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CLEP MIS: Management Information Systems

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






2. Each of the following is a rule of thumb for handling graphics in desktop publishing application EXCEPT






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






4. 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?






5. The main advantage of digital private branch exchanges over other local networking options is that they






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. Which of the following is an advantage associated with the LAN model of multi-user systems?






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






16. The predominant programming language for business was






17. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. When all the elements in a system are in the same category - ______ is said to be at a minimum.






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






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






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






35. Of the following file organization methods - the only one that can be used on magnetic tape is






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






37. 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






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






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






40. The primary memory of most microcomputers is measured in






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






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






43. 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.






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






45. 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?






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






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






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






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






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