Deck 1: Data: the New Corporate Resource

Question 1

The Crusades eventually led to an increased interest in record keeping because _____.

A) they introduced Europeans to the possibilities of expanded trade
B) data was required for military activities
C) they involved the use of clay tokens sealed in hollow clay vessels
D) they required annual reports
E) none of the above

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The software that was developed to handle the increasing volumes of data and treat it as a corporate resource is called a(n) _____.

A) disk management system
B) file management system
C) optical management system
D) database management system
E) security management system

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The pebbles-in-the-pouch technique used by ancient Middle Eastern shepherds to keep track of their sheep was a primitive example of data storage and retrieval.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Blaise Pascal invented a mechanical adding machine in the 1640s in order to help his father with a data tracking problem.

Question 5

All of the following are terms associated with magnetic disk technology, except _____.

A) fixed
B) removable
C) non-removable
D) punched
E) multi-platter

Question 6

All of the following were early forms of record keeping associated with the rise of cities, except _____.

A) marriage records
B) family trees
C) annual reports
D) calendars
E) church contribution records

Question 7

All of the following were types of electro-mechanical, punched card based devices, except _____.

A) calculators
B) collators
C) punches
D) sorters
E) disk drives

Question 8

The earliest (1870s) form of modern data storage was _____.

A) magnetic tape
B) magnetic disk
C) punched paper tape
D) optical disk
E) magnetic drum

Question 9

The data processing equipment that Herman Hollerith developed for the 1890 U.S. census is classified as electro- _____ equipment.

A) optical
B) physical
C) rotational
D) mechanical
E) chemical

Question 10

All of the following are challenges to the efficient storage and access of data, except _____.

A) the data type
B) the data volume
C) the number of people who want access to the data
D) data security
E) data privacy

Question 11

The rise of cities encouraged the development of data because people depended on each other for goods and services.

Question 12

In ancient times, hollow clay vessels with descriptively marked clay tokens sealed in them were primitive examples of annual reports.

Question 13

In 1805, Jacquard invented _____ as a data storage medium for storing patterns to be woven into cloth.

A) magnetic tape
B) punched cards
C) floppy disks
D) double-entry bookkeeping
E) notches in wooden sticks

Question 14

Which of the following is the correct order in which these magnetic storage technologies were introduced?

A) tape, drum, disk
B) disk, tape, drum
C) tape, disk, drum
D) drum, disk, tape
E) drum, tape, disk

Question 15

All of the following are kinds of corporate resources, except _____.

A) data
B) capital
C) inventory
D) plant and equipment
E) competitors

Question 16

Optical disk technology is based on _____.

A) radar
B) lasers
C) fusion
D) sonar
E) phasers

Question 17

Double-entry bookkeeping _____.

A) was an outgrowth of the practice of sealing marked clay tokens in clay vessels
B) was an outgrowth of trading partnerships
C) became the "Code of Commerce" in France
D) was developed in England
E) was an early way of storing census data

Question 18

Jacquard's loom included the invention of magnetic tape for data storage.

Question 19

The data processing equipment that Herman Hollerith developed for the 1890 U.S. census used _____ as a data storage medium.

A) magnetic tape
B) punched cards
C) floppy disks
D) double-entry bookkeeping
E) notches in wooden sticks

Question 20

The forerunner of the annual report was the Code of Commerce, which was instituted in 1673 in _____.

A) France
B) England
C) Greece
D) Turkey
E) Italy

Question 21

Grand Travel Airlines has decided to build a database to help it manage its operations. It is interested in keeping track of its airplanes, the airports to which they fly, its passengers and the trips they have taken, its employees, and data about the maintenance of its airplanes.
a. Using this introductory description of (and hints about) the Grand Travel Airlines, make a list of the things in the company's environment about which you think the company would want to maintain data.
b. How can Grand Travel Airlines use this data to improve its operations and gain a competitive advantage?

Question 22

The magnetic disk was developed before the magnetic drum.

Question 23

A database management system is software that is designed to handle large amounts of data efficiently.

Question 24

Data security and data privacy are two factors that affect the efficient storage and access of data.

Question 25

The efficient storage and access of data is challenged by increasing data volumes and decreasing numbers of people who want access to the data.

Question 26

Optical disk technology is based on lasers.

Question 27

Data is a corporate resource.

Question 28

All magnetic disks are non-removable.

Question 29

Capital is the corporate resource that describes all of the other corporate resources.

Question 30

The data processing equipment that Herman Hollerith developed for the 1890 U.S. census is classified as electro-mechanical equipment.

Question 31

Some magnetic disks have only a single platter.