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CLEP MIS: Management Information Systems

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1. In workgroup information systems - the simplest type of group conferencing is referred to as a(n)






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






3. In a typical organization - tactical and operational planning of an MIS would be the responsibility of the






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






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






6. 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?






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






8. During the process of enterprise analysis - the results of a large managerial survey are broken down into each of the following EXCEPT






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






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






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






12. The concentric circle on the surface area of a disk - on which data are stored as magnetized spots - is known as a






13. Routines performed to verify input data and correct errors prior to processing are known as






14. Of the following statements about the evolutionary planning method of strategic information systems design - which is FALSE?






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






16. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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?






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






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






25. In most organizations - the chief information officer is given a rank equivalent to






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Which of the following is a shared network service technology that packages data into bundles for transmission but does not use error correction routines?






37. A form of organization resembling a fishnet or network - in which authority is determined by knowledge and function is a






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Which of the following are included in an MIS audit?






46. Which of the following statements about database management systems is generally FALSE? They






47. 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?






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






49. Which of the following types of organizations is LEAST likely to make use of a hierarchical database?






50. What is the term for a networking technology that parcels information into 8-byte cells - allowing data to be transmitted between computers or different vendors at any speed?