Information Systems TOday

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  1. 1

    The technical competency area for IS professionals includes: 1. _____

  2. 2

    Which type of information system is used to support executive-level decision making? 3. _____

  3. 3

    Which type of information system is used to create, store, and analyze spatial data? 10.

  4. 4

    From simplest to most complex, which is the proper order? 19. ____

  5. 5

    Systems competency is another area in which the IS professional can: 21. ____

  6. 6

    Which type of information system supports and integrate all facets of the business, including planning, manufacturing, sales, marketing, and so on? 22. _

  7. 7

    Those IS professionals who possess an understanding of (1. systems development and integration, (2. complex problem solving, and (3. management of technical personnel possess "systems competency"

  8. 8

    An Enterprise Resource Planning System is used to support day-to-day business event data at the operational level of the organization.

  9. 9

    Companies using a multinational business strategy primarily to achieve economies of scale by producing identical products in large quantities for a variety of different markets.

  10. 10

    The tight integration of retailers, their suppliers, and their customers is called supply chain integration.

  11. 11

    Companies use a multinational information systems strategy to support a loose confederacy of various different local subsidiaries and a decentralized nature of the decision making.

  12. 12

    Taxes and export regulations are imposed to regulate the flow of goods and services into and out of a country.

  13. 13

    During Globalization 2.0, individuals were the primary entities globalizing.

  14. 14

    A ______ business strategy is best suited for operation in markets differing widely.

  15. 15

    Which of the following is NOT considered a geoeconomic challenge of operating in a digital world?

  16. 16

    A ______ information systems strategy is characterized by data sharing between the home office and the subsidiaries.

  17. 17

    ______ reflects the extent to which a culture focuses on the quantity versus the quality of life.

  18. 18

    The EU data protection directive is an example of which type of challenge?

  19. 19

    ______ are regulations permitting foreign businesses to export only a certain number of products to a specific country.

  20. 20

    ______ is a cultural characteristic related to how different societies view authority and hierarchical structures.

  21. 21

    Which of the following is a weakness of the transnational business strategy?

  22. 22

    Which of the following is a weakness of the multidomestic business strategy?

  23. 23

    Technology is said to ______ when it provides information about its operation and the underlying work process that it supports. 9. _____

  24. 24

    Productivity from information systems is difficult to demonstrate because: 22. ____

  25. 25

    In order to be able to use different computing resources, autonomic computing systems should be: 4. _____

  26. 26

    Systems designed to perform specific, predefined task such as a digital video recorder (TiVo) or a network router are referred to as ______ systems. 5. _____

  27. 27

    ______ are Web-based software systems used to integrate information from different applications and databases as well as allow different applications from different sources to interact over a networ

  28. 28

    In a(n) ______ architecture, different repeatable business tasks are integrated (using Web services) to better perform various business processes. 8. _____

  29. 29

    The GNU general public license is a

  30. 30

    ______ are systems used to interact with customers and run a business in real time. 13. ____

  31. 31

    Facilities housing a vast number of servers to support the information processing needs of a large organization are referred to as data warehouses. 21. ____

  32. 32

    Enterprise portals come in two basic forms, the distribution portal and the: 3. _____

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