Exam 1: Introduction to Information Systems

A university registrar who uses her experience with university admissions along with your high school grades, application essays, letters of recommendation, and Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores, would be applying her knowledge in your application process.

A list of football scores with the names of the teams that played the games would be considered information.

Discuss three positive and three negative societal effects of the increased use of information technology.

You are registering for the next semester at your university. You take into account your major, the courses you need, the prerequisites for each course, the times you take each course, and the professors teaching each section, as well as your work schedule. ansYou are using _____ to select your class schedule.

An organization's supply chain starts at the supplier and ends at the customer. True

You do not have to work in the IT department to benefit from learning about IT

Which of the following statements is false?

A student's decision to drop one course and add another would be considered a transaction to the university's information system but not to its accounting system.

E-commerce systems are a type of interorganizational information systems.

The IT infrastructure is comprised of _______ and ________.

You have just been hired by the largest manufacturer in your area to join their management trainee program. You enjoyed your "computer course" in college and hope that you'll be able to put that knowledge to good use. Which of the following might you expect to do during the management training program?

Explain how information technology impacts individuals, organizations, and the world. Support your answer with concrete examples.

An organization's _____ consists of the physical facilities, IT components, IT services, and IT management that will support the entire organization.

Discuss three ways in which information technology can impact non-managerial workers.

_____ is/are the computer hardware, software, and communications technologies that are used by IT personnel to produce IT services.

Managing the IS function within an organization is the exclusive responsibility of the IS department

Knowledge is data that have been organized to convey accumulated learning.

Which of the following is the correct hierarchy from the lowest level to the highest level?

_____ is (are) data that have been organized to have meaning and value to a recipient.

Discuss why information systems and information technologies are integral to your lives.