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CLEP MIS: Management Information Systems

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






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






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






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






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






6. In an individual MIS - the most commonly used analytical application is a






7. In the traditional systems life cycle model - which of the following states occurs EARLIEST?






8. Which of the following styles of systems development is most often used for information systems at the enterprise level?






9. What is the term for the secondary storage device on which a complete operating system is stored?






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






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






12. Certain kinds of expert systems use the property of inheritance to organize and classify knowledge when the knowledge base is composed of easily identifiable chunks or objects of interrelated characteristics. These systems are known specifically as






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






14. Which of the following is an example of the administrative message switching application of telecommunications technology?






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






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






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






18. Approximately what percentage of an organization's software development budget will be expended on testing?






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






20. _____ tools is a project management technique that structures and sequences tasks - and budgets the time - money - and technical resources required to complete these tasks.






21. Which of the following terms is used to describe a system's order of complexity?






22. 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.






23. In its current form - the technology of electronic data interchange (EDI) is appropriate for transmitting all of the following EXCEPT






24. A transmission over a telecommunications network in which data can flow two ways - but in only one direction at a time - is described as






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






26. Which of the following types of applications is generally most dependent on the graphical user interface (GUI) environment?






27. What is the term used to describe the approach to software development that combines data and procedures into a single item?






28. Which of the following terms is used to enumerate the bits that can be moved at one time between a CPU - primary storage - and other devices of a computer?






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






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






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






32. 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?






33. 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?






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






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






36. Which of the following is offered the clearest protection under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986?


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






38. _____ testing provides the final certification that a new system is ready to be used in a production setting.






39. 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






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






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






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






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






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






45. What is the term for a set of rules and procedures that govern transmissions between the components of a telecommunications network?






46. In enterprise analysis - data elements are organized into groups that support related sets of organizational processes. These groups are known as






47. The most time-consuming element of system conversion plans is






48. In a relational database - a row or record is referred to as a(n)






49. In an enterprise information system - which of the following is considered to be an input control?






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