Exam 17: Managing Information

Which of the following leads to sustainable competitive advantage? 

Which of the following statements is true about knowledge? 

By examining customer checkout details,a supermarket has learned that people who buy beer,typically,also buy a packet of salted snacks.As a result,the manager of the supermarket decides to place beer near the shelf with chips and pretzels.In this case,which of the following tools for processing information has the supermarket most likely used? 

_____ represent numerical data by varying the thickness and pattern of vertical lines.

Competitive advantage does not depend on using information technology to continuously improve and support the core functions of a business.

Expert systems do not permit nonexpert employees to draw on the expert knowledge base to make decisions.

The term _________ refers to facts and figures that are unusable unless they have meaning.

The three kinds of information technology used by executives,managers,and workers inside a company to access and share information are: 

Most expert systems work by using a collection of "if-then" rules to sort through information and recommend a course of action.

_________ transforms data into complex,scrambled digital codes that can be decrypted only by authorized users who possess unique decryption keys.

Intranets use standardized protocols to describe and transfer data from one company in such a way that those data can automatically be read,understood,transcribed,and processed by different computer systems in another company.

Ziff Corp.,a computer cabinet manufacturer,recently employed a new supply chain management system,which has never been used before.This system enables the company to produce more computer cabinets than its competitors at considerably lower costs.By employing this new supply chain management system,Ziff Corp.has achieved _____.

Fuine Corp.,a multinational corporation,has a data management system that contains raw data about the firm,its employees,business processes,subdivisions,etc.The data management system is outdated and inefficient in converting the data into useable information.This significantly costs the company.In this case,which of the following costs is Fuine Corp.incurring? 

Soundwave Communication Services has processed and archived a large amount of data on its servers.Due to a technical fault in its servers, it could not access the data.The company had to pay $3 million to technicians to regain access to the data.This is an example of _____ costs.

The two critical steps required to make sure that data can be accessed by approved users and no one else are: 

Which of the following web-based tools provides secure off-site access to data and programs? 

_____ usually begins with the user telling the data mining software to look and test for specific patterns and relationships in a data set.

InfoQEN is a Wi-Fi router developer.A customer asked InfoQEN to develop a Wi-Fi router that can connect 10 devices simultaneously.InfoQEN developed the router and delivered it to the customer.After a day,the customer came back saying that the devices were not getting connected to the router as the router was located on a different floor.InfoQEN replied that if the distance between the router and devices is more than 10 meters,the devices will not get connected to the router.The device was built based on the number of devices to be connected and not on the possible distance between the devices and the router.To solve this problem,InfoQEN must now either redesign the router at additional costs or ask the customer to relocate the router.Which of the following is most likely the reason for this problem? 

In 1965,one of the founders of Intel Corporation predicted that computer-processing power would double and that its cost would drop by 50 percent every two years.This is known as _____.

Association patterns help identify database elements that are different.