Question 1

This is a list of activities on a Web site that briefly highlights what individuals are doing,thinking,and updating and in return gives the community a sense of what is happening.

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Question 2

This model suggests that employee attitudes may change if they think the new system will help them to do more or better work for the same effort,and that it's easy to use. Employee participation in the system's design and implementation also helps.

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A)  Information Management Model (IMM) 
B)  Employee Technology Model (ETM) 
C)  Capability Maturity Model (CMM) 
D)  Computer Access Model (CAM) 
E)  Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)

Question 3

Technology today has increased the ways work blends together with other aspects of life.This is very similar to how work was configured in ____________ societies.

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Question 4

What does BYOD stand for?

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Question 5

Traditionally,people communicated either in person or on the telephone.E-mail has had a profound impact on communication because it decoupled the time the sender communicates with the receiver.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Match the factor driving the use of telecommuting with its effect.

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Question 7

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)realized it did not have adequate policies,education or technology in place for remote workers when:

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A)  An employee whose laptop carrying unencrypted, sensitive military personnel information was stolen. 
B)  Because of lack of coordination, all remote workers were not available for an extended period of time. 
C)  Employees posted sensitive data on a public social networking site. 
D)  Employees copied sensitive data over an unsecured network. 3) A virus from an employee's remote computer crashed the VA's intranet.

Question 8

How have hiring practices been impacted by IT?

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Question 9

An advantage of virtual teams is that members in different parts of the world can cooperate to get work done faster due to time zone differences. What is this called?

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Question 10

Match the technology with its classification.

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Question 11

Employees may resist a change in IS by: denying that the system is up and running,trying to convince others it has no value,refusing to use the system,and/or _________ the system by distorting or altering inputs.

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Question 12

Data entry has always been a challenge in many business processes.There are technologies that have removed this challenge by allowing data to be captured at the time it is created,reducing the need for data entry clerks.List a specific example of this technology and the impact it has had on a particular industry.
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Question 13

The software used to enable group members to work together on a project by supporting decision making,information sharing and simultaneous file access is known as RSS.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

What looks and acts like the Internet,but it is comprised of information used exclusively with a company and unavailable to the Internet community as a whole?

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A)  Web Portal 
B)  Intranet 
C)  VoIP 
D)  Groupware 
E)  VPN

Question 15

Why are teams using collaborative tools like groupware and wikis to coordinate their work rather than a communication tool like e-mail?

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Question 16

All of the following are new types of jobs created by the growing reliance on technology EXCEPT:

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A)  Database administrator 
B)  Web site designers 
C)  Network security advisor 
D)  Editors/writers 
E)  Social media specialists

Question 17

Match the scenarios below as either representative of a virtual team or a more traditional team (non-virtual team).

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Question 18

The qualities found in a successful remote worker include all of the following EXCEPT:

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A)  Self-discipline 
B)  Socialized into the corporate culture 
C)  Self-starter 
D)  Ineffective communicator 
E)  Proficient in a wide range of technologies

Question 19

Team members who are _______________ and prefer to do several activities at one time may want to have IM or VOIP available to them so that they can communicate with their colleagues and still work on other tasks.

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A)  bichronous 
B)  monochronous 
C)  asynchronous 
D)  synchronous 
E)  polychronous

Question 20

List the challenges that a global,virtual team must overcome to be successful.

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Exam 4: Work Design: Enabling Global Collaboration