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






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






3. Enterprise systems usually require...






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






5. 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.)






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






7. 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)






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






9. Utilizes a large base of resources that allows organization to outlast competitors by practicing a differentiation strategy






10. 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)






11. The situation in which a company's current and emerging business strategy is enabled - supported - and unconstrained by technology






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






13. Building components of software in a modular way; an architecture where business processes are built on a network - different parts of business functionality reside on different parts of the network - the parts can be combined and reused to create ap






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






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






16. Includes a company - its competitors - complementors - customers - suppliers






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






18. Total quality management






19. Strategy --> architecture --> infrastructure






20. Includes data - technology - people - and processes






21. Technical skills - IT management skills - relationship skills






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






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






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






25. Threat of new entrants - bargaining power of buyers - threat of substitute products or services - bargaining power of suppliers - rivalry among existing competitors


26. Business process management






27. Enterprise resource planning






28. Assets or capabilities






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






30. 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






31. Says competition stems from lowering the cost to perform activities and adding value so buyers will pay more






32. ERPs make information available to...






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


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






35. ERP II makes information available to...






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






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






38. For changes in organizational structure - expensive - risky






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






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






41. The plan an organization uses in providing information services






42. Radical way of transforming business processes






43. 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






44. R/3 (made by SAP)






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






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






47. Enterprise systems






48. Self- contained functional units






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






50. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer