Deck 14: Using Collaboration Information Systems

Question 1

________ meetings are meetings in which participants do not meet in the same place and possibly not at the same time.

A) Concurrent
B) Parallel
C) Synchronous
D) Virtual

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which of the following statements regarding Google Docs is true?

A) Google tracks document revisions, with brief summaries of changes made.
B) A Google account is not essential to edit Google Docs.
C) Google Docs is free to use, but an annual fee is charged for membership.
D) Microsoft Excel documents cannot be uploaded to Google Docs.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following stands true for team surveys?

A) Member participation is minimal in surveys.
B) The drawback of team surveys is that participants have too much freedom.
C) It is easy to determine who has not responded.
D) Team surveys are more synchronous than videoconferencing

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Synchronous communication is defined as ________.

A) communication between similar people and groups in an organization
B) communication between people working in the same department
C) internal communication between the members of a specific group
D) communication that occurs when all team members meet at the same time

Question 5

Which of the following techniques is used when one team member creates a list of questions and asks other members to respond?

A) multiparty text chat
B) team survey
C) social networking
D) discussion forum

Question 6

Which of the following is a use of surveys?

A) provide single repository for team documents
B) create a general-purpose list for tracking any resource
C) provide a means to synchronously discuss any issue
D) allow teams to verify understanding of project goals

Question 7

In ________,one group member posts an entry,an idea,a comment,or a question,and other group members respond to it later,at their convenience.

A) multiparty text chat
B) team survey
C) Microsoft Groove chat
D) a discussion forum

Question 8

Which of the following SharePoint features can be used to share and document team knowledge?

A) wiki
B) chat
C) survey
D) list

Question 9

Which of the following is true for document libraries?

A) They do not allow multiple users to edit a document simultaneously.
B) They do not offer a check-out, check-in facility.
C) They do not allow asynchronous content sharing.
D) They do not have the facility to track version histories.

Question 10

Of the following,which SharePoint feature is used to verify team members' understanding of goals and other project information?

A) document library
B) wiki
C) survey
D) blog

Question 11

Which of the following is an example of asynchronous communication?

A) email
B) multiparty text chat
C) videoconferencing
D) Microsoft Groove chat

Question 12

Which of the following systems for sharing content provides version control?

A) Microsoft SharePoint
B) Google Docs
C) Windows Live SkyDrive
D) File Transfer Protocol

Question 13

Which of the following is true for shared content with version management?

A) Content sharing methods that provide version management cannot accommodate concurrent work.
B) Version management systems provide version control.
C) Version management makes it impossible to know who changed the document and when.
D) Systems that provide version management track changes to documents.

Question 14

Which of the following is a technology used to place content on a shared file server in a company?

A) FTP
B) TCP
C) multiparty text chat
D) version control

Question 15

Which of the following is a content sharing technique in which the sender does not have any control or record of changes made to the shared content?

A) email attachments
B) multiparty text chat
C) discussion forums
D) videoconferencing

Question 16

In version control systems,shared documents are placed into a shared directory called a ________.

A) work lab
B) library
C) workspace
D) Groove

Question 17

If a virtual meeting is synchronous,participants should use ________ to interact with each other.

A) wikis
B) multiparty text chat
C) email
D) applications such as Word

Question 18

Which of the following tools provides version management while sharing content?

A) shared files on servers
B) wikis
C) emails with attachments
D) FTP

Question 19

________ tracks changes to documents and provides features and functions to accommodate concurrent work.

A) Version management
B) Workflow regulation
C) Workspace management
D) Content regulation

Question 20

Which of the following is an example of synchronous communication?

A) email
B) voice mail
C) multiparty text chat
D) discussion forum

Question 21

Version management systems improve the tracking of shared content.

Question 22

Asynchronous communication occurs when team members do not meet at the same time.

Question 23

Surveys are an effective way to obtain team opinions.

Question 24

Version-control techniques do not limit the actions that can be taken by any particular
user.

Question 25

What is Microsoft SharePoint?

Question 26

Virtual meetings can be synchronous or asynchronous.

Question 27

The degree of version management is very high in email communications.

Question 28

The use of discussion forums is a form of synchronous communication.

Question 29

A face-to-face meeting is an example of asynchronous communication.

Question 30

In version-control systems,shared documents are often placed in shared directories called libraries.

Question 31

Email is a tool used for asynchronous communication.

Question 32

Microsoft SharePoint is a platform for creating and managing collaboration sites.

Question 33

Explain synchronous and asynchronous communications in organizations with examples.

Question 34

Videoconferencing is less intrusive than text chat.

Question 35

What is version management and why is it important?

Question 36

Version management systems provide version control.

Question 37

Explain version control with a simple example.

Question 38

Discussion forums provide a means for asynchronous communication,but cannot track the comments made by different authors.

Question 39

Discussion forums provide a means to asynchronously discuss any issue by providing a single repository of team documents.

Question 40

Why should a team choose to use a collaboration information system?