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CLEP MIS: Management Information Systems

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1. 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.






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






3. 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






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






5. 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?






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






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 types of organizations is LEAST likely to make use of a hierarchical database?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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


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






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






30. 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






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






32. 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?






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






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






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






36. 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?






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






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






39. The representation of data as they appear to an application programmer or end user is described as a(n) _____ view.






40. Which of the following personnel would be considered part of the development team in an MIS department?






41. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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