Question 1

Which of the following information cultures would have the greatest negative impact on Apple's business?

Accepted Answer

In an information-functional culture employees use information as a means of exercising influence or power over others. With this type of culture it would be difficult for Apple to gain visibility into its overall operations.

Question 2

Which of the following is considered information?

Accepted Answer

Best selling item by month is information.

Question 3

What is the function that plans for,develops,implements,and maintains IT hardware,software,and applications that people use to support the goals of an organization?

Accepted Answer

This is the definition of management information systems.

Question 4

What did Thomas Friedman believe happened to the world because of the unplanned cascade of technological and social shifts?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Friedman believes that the world became flat.

Question 5

What is the name of a company's internal IT department?

Accepted Answer

Typical organizations have an internal IS department often called Information Technology (IT), Information Systems (IS), or Management Information Systems (MIS).

Question 6

What is data that has been converted into meaningful and useful context?

Accepted Answer

This is the definition of information.

Question 7

Which information culture can cause an organization to have a great degree of difficulty operating?

Accepted Answer

If an organization operates with an information-functional culture it will have a great degree of difficulty operating.

Question 8

Which information culture allows employees across departments to use information (especially about problems and failures)to improve performance?

Accepted Answer

This is the definition of information-sharing culture.

Question 9

What is any computer-based tool that people use to work with information and support the information and information-processing needs of an organization?

Accepted Answer

This is the definition of information systems.

Question 10

Which of the following is not one of Thomas Friedman's 10 forces that flattened the world?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft's IPO is not one of Friedman's flatteners.

Question 11

Which of the following is considered data?

Accepted Answer

Quantity sold is data.

Question 12

Which of the following is not a department found in most businesses?

Accepted Answer

Payroll is a task performed by the Accounting department.

Question 13

Which information culture allows employees across departments to search for information to better understand the future and align themselves with current trends and new directions?

Accepted Answer

This is the definition of information-inquiring culture.

Question 14

Which of the following represents the relationship between functional areas in a business?

Accepted Answer

Functional areas are interdependent.

Question 15

Which information culture encourages employees across departments to be open to new insights about crisis and radical changes and seek ways to create competitive advantages?

Accepted Answer

An information-discovery culture will allow an organization to get products to market quickly and easily see a 360-degree view of its entire organization?

Question 16

Why do students need to study information technology?

Accepted Answer

Information technology is everywhere in business, see the Figure Technology in Business Week and Fortune.

Question 17

What are raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event?

Accepted Answer

This is the definition of data.

Question 18

What can IT enable an organization to accomplish?

Accepted Answer

IT can enable an organization to accomplish all of the above as displayed in the figure Business Benefits and Information Technology Project Goals.

Question 19

Which of the following statements is true?

Accepted Answer

IT is an important enabler of business success and innovation.

Question 20

Which of the following represents the order of priority for the three primary organizational key resources?

Accepted Answer

The key resources-people, processes, and information systems (in that order of priority)-are inextricably linked and are essential for the creation of information.

Quiz 1: Business Information Systems