Question 1

If you were thinking about a washing machine as a system which of the following represents the inputs?

Accepted Answer

A)  The dirty clothes,water,and detergent 
B)  The clean clothes 
C)  The wash and rinse cycle 
D)  The light indicating that the washer is off balance and has stopped 
A)  The dirty clothes,water,and detergent 
B)  The clean clothes 
C)  The wash and rinse cycle 
D)  The light indicating that the washer is off balance and has stopped A

Question 2

What is productivity?

Accepted Answer

A)  Material items or products that customer's will buy to satisfy a want or need 
B)  Tasks performed by people that customer's will buy to satisfy a want or need 
C)  The process where a business takes raw materials and processes them or converts them into a finished product for its goods or services 
D)  The rate at which goods and services are produced based upon total output given total inputs 
A)  Material items or products that customer's will buy to satisfy a want or need 
B)  Tasks performed by people that customer's will buy to satisfy a want or need 
C)  The process where a business takes raw materials and processes them or converts them into a finished product for its goods or services 
D)  The rate at which goods and services are produced based upon total output given total inputs D

Question 3

Which of the following represents a reason why competitive advantages are typically temporary?

Accepted Answer

A)  The competitor will hire away your key employees. 
B)  The competitor quickly seeks ways to duplicate your business operations. 
C)  The competitor will purchase new technology. 
D)  All of these choices 
A)  The competitor will hire away your key employees. 
B)  The competitor quickly seeks ways to duplicate your business operations. 
C)  The competitor will purchase new technology. 
D)  All of these choices D

Question 4

What are goods?

Accepted Answer

A)  Material items or products that customer's will buy to satisfy a want or need 
B)  Tasks performed by people that customer's will buy to satisfy a want or need 
C)  The process where a business takes raw materials and processes them or converts them into a finished product for its goods or services 
D)  The rate at which goods and services are produced based upon total output given total inputs 
A)  Material items or products that customer's will buy to satisfy a want or need 
B)  Tasks performed by people that customer's will buy to satisfy a want or need 
C)  The process where a business takes raw materials and processes them or converts them into a finished product for its goods or services 
D)  The rate at which goods and services are produced based upon total output given total inputs

Question 5

A __________ advantage features a product or service on which customers place a greater value than they do on similar offerings from competitors.

Accepted Answer

A)  competitive advantage 
B)  competitor advantage 
C)  power advantage 
D)  first-mover advantage 
A)  competitive advantage 
B)  competitor advantage 
C)  power advantage 
D)  first-mover advantage

Question 6

Which of the following is not a technology company but used technology to revamp the business process of selling books?

Accepted Answer

A)  Netflix 
B)  Dell 
C)  Zappos 
D)  Amazon 
A)  Netflix 
B)  Dell 
C)  Zappos 
D)  Amazon

Question 7

Which one of Porter's Five Forces is high when it is easy for new competitors to enter a market and low when there are significant entry barriers to joining a market?

Accepted Answer

A)  Threat of new entrants 
B)  Threat of substitute products or services 
C)  Threat of buyer power 
D)  Supply chain competition 
A)  Threat of new entrants 
B)  Threat of substitute products or services 
C)  Threat of buyer power 
D)  Supply chain competition

Question 8

Which of the following represents the relationship between functional areas in a business?

Accepted Answer

A)  Independent 
B)  Autonomous 
C)  Interdependent 
D)  Self-sufficient 
A)  Independent 
B)  Autonomous 
C)  Interdependent 
D)  Self-sufficient

Question 9

The Victory Wireless store in Denver is currently offering a fabulous marketing strategy for potential new iPhone customers.Victory Wireless offers customers who purchase an iPhone with a 2-year subscription a free Otter phone case,car charger,ear phones,and speakers.In terms of Porter's Five Forces what is Victory Wireless attempting to achieve with this marketing strategy?

Accepted Answer

A)  Increase buyer power 
B)  Increase substitute products 
C)  Decrease supplier power 
D)  Decrease buyer power 
A)  Increase buyer power 
B)  Increase substitute products 
C)  Decrease supplier power 
D)  Decrease buyer power

Question 10

What are the characteristics of unstructured data?

Accepted Answer

A)  Does not follow a specified format 
B)  Free-form text 
C)  Emails,twitter tweets,and text messages 
D)  All of these choices 
A)  Does not follow a specified format 
B)  Free-form text 
C)  Emails,twitter tweets,and text messages 
D)  All of these choices

Question 11

Cars,groceries,and clothing belong in which category?

Accepted Answer

A)  Goods 
B)  Services 
C)  Production 
D)  Productivity 
A)  Goods 
B)  Services 
C)  Production 
D)  Productivity

Question 12

Your boss,Kerry Miller,has asked you to analyze the soft drink industry using Porter's Five Forces model.Which of the following represents supplier power in the soft drink industry?

Accepted Answer

A)  Pepsi requires stores that carry Pepsi products to commit to minimum orders of 1,000 cases. 
B)  Walmart negotiates a lower cost per bottle from Coke in exchange for premium shelf space in every Walmart store. 
C)  Zevia Natural Diet Soda begins selling directly over the Internet. 
D)  Vitamin water,fruit juice,coffee. 
A)  Pepsi requires stores that carry Pepsi products to commit to minimum orders of 1,000 cases. 
B)  Walmart negotiates a lower cost per bottle from Coke in exchange for premium shelf space in every Walmart store. 
C)  Zevia Natural Diet Soda begins selling directly over the Internet. 
D)  Vitamin water,fruit juice,coffee.

Question 13

MIS can add value to both primary activities and support activities in the value chain.Which of the following is not an example of a company adding value by the use of MIS in a primary activity?

Accepted Answer

A)  Scottrade Corp.creating an online system for employees to track paychecks,benefits,wellness rewards program,and other employee benefit items 
B)  A system for the sales and marketing departments to track specific sales targets and follow up processes 
C)  An easy electronic survey,similar to the survey monkey,to be sent to the customer right after a service was completed 
D)  Royal Crest Dairy using their custom order and delivery system through an easily accessible Web portal for the customer to track delivery status 
A)  Scottrade Corp.creating an online system for employees to track paychecks,benefits,wellness rewards program,and other employee benefit items 
B)  A system for the sales and marketing departments to track specific sales targets and follow up processes 
C)  An easy electronic survey,similar to the survey monkey,to be sent to the customer right after a service was completed 
D)  Royal Crest Dairy using their custom order and delivery system through an easily accessible Web portal for the customer to track delivery status

Question 14

Which of the following includes the roles and responsibilities of the CDO?

Accepted Answer

A)  Determining the types of information the enterprise will capture,retain,analyze,and share 
B)  Ensuring the ethical and legal use of information within a company 
C)  Ensuring the security of business systems and developing strategies and safeguards against attacks by hackers and viruses 
D)  Ensuring that MIS strategically aligns with business goals and objectives 
A)  Determining the types of information the enterprise will capture,retain,analyze,and share 
B)  Ensuring the ethical and legal use of information within a company 
C)  Ensuring the security of business systems and developing strategies and safeguards against attacks by hackers and viruses 
D)  Ensuring that MIS strategically aligns with business goals and objectives

Question 15

Which of the below is similar to focused strategy versus broad strategy?

Accepted Answer

A)  Large market versus leadership 
B)  Large market versus uniqueness 
C)  Niche market versus large market 
D)  Niche market versus generic 
A)  Large market versus leadership 
B)  Large market versus uniqueness 
C)  Niche market versus large market 
D)  Niche market versus generic

Question 16

What is the difference between existing MIS workplace knowledge and the knowledge required to fulfill business goals and strategies?

Accepted Answer

A)  Off-site training 
B)  MIS skills gap 
C)  Social recruiting 
D)  Information security 
A)  Off-site training 
B)  MIS skills gap 
C)  Social recruiting 
D)  Information security

Question 17

What data is created by a machine without human intervention?

Accepted Answer

A)  Human-generated 
B)  Machine-generated 
C)  Machine-to-machine (M2M) 
D)  Unstructured data 
A)  Human-generated 
B)  Machine-generated 
C)  Machine-to-machine (M2M) 
D)  Unstructured data

Question 18

In terms of system thinking,what is the resulting information from the computer program?

Accepted Answer

A)  Input 
B)  Output 
C)  Process 
D)  Feedback 
A)  Input 
B)  Output 
C)  Process 
D)  Feedback

Question 19

What is information collected from multiple sources such as suppliers,customers,competitors,partners,and industries that analyzes patterns,trends,and relationships for strategic decision making?

Accepted Answer

A)  Supplier's intelligence 
B)  Social intelligence 
C)  Employee intelligence 
D)  Business intelligence 
A)  Supplier's intelligence 
B)  Social intelligence 
C)  Employee intelligence 
D)  Business intelligence

Question 20

Assume you are in the business of producing and selling cars.If you could produce more cars with the same input what would happen to your productivity and profits assuming the price of your cars remains the same?

Accepted Answer

A)  Increase in productivity,decrease in profits 
B)  Increase in productivity,increase in profits 
C)  Decrease in productivity,decrease in profits 
D)  Decrease in productivity,increase in profits 
A)  Increase in productivity,decrease in profits 
B)  Increase in productivity,increase in profits 
C)  Decrease in productivity,decrease in profits 
D)  Decrease in productivity,increase in profits

If you were thinking about a washing machine as a system which of the following represents the inputs?

What is productivity?

Which of the following represents a reason why competitive advantages are typically temporary?

What are goods?

A __________ advantage features a product or service on which customers place a greater value than they do on similar offerings from competitors.

Which of the following is not a technology company but used technology to revamp the business process of selling books?

Which one of Porter's Five Forces is high when it is easy for new competitors to enter a market and low when there are significant entry barriers to joining a market?

Which of the following represents the relationship between functional areas in a business?

What are the characteristics of unstructured data?

Cars,groceries,and clothing belong in which category?

Your boss,Kerry Miller,has asked you to analyze the soft drink industry using Porter's Five Forces model.Which of the following represents supplier power in the soft drink industry?

MIS can add value to both primary activities and support activities in the value chain.Which of the following is not an example of a company adding value by the use of MIS in a primary activity?

Which of the following includes the roles and responsibilities of the CDO?

Which of the below is similar to focused strategy versus broad strategy?

What is the difference between existing MIS workplace knowledge and the knowledge required to fulfill business goals and strategies?

What data is created by a machine without human intervention?

In terms of system thinking,what is the resulting information from the computer program?

What is information collected from multiple sources such as suppliers,customers,competitors,partners,and industries that analyzes patterns,trends,and relationships for strategic decision making?

Assume you are in the business of producing and selling cars.If you could produce more cars with the same input what would happen to your productivity and profits assuming the price of your cars remains the same?

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Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies

Data: Business Intelligence

Networks: Mobile Business

Enterprise Applications: Business Communications

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Exam 1: Management Information Systems: Business Driven MIS

If you were thinking about a washing machine as a system which of the following represents the inputs?

What is productivity?

Which of the following represents a reason why competitive advantages are typically temporary?

What are goods?

A __________ advantage features a product or service on which customers place a greater value than they do on similar offerings from competitors.

Which of the following is not a technology company but used technology to revamp the business process of selling books?

Which one of Porter's Five Forces is high when it is easy for new competitors to enter a market and low when there are significant entry barriers to joining a market?

Which of the following represents the relationship between functional areas in a business?

What are the characteristics of unstructured data?

Cars,groceries,and clothing belong in which category?

Your boss,Kerry Miller,has asked you to analyze the soft drink industry using Porter's Five Forces model.Which of the following represents supplier power in the soft drink industry?

MIS can add value to both primary activities and support activities in the value chain.Which of the following is not an example of a company adding value by the use of MIS in a primary activity?

Which of the following includes the roles and responsibilities of the CDO?

Which of the below is similar to focused strategy versus broad strategy?

What is the difference between existing MIS workplace knowledge and the knowledge required to fulfill business goals and strategies?

What data is created by a machine without human intervention?

In terms of system thinking,what is the resulting information from the computer program?

What is information collected from multiple sources such as suppliers,customers,competitors,partners,and industries that analyzes patterns,trends,and relationships for strategic decision making?

Assume you are in the business of producing and selling cars.If you could produce more cars with the same input what would happen to your productivity and profits assuming the price of your cars remains the same?

Decisions Processes: Value Driven Business

Ebusiness: Electronic Business Value

Ethics Information Security: MIS Business Concerns

Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies

Data: Business Intelligence

Networks: Mobile Business

Enterprise Applications: Business Communications

Systems Development and Project Management: Corporate Responsibility

Understanding Computer Hardware and Software: From CPUs to Operating Systems

Understanding Telecommunication Systems and Network Topologies

Database Design and Entity Relationships

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