Exam 1: Introduction to Information Systems

BI systems provide computer-based primarily support _________.

________ make tactical decisions,which deal with activities such as short-term planning,organizing,and control.

A ___ is an unmanned aerial vehicle that either is controlled by pilots from the ground or autonomously follows a preprogrammed mission.

________ is the Internet on a portable hard drive.

Managing information systems in modern organizations is a difficult and complex task.Which of the following factors does NOT contribute to this?

Your professor hands you a piece of paper with the number 75 on it and tells you this is your current average in the class.Since this is your fourth year as a college student,you know you could work hard to bring that average up to a B by the end of the semester.This is ________.

What is the difference between a technology user and an informed user? Why would someone want to be an informed user? How could being an informed user benefit you right now in your workplace or at your college/university?

Information technology refers to any ___-based tool that people use to work with information and to support the information and information-processing needs of an organization.

Information is knowledge that has been organized to have meaning and value.

BI systems provide the input data for corporate databases.

In general,Cuban's have access to the internet through portable hard drives and memory sticks.