BUSN 201 Exam 3 Questions with Correct Answers
Which of the following is not one of the four primary functions of management?
Organizing
directing
budgeting-
planning - Answer-budgeting-
A firm's _____ system consists of the combination of technologies, procedures, and people who co...
A firm's _____ system consists of the combination of technologies, procedures, and
people who collect and distribute the information needed to make decisions and
coordinate and control company wide activities.
management information system
decision support system
data flow system
information system- - Answer-Information System
At Calibration Industries Ltd., _____ managers need information to help them allocate
resources and oversee the activities under their control.
first-line
supervisory
middle-
top - Answer-Middle
_____ involves a centralized database in which data from several databases are
consolidated and organized so that they can be easily analyzed.
A data warehouse-
Data mining
A database collection
Information mining - Answer-Data Ware house
By _____ its customer-based data warehouse, a firm can discover previously unknown
relationships between customers in general and certain groups of customers.
data collating
data mining-
, data prospecting
data leasing - Answer-Data Mining
You work for a company that manufactures and sells guitars. What type of computer
system allows you and others in your organization to quickly find out whether a
particular guitar is in stock, determine the expected delivery date, find out your
customer's credit rating, and find the current selling price of the guitar?
Sales system
Data warehouse system
Data mining
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) system- - Answer-Enterprise resource planning
(ERP) system
A _____ system integrates various operations (from design through manufacturing) with
functional activities ranging from order taking to final shipment.
As mentioned in the textbook, Jonathan Swift likened _____ to "cobwebs" because they
seem to stretch in every direction to catch innocent flies while failing utterly to stop
wasps and other creatures responsible for much greater crimes against human comfort.
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