Question 1

Features such as e-mail, meeting facilitation and group scheduling are examples of:

Accepted Answer

Groupware is designed to help people work together more effectively, and it includes features like e-mail, meeting facilitation, and group scheduling.

Question 2

The concept of Moore's Law is:

Accepted Answer

Moore's Law, named after Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, posits that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles about every two years, though the cost of computers is halved, leading to an increase in computing power. This is often simplified to the idea that computing power roughly doubles every eighteen months.

Question 3

Moore's Law states that computing power roughly doubles every:

Accepted Answer

Moore's Law, proposed by Gordon Moore in 1965, predicts that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles about every 18 months, which has historically led to an increase in computing power.

Question 4

Business value is ______.

Accepted Answer

Business value refers to the positive return on investment (ROI) that a firm gains from its resources, including financial, human, and material. This encompasses increased revenue, reduced costs, improved efficiency, or enhanced reputation, among other benefits, resulting from the firm's operations and strategies.

Question 5

When considering data and information, ____________.

Accepted Answer

Data is raw, unorganized facts that need to be processed. When data is processed, organized, structured, or presented in a given context to make it useful, it becomes information. This transformation makes information valuable for decision-making, whereas raw data lacks context and meaning on its own.

Question 6

The Internet generates business value by:

Accepted Answer

The Internet facilitates e-commerce, allowing businesses to buy and sell goods online, thereby generating business value. Choices B, C, and D are incorrect as the Internet typically promotes global trade and market openness rather than protecting domestic markets, promoting trade barriers, or ensuring compliance with government legislation on foreign investment.

Question 7

The Internet has become an integral part of business for which of the following key reasons?:

Accepted Answer

The Internet is crucial for business due to its role in communication (enabling instant contact across the globe), information (providing access to vast amounts of data), and commerce (facilitating online sales and transactions).

Question 8

When information systems are used to integrate people, information, technology, and business processes, you have created _____:

Accepted Answer

When information systems integrate people, information, technology, and business processes, they create business value by improving efficiency, productivity, and overall effectiveness, thereby contributing to the organization's goals.

Question 9

The kind of work that uses discovery, transformation, analysis, synthesis, and communication skills is called _____ work.

Accepted Answer

Knowledge work involves discovery, transformation, analysis, synthesis, and communication skills, as it pertains to processing, managing, and analyzing information to create knowledge and insights.

Question 10

When a system has been designed to transform inputs into outputs in order to achieve a goal, the system is called a/an _____ system.

Accepted Answer

An information system is designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information. From a broader perspective, it helps an organization achieve its goals by providing managers with insight into the regular operations through direct data inputs and outputs.

Question 11

The Input-Process-Output model may be designed to accomplish all of the following except:

Accepted Answer

- Input: The data that is entered into a system for processing.
- Process: The operations that are performed on the input to transform it into something useful.
- Output: The resulting information that is produced after processing the input.
The IPO model can be designed to accomplish a variety of objectives, including:
a) Achieve business goals: By streamlining processes and improving efficiency, the IPO model can help businesses achieve specific objectives such as increasing productivity or reducing costs.
b) Apply appropriate use of technology: The model can guide the integration of technology into business processes, ensuring that the right tools are used to process data effectively.
c) Deliver timely information: By optimizing the processing component, the IPO model can ensure that information is processed quickly and outputs are delivered in a timely manner, which is crucial for decision-making.
e) Enhance knowledge work: The model can be used to improve the way information is handled and processed, thereby enhancing the work of knowledge workers who rely on accurate and timely information.
However, the IPO model is not typically designed to:
d) Create entertainment: While the IPO model can be applied to systems that may have entertainment as a byproduct (such as video games or multimedia applications), creating entertainment is not a fundamental objective of the model itself. The primary focus of the IPO model is on processing information efficiently and effectively, rather than on entertainment value.
Therefore, the correct answer to the question is:
d) Create entertainment

Question 12

You have been asked to create a database of customers for a small, start-up company. Which part of an information system will you begin with?

Accepted Answer

Input is the initial stage in creating a database as it involves gathering and entering data into the system, which is essential before processing or output can occur.

Question 13

Your supervisor has asked you for a monthly list of overall sales, by region, and by sales representative. Which part of an information system does this request illustrate?

Accepted Answer

The request for a monthly list of overall sales, by region, and by sales representative, illustrates the "output" part of an information system. This is because the information being requested is the result or product that comes out of the system after processing data.

Question 14

Using the monthly list of sales, by region, and by sales representative, you discover that a helpful report would be to add year to date sales. Which part of an information system does your insight illustrate?

Accepted Answer

Adding year to date sales to the monthly list of sales by region and by sales representative involves modifying the process of how the information system handles and presents data. This change affects how data is processed and reported, illustrating an adjustment in the process component of the information system.

Question 15

When a person uses experience, information, and judgment, he/she is using _____.

Accepted Answer

Knowledge is the combination of experience, information, and judgment.

Question 16

Which of the following sequences is correct?

Accepted Answer

The correct sequence is data-information-knowledge, which is not listed among the options. Data are raw facts, information is data processed to be useful, and knowledge is the application of data and information.

Question 17

You needed to purchase a new computer system for your office you have narrowed down your choices from several alternatives. This is an example of a/an _____.

Accepted Answer

Narrowing down choices from several alternatives to make a purchase is an example of making a decision.

Question 18

Choose the statement that is the most accurate.

Accepted Answer

The World Wide Web (WWW) is a system of interlinked hypertext documents and multimedia that is accessed via the Internet. It uses the Internet's infrastructure to operate, meaning the Internet is the global network of networks through which computers communicate, and the WWW is a service that uses this network to provide access to websites and web pages.

Question 19

Through processing and reporting features, a/an ___ provides timely information to decision makers.

Accepted Answer

A Management Information System (MIS) provides timely information to decision makers through its processing and reporting features.

Question 20

Knowledge work is:

Accepted Answer

Knowledge work can be found in any industry where workers primarily deal with information or knowledge rather than physical goods or manual labor. This includes sectors like finance, education, healthcare, and technology, among others.

Quiz 1: IT for Business and Business Professionals