Introduction to Business Information Systems

Norrie, Huber, Piercy, McKeown Introduction to Business Information Systems Second Canadian Edition TEST BANK Chapter 1 1. Globalization suggests that modern businesses are using information technology to: a) expand their market to customers around the globe b) find the lowest-cost suppliers regardless of location c) create 24 hour business days by shuttling work across time zones d) broaden the range of business activities across multiple nations *e) all of the above 2. Moore’s Law states that computing power roughly doubles every: a) 18 days b) 18 weeks *c) 18 months d) 18 years 3. When considering explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge: *a) explicit knowledge is readily codified and tacit knowledge is gained through experience b) explicit knowledge is gained through experiences and tacit knowledge is readily codified c) explicit knowledge is rarely required by knowledge-enabled professionals and tacit knowledge is referenced in text books d) explicit knowledge is more important to knowledge-enabled professionals and tacit knowledge is much less important and rarely used 4. Which of the following are types of information systems? *a) MIS, TPS, DSS b) URL, HTTP, XML c) HTML, ASCII, WWW d) UML, USB, SCM

5. Business value is: a) the price structure of a firm’s goods and services *b) the positive return on the investment of a firm’s resources c) derived from a firm’s marketing/promotional strategy d) the cost of implementing successful information systems within a firm 6. When considering data and information: *a) data is a collection of unorganized facts and information is data that has been transformed into something useful b) data is unimportant and businesses should only consider information

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c) data is critical when developing a solution to a problem while information should be considered only occasionally d) data and information refer to the same thing 7. The Internet is: a) a global computer system that is ultimately controlled by the