Question 1

Which activities belong in the sales department?

Accepted Answer

A) Records, measures, and reports monetary transactions. 
B) Tracks strategic financial issues, including money, banking, credit, investments, and assets. 
C) Supports the sales by planning, pricing, and promoting goods or services. 
D) Relies on information from operations to understand inventory, place orders, and forecast consumer demand.

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 3

In terms of system thinking, what controls ensure correct processes?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 4

In terms of system thinking, what is feedback?

Accepted Answer

A) Data entered in a computer. 
B) Controls to ensure correct processes. 
C) The resulting information from the computer program. 
D) The computer program that processes the data.

Question 5

Which of the following is considered a service?

Accepted Answer

A) Selling groceries 
B) Managing a team 
C) Cutting hair 
D) All of these

Question 6

How are the majority of companies today typically organized?

Accepted Answer

A) By departments or functional areas. 
B) By departments or financial areas. 
C) By degree or financial areas. 
D) By manager or knowledge area.

Question 7

The lettuce, tomatoes, patty, bun, and ketchup are included in which category of making a hamburger?

Accepted Answer

A) Input 
B) Process 
C) Output 
D) All of these

Question 8

Information technology can enable departments to more efficiently and effectively perform their core _____________.

Accepted Answer

A) Facts 
B) Feedback mechanisms 
C) Business operations 
D) Media issues

Question 9

In terms of system thinking, what is data entered in a computer?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 10

Which of the following is considered a good?

Accepted Answer

A) Cars 
B) Groceries 
C) Clothing 
D) All of these

Question 11

What is data converted into a meaningful and useful context?

Accepted Answer

A) Competitive intelligence 
B) Information 
C) Buyer power 
D) First-mover advantage

Question 12

The marketing department supports sales by planning, pricing, and promoting goods or services.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Which of the following represents the types of data commonly found in the human resource department?

Accepted Answer

A) Financial data 
B) Technology data 
C) Production data 
D) Employee data

Question 14

Which of the following does not describe structured data?

Accepted Answer

A) A defined length. 
B) Emails, twitter tweets, and text messages. 
C) Stored in a relational database or spreadsheet. 
D) A defined format.

Question 15

If a business could produce the same hamburger with less expensive inputs it would probably see a decrease in profits.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Which data types are typically found in the marketing department?

Accepted Answer

A) Promotion data, sales data, advertising data. 
B) Employee data, promotion data, vacation data. 
C) Investment data, monetary data, reporting data. 
D) Transactional data, purchasing data, payroll data, tax data.

Question 17

Choosing not to fire a sales representative who is underperforming knowing that person is experiencing family problems is a form of knowledge.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

What is machine-to-machine?

Accepted Answer

A) A world where interconnected, Internet-enabled devices or "things" can collect and share data without human intervention. 
B) The extraction of information from data used to predict future trends and identify behavioral patterns. 
C) A series of devices that connect directly to other devices. 
D) Opportunities to change the way people purchase books.

Question 19

Assume you are in the business of producing and selling t-shirts.If you could produce more t-shirts with the same input, what would happen to your productivity and profits assuming the price of your t-shirts 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.

Question 20

What are services?

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.

Exam 1: Business Driven Technology

Which activities belong in the sales department?

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

In terms of system thinking, what controls ensure correct processes?

In terms of system thinking, what is feedback?

Which of the following is considered a service?

How are the majority of companies today typically organized?

The lettuce, tomatoes, patty, bun, and ketchup are included in which category of making a hamburger?

Information technology can enable departments to more efficiently and effectively perform their core _____________.

In terms of system thinking, what is data entered in a computer?

Which of the following is considered a good?

What is data converted into a meaningful and useful context?

The marketing department supports sales by planning, pricing, and promoting goods or services.

Which of the following represents the types of data commonly found in the human resource department?

Which of the following does not describe structured data?

If a business could produce the same hamburger with less expensive inputs it would probably see a decrease in profits.

Which data types are typically found in the marketing department?

Choosing not to fire a sales representative who is underperforming knowing that person is experiencing family problems is a form of knowledge.

What is machine-to-machine?

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

What are services?