Exam 1: Foundations of Information Systems in Business

Mismanagement or misapplication of information systems can ultimately result in business failure.

A _______________ team uses a corporate intranet and the Internet for electronic mail, videoconferencing, electronic discussion groups, and Web pages of work-in-progress information to collaborate on business projects.

The term "information technology" refers to all of the components and resources necessary to deliver the information and functions of a system to an organization.

A _______________ document is the original, formal record of a transaction.

_______________ is the information systems activity in which data and information are retained in an organized manner for later use.

An _______________ system is an organized combination of people, hardware, software, telecommunications networks, and data resources that collects, transforms, and disseminates information in an organization.

Sew What? runs most of its business on what applications software?

Data are raw facts or observations, typically about physical phenomena or business transactions.

Enterprise collaboration systems enhance team and workgroup communication and productivity, and include applications that are sometimes called office _______________ systems.

Developing an information system solution involves all of the following steps except:

Expert systems can serve as consultants to users by providing expert advice in limited subject areas.

All of the following would be considered a software resource in an information system except:

The goal of knowledge management systems (KMS) is to help knowledge workers create, organize, and _______________ important business knowledge wherever and whenever it is needed.

According to the textbook case on responsibility and accountability:

In an information system, the _______________ activity would be considered the component that evaluates feedback in order to determine whether the system is moving toward the achievement of its goal.

Process control systems monitor and control _______________ processes.

Electronic _______________ is the buying, selling, marketing, and servicing of products, services, and information over a variety of computer networks.

Transaction processing systems process transactions in two basic ways, _______________ processing or real-time.

A large-scale movement to outsource basic software programming functions to India, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific countries has resulted because U.S. programmers have been inadequately trained.

Data can be thought of as context independent. This means that a list of numbers or name by themselves do not provide an understanding of the context in which they were recorded.