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Information Systems
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Subjects
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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. For changes in organizational structure - expensive - risky
why enterprise systems tie a company to a vendor
relationship between coopetition and strategic alliance
enterprise resource planning
disadvantages of enterprise system
2. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer
mission
factors influencing value sustainability
infrastructure
focus
3. Highlights how IS add value to the primary and support activities of a firm's internal operations - customers - and supply chain
factors influencing value sustainability
focus
IT capability
value chain
4. Web- oriented architecture
WOA
client
cost leadership
two essential characteristics of a business process
5. Says competition stems from lowering the cost to perform activities and adding value so buyers will pay more
Task
value chain framework
Porter's Generic Strategies Framework
factors influencing value sustainability
6. Strategy where organization aims to be the lowest- cost producer in the marketplace
WOA
cost leadership
risks associated with using information systems to gain strategic advantage
the business triangle
7. Enterprise systems reflect industry best practices for generic business processes
best practices (characteristic of ES)
TOGAF
unlimited resources model
processes vs. functions
8. Technology - people - and processes that an organization uses to manage information
Information Systems (IS)
when information strategy changes
what ERPs help companies do
enterprise systems are useful for this sort of organizational structure
9. Radical way of transforming business processes
competitive advantage
value net
business process reengineering (BPR)
shareholder value model
10. Strategy --> architecture --> infrastructure
enterprise architecture
general process for developing is...
process
client/server
11. Processes make services possible; processes have inputs and outputs - while service is a cycle (ongoing)
IT asset
Service - process
difference between a process and a service
mission
12. Software program that requests and receives data and instructions from another
focus
information
three major categories of IT capabilities
client
13. Maintains that competitive advantage comes from the information resources of the firm; resources enable a firm to attain and sustain competitive advantage
resource- based view
information
information resources
when business strategy changes
14. Firms achieve competitive advantage through cost leadership - differentiation - or focus
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15. The value of a network node to a person or organization in a network increases when others join the network
why enterprise systems tie a company to a vendor
network effects
value chain framework
IS strategy
16. Everything that supports the flow and processing of information in an organization - including hardware - software - data and network components
Service - process
infrastructure
Porter's 5 Forces
hypercompetition
17. An organization's hardware - operating systems - databases - telecommunications - legacy systems
What enterprise systems need to be integrated with
BPM
total quality management (TQM)
alignment
18. Class of IT applications used to enable information flow within and between business processes
infrastructure
enterprise systems
more specific sub- steps in process from strategy to architecture to infrastructure
Information Systems (IS)
19. Enterprise resource planning
more specific sub- steps in process from strategy to architecture to infrastructure
All departments throughout a company
ERP
why enterprise systems tie a company to a vendor
20. Resource- based focuses on internal factors in an organization - focused on external factors in the industry
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21. An IT capability makes it possible for the firm to use its IT assets effectively
IT asset vs. capability
disadvantages of enterprise system
TOGAF
more efficient processes have
22. Organizational - control - and cultural variables used by decision makers to effect changes in their organization
managerial levers
supply chain management (SCM)
TQM
total quality management (TQM)
23. Negotiation - commitment - execution - assessment
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24. An end user will usually notice a reduction in the performance of a ______ before a _______
Service - process
major benefit of an enterprise system
co-oopetition
components of the high cost of enterprise systems
25. Company who offers a complementary product (e.g. milk complements cereal)
TQM
architecture
complementor
business process management (BPM) systems
26. Service- oriented architecture
SOA
Service - process
shared services
middleware...
27. Software systems developed in the mid-90s which were not integrated across organizations and could not interface well with each other
what enterprise systems replaced
infrastructure
Information Systems (IS)
enterprise architecture
28. Organizations restructure common business processes to consolidate services like IT - human resources - finance
why enterprise systems tie a company to a vendor
shared services
strategic alliance
cost leadership
29. 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
BPM
two essential characteristics of a business process
enterprise architecture
P2P
30. Something learned over time for the firm to create - produce - or offer its products
processes vs. functions
IT capability
F.O.A.M.A.
disadvantages of enterprise system
31. Integration - packages - best practices - some assembly required - evolving
processes vs. functions
characteristics of enterprise systems
major disadvantage of an enterprise system
organizational change management
32. Mainframe - client/server - SOA - P2P - WOA
Decision
IS strategy triangle
configurations for IT architecture
SOA
33. Fewer steps - fewer branches - fewer loops - and fewer decisions
general process for developing is...
more efficient processes have
complementor
Ring and Van de Ven's stages of a strategic alliance
34. Threat of new entrants - bargaining power of buyers - threat of substitute products or services - bargaining power of suppliers - rivalry among existing competitors
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35. Assets or capabilities
IS strategy triangle
information resources can either be..
service- oriented architecture
business strategy
36. Supply chain management
SCM
IT capability
difference between a process and a service
most widely used enterprise system
37. Inter- organizational relationship that affords one or more companies in the relationship a strategic advantage
three major categories of IT capabilities
strategic alliance
business diamond
major disadvantage of an enterprise system
38. Uses a large central computer that handles all the functionality of the system; common in legacy systems
mainframe architecture
more specific sub- steps in process from strategy to architecture to infrastructure
business process reengineering (BPR)
ERP
39. Framework for understanding the design of an organization; links together business processes - values & beliefs - management control systems - and tasks & structures
Information Systems (IS)
best practices (characteristic of ES)
IT asset vs. capability
business diamond
40. 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)
what ERPs help companies do
processes vs. functions
business process management (BPM) systems
Ring and Van de Ven's stages of a strategic alliance
41. Anything that can be used by a firm in its processes for creating - producing - and/or offering its products
client/server
major disadvantage of an enterprise system
shared services
IT asset
42. Business strategy should not be affected because it is at a more abstract level
major disadvantage of an enterprise system
ERP
TQM
when information strategy changes
43. Can have coopetition w/o strategic alliance - can have strategic alliance w/o coopetition
silos
resource- based view
relationship between coopetition and strategic alliance
IT asset vs. capability
44. Hardware - software - professional services - internal staff costs
general process for developing is...
business process reengineering (BPR)
ERP
components of the high cost of enterprise systems
45. Inputs/outputs and tasks
mainframe architecture
ES
complementor
two essential characteristics of a business process
46. Software used to connect processes in one or more computers across a network
middleware...
risks associated with using information systems to gain strategic advantage
general process for developing is...
enterprise resource planning
47. Strategy where organization limits its scope to a market segment and tailors its offerings to that group of customers using either cost or differentiation
when business strategy changes
focus
business process reengineering (BPR)
SOA
48. On a process flow diagram - a diamond represents a...
halo effect
Decision
Porter's 5 Forces
what enterprise systems replaced
49. Includes organization's design and the choices it makes to define - set up - coordinate - and control its work processes
organizational strategy
business strategy
relationship between coopetition and strategic alliance
middleware...
50. Systems that handle automated processes within and across organizations
risks associated with using information systems to gain strategic advantage
shareholder value model
business process management (BPM) systems
F.O.A.M.A.