Exam 1: Management Information Systems: Business Driven MIS

Jeremy Bridges is an executive for Green Web Designs, where his primary role is to ensure the security of business systems and develop strategies to protect the company from online viruses and hackers. What is Jeremy's role within the company?

Gina Brooks works for Aquarium Retail Services selling high-end salt water fish and tank supplies. Aquarium Retail Services is the current market leader in Gina's city. Gina has recently been approached by Deep Blue Incorporated with an opportunity to run its corporate nation-wide marketing and sales division. Gina decides to jump at the opportunity! Deep Blue is attempting to gain a competitive ________ by stealing its competitor's key employees.

Supplier power is one of Porter's five forces and it measures the suppliers' ability to influence the prices they charge for supplies (including materials, labor, and services).

In terms of system thinking, what is the computer program that processes the data?

What are business analytics?

In many instances, an MIS job will remain unfilled for an extended period of time when an employer needs to hire someone who has a very specific set of skills. In recruiting lingo, such candidates are referred to as purple turtles.

What are Porter's three generic strategies?

Which activities belong in the accounting department?

What is supplier power?

Buyer power is included as one of Porter's three generic strategies.

The sales and marketing departments primarily use monetary data.

A snapshot is a view of data at a particular moment in time.

The value chain will group a company's activities into two categories: primary value activities and support value activities.

What is the process where a business takes raw materials and processes them or converts them into a finished product for its goods or services?

Unstructured data extracts information from data and uses it to predict future trends and identify behavioral patterns.

Which of the following is not considered a core driver of the information age?

What type of report is created based on data that does not change?

What is the confirmation or validation of an event or object?

What is a feature of a product or service that customers have come to expect and entering competitors must offer the same if they want to survive?

What extracts information from data and uses it to predict future trends and identify behavioral patterns?