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CLEP MIS: Management Information Systems
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which of the following styles of systems development is most often used for information systems at the enterprise level?
Decision support system (DSS)
COBOL
Design specifications
Traditional life cycle
2. Which of the following is a commercial digital information service that exists to provide business information?
Dialog
Known users who are dissatisfied with an application's performance
Frame relay
Java
3. Which of the following personnel would be considered part of the development team in an MIS department?
Knowledge work system (KWS)
Maintenance programmer
Information superhighway
Object-oriented
4. Which of the following statements about database management systems is generally FALSE? They
Involve slight increases in program development and maintenance costs
COBOL
Acceptance
Executive support system (ESS)
5. 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?
Data bus width
Bandwidth
System residence drive
Error handling
6. In an individual MIS - the most commonly used analytical application is a
Spreadsheet
Sequential
Error handling
Managing documentation of knowledge
7. _____ testing provides the final certification that a new system is ready to be used in a production setting.
Half duplex
Homogeneous data
Acceptance
Data conversion
8. In an enterprise information system - which of the following is considered to be an input control?
Bottom-up
Verification of control totals
Scientific and workstation computing
Formal planning
9. 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?
Formal planning
Gateway
Java
Spreadsheet
10. The concentric circle on the surface area of a disk - on which data are stored as magnetized spots - is known as a
Frame relay
Track
Data models
Include enterprise-wide data - collected from legacy systems
11. The main advantage of digital private branch exchanges over other local networking options is that they
Make use of existing phone lines
With high levels of technical complexity
Bottom-up
Source
12. 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.
Supercomputer
Contingency
Parallel
Calculus
13. Which of the following concerns is addressed by front-end CASE (computer-assisted software engineering) tools?
Contingency
Analysis
COBOL
Traditional life cycle
14. Of the types of organizational change that are enabled by information technology - which tends to be the most common?
Calculus
Error handling
Design specifications
Automation
15. Which of the following storage media generally has the slowest access speed?
Magnetic disk
Half duplex
Vice president
Electronic mail
16. Which of the following is a characteristic of data warehouse data? They
Include enterprise-wide data - collected from legacy systems
Kilobytes
Protocols
Data conversion
17. Which of the following signifies the international reference model for linking different types of computers and networks?
Make use of existing phone lines
Magnetic disk
Formal planning
OSI
18. Which of the following is an example of work-flow management?
Forward engineering
First
Loan officers at a bank enter application information into a central system so that the application can be evaluated by many people at once.
Reliability of many computers
19. In the traditional systems life cycle model - which of the following states occurs EARLIEST?
Systems study
Vice president
Logical
Reliability of many computers
20. Which of the following is a shared network service technology that packages data into bundles for transmission but does not use error correction routines?
Relatively slower speed of operation
Frame relay
Homogeneous data
Executive support system (ESS)
21. Which of the following are LEAST likely to be an input into a management information system (MIS)?
Design specifications
Tuple
Systems study
Transduction
22. During the process of enterprise analysis - the results of a large managerial survey are broken down into each of the following EXCEPT
Heuristic
Conducting data conferences
Personal e-mail received from outside by the organization's system
Goals
23. Which of the following is an element of the physical design of an information system?
Kilobytes
Manual procedures
Frame relay
Formal planning
24. The predominant programming language for business was
Normalization
COBOL
100 megabits
Logical application groups
25. In a typical organization - tactical and operational planning of an MIS would be the responsibility of the
Defining business processes
Generally better suited for larger applications
Steering committee and MIS managers
Forward engineering
26. In a typical telecommunications system - a message that has just passed through the front-end multiplexer will then pass through
Include enterprise-wide data - collected from legacy systems
A modem or modems
Implementation
Normalization
27. Intelligent agent software is an appropriate tool for each of the following applications EXCEPT
Maintenance programmer
Frame relay
Conducting data conferences
Logical application groups
28. 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?
Independence from GUI environment
Personal e-mail received from outside by the organization's system
Sequential
Bandwidth
29. Which of the following is a logical design element of an information system?
Uncertainty
With high levels of technical complexity
Data models
Error handling
30. In most organizations - the chief information officer is given a rank equivalent to
Sequential
Vice president
Magnetic disk
Logical application groups
31. What is the term for the secondary storage device on which a complete operating system is stored?
Linear
Spreadsheet
Ordinality
System residence drive
32. Which of the computer hardware generations involved vacuum tube technology?
Consultancies/service organizations
First
Transaction processing system (TPS)
Solicitations
33. Which of the following is NOT typically an example of the inquiry/response type of telecommunications application?
Parallel
Supercomputer
Electronic mail
Hospital information system
34. What is the term used to describe the approach to software development that combines data and procedures into a single item?
Object-oriented
Fuzzy logic
Managing documentation of knowledge
Heuristic
35. Which of the following statements about the prototyping approach to systems development is FALSE?
Heterarchy
Heuristic
Magnetic disk
Generally better suited for larger applications
36. A purpose of a file server in a network is to
Data models
Seek a generalized capability to learn
Store programs
Verification of control totals
37. The number of ______ is NOT an example of software metrics.
38. _____ tools is a project management technique that structures and sequences tasks - and budgets the time - money - and technical resources required to complete these tasks.
Vice president
Formal planning
Independence from GUI environment
Solicitations
39. The most time-consuming element of system conversion plans is
Data conversion
Using serif typefaces in graph labels
Data bus width
Decision support system (DSS)
40. Which of the following systems exists at the operational level of an organization?
Formal planning
Transaction processing system (TPS)
Personal e-mail received from outside by the organization's system
Ordinality
41. Low-speed transmission of data that occurs on character at a time is described as
Asynchronous
Personal e-mail received from outside by the organization's system
Semantic nets
Java
42. Of the following file organization methods - the only one that can be used on magnetic tape is
Knowledge work system (KWS)
Formal planning
Bottom-up
Sequential
43. Routines performed to verify input data and correct errors prior to processing are known as
Defining business processes
Edit checks
Transduction
Managing documentation of knowledge
44. In imaging systems - what is the term for the device that allows a user to identify and retrieve a specific document?
Index server
Edit checks
Electronic mail
100 megabits
45. Which of the following types of organizations is LEAST likely to make use of a hierarchical database?
Track
Acceptance
Consultancies/service organizations
Source
46. 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
Maintenance programmer
Include enterprise-wide data - collected from legacy systems
Token
Reasonableness check
47. In its current form - the technology of electronic data interchange (EDI) is appropriate for transmitting all of the following EXCEPT
Forward engineering
Solicitations
Parallel
Data bus width
48. One of the core capabilities of a decision support system (DSS) is the logical and mathematical manipulation of data _____ a capability referred to as
Make use of existing phone lines
Electronic mail
Data models
Operations
49. Which of the following is an advantage associated with the LAN model of multi-user systems?
Semantic nets
Reliability of many computers
Homogeneous data
Reasonableness check
50. 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?
Object-oriented
Parallel
Seek a generalized capability to learn
Logical application groups