Quiz 1
Q1
What can IT enable an organization to accomplish?
A) Reduce costs
B) Improve productivity
C) Generate growth
D) All of the above
Answer: D
Q 2. Chuck Norris has been hired to oversee all of the plans that the city of Denver has
created to expand its train transportation system by adding six more lines to the metro
area. Chuck will be responsible for planning the project, managing the processes, and
finalizing each new line as it is completed. How would you categorize the majority of the
decisions Chuck will have to make to complete his job?
A. Unstructured decisions
B. Semistructured decisions
C. Structured decisions
D. Strategic decisions
Answer B
Q3 Susan Stewart is an executive at Equity Title, where she is responsible for
collecting, maintaining, and distributing knowledge for the company. What is
Susan's role at Equity Title?
A. Chief knowledge officer (CKO)
B. Chief technology officer (CTO)
C. Chief information officer (CIO)
D. Chief security officer (CSO).
Answer A
A. Q4.What is the primary responsibility of the CTO?
A.
Overseeing all uses of MIS.
B.
Ensuring the security of business systems.
C.
Ensuring speed, accuracy, and reliability for MIS.
D.
Collecting and distributing company information.
Answer C
Q5.
What type of software is a screen saver?
A) Operating system software
B) Utility software
C) Anti-virus software
D) Disk optimization software
Answer: B
Q6. Shelby Black runs a very successful hair salon in downtown Los Angeles. One of
Shelby's tasks is to input positive and negative customer reviews into her computer
system. What type of information is Shelby gathering?
A. Feedback.
B. Processing.
C. Output management.
D. Sales processing.
Answer A
Q7.
What two things make up the brains of a computer?
A) IOS and EDI
B) Hardware and software
C) Input and output
D) CPU and RAM
Answer: D
Q8.
A compiler is:
A) hardware which increases the processing speed of the microprocessor
B) Software which translates program into a specific series of machine
code
C) Hardware which orders execution of the program
D) software which assists end users in writing their own programs
E) a Programmer who writes application code
Answer: B
Q9.. If you turn off the power to the computer, items stored on this device will be lost.
A.
B.
C.
D.
RAM
Disk
DVD
CD-ROM
Answer: A
Q10. An internal organizational Internet that is guarded against outside access by a
firewall is a(n):
A) Dedicated Internet.
B) Extranet.
C) Intranet.
D) Private Internet.
Answer: C
Q11. Which of the following does not offer a good example of a system?
A. A car.
B. A laptop.
C. The light-rail tram.
D. pencil.
Answer: D
Q12. What is cache memory?
a. Temporary storage for instructions waiting to be processed
b. Extra storage space for temporary data files
c. The device that decodes and executes instructions
d. Storage space for information that has been processed
Answer: A
Q13. The compilation of average SAT scores for students enrolled in your college,
along with an analysis of enrollment information and a statistical analysis of these scores
compared to competitive schools, is an example of _____.
A. Data
B. Information
C. Knowledge
D. Business intelligence
Answer D
Q14. What is the number of billions of CPU cycles per second?
a. Gigahertz
b. Megahertz
c. Gigabyte
d. Megabyte
Answer A
Q 15. Andy Benton works at the local Starbucks coffee shop, and his responsibilities
include taking orders, fulfilling orders, and ringing in sales. At what level of the
organizational pyramid would you categorize Andy?
A. Strategic
B. Owner
C. Operational
D. Managerial
Answer C
Q 16.
What are measurements that evaluate results to determine whether a
project is meeting its goals?
A. Models
B. Metrics
C. Benchmarks
D. Genetic algorithms
Answer B
Q 17. Which of the following is an example of a critical success factor?
A. Increase customer satisfaction
B. Number of new customers
C. Number of new products
D. Percentage of employee turnover
Answer: A
Q18.
Number 15 is equivalent to ASCII number in computers (assume 8 bit byte)
A)
B)
C)
D)
00001100
00000001
00000001
00000010
00000015
00000101
00000005
00000111
Answer B
Q19. Anne-Marie Cole runs the sales division for a local auto insurance firm. One of her
key duties is to ensure the company has 10 percent market share by the end of the year.
When evaluating the current sales numbers she determines that her sales division has
total sales of $3 million and the entire industry has total sales of $50 million. What
additional sales must Anne-Marie's division meet to ensure they have 10 percent of the
market by the end of the year? (NOTE: Market share is the proportion of the market that
a firm captures. It is calculated by dividing the firm's sales by the total market sales for
the entire industry.
A.$1 million
B. $2 million
C. $5 million
D. $10 million
Answer B
Q20. Which of the following would efficiency MIS metrics measure?
A. Response time
B. System availability
C. Transaction speed
D. All of these
Answer D
Q21. What uses electronic pathways to move information between basic components on
the motherboard, including between CPU and RAM?
a. System bus
b. Expansion slot
c. Expansion card
d. Expansion bus
Answer A
Q22. If you were visiting Disney World and you used its touch-screen monitors to
locate a restaurant, what type of hardware device would you be using?
a. Input
b. Connecting
c. Input and Output
d. Storage
Answer C
Q23. How is RAM different from a CPU?
A. RAM usually sits outside the computer; the CPU is located inside the compute
B. The CPU is able to process data; RAM only holds it
C. RAM is the real brain of the computer, not the CPU
D. RAM is an obsolete CPU
Answer B
Q24. What is the set of instructions that your computer needs to carry out a specific
task?
a. Computer language
b. MS BASIC
c. Functions
d. Software
Answer D
Q25. Which of the following would create transactional information?
A. Projecting future sales growth
B. Making an airline reservation
C. A semistructured decision to hire more employees
D. Generating payroll reports
Answer B