Business - Management Information Systems

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Tools for the management, delivery, tracking, and assessment of various types of employee learning best describes a(n)

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In a recursive relationship, the entity involved is both a __________ and a __________

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To discover the right concepts for domain analysis, we must gather information from ________

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What will value contain after the following code is executed? var value = new Date(); value = value.valueOf();

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Like any other concepts discovered by domain analysis, business rules evolve into object-oriented use cases

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Questions that a GIS can directly answer include all of the following except:

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A logistics method in which products on the delivery truck are not preassigned to a destination, but the decision about the quantity to unload at each destination is made at the time of unloading best describes

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Which of the following best describes the type of information systems FWO implemented, as discussed in the chapter case?

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The study and practice of eco-friendly computing resources which is now a key concern for businesses in all industries best defines

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________ play an important role in the rapid implementation of ERP systems

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The MySQL GUI tool is replaced by:

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Simpson's Lawn Services decides to offer two free mowing services for all customers whobooked garden landscaping in the fall. Which of the following forces is Simpson's Lawn Servicesaddressing?

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The bag-of-words model is appropriate for spam detection but not for text analytics

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XML stands for Extensible Markup Language

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If the sender and receiver each use a different key the system is referred to as __________ encryption.

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According to Soh and Tan (2008), the demand for mobile games is fueled by each of the following except

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Describe the sections of a baseline project plan

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Identify and discuss the key features of the online insurance industry

The insurance industry is part of the financial services sector. It has four major segments: automobile, life, health, and property and casualty. Insurance products can be very complex and have not become true online products. Some policies can only be explained by an experienced sales agent and there are many types of policies and products – for example, different types of non-automotive property and casualty insurance. In addition to the complexity of the product, other distinguishing characteristics make it difficult for it to be completely transferred to the new online channel, such as a traditional reliance on thousands of local insurance offices and agents to sell complex products uniquely suited to the circumstances of the insured person and/or property. In addition, the industry is regulated not at the federal level but separately in each state, with differing regulations, successful in attracting visitors who are looking to obtain prices and terms of insurance policies. While many national insurance underwriting companies initially did not offer competitive products directly on the Web because it might injure the business operations of their traditional local agents, the Web sites of almost all of the major firms now provide the ability to obtain an online quote. Even if consumers do not actually purchase insurance policies online, the Internet has proven to have a powerful influence by dramatically reducing search costs and changing the price discovery process.

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Describe the elements of a management structure for information systems projects in a large corporation

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Systems that focus on the specific needs of individual departments are typically not designed to communicate with other systems in the organization and are therefore referred to as stand-alone applications

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________ is the difference between the sum of the revenue generated by the supply chainand the sum of the costs that all organizations in the supply chain incur to obtain that revenue

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A large software manufacturer attempts to lock in customers by making it difficult for them to substitute their software with one from another company. The strategy used by the company is referred to as ________

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Ensuring the quality of the data input to the information system is critical to ensuring quality output

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Jonathan Collins, a customer relations manager at a retail firm in Minnesota, has accumulated contacts with clients and suppliers throughout his years in the organization

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We can make a class out of a complex attribute

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How do information systems improve business processes?

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Describe an Executive Information System

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Reuse can embrace any method or artifact in software development

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The set of business processes, culture, and behavior required to obtain value from investments in information systems is one type of

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Extreme programming is one of the alternatives to the systems development life cycle (SDLC)

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Participants in GSS sessions must identify themselves to eliminate any doubt about the integrity of the source of information provided

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Agile development techniques assume that the development teams are unaware of theirweaknesses

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Knowledge-based activities are characterized by:

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A database into which employees manually input customer names and addresses is riddled with errors and you have been charged with rectifying the situation. In considering the organizational dimensions of this problem, you should consider:

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When dropping a foreign key column from a table, which of the following steps is (are) included in the process? (The order of the steps listed below is not relevant, only the steps themselves.)