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Practice questions final exam Information Systems Strategy1) If a company is striving to make their product as cheap as possible, the CIO should be
reporting to the:
a) CEO
b) CFO
c) COO
d) TMT
2) When a company wants to monitor product sales, this is part of:
a) IS Strategy, IS for Flexibility
b) IT Strategy, IT Landscape
c) IS Strategy, IS for Efficiency
d) IT Strategy, IT Principles
3) Sabherwal & Chan suggest three strategy types, which ones?
a) Intellectual Alignment, IT Alignment and Operational Alignment
b) IS for Efficiency, IS for Flexibility and IS for Comprehensiveness
c) Activity based, supply orientated, technology focused
d) Differentiation, Cost Leadership, Market Leadership, Cash cow
4) Which relationship describes Intellectual Alignment?
a) IT infrastructure & processes alignment
b) Organizational infrastructure & processes - IT infrastructure & processes
alignment
c) Business- IT strategy alignment
5) Which of the following statements is/are true?
I. IS for Efficiency focusses on market flexibility and quick strategic decision
II. IS for comprehensiveness focuses on making comprehensive decisions and quick
responses through using knowledge of other organizations
a) Both statements are true
b) Only statement I is true
c) Only statement II is true
d) Both statements are not true
6) Which explanation describes IT alignment the best?
a) The degree to which the higher level, externally focused IT strategies are aligned
with the lower level, internally focused IT infrastructure and processes.
b) The degree business strategy supports and is supported by the IT strategy.
c) The lower level, internally focused operational level of alignment deals with how
the business infrastructure and processes align with the IT infrastructure and
processes.
, 7) Business competence is..
a) The set of business skills that is required to perform in a management team.
b) The set of business and interpersonal knowledge / skills.
c) To be knowledgeable person who can communicate with the right jargon.
d) Increasing firm performance and alignment.
8) This misfit occurs when the way processes are executed using the ES leads to reduced
efficiency or effectiveness as compared to pre-ES outcomes. This is a definition of which
misfit? (misalignment type)
a) Control
b) Usability
c) Functionality
d) Data
9) A resource that is valuable, rare and appropriable, offers the company what type of
resource attribute?
a) Sustainable competitive advantage
b) Long term competitive advantage
c) Short term competitive advantage
d) No competitive advantage
10) IT competence is…
a) The amount of years someone has worked in IT.
b) The set of programming skills that a business manager possesses.
c) The set of IT-related knowledge and experience that a business manager
possesses.
d) The set of business and interpersonal knowledge/skills.
11) Which type of chargeback system recovers 100% of the cost?
a) Cost recovery-standard pricing
b) Cost recovery-average pricing
c) Simple cost allocation
d) Unallocated costs
12) Which two dimensions belong to IT Competence?
a) Organization-specific knowledge/skills and Interpersonal & management
knowledge/skills
b) Organization-specific knowledge/skills and IT knowledge
c) IT experience and interpersonal & management knowledge skills
d) IT knowledge en IT experience
13) Which two dimensions belong to Business competence?
a) Organization-specific knowledge/skills and Interpersonal & management
knowledge/skills
b) Organization-specific knowledge/skills and IT knowledge
c) IT experience and interpersonal & management knowledge skills
d) IT knowledge en IT experience
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