Deck 7: Managing Corporate Information Resources

Question 1

Relational databases use tables to store data.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Knowledge management is becoming a key to exploiting the intellectual assets of organizations

Answer 2

True

Question 3

IS has been continually managing new forms of information resources in addition to the resources it has already been managing.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Content management systems are easier to maintain than document management systems because content is static.

Question 5

Wisdom is information with direction or intent.

Question 6

Data used outside the organizational unit that creates it is usually controlled by the data administration unit.

Question 7

Corporate databases are not really a major responsibility of IS organizations, and management of data has gotten increasingly streamlined as it has become distributed.

Question 8

To manage data, it is not that important to define it in a structured way or how data is represented, or stored, but how data is retrieved for use.

Question 9

Document management is limited to internal documents that are generally comprised of complex information types.

Question 10

Information is facts where the meaning or intent is supplied by a particular usage.

Question 11

The hierarchal data model uses a partner-child relationship.

Question 12

In the network data model, relationships are usually specified by pointers.

Question 13

A well-designed data structure helps reduce problems related to data storage, undesired duplication of records, and multiple updating of records.

Question 14

Information is data in context.

Question 15

Content management is concerned with the management of paper-based documents on the corporate Internet.

Question 16

All Web-enabled database models are relational.

Question 17

A Data Pod is a subset of a data warehouse, usually designed to support a specific group of users.

Question 18

Data warehouses contain all data used to process daily transactions.

Question 19

Metadata is data about data.

Question 20

The object data model stores data, procedures that can be performed on that data, attributes describing that data, and relationships between the data object and others.

Question 21

Which of the following is a function of the data administration group?

A) clean up data definitions
B) control shared data
C) manage data distribution
D) All of the above

Question 22

Which of the following utilizes XML to give data meaning?

A) document management
B) content management
C) data warehousing
D) None of the above

Question 23

________ contains intent that is derived from strategies or objectives.

A) Data
B) Information
C) Knowledge
D) Wisdom

Question 24

________ are facts devoid of meaning or intent.

A) Data
B) Information
C) Knowledge
D) Wisdom

Question 25

The________ approach expands the view of data by storing and managing objects, methods, attributes and relationships.

A) hierarchical model
B) network model
C) relational model
D) object-oriented model

Question 26

A major concept in database management is:

A) creating alternative ways of defining relationships among types of data.
B) creating data models to structure data.
C) creating methods to represent data.
D) All of the above

Question 27

________ is data that has been given an explicit meaning in a specific context.

A) Data
B) Information
C) Knowledge
D) Wisdom

Question 28

Which level of Bradley's database model contains the storage level?

A) Level 1
B) Level 2
C) Level 3
D) Level 4

Question 29

An important consequence of document management is:

A) restructuring of document publishing and distribution.
B) increased document obsolescence.
C) increased business for document transportation services.
D) All of the above

Question 30

The field of ________ deals with Web-based information.

A) document management
B) content management
C) data warehousing
D) None of the above

Question 31

________ management is becoming a key to exploiting the intellectual assets of organizations.

A) Database
B) Network
C) Knowledge
D) Resource
E) All of the above

Question 32

A well-designed data structure helps reduce problems related to:

A) data storage.
B) efficient manipulation of data.
C) undesired duplication of records and multiple updating of records.
D) All of the above

Question 33

The biggest challenge in creating a data warehouse is:

A) determining the data to include.
B) discarding old data.
C) cleaning the data to be standardized.
D) partitioning the data warehouse into subordinate data marts.

Question 34

________ explains the meaning of each data element and how each element relates to other elements.

A) Metadata
B) Megadata
C) Element Data
D) None of the above

Question 35

Which database model uses parent-child relationships to represent data relationships?

A) hierarchical model
B) network model
C) relational model
D) object-oriented model

Question 36

Which level of Bradley's database model contains the enterprise data level?

A) Level 1
B) Level 2
C) Level 3
D) Level 4

Question 37

Which database model contains methods that can perform work on data?

A) hierarchical model
B) network model
C) relational model
D) object-oriented model

Question 38

Which database model utilizes tuples to represent an individual entity?

A) hierarchical model
B) network model
C) relational model
D) object-oriented model

Question 39

Which data model contains data relationships that are explicitly stated usually with pointers?

A) hierarchical model
B) network pointers
C) Both A and B
D) None of the above

Question 40

The types of knowledge organizations attempt to manage include:

A) Experience and tacit
B) Cognitive and tacit
C) Expert and cognitive
D) Tacit and explicit
E) All of the above

Question 41

Briefly describe the object model.

Question 42

What is the role of data administration within an organization?

Question 43

Distinguish between the hierarchical, network, and relational data models.

Question 44

What are the three phases of the content management life cycle?

Question 45

Why is data cleansing for data warehouses a difficult process?

Question 46

What is data management?

Question 47

What is the organizational process? How does IT generate value in supporting the organizational process?

Question 48

How do relational databases store data?

Question 49

Distinguish between data, information, and knowledge.

Question 50

Briefly describe Bradley's three-level database model.