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Information Systems
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engineering
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it-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Infrastructure - information - applications - processes - strategy
IS strategy
layers of enterprise architecture
enterprise resource planning
alignment
2. Systems that handle automated processes within and across organizations
focus
business process management (BPM) systems
difference between a process and a service
P2P
3. Peer- to- peer
business process management (BPM) systems
value chain framework
P2P
more specific sub- steps in process from strategy to architecture to infrastructure
4. The plan an organization uses in providing information services
External stakeholders
middleware...
IT capability
IS strategy
5. Fewer steps - fewer branches - fewer loops - and fewer decisions
more efficient processes have
differentiation
information
ES
6. Plan of where a business seeks to go and how it plans to get there
business strategy
when information strategy changes
client/server
characteristics of a business process
7. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer
more efficient processes have
factors influencing value sustainability
processes vs. functions
organizational change management
8. R/3 (made by SAP)
most widely used enterprise system
co-oopetition
information resources can either be..
Porter's Generic Strategies Framework
9. Customer relationship management
unlimited resources model
CRM
best practices (characteristic of ES)
information resources
10. On a process flow diagram - a square represents a...
mainframe architecture
Task
ERP
middleware...
11. Everything that supports the flow and processing of information in an organization - including hardware - software - data and network components
Long- term relationships with software vendors
infrastructure
what ERPs help companies do
resource- based view vs. Porter's 5 Forces
12. Says competition stems from lowering the cost to perform activities and adding value so buyers will pay more
best practices (characteristic of ES)
value chain framework
information resources
information
13. Information and organizational strategy must also change
service- oriented architecture
relationship between coopetition and strategic alliance
when business strategy changes
CRM
14. Enterprise resource planning
value chain framework
All departments throughout a company
ERP
Decision
15. Inputs/outputs and tasks
TOGAF
two essential characteristics of a business process
Porter's 5 Forces
value net
16. Uses a large central computer that handles all the functionality of the system; common in legacy systems
mainframe architecture
factors influencing value sustainability
Service - process
client
17. Strategy where organization limits its scope to a market segment and tailors its offerings to that group of customers using either cost or differentiation
general process for developing is...
focus
value chain framework
network effects
18. Inputs/outputs - tasks - decisions - metrics - 'swim lanes'
relationship between coopetition and strategic alliance
shared services
business diamond
characteristics of a business process
19. Tries to minimize risks and maximize benefits of change in an organization
P2P
organizational change management
Porter's 5 Forces
information resources
20. Self- contained functional units
TQM
silos
client/server
complementor
21. Data in context (i.e. with relevance and purpose)
when business strategy changes
SCM
characteristics of enterprise systems
information
22. Software used to connect processes in one or more computers across a network
supply chain management (SCM)
Endpoint
Porter's Generic Strategies Framework
middleware...
23. Because they are complex and usually need continual modification to meet the organizations needs
D'aveni's model
why enterprise systems tie a company to a vendor
difference between a process and a service
when information strategy changes
24. 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
IT asset vs. capability
differentiation
more specific sub- steps in process from strategy to architecture to infrastructure
client/server
25. Enterprise systems reflect industry best practices for generic business processes
when information strategy changes
best practices (characteristic of ES)
differentiation
two essential characteristics of a business process
26. Strategy to goals to business requirements to architecture requirements to architecture to functional specifications to infrastructure specifications (hardware - software - data...)
more specific sub- steps in process from strategy to architecture to infrastructure
process
value chain framework
SOA
27. 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)
competitive advantage
halo effect
infrastructure
two essential characteristics of a business process
28. Business strategy should not be affected because it is at a more abstract level
when information strategy changes
client
value net
shared services
29. Improves the way a company finds raw components it needs to make a product or service - manufactures that product or service - and delivers it to customers
IT asset
organizational strategy
enterprise systems
supply chain management (SCM)
30. Allows functional areas of an organization to share information easily
Information Systems (IS)
Endpoint
major benefit of an enterprise system
risks associated with using information systems to gain strategic advantage
31. Activities designed to learn more about customers' needs and behaviors to develop stronger relationships with them and enhance their value chains
components of the high cost of enterprise systems
customer relationship management (CRM)
major disadvantage of an enterprise system
process
32. Strategy where organization aims to be the lowest- cost producer in the marketplace
managerial levers
cost leadership
resource- based view
what ERPs help companies do
33. Assets or capabilities
information resources can either be..
Decision
process
three major categories of IT capabilities
34. Includes data - technology - people - and processes
the business triangle
enterprise resource planning
managerial levers
information resources
35. Translates strategy into infrastructure - creating plans for the implementation
architecture
strategic alliance
organizational strategy
alignment
36. The open group architectural framework; designed to translate strategy into architecture and then into a detailed infrastructure using standardized Architecture Development Methodology
TOGAF
when information strategy changes
SCM
layers of enterprise architecture
37. On a process flow diagram - a circle represents a...
Long- term relationships with software vendors
Endpoint
information
Porter's Generic Strategies Framework
38. Includes business - organizational - and information strategy; business strategy is at the top of the triangle because it guides the others
differentiation
cost leadership
the business triangle
value chain framework
39. Interrelated set of activities and tasks that turns inputs into outputs
value chain
ERP
process
CRM
40. Radical way of transforming business processes
managerial levers
business process reengineering (BPR)
configurations for IT architecture
Ring and Van de Ven's stages of a strategic alliance
41. Framework for understanding the design of an organization; links together business processes - values & beliefs - management control systems - and tasks & structures
characteristics of enterprise systems
Task
Information Systems (IS)
business diamond
42. Software program that requests and receives data and instructions from another
managerial levers
Long- term relationships with software vendors
client
major benefit of an enterprise system
43. Organizations restructure common business processes to consolidate services like IT - human resources - finance
BPM
information resources can either be..
shared services
Long- term relationships with software vendors
44. Threat of new entrants - bargaining power of buyers - threat of substitute products or services - bargaining power of suppliers - rivalry among existing competitors
45. Suggests that speed and aggressiveness of the moves and countermoves create an environment in which advantages are rapidly created and eroded
service- oriented architecture
Endpoint
F.O.A.M.A.
hypercompetition
46. Finance - operations - accounting - marketing - administration (functions or silos in a business)
when business strategy changes
more efficient processes have
Decision
F.O.A.M.A.
47. Web- oriented architecture
process
IT asset
WOA
ERP
48. Description of goals of an organization - how these goals are realized by business processes - and how these business processes can be better served through technology
enterprise resource planning
enterprise architecture
what enterprise systems replaced
value net
49. Service- oriented architecture
WOA
differentiation
strategy
SOA
50. Mainframe - client/server - SOA - P2P - WOA
client/server
configurations for IT architecture
process
IT asset