Test your basic knowledge |

Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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






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






3. Customer relationship management






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






5. For changes in organizational structure - expensive - risky






6. The plan an organization uses in providing information services






7. Holds that the timing of the use of specialized knowledge can create a differentiation advantage as long as the knowledge remains unique






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






9. Incremental way of transforming business processes






10. Peer- to- peer






11. Business process re- engineering






12. ERPs make information available to...






13. Strategy where organization aims to be the lowest- cost producer in the marketplace






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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






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






23. Centralization (because they focus on integration)






24. Information and organizational strategy must also change






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






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






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






28. Translates strategy into infrastructure - creating plans for the implementation






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






30. Self- contained functional units






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






32. 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)






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






34. Includes business - organizational - and information strategy; business strategy is at the top of the triangle because it guides the others






35. Enterprise systems






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






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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


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






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






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






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






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






43. An IT capability makes it possible for the firm to use its IT assets effectively






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






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






46. Strategy --> architecture --> infrastructure






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






48. 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






49. Includes data - technology - people - and processes






50. The value of a network node to a person or organization in a network increases when others join the network