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MIS: Management Information Systems

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Personal Productivity Applications - Workgroup Applications - Enterprise Applications






2. One billion bytes






3. Hand-held - Portable (Laptop - Notebook - Tablet) - Thin Client - Desktop - Workstation - Servers - Mainframes - Supercomputers






4. Perform common computer hardware functions - Provide a user interface - Manage system memory - Manage processing tasks - Provide networking capability - Control access to system resources - Manage files






5. An integrated circuit or chip on the main circuit board inside the computer. It is made up of: Arithmetic/logic unit (ALU) - Control unit - Its speed is determined by: Clock Speed/Machine cycle - Word size or Wordlength






6. Productivity= (Output/Input) * 100 OI - Return on Investment (ROI) - Earnings growth - Market Share - Customer Awareness and satisfaction - Total Cost of Ownership






7. Helps the user carry out a variety of tasks.






8. Margins - paper size - paper orientation - vertical alignment






9. Helps the computer carry out it s basic operating tasks.






10. Size - Cost - Number of Users - Performance - Integration - Vendor






11. Major understandings and assumptions of a business or other organization






12. Temporary memory that is constantly changing while the computer is on.






13. Field value must be unique - field value is required






14. Cost reduction and productivity - competitive advantage - and performance based management

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15. Input devices - Output devices - Processing hardware - Storage devices






16. How organizations plan for - implement - and handle change






17. The instructions and data that direct the computer to accomplish the task. It can refer to a single program or a package






18. The process of capturing a company's collective expertise wherever it resides - and distributing it wherever it can help produce the biggest payoff






19. Rivalry among existing competitors - threats of new entrants - threat of substitute produts and services - bargaining power of customers - bargaining power of suppliers (cost efficiency is generally not a motive for seeking competitive advantage)






20. Includes hardware (the physical components) - software (the programs or lists of instructions)






21. One trillion bytes






22. Software that allows users to explore data from a number of different perspectives. Top-down approach.






23. One million bytes






24. Raw facts






25. Selecting: data manipulation that eliminates rows according to certain criteria - Projecting: data manipulation that eliminates columns in a table - Joining: data manipulation that combines two or more tables






26. Describes the entity; an attribute or characteristic of the entity (equals column)






27. Computer equipment used to perform input - processing - and output activities






28. Description of each entity; set of related field values (equals row in a database)






29. Used to evaluate the contributions (value & cost) of the IS






30. The activity of creating new business systems or modifying existing business systems using internal or external resources






31. Executive management - Operationss - Systems Development - Support

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32. Content:What data should be collected and at what cost? - Access: What data should be provided to which users and when? - Logical structure: How should data be arranged so it makes sense to a given user? - Physical organization: Where should data be






33. What are the two most important components of personal computer hardware?






34. A database that collects business information from many sources in the enterprise - covering all aspects of the company's processes - products - and customers.






35. A method of storing data that generates extra bits of data from existing data - allowing the system to create a 'reconstruction map' so that if a hard drive fails - the system can rebuild lost data.






36. A subset of a data warehouse






37. A continuous process involving the legal and ethical collection of information about competitors - its analysis - and controlled dissemination of information to decision makers






38. Investigation - Analysis - Design - Implementation - Maintenance & review IADIM






39. Eight bits is a byte. Each byte represents a unique character.






40. The design of the computer (what the computer consists of)






41. 1) Structure 2) Data






42. The technical detail about each component (how fast is the printer)






43. The steps an organization takes to protect information sought by 'hostile' intelligence gatherers






44. A group of programs that manipulate the database and provide an interface between the database and its users and other application programs.






45. Screen Size - Resolution - Dot Pitch






46. One thousand bytes






47. The role of the database administrator (DBA) is to plan - design - create - operate - secure - monitor - and maintain databases






48. Laser - Ink-jet - Dot Matrix






49. The technology that provides high-speed connections between data-storage devices and computers over a network






50. A set of interrelated components that collect - manipulate - store - and disseminate data and information and provide feedback to meet an objective (THIS PROCESS COULD BE MANUAL OR COMPUTERIZED)