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,CHAPTER 1: BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS1. The terms “data” and “information” mean the same thing.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
2. To become data, information is manipulated through tabulation, or any other operation that leads to greater
understanding of a situation.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
3. Every system has a single goal.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
4. Companies are implementing open information systems that can be linked to other systems owned by business
partners such as suppliers and clients.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
5. Computers collect, store, and process data into information according to instructions people provide via computer
programs.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
6. Input is the information an information system produces and displays in the format most useful to an organization.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
7. The computer processes data through output devices.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
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,Chapter 1: Business Information Systems
8. Transaction processing systems (TPSs) are the most widely used information systems.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
9. Many enterprise resource planning systems are used by service representatives in combination with a telephone.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
10. Information systems whose purpose is to glean from raw data relationships and trends that might help
organizations compete better are called business intelligence (BI) systems.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
11. Geographic Information Systems can be used to manage daily operations as well as for planning and
decision making.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
12. While accounting systems focus on recording and reporting financial changes and states, the purpose of
human resource management systems is to facilitate financial planning and business transactions.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
13. A programmer is responsible for researching, planning, and recommending software and systems choices to meet
an organization’s business requirements.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
14. In the capacity of project leaders, senior systems analysts are put in charge of several analysts and programmers.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
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, Chapter 1: Business Information Systems
15. Project leaders seek and allocate resources, such as personnel, hardware, and software, that are used in the
development process.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
16. Since access to information can connote power, the database administrator must be astute not only
technologically but politically as well.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
17. The rapid spread of the Web, intranets, and extranets has minimized the stature of the organizational webmaster.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
18. is the raw material in the production of information.
a. Data b. Money
c. Node d. Program
ANSWER: a
19. A(n) is any manipulation of data, usually with the goal of producing information.
a. transaction b. process
c. brownout d. encryption
ANSWER: b
20. A is an array of components that work together to achieve a common goal, or multiple goals, by accepting
input, processing it, and producing output in an organized manner.
a. node b. process
c. project d. system
ANSWER: d
21. records sums owed to the organization and by whom.
a. Accounts payable b. Accounts receivable
c. Accounts programmable d. Accounts writable
ANSWER: b
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