for linking different types of computers and networks?






22. A transmission rate of _______ per second falls within the normal range for a local-area network.






23. Intelligent agent software is an appropriate tool for each of the following applications EXCEPT






24. In systems theory - there is a what-if method of treating uncertainty that explores the effect on the alternatives of environmental change. This method is generally referred to as _____ analysis.






25. Which of the following is a computer language that is an application generator?






26. In the history of artificial intelligence - the effort to build a physical analog to the human brain has been referred to as the _____ approach.






27. Which of the following is most likely to rely on parallel processing?






28. Which of the following is an example of work-flow management?






29. What is the term for the ability to move software from one generation of hardware to another more powerful generation?






30. What is the term for the methodical simplification of a logical data model?






31. Which of the following is a characteristic of data warehouse data? They






32. 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?






33. Which of the computer hardware generations involved vacuum tube technology?






34. In general - the technology associated with reduced instruction set (RISC) computers is most appropriate for






35. Which of the following is an object-oriented programming language that can deliver only the software functionality needed for a particular task - and which can run on any computer or operating system?






36. Which of the following storage media generally has the slowest access speed?






37. Which of the following is a disadvantage associated with the use of relational databases?






38. Low-speed transmission of data that occurs on character at a time is described as






39. ______ code is the term for program instructions written in a high-level language before translation into machine language.






40. Which of the following statements about the prototyping approach to systems development is FALSE?






41. Which of the following is NOT an example of an output control associated with information systems?






42. Which of the following systems exists at the operational level of an organization?






43. Which of the following concerns is addressed by front-end CASE (computer-assisted software engineering) tools?






44. Which of the following is NOT typically an example of the inquiry/response type of telecommunications application?






45. The predominant programming language for business was






46. Which of the following is NOT a typical characteristic of hypertext and hypermedia applications?






47. Which of the following terms is used to describe a system in which the internal parameters can be changed when necessary through feedback?






48. In a typical telecommunications system - a message that has just passed through the front-end multiplexer will then pass through






49. Which of the following are LEAST likely to be an input into a management information system (MIS)?






50. In an individual MIS - the most commonly-used technique for conducting operations research is ______ programming.