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It refers to any business conductedonline using the internet and related digital technologies called .
  • E-business Correct
It selects facts and rules to apply when trying to answer the user's query.
  • Inference Engine Correct
It was first used by IBM in 1996.
  • e-business Correct
Italso comprises movement and storage of raw materials that are involved in workin progress, inventory and fully furnished goods.
  • SCM Correct
Itis the reverse of order fill rate and marks the portion of orders lost becauseof a stock out.
  • Stock out Correct
Knowledge management systems refer to any kind of IT system that stores and retrieves knowledge, improves collaboration, locates knowledge sources, mines repositories for hidden knowledge, captures and uses knowledge, or in some other way enhances the KM process.
  • True Correct
level is concerned with performing day to day business transactions of the organization.
  • operational Correct
level managers are concerned with thelong-term planning of the organization.
  • Senior Correct
Locating and fixing programming errors is called _______.
  • debugging Correct
  • coding
  • assembling
  • compiling
Management systems mimic humanexpertise to identify patterns in large data sets.
  • FALSE Correct
Managinginformation technology emphasizes the quality, strategic business value, andsecurity of an organization’s information systems.
  • TRUE Correct
Many organizations have found that if they accumulate _____, they can use it for important management decisions, such as researching market trends or tracking down fraud.  
  • field tables
  • field indexes
  • transaction indexes
  • transaction data Correct
Match the Column A that is corresponding to Column B.
  • Asa consumer, you regularly encounter information systems that support thebusiness processes and operations at the many retail stores where you shop. → Support of Business Processes and Operations, Gaining a strategic advantage over competitors requires the innovativeapplication of information technologies. → Support of Strategies for Competitive Advantage, Informationsystems also help store managers and other business professionals make betterdecisions. → Support of Business Decision Making Correct
Match the Column A that is corresponding to Column B. Transaction processing systems are used to record day to day business transactions of the organization
  • Match the Column A that is corresponding to Column B. Transaction processing systems are used to record day to day business transactions of the organization Correct
Medical ____ help diagnose patients and suggest treatments.
  • resource planning systems
  • expert systems Correct
  • model systems
  • data management modules
MIS is stands for
  • Management Information System Correct
Most IT experts agree that no single, best system development strategy exists.
  • True Correct
OLAP applications are usually installed on a special server that communicates with both the user's computer and theserver or servers that contain a data warehouse or ____.
  • relational applications
  • dimensional databases Correct
  • house databases
  • information silos
OLAP applications can process ____ records per second.
  • 30,000
  • 40,000
  • 20,000 Correct
  • 10,000
OLAP is stands for .
  • Online Analytical Processing Correct
OLAP might process data from a ___.
  • non-relational database
  • transactional database Correct
  • cloud database
  • navigational database
OLTP is stands for Online Transaction Processing.
  • True Correct
On the Web, _____ includes identifying the sites your audience frequently visits.
  • spamming
  • phishing
  • targeting Correct
  • hosting
One objective of data mining is _____, the discovering of patterns in data that can lead to reasonable predictions.
  • seeding
  • producing
  • recovering
  • forecasting Correct
One of the advantage of business intelligence is allows employees to be more productive on their tasks.
  • True Correct
One of the drawbacks of the software on demand approach is that it ____.
  • increases implementation time significantly
  • reduces the control clients have over their systems Correct
  • relies on storage hardware at the client location for installation
  • requires clients to hire experts to maintain the systems
One of the risks of software licensing is the ____.
  • lack of after-sales support
  • low quality of software
  • difficulty in modifications to meet specific needs Correct
  • increased duration for system availability and implementation
Operating systems are usually developed with the aid of _____, such as assembly languages or C.
  • low-level programming languages
  • high-level programming languages
  • OOP programming languages
  • 4GL programming languages
Organizations can leverage _____ to communicate with consumers immediately.
  • newspapers
  • radio
  • social media Correct
  • television
Outcomes rarely respond in equal measure to changes in ____, which are categories of data considered when following a sequence of steps.
  • parameters Correct
  • units
  • data sheets
  • indexes
Probabilityof on-time deliveryis the portion of customer orders that are completed on-time.
  • TRUE Correct
Process modeling identifies the data flowing into a process, the business rules that transform the data, and the resulting output data flow.
  • True Correct
Programs designed to perform specific jobs, such as calculating and executing a company's payroll, are collectively called ______.
  • packaged software
  • utility software
  • general-purpose application software
  • application-specific software Correct
Programs that can handle many different types of data are called _______.
  • packaged software
  • multimedia software Correct
  • utility software
  • supermedia software
Propetary technology is any combination of processes, tools, or systems of interrelated connections that are the property of a business or individual.
  • false Correct
Question text In this stage, mainly concentrate on building a strong relationship with suppliers of the raw materials required for production
  • Develop Correct
Rapid Application Development makes use of tools to facilitate the development of systems to meet aggressive time lines.
  • True Correct
Rather than containing a set of IF-THEN rules, more sophisticated ESs use ____, which are designed to mimic the way a human brain learns.
  • communication networks
  • neural networks Correct
  • sensitivity analysis
  • what-if analysis
RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication".
  • true Correct
s the portion of customer demands that can be easily satisfied from the stock available.
  • order fill rate Correct
Scope can be refined during the implementation is the initialization process.
  • True Correct
SDLC is stands for
  • Systems Development Life Cycle Correct
Several diagramming sets were developed by the 1970s, but in the late-1990s, a de facto standard emerged: ___.
  • discipline-specific modeling language
  • framework-specific modeling language
  • unified modeling language Correct
  • algebraic modeling language
Since OLAP applications are designed to process large amounts of records and produce summaries, they are usually significantly faster than relational applications such as those using ___.
  • SGML
  • XML
  • SQL queries Correct
  • FTP protocols
Software vendors often promote fast ____ as a selling point, and express it in terms of the short period of time over which the adopting organization can recoup the investment.
  • ROA
  • ROC
  • ROI Correct
  • ROR
Some companies offer specifically designed ______ to analyze shoppers' behavior at their sites based on captured data such as pages viewed, options clicked, and the sequence of pages shoppers viewed.
  • supply chain management (SCM) systems
  • geographic information systems (GISs)
  • decision support systems (DSSs) Correct
  • enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems
Some companies require workers to create reports of their finding to transfer knowledge into manageable ___.
  • online resources Correct
  • folders
  • indexes
  • dictionaries
Some companies use ____ techniques to try to predict what customers are likely to purchase in the future.
  • web scraping
  • data-mining Correct
  • knowledge extraction
  • information integration
Some hosting companies charge extra fees for shared hosting if the site experiences activity above a predetermined amount of data that is transferred, or number of visits from Web surfers, known as _____.
  • spots
  • deals
  • hits Correct
  • stops
Sometimes a _____ is automatically created using data, such as the date and time of a transaction or the name or password of the user updating the file.
  • denial of service
  • atomic transaction
  • global transaction
  • audit trail Correct
Spreadsheets and word processors are _____.
  • program-coding applications
  • application-specific applications
  • general-purpose applications Correct
  • software-testing applications
Storage area network (SAN) identifies large quantities of data, called _______, and therefore can transfer and back up large amounts of data at a time.
  • word segments
  • word blocks
  • data blocks Correct
  • data segments
Strategic Systems are used for giving the lower advantage of competition to the organization.
  • False Correct
Structured analysis is a traditional systems development technique that is time-tested and easy to understand
  • True Correct
Structured analysis uses a series of phases, to plan, analyze, design, implement, and support an information system.
  • True Correct
System Analysts arepeople who use an information system or the information it produces.
  • FALSE Correct
Tactical users are the decisions that partly based on set guidelines and judgmental calls.
  • False Correct
Tacticalusers make final structured decisions.
  • FALSE Correct
The enforces a privacy law called the Directive on Data Privacy.
  • United States (US)
  • Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
  • European Union (EU) Correct
  • US Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
The is the most important part of any computer.
  • central processing unit Correct
  • ROM
  • external storage
  • monitor
The ___ e is the most crucial part of the expert system
  • user interface Correct
The ____ is one of the newer adaptive approaches to the SDLC.
  • spiral model Correct
The ____ part of the DSS that allows the user to interact with it is called the .
  • model management module
  • data management module
  • information management module
  • dialog module Correct
The _____ available in some countries is too narrow for high-volume transmission of graphically and animation-rich webpages.
  • wavelength
  • wideband technology
  • bandwidth Correct
  • infrared technology
The _____ prompts the user to select a model, allowing the user to access the database and select data for the decision process or to set criteria for selecting such data.
  • model management module
  • dialog module
  • information module
  • data management module
The _______ mediates applications and the computer, and controls peripheral devices.
  • operating system Correct
  • application software
  • multimedia software
  • utility system
The ________ is the maximum number of bits that the control unit can fetch from primary memory in one machine cycle.
  • byte
  • pixel
  • binary limit
  • data word Correct
The ability to scramble and code messages through keys that are shared only between the sender and receiver is referred to as _____.
  • encryption Correct
  • decryption
  • transmission
  • transcription
The American Stock Exchange (AMEX) has a special department to prevent _____ of the securities under its supervision.
  • the preservation
  • the analysis
  • legal trading
  • insider trading Correct
The amount of support required may be determined based on the system.
  • True Correct
The bandwidth of a communication medium is measured as _______.
  • codes per second
  • bits per second Correct
  • rates per second
  • data per second
The Business users can increase the profit of their business by improving operational efficiency in their business.
  • False Correct
The combined storage of both data and the procedures that manipulate the data within an object is referred to as _____.  
  • zipping
  • packaging
  • compression
  • encapsulation Correct
The country-of-origin and country-of-destination principles deal with the issue of ____.
  • national standards
  • e-commerce jurisdiction Correct
  • payment mechanisms
  • time zone differences
The customer's ability to determine the timing and services of their needs from a business organization through a website is referred to as _____. 
  • self-service Correct
  • customer profiling
  • fulfillment
  • customer impression
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