Exam 30: International Mis

Which of the following is true about the issues to be addressed when localizing a computer program?

Which of the following statements is true regarding inherent processes?

Because of the ________ effect,a dollar spent will contribute two or three dollars of activity to the economy.

The global economy has intensified rivalry by increasing product and vendor choices and by accelerating the flow of information about price,product,availability,and service.

The development rate of international information systems varies among countries and cultures.

How does the global economy change competitive strategy?

With the fall of the Soviet Union,the economies of Russia and western Europe became alienated from the rest of the world market.

Defining a set of standard business processes is a way of developing international information systems.

If a distributed database contains the same database,it is called a ________ database.

Information systems increase inventories.

The accelerator effect states that a dollar spent will contribute two or three dollars of activity to the economy.

The size of the world economy,combined with the Internet,limits product differentiation.

What are the problems of inherent processes?

The bullwhip effect is a phenomenon in which the variability in the size and timing of orders increases at each stage of the supply chain.

Today's global economy changes competitive strategies because ________.

________ database processing refers to the processing of a single database that resides in multiple locations.

The process of making a computer program work in a second language is called ________.

Differences in language,culture,norms,and expectations compound the difficulties of international process management.

Cross-functional,integrated systems,such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP),add to the problems of data isolation.

The purpose and scope of the system is determined in the systems definition stage of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).