MIS Quiz
Settings
This quiz will enhanced your knowledge and managing IT (Information Technology) in corporate organization. This quiz will be a component in your grading.
- 1.A description of how a company produces, delivers and sells a product or service to create wealth is called :
- A.
Business Model
- B.
Business Process
- C.
Operating Procedure
- 2.In an information system, which of the following transfers information to the people or groups in an organization who use it:
- A.
Input
- B.
Process
- C.
Output
- 3.Ina an information system,which of the following accepts data from the environment?
- A.
Input
- B.
Process
- C.
Output
- 4.Sets of logically related tasks & behaviors that organizations develop to produce specific business results are called:
- A.
Corporate Assets
- B.
Business Processes
- C.
Processing
- 5.Using an Information System to enhance productivity is an example of which of the six strategic business objectives?
- A.
Improved decision-making
- B.
Competitive advantage
- C.
Operational excellence
- 6.Using an Information System to help determine how many products to distribute to retail outlets is an example of which strategic business objectives?
- A.
Customer and supplier intimacy
- B.
Improved decision-making
- C.
Survival
- 7.An Organization co-ordinates work through a structured hierarchy and formal:
- A.
Standard operating procedure
- B.
Lines of Communication
- C.
Evaluations
- 8.The behavioral approach to information systems tends to focus on:
- A.
System capabilities
- B.
Non-technical solutions
- C.
Formal models
- 9.Investment in information technology accounts for approximately what % of all capital invested today in the U.S:
- A.
25%
- B.
50%
- C.
75%
- 10.Investing in a new business model that is appropriate for a new product or service is an example of:
- A.
An organizational complementary investment
- B.
A managerial complementary investment
- C.
A social complementary investment
- 11.Internet advertising is growing at a rate of more than 25 percent a year:
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.The six important business objectives of information technology are new products, services, and business models; customer and supplier intimacy; survival; competitive advantage; operational excellence; and:
- A.
Improved flexibility
- B.
Improved decision making
- C.
Improved business practices
- D.
Improved efficiency
- 13.Dell Computer's use of information systems to improve efficiency and implement "mass customization" techniques to maintain consistent profitability and an industry lead illustrates which business objective?
- A.
Improved flexibility
- B.
Improved business practices
- C.
Competitive advantage
- D.
Survival
- 14.The use of information systems because of necessity describes the business objective of:
- A.
Survival
- B.
Improved business practices
- C.
Competitive advantage
- D.
Improved flexibility
- 15.Which of the following choices may lead to competitive advantage: (1) new products, services, and business models; (2) charging less for superior products; (3) responding to customers in real time?
- A.
1 only
- B.
1 and 2
- C.
2 and 3
- D.
1, 2, and 3
- 16.Verizon's implementation of a Web-based digital dashboard to provide managers with real-time information such as customer complaints is an example of
- A.
Improved flexibility
- B.
Improved decision making
- C.
Improved efficiency
- D.
Customer and supplier intimacy
- 17.Order data for baseball tickets and bar code data are examples of:
- A.
Raw input
- B.
Raw output
- C.
Customer and product data
- D.
Sales information
- 18.The average number of tickets sold daily online is an example of:
- A.
Input
- B.
Raw data
- C.
Meaningful information
- D.
Feedback
- 19.Output:
- A.
Is feedback that has been processed to create meaningful information
- B.
Is information that is returned to appropriate members of the organization to help them evaluate the input stage.
- C.
Transfers data to the people who will use it or to the activities for which it will be used
- D.
Transfers processed information to the people who will use it or to the activities for which it will be used.
- 20.Converting raw data into a more meaningful form is called:
- A.
Capturing
- B.
Processing
- C.
Organizing
- D.
Feedback
Back to top