QUESTION 1

1. According to Bell's Law, ________ will evolve so quickly they will enable new platforms every 10 years.

   		television
   		technology companies
   		digital devices
   		human interactions
   		systems thinking

4 points

QUESTION 2

1. Which of the following is categorized as a nonroutine cognitive skill?

   		data entry
   		tax accounting
   		marketing knowledge
   		symbolic thinking
   		systems thinking

4 points

QUESTION 3

1. ________ is the ability to model the components of a system, to connect the inputs and outputs among those components into a sensible whole that reflects the structure and dynamics of the phenomenon observed.

   		Function modeling
   		Systems thinking
   		Experimentation
   		Abstract reasoning
   		Collaboration

4 points

QUESTION 4

1. Which of the following is an example of systems thinking?

   		Providing and receiving critical feedback.
   		Looking at a can of beans in the grocery store and connecting it to U.S. immigration.
   		Working with colleagues in other countries.
   		Testing a new product before presenting it to management.
   		Creating a model of how customers are created.

4 points

QUESTION 5

1. The ________ component of the five-component framework of an information system includes individuals who maintain the data and support the networks of computers.

   		networking
   		procedural
   		storage
   		data
   		people

4 points

QUESTION 6

1. Which of the following is a critical characteristic of good information?

   		ease of creation
   		abundance of details
   		inexpensive
   		accuracy
   		quantity

4 points

QUESTION 7

1. A ________ is also called "the brain" of the computer.

   		central processing unit
   		CMOS
   		thumb drive
   		network card
   		motherboard

4 points

QUESTION 8

1. A ________ is equivalent to 1,024 kilobytes.

   		gigabyte
   		zettabyte
   		megabyte
   		kilobyte
   		terabyte

4 points

QUESTION 9

1. Main memory is also known as ________.

   		the system bus
   		read-only memory
   		cache memory
   		optical memory
   		random access memory

4 points

QUESTION 10

1. A computer ________ is a collection of computers that communicate with one another over transmission lines or wirelessly.

   		application
   		server
   		processor
   		database
   		network

4 points

QUESTION 11

1. A data ________ is a data collection, smaller than the data warehouse that addresses the needs of a particular department or functional area of the business.

   		model
   		cube
   		conduit
   		mine
   		mart

4 points

QUESTION 12

1. Porter's five forces model is used to assess ________.

   		future product demand
   		life cycles of products
   		industry structure
   		internal competition
   		market share

4 points

QUESTION 13

1. Focused cost leadership is observed when a product has the lowest cost ________.

   		within an industry segment
   		across multiple product categories
   		among a group of competitors
   		across the product mix offered by a company
   		across the entire industry

4 points

QUESTION 14

1. Hueblue Software, an application provider to the gaming industry, decided to enhance its portfolio by developing motion-control-enabled games for the mobile gaming industry. In this scenario, which competitive strategy is Hueblue Software implementing?

   		locking in customers
   		product differentiation
   		establishment of alliances
   		raising barriers to market entry
   		locking in buyers

4 points

QUESTION 15

1. ________ is defined as information containing patterns, relationships, and trends of various forms of data.

   		Business process management
   		Business intelligence
   		Spatial intelligence
   		Process mining
   		Pattern recognition

4 points

QUESTION 16

1. Which of the following is a fundamental category of business intelligence (BI) analysis?

   		automation
   		cataloging
   		encapsulation
   		data mining
   		data hiding

4 points

QUESTION 17

1. A ________ is a collection of forms, reports, queries, and programs that serves as an intermediary between users and database data.

   		data field
   		data model
   		data bridge
   		database application
   		database design

4 points

QUESTION 18

1. A data integrity problem will occur only if ________.

   		there are complex relationships between entities in a database
   		the database has too many keys
   		a database has multiple administrators
   		the database is very complex
   		data are duplicated in a database

4 points

QUESTION 19

1. The process of normalization constructs tables such that every table has a ________.

   		foreign key
   		specialized graphical query
   		single theme
   		one-to-one relationship between entities
   		minimized metadata footprint

4 points

QUESTION 20

1. Which of the following is TRUE of N:M relationships?

   		They represent minimum cardinalities in a relationship.
   		They are also called one-to-many relationships.
   		They are the same as N:N relationships.
   		They can have more than one entity on each side of the relationship.
   		They connect different data types.

4 points

QUESTION 21

1. Which of the following characteristics is a disadvantage of cloud-based hosting?

   		It involves high dependency on vendor.
   		It involves high cost uncertainties.
   		It involves significant requirement of capital.
   		It involves high annual maintenance costs.
   		It involves high ongoing support costs.