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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Organizational - control - and cultural variables used by decision makers to effect changes in their organization






2. Firms achieve competitive advantage through cost leadership - differentiation - or focus

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3. For changes in organizational structure - expensive - risky






4. Plan of where a business seeks to go and how it plans to get there






5. Data in context (i.e. with relevance and purpose)






6. Total quality management






7. Architecture where one software program (the client) requests and receives data and instructions from another software program (the server); computers running client programs usually require less computing resources






8. The basic human tendency to make specific inferences on the basis of a general impression (EX: assuming that because a business is successful - it has good management-- ignoring other forces at work)






9. Strategy where organization qualifies its product or service in a way that allows it to appear unique in the marketplace






10. Technology - people - and processes that an organization uses to manage information






11. Business strategy should not be affected because it is at a more abstract level






12. Processes make services possible; processes have inputs and outputs - while service is a cycle (ongoing)






13. Anything that can be used by a firm in its processes for creating - producing - and/or offering its products






14. Suggests that speed and aggressiveness of the moves and countermoves create an environment in which advantages are rapidly created and eroded






15. Strategy to goals to business requirements to architecture requirements to architecture to functional specifications to infrastructure specifications (hardware - software - data...)






16. Everything that supports the flow and processing of information in an organization - including hardware - software - data and network components






17. Enterprise systems reflect industry best practices for generic business processes






18. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer






19. When all the activities are in a predetermined order (not when steps vary in a process)






20. Information and organizational strategy must also change






21. An organization's hardware - operating systems - databases - telecommunications - legacy systems






22. Awaking a sleeping giant - bad timing - poor implementation - failing to deliver what customers want - breaking the law






23. Something learned over time for the firm to create - produce - or offer its products






24. Software systems developed in the mid-90s which were not integrated across organizations and could not interface well with each other






25. An end user will usually notice a reduction in the performance of a ______ before a _______






26. Comprehensive software packages that incorporate all modules needed to run the operations of a business






27. Clear and compelling statement of organization's purpose and what makes it unique






28. Hardware - software - professional services - internal staff costs






29. On a process flow diagram - a diamond represents a...






30. Technical skills - IT management skills - relationship skills






31. The open group architectural framework; designed to translate strategy into architecture and then into a detailed infrastructure using standardized Architecture Development Methodology






32. Centralization (because they focus on integration)






33. The unique set of features of a company and its products that are perceived by the target market as significant and superior to the competition






34. Integration - packages - best practices - some assembly required - evolving






35. Enterprise resource planning






36. Allows functional areas of an organization to share information easily






37. Software program that requests and receives data and instructions from another






38. On a process flow diagram - a circle represents a...






39. Mainframe - client/server - SOA - P2P - WOA






40. Maintains that competitive advantage comes from the information resources of the firm; resources enable a firm to attain and sustain competitive advantage






41. ERPs make information available to...






42. Coordinated set of actions to fulfill objectives - purposes - and goals






43. Organizations restructure common business processes to consolidate services like IT - human resources - finance






44. Can have coopetition w/o strategic alliance - can have strategic alliance w/o coopetition






45. Businesses have to conform to the system - sometimes have to redesign processes to fit system






46. Software used to connect processes in one or more computers across a network






47. Company who offers a complementary product (e.g. milk complements cereal)






48. Systems that handle automated processes within and across organizations






49. Incremental approach to changing business processes (a management program that seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects and variation in the various processes.)






50. Resource- based focuses on internal factors in an organization - focused on external factors in the industry

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