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Alla Grygorian
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This document appears to be a multiple choice exam for an Information Systems Technology course covering various topics: 1. The exam contains 40 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of operational systems, forecasting, autonomics, executive support systems, expert systems, virtual organizational structures, the role of the CIO, data storage, operating systems, databases, networking, and other IT topics. 2. The questions require selecting the correct term to fill in a blank or choosing the right answer to statements about technologies and concepts. 3. Scoring is based on getting questions correct, with some worth 1 point and others worth up to 3 points depending on difficulty.

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IMSC500-1903-Information Systems Technology-FA10-AFZAL You are logged in as Pallavi Dhore (Logout) You are here UNVA-Online / ? IMSC500-1903-FA10 / ? Quizzes / ? MidTerm Exam: IMSC500-1903-Inf ormation Systems Technology-FA10-AFZAL / ? Attempt 1 MidTerm Exam: IMSC500-1903-Information Systems Technology-FA10-AFZAL Question 1 Marks: 1 Information systems that help organizations carry on daily operations are called operational systems. Answer: True False--true Question 2 Marks: 1 Forecasting is used to predict the strength of hurricanes and possible landing s ites, future stock-market values, and who will win a political election. Answer: True False--true Question 3 Marks: 1 Autonomics is the study of designing and positioning workplace equipment. Answer: True False--false Question 4 Marks: 1 An executive support system can assist with strategic planning, top-level organi zing and staffing, strategic control, and crisis management. Answer: True False--true Question 5 Marks: 1 Expert systems allow robots and other devices to see, store, and process visual im age Answer: True False--false Question 6 Marks: 2 A virtual organizational structure allows collaborative work, in which managers and employees can effectively work in groups, even those composed of members fro m around the world. Answer: True False--true Question 7 Marks: 2 The role of the chief information officer (CIO) is to employ an IS department s eq uipment and personnel to help the organization attain its goals. Answer: True False--true Marks: 2 Data is stored in memory as a combination of on or off circuit states. Answer: True False--true Question 9 Marks: 2 Application software is the set of programs that coordinates the activities and functions of the hardware and other programs throughout the computer system. Answer: True False---false Question 10 Marks: 2 The OS can provide features and capabilities that aid users in connecting to a c omputer network. Answer: True False--true Question 11 Marks: 2 Large mainframe computer systems can do without multiuser DBMSs. Answer: True False---false
Question 12 Marks: 2 SQL statements can be embedded into many programming languages, such as the wide ly used C++ and COBOL languages. Answer: True False--true Question 13 Marks: 2 Fault detection and performance management are the two types of network-manageme nt products. Answer: True False---true Question 14 Marks: 2 The Web is a menu-based system that uses the peer-to-peer network model. Answer: True False--false Question 15 Marks: 2 Information systems that help organizations carry on daily operations are called operational systems. Answer: True False--true Question 16 Marks: 3 ____ is the awareness and understanding of a set of information and the ways that information can be made useful to support a specific task or reach a decisi on. Choose one answer.----A a. Knowledge b. Telecommunication c. Artificial intelligence d. MIS Question 17 Marks: 3 The ____ is a network of links on the Internet to documents containing text, gra phics, video, and sound. Choose one answer. ---D a. database b. information center c. network unit d. World Wide Web Question 18 Marks: 3 The term ____ is used to describe a field in which the computer system takes on the characteristics of human intelligence. Choose one answer. ---D a. technology diffusion b. podcast c. telecommunication d. artificial intelligence Question 19 Marks: 3 A ____ represents change theories by identifying the phases of change and the be st way to implement them. Choose one answer.---C a. implementation model b. value chain c. change model
d. virtual model Question 20 Marks: 3 ____ involves contracting with outside professional services to meet specific bu siness needs. Choose one answer.--B a. Technology infusion b. Outsourcing c. Enterprise resource management d. Technology diffusion Question 21 Marks: 3 ____ investigates the additional profits or benefits that are generated as a pe rcentage of the investment in IS technology. Choose one answer.---A a. ROI b. TCO c. MIS d. E-commerce Question 22 Marks: 3 A ____ is basically a miniature IS department attached and directly reporting t o a functional area in a large organization. Choose one answer.---D a. production service unit b. network center c. information center d. information service unit Question 23 Marks: 3 A company s ____ is usually a vice president who plans, manages, and acquires info rmation systems and sets corporate-wide policies. Choose one answer.---A a. CIO b. CEO c. systems administrator d. CFO Question 24 Marks: 3 The time it takes to perform the fetch-instruction and decode instruction steps of the instruction phase is called the ____. Choose one answer.---A a. instruction time b. record c. clock speed d. machine cycle Question 25 Marks: 3 ____ is a hypothesis which states that transistor densities on a single chip d ouble every 18 months. Choose one answer.--C a. RAID b. Parallel processing c. Moore s Law d. RFID Question 26 Marks: 3 The term ____ is used to describe devices that store larger amounts of data, ins tructions, and information more permanently than allowed with main memory. Choose one --A
a. secondary storage b. primary storage c. RAM d. ROM Question 27 Marks: 3 The term ____ is used to describe the program functions that help users operate the computer system. Choose one answer.--D a. syntax b. reusable code c. shareware d. documentation Question 28 Marks: 3 To run, applications request services from the OS through a defined ____. Choose one answer.---D a. kernel b. workgroup c. utility software d. application program interface Question 29 Marks: 3 ____ help people, groups, and organizations store useful information, such as a list of tasks to complete or a list of names and addresses. Choose one --C a. Workgroups b. Application service providers c. Personal information managers d. Internet service providers Question 30 Marks: 3 ____ is a set of integrated programs that manage a company s vital business opera tions for an entire multisite, global organization. Choose one answer. --B a. Project management b. Enterprise resource planning software c. Financial management d. Online information services Question 31 Marks: 3 A / An ____ is a generalized class of people, places, or things (objects) for w hich data is collected, stored, and maintained. Choose one answer.---B a. data model b. entity c. attribute d. relational model Question 32 Marks: 3 The ____ approach to data management is an approach whereby separate data files are created and stored for each application program. Choose one answer. --A a. traditional b. systems c. database Question 33 Marks: 3 The ____ is responsible for defining and implementing consistent principles for
a variety of data issues, including setting data standards and data definitions that apply across all the databases in an organization.---C Choose one answer. a. systems administrator b. network administrator c. database administrator d. project manager Question 34 Marks: 3 A ____ interacts with other programs or applications; it only indirectly interac ts with people or users. Choose one answer.---D a. database application b. front-end application c. proprietary application d. back-end application Question 35 Marks: 3 A / An ____ provides a complete set of relational database capabilities plus the ability for third parties to add new data types and operations to the database. Choose one answer.---D a. object-oriented database management system b. Java c. Visual Basic d. object-relational database management system Question 36 Marks: 3 The ____ is a design standard by the Object Database Management Group for develo ping object-oriented database systems. Choose one answer.---B a. Database Standard b. Object Data Standard c. Programming Standard d. Object-Oriented Standard Question 37 Marks: 3 A ____ is a device that encodes data from two or more data sources onto a single communications channel, thus reducing the number of communications channels nee ded and therefore, lowering telecommunications costs. Choose one answer.---B a. satellite b. multiplexer c. modem d. switch Question 38 Marks: 3 A / An ____ is a telecommunications network that connects users and their comput ers in a geographical area that spans a campus or city. Choose one answer.---B a. URL b. metropolitan area network c. ISP d. local area network Question 39 Marks: 3 A ____ is a network device that serves as an entrance to another network. Choose one answer.---D a. bridge b. switch c. router
d. gateway Question 40 Marks: 3 With ____, users can send, receive, and store verbal messages for and from other people around the world. Choose one answer.--B a. content streaming b. voice mail c. channel bandwidth d. Sling box You are logged in as Pallavi Dhore (Logout) IMSC500-1903-FA10

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  • 1. IMSC500-1903-Information Systems Technology-FA10-AFZAL You are logged in as Pallavi Dhore (Logout) You are here UNVA-Online / ? IMSC500-1903-FA10 / ? Quizzes / ? MidTerm Exam: IMSC500-1903-Inf ormation Systems Technology-FA10-AFZAL / ? Attempt 1 MidTerm Exam: IMSC500-1903-Information Systems Technology-FA10-AFZAL Question 1 Marks: 1 Information systems that help organizations carry on daily operations are called operational systems. Answer: True False--true Question 2 Marks: 1 Forecasting is used to predict the strength of hurricanes and possible landing s ites, future stock-market values, and who will win a political election. Answer: True False--true Question 3 Marks: 1 Autonomics is the study of designing and positioning workplace equipment. Answer: True False--false Question 4 Marks: 1 An executive support system can assist with strategic planning, top-level organi zing and staffing, strategic control, and crisis management. Answer: True False--true Question 5 Marks: 1 Expert systems allow robots and other devices to see, store, and process visual im age Answer: True False--false Question 6 Marks: 2 A virtual organizational structure allows collaborative work, in which managers and employees can effectively work in groups, even those composed of members fro m around the world. Answer: True False--true Question 7 Marks: 2 The role of the chief information officer (CIO) is to employ an IS department s eq uipment and personnel to help the organization attain its goals. Answer: True False--true Marks: 2 Data is stored in memory as a combination of on or off circuit states. Answer: True False--true Question 9 Marks: 2 Application software is the set of programs that coordinates the activities and functions of the hardware and other programs throughout the computer system. Answer: True False---false Question 10 Marks: 2 The OS can provide features and capabilities that aid users in connecting to a c omputer network. Answer: True False--true Question 11 Marks: 2 Large mainframe computer systems can do without multiuser DBMSs. Answer: True False---false
  • 2. Question 12 Marks: 2 SQL statements can be embedded into many programming languages, such as the wide ly used C++ and COBOL languages. Answer: True False--true Question 13 Marks: 2 Fault detection and performance management are the two types of network-manageme nt products. Answer: True False---true Question 14 Marks: 2 The Web is a menu-based system that uses the peer-to-peer network model. Answer: True False--false Question 15 Marks: 2 Information systems that help organizations carry on daily operations are called operational systems. Answer: True False--true Question 16 Marks: 3 ____ is the awareness and understanding of a set of information and the ways that information can be made useful to support a specific task or reach a decisi on. Choose one answer.----A a. Knowledge b. Telecommunication c. Artificial intelligence d. MIS Question 17 Marks: 3 The ____ is a network of links on the Internet to documents containing text, gra phics, video, and sound. Choose one answer. ---D a. database b. information center c. network unit d. World Wide Web Question 18 Marks: 3 The term ____ is used to describe a field in which the computer system takes on the characteristics of human intelligence. Choose one answer. ---D a. technology diffusion b. podcast c. telecommunication d. artificial intelligence Question 19 Marks: 3 A ____ represents change theories by identifying the phases of change and the be st way to implement them. Choose one answer.---C a. implementation model b. value chain c. change model
  • 3. d. virtual model Question 20 Marks: 3 ____ involves contracting with outside professional services to meet specific bu siness needs. Choose one answer.--B a. Technology infusion b. Outsourcing c. Enterprise resource management d. Technology diffusion Question 21 Marks: 3 ____ investigates the additional profits or benefits that are generated as a pe rcentage of the investment in IS technology. Choose one answer.---A a. ROI b. TCO c. MIS d. E-commerce Question 22 Marks: 3 A ____ is basically a miniature IS department attached and directly reporting t o a functional area in a large organization. Choose one answer.---D a. production service unit b. network center c. information center d. information service unit Question 23 Marks: 3 A company s ____ is usually a vice president who plans, manages, and acquires info rmation systems and sets corporate-wide policies. Choose one answer.---A a. CIO b. CEO c. systems administrator d. CFO Question 24 Marks: 3 The time it takes to perform the fetch-instruction and decode instruction steps of the instruction phase is called the ____. Choose one answer.---A a. instruction time b. record c. clock speed d. machine cycle Question 25 Marks: 3 ____ is a hypothesis which states that transistor densities on a single chip d ouble every 18 months. Choose one answer.--C a. RAID b. Parallel processing c. Moore s Law d. RFID Question 26 Marks: 3 The term ____ is used to describe devices that store larger amounts of data, ins tructions, and information more permanently than allowed with main memory. Choose one --A
  • 4. a. secondary storage b. primary storage c. RAM d. ROM Question 27 Marks: 3 The term ____ is used to describe the program functions that help users operate the computer system. Choose one answer.--D a. syntax b. reusable code c. shareware d. documentation Question 28 Marks: 3 To run, applications request services from the OS through a defined ____. Choose one answer.---D a. kernel b. workgroup c. utility software d. application program interface Question 29 Marks: 3 ____ help people, groups, and organizations store useful information, such as a list of tasks to complete or a list of names and addresses. Choose one --C a. Workgroups b. Application service providers c. Personal information managers d. Internet service providers Question 30 Marks: 3 ____ is a set of integrated programs that manage a company s vital business opera tions for an entire multisite, global organization. Choose one answer. --B a. Project management b. Enterprise resource planning software c. Financial management d. Online information services Question 31 Marks: 3 A / An ____ is a generalized class of people, places, or things (objects) for w hich data is collected, stored, and maintained. Choose one answer.---B a. data model b. entity c. attribute d. relational model Question 32 Marks: 3 The ____ approach to data management is an approach whereby separate data files are created and stored for each application program. Choose one answer. --A a. traditional b. systems c. database Question 33 Marks: 3 The ____ is responsible for defining and implementing consistent principles for
  • 5. a variety of data issues, including setting data standards and data definitions that apply across all the databases in an organization.---C Choose one answer. a. systems administrator b. network administrator c. database administrator d. project manager Question 34 Marks: 3 A ____ interacts with other programs or applications; it only indirectly interac ts with people or users. Choose one answer.---D a. database application b. front-end application c. proprietary application d. back-end application Question 35 Marks: 3 A / An ____ provides a complete set of relational database capabilities plus the ability for third parties to add new data types and operations to the database. Choose one answer.---D a. object-oriented database management system b. Java c. Visual Basic d. object-relational database management system Question 36 Marks: 3 The ____ is a design standard by the Object Database Management Group for develo ping object-oriented database systems. Choose one answer.---B a. Database Standard b. Object Data Standard c. Programming Standard d. Object-Oriented Standard Question 37 Marks: 3 A ____ is a device that encodes data from two or more data sources onto a single communications channel, thus reducing the number of communications channels nee ded and therefore, lowering telecommunications costs. Choose one answer.---B a. satellite b. multiplexer c. modem d. switch Question 38 Marks: 3 A / An ____ is a telecommunications network that connects users and their comput ers in a geographical area that spans a campus or city. Choose one answer.---B a. URL b. metropolitan area network c. ISP d. local area network Question 39 Marks: 3 A ____ is a network device that serves as an entrance to another network. Choose one answer.---D a. bridge b. switch c. router
  • 6. d. gateway Question 40 Marks: 3 With ____, users can send, receive, and store verbal messages for and from other people around the world. Choose one answer.--B a. content streaming b. voice mail c. channel bandwidth d. Sling box You are logged in as Pallavi Dhore (Logout) IMSC500-1903-FA10