Question 1

Data from sales orders, payroll, accounting, financial, marketing, purchasing, inventory control, and so forth are processed by a combination of hardware and software called ____________________________.

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Question 2

A ____________________________ is a general purpose IS designed to provide reports to managers for tracking operations, monitoring and control.

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Question 3

A company's ____________ architecture describes how an enterprise's data stores are organized and accessed.

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Question 4

When transactions are typically processed all together for a defined time window
e.g. end of a day, shift or other time period), it is called ___________________.

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Question 5

A company's _______________ architecture describes how specific applications are designed and how they interact with each other.

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Question 6

Data architecture and technical architecture are considered key components of ____________________.

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Question 7

The collection of computing systems used by an organization is called _______________.

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Question 8

Application architecture and business architecture are considered key components of ___________________.

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Question 9

A common title for the person in charge of an organization's IT is ______________.

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Question 10

A company's _______________ architecture describes the hardware and software infrastructure that supports applications and their interactions.

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Question 11

Your textbook differentiates the terms "data", "information" and "knowledge". ___________ is data that has been processed, organized, or put into context so that it has meaning and value to the person receiving it.

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Question 12

Because of the time it takes to plan, develop and implement new storage, applications and/or databases, it is advised that managers do not add these components to the Information System on an "as needed" basis. Instead, changes should be part of a ___________________.

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Question 13

_______________ refers to a process of changing assumptions or data in a model to see how the changes impact the predicted outcome.

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Question 14

When transactions are typically processed as each transaction occurs, it is called __________________.

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Question 15

IT managers need to be forward thinking when it comes to planning for the organizations IT needs in the future. The future IT architecture that evolves in advance of it being achieved is referred to as the ____________________.

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Question 16

When conducting a ________________, the decision maker has a specific outcome in mind and needs to figure out how that outcome can be achieved and whether achieving the outcome is feasible.

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Question 17

A _______________________ is an interactive application that aids managers in making decisions that would otherwise require a great deal of time to figure out.

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Question 18

A company's ____________ architecture describes the processes a business uses to meet its goals.

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Question 19

According to a study by Forrester Research, spending on IT is expected to ___________ in the near future due to organizations' need to improve decision quality, improve predictions and reduce risk.

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Question 20

The plan for managing the change from baseline IT architecture to target IT architecture is typically called a_____________ plan.

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Quiz 2: Information Management and It Architecture