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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. Firms achieve competitive advantage through cost leadership - differentiation - or focus
2. Enterprise systems
IT asset
ES
strategic alliance
disadvantages of enterprise system
3. Strategy to goals to business requirements to architecture requirements to architecture to functional specifications to infrastructure specifications (hardware - software - data...)
IS strategy triangle
more specific sub- steps in process from strategy to architecture to infrastructure
layers of enterprise architecture
client
4. Includes data - technology - people - and processes
SOA
resource- based view vs. Porter's 5 Forces
information resources
when information strategy changes
5. Web- oriented architecture
WOA
major disadvantage of an enterprise system
best practices (characteristic of ES)
differentiation
6. Customer relationship management
service- oriented architecture
client
ERP
CRM
7. Something learned over time for the firm to create - produce - or offer its products
factors influencing value sustainability
BPM
information resources
IT capability
8. Technology - people - and processes that an organization uses to manage information
differentiation
Information Systems (IS)
External stakeholders
BPM
9. Organizational - control - and cultural variables used by decision makers to effect changes in their organization
two essential characteristics of a business process
managerial levers
IS strategy triangle
total quality management (TQM)
10. Utilizes a large base of resources that allows organization to outlast competitors by practicing a differentiation strategy
unlimited resources model
major disadvantage of an enterprise system
total quality management (TQM)
hypercompetition
11. Fewer steps - fewer branches - fewer loops - and fewer decisions
more efficient processes have
strategic alliance
general process for developing is...
competitive advantage
12. Strategy where organization qualifies its product or service in a way that allows it to appear unique in the marketplace
disadvantages of enterprise system
differentiation
characteristics of enterprise systems
value net
13. The value of a network node to a person or organization in a network increases when others join the network
most widely used enterprise system
network effects
IT capability
TQM
14. Tries to minimize risks and maximize benefits of change in an organization
D'aveni's model
Porter's 5 Forces
organizational change management
infrastructure
15. Assets or capabilities
Service - process
process
business diamond
information resources can either be..
16. Company who offers a complementary product (e.g. milk complements cereal)
SOA
complementor
when business strategy changes
IT capability
17. Manage fragmentation of information across an organization
what enterprise systems replaced
what ERPs help companies do
SOA
client
18. Negotiation - commitment - execution - assessment
19. ERPs make information available to...
competitive advantage
All departments throughout a company
more efficient processes have
IT asset
20. Inputs/outputs and tasks
TOGAF
layers of enterprise architecture
information resources can either be..
two essential characteristics of a business process
21. 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.)
six sigma
what enterprise systems replaced
when business strategy changes
Long- term relationships with software vendors
22. Class of IT applications used to enable information flow within and between business processes
factors influencing value sustainability
enterprise systems
IT asset
the business triangle
23. Data in context (i.e. with relevance and purpose)
External stakeholders
IT asset vs. capability
value chain framework
information
24. The plan an organization uses in providing information services
service- oriented architecture
IS strategy
D'aveni's model
general process for developing is...
25. Business process re- engineering
IT capability
BPR
layers of enterprise architecture
Porter's 5 Forces
26. On a process flow diagram - a diamond represents a...
shared services
co-oopetition
network effects
Decision
27. Says competition stems from lowering the cost to perform activities and adding value so buyers will pay more
F.O.A.M.A.
silos
value chain framework
Ring and Van de Ven's stages of a strategic alliance
28. Incremental way of transforming business processes
resource- based view vs. Porter's 5 Forces
External stakeholders
when information strategy changes
total quality management (TQM)
29. Radical way of transforming business processes
unlimited resources model
network effects
business process reengineering (BPR)
competitive advantage
30. Speed and aggressive moves and coutermoves by a firm create competitive advantages
31. Uses a large central computer that handles all the functionality of the system; common in legacy systems
value chain framework
general process for developing is...
P2P
mainframe architecture
32. R/3 (made by SAP)
most widely used enterprise system
silos
mission
characteristics of a business process
33. Framework for understanding the design of an organization; links together business processes - values & beliefs - management control systems - and tasks & structures
major disadvantage of an enterprise system
when business process management systems are most useful
business diamond
layers of enterprise architecture
34. An end user will usually notice a reduction in the performance of a ______ before a _______
major benefit of an enterprise system
Service - process
focus
Porter's 5 Forces
35. Inter- organizational relationship that affords one or more companies in the relationship a strategic advantage
TQM
strategic alliance
business process management (BPM) systems
ES
36. Awaking a sleeping giant - bad timing - poor implementation - failing to deliver what customers want - breaking the law
mainframe architecture
best practices (characteristic of ES)
why enterprise systems tie a company to a vendor
risks associated with using information systems to gain strategic advantage
37. Business strategy should not be affected because it is at a more abstract level
when information strategy changes
Task
Endpoint
architecture
38. Everything that supports the flow and processing of information in an organization - including hardware - software - data and network components
infrastructure
characteristics of enterprise systems
TQM
information resources
39. Systems that handle automated processes within and across organizations
business process management (BPM) systems
most widely used enterprise system
infrastructure
supply chain management (SCM)
40. Businesses have to conform to the system - sometimes have to redesign processes to fit system
major disadvantage of an enterprise system
Information Systems (IS)
value net
when business strategy changes
41. Coordinated set of actions to fulfill objectives - purposes - and goals
enterprise systems are useful for this sort of organizational structure
resource- based view
strategy
more efficient processes have
42. Includes organization's design and the choices it makes to define - set up - coordinate - and control its work processes
CRM
mission
enterprise architecture
organizational strategy
43. An organization's hardware - operating systems - databases - telecommunications - legacy systems
major benefit of an enterprise system
What enterprise systems need to be integrated with
alignment
TOGAF
44. For changes in organizational structure - expensive - risky
disadvantages of enterprise system
relationship between coopetition and strategic alliance
All departments throughout a company
strategy
45. On a process flow diagram - a square represents a...
difference between a process and a service
when information strategy changes
characteristics of a business process
Task
46. Allows functional areas of an organization to share information easily
Long- term relationships with software vendors
major benefit of an enterprise system
D'aveni's model
SCM
47. Comprehensive software packages that incorporate all modules needed to run the operations of a business
client
enterprise resource planning
BPM
major disadvantage of an enterprise system
48. Includes business - organizational - and information strategy; business strategy is at the top of the triangle because it guides the others
the business triangle
most widely used enterprise system
factors influencing value sustainability
All departments throughout a company
49. An IT capability makes it possible for the firm to use its IT assets effectively
SCM
D'aveni's model
F.O.A.M.A.
IT asset vs. capability
50. 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)
service- oriented architecture
general process for developing is...
when business strategy changes
processes vs. functions