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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. Inputs/outputs - tasks - decisions - metrics - 'swim lanes'






2. Strategy where organization limits its scope to a market segment and tailors its offerings to that group of customers using either cost or differentiation






3. Uses a large central computer that handles all the functionality of the system; common in legacy systems






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






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






6. Peer- to- peer






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






8. Inter- organizational relationship that affords one or more companies in the relationship a strategic advantage






9. Class of IT applications used to enable information flow within and between business processes






10. Business process re- engineering






11. Organizational - control - and cultural variables used by decision makers to effect changes in their organization






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






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






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


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


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






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






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






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






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






21. Customer relationship management






22. Service- oriented architecture






23. Highlights how IS add value to the primary and support activities of a firm's internal operations - customers - and supply chain






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






25. Framework for understanding the design of an organization; links together business processes - values & beliefs - management control systems - and tasks & structures






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






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






28. Enterprise resource planning






29. Fewer steps - fewer branches - fewer loops - and fewer decisions






30. For changes in organizational structure - expensive - risky






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






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






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






34. Finance - operations - accounting - marketing - administration (functions or silos in a business)






35. Assets or capabilities






36. 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






37. Information and organizational strategy must also change






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






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






40. Supply chain management






41. Negotiation - commitment - execution - assessment


42. 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






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






44. Radical way of transforming business processes






45. The plan an organization uses in providing information services






46. Interrelated set of activities and tasks that turns inputs into outputs






47. Processes are horizontal across a corporation - many functional areas of the business will be involved in a process; functions are vertical silos in an organization (e.g. finance - operations - accounting - marketing - administration)






48. Technical skills - IT management skills - relationship skills






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






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