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CLEP MIS: Management Information Systems

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






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






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






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






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






6. 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?






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






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






9. What is the term for the final step in system reengineering - when the revised specifications are used to generate new - structure program code for a structured and maintainable system?






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






11. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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?






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






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






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


30. Which of the following terms is used to describe a system in which the internal parameters can be changed when necessary through feedback?






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






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






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






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






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


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






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






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






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






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






41. 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?






42. 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






43. The main difference between neural networks and expert systems is that neural networks






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






45. A purpose of a file server in a network is to






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






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






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






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






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