MCQ Question One alternative is right :

1- Using information systems allow suppliers to check the companys production schedule, so they can prepare orders faster. This is known as adopting the strategy of: *

Suppliers switching cost

Suppliers force

Low cost leadership

Strengthening suppliers intimacy

2- When LIU contracts with another company to create its LIU system, this can be considered as: *

Software outsourcing

Software trend

Hardware trend

Organizational impact

3-The final decision about which system to use in the organization is subject to the decision of: *

Customers

Partners

Suppliers

Management

4-The transaction cost theory is related to the _______________ of information systems *

Mediating factors

Economic impacts

Competitive forces

Strategies

4-Prewritten commercially available set of software applications: *

JAVA

Software packages

Linux

Web services

5-Which of the following is not considered as organizational and behavioral impact of information systems on organizations? *

Flattening the organization

Post-industrial organizations

Organizational resistance to change

None of the answers

6-The latest and newest IT infrastructure era is: *

Client-server era

Mainframe era

Cloud and mobile computing

Personal computer era

7-A company is receiving most of its purchasing orders late and with many missing items. This describes the force of: *

Customers

Substitute products

Suppliers

Competitors

8- Which of the following is not considered as a part of the organizational environment? *

Suppliers

Customers

Competitors

Managers

9-Maintaining large Web server, and providing subscribers with space to maintain their Web sites, is known as: *

Web design

Websites

Internet hosting

Web hosting

10-Reducing the processor power consumption is one of the following current trends: *

Mobile digital platform

Virtualization

BYOD

None of the answers

11- Which of the following is not one of the cloud computing characteristics? *

Measured service

Rapid elasticity

Ubiquitous network access

None of the answers

12- Increasing the cost on customers to buy from another company, is known as increasing the ___________ cost *

Customer

Switching

Leadership

Competitor

13-IBM, HP, and DELL are good examples of which IT infrastructure component? *

Telecommunications

Data management

Computer hardware platform

Operating systems

14-To solve scientific and business problems millions of times faster than traditional techniques: *

Cloud computing

Computer hardware platform

Quantum computing

Virtualization

15- A software distributed for free and that can be modified by users is known as: *

Software package

Enterprise software application

Software outsourcing

Open source software

16- A collection of independent firms using IT and the systems for coordinating their value chains to produce a product collectively: *

Value web

Porter's competitive forces model

Value chain

Digital firm

17-To which force the following sentence is related: All companies share market space with other firms who are continuously devising new products, services, and switching costs *

New market entrants

Traditional competitors

Customers

Substitute products

18-Permits to create dynamic pages with multimedia elements: *

JAVA

Linux

HTML5

None of the above

19- When decision making is pushed to lower levels, this is related to the concept of:*

Outsourcing

Flattening the organization

Organizational enviornment

Transaction cost