MIS 180 Exam Questions With Correct
Answers
Which of the following represents the different information formats? - answerdocument,
presentation, spreadsheet, database
Which of the follwoing represents the different information granularities? - answerdetail,
summary, aggregate
What encompasses...
Which of the following represents the different information formats? - answer✔✔document,
presentation, spreadsheet, database
Which of the follwoing represents the different information granularities? - answer✔✔detail,
summary, aggregate
What encompasses all of the information contained within a single business process or unit of
work and its primary purpose is to support the performing of daily operational tasks? -
answer✔✔Transactional information
What encompasses all organizational information and its primary purpose is to support the
performing or managerial analysis tasks? - answer✔✔analytical information
what is immediate, up-to-date information? - answer✔✔real-time information
what provides real-time information in response to query requests? - answer✔✔real-time
systems
What is one of the biggest pitfalls associated with real-time information? - answer✔✔it
continually changes
Which of the following is not one of the five characteristics common to high quality? -
answer✔✔quantity
What accesses organizational databases that track similar issues or questions and automatically
generate the details to the CSR who can then relay them to the customer? - answer✔✔Call
scripting
Which of the following implies that aggregate or summary information is in agreement with
detailed information? - answer✔✔consistency
whichof the following implies that information is current with respect to the business
requirement? - answer✔✔timeliness
In the relational database model, what is a person, place, thing, transaction, or event about which
information is stored? - answer✔✔entity
Why do relational databases use primary keys and froeign keys? - answer✔✔to create logical
relationships
what is a primary key? - answer✔✔A field (or group of fields) that uniquely identifies a given
entity in a table
what is a foreign key? - answer✔✔a primary key of one table that appears as an attribute in
another table and acts to provide a logical relationship among the two tables
what directly accesses a database - answer✔✔DBMS
All of the following are advantages of database-stored information, except - answer✔✔increased
information redundancy
which of the following is incorrect in reference to a database - answer✔✔information is accessed
by physical structure
what is the physical view of information? - answer✔✔deals with the physical storage
information on a storage device such as a hard disk
which of the following is correct in refernece to a database? - answer✔✔a data base can support
many logical views
what refers to how well a system can adapt to increased demands - answer✔✔scalability
what is information redundancy - answer✔✔a. duplication of information
b. storing the same info in multiple places
c. storing duplicate info in multipl places
*d. all of the above*
what are the rules that help ensure the quality of information? - answer✔✔integrity constraints
what are the rules that enforce basic and fundamental information-based constraints? -
answer✔✔relational integrity constraints
what type of integrity constraint does not allow someone to create an order for a nonexistent
customer? - answer✔✔relational integrity constraint
what type of integrity constraint does not allow someone to return an item past 15 days after
purchase? - answer✔✔business-critical integrity constraint
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