MIS 301 Midterm Exam #1 Questions with Correct Answers
Information Technology - ✔✔Any computer based tool that people use to work
with info and to support the info and info processing needs of an org
Information Systems - ✔✔Collects, processes, stores, analyzes and disseminates
info for a specific purpose
Computer Based Info Systems - ✔✔Getting the right info to the right people at
the right time in the right amount and in the right format
Data Items - ✔✔Description of things, events, activities, and transactions that are
recorded, classified, and stored but not organized
Information - ✔✔Data that have been organized so that they have meaning and
value
Knowledge - ✔✔Data or info that have been organized and processed to convey
understanding, experience, accumulated learning and expertise
Hardware - ✔✔Physical parts of system
Software - ✔✔Program that tells the hardware what to do
Database - ✔✔Data stored in an intuitive way
, Network - ✔✔System creating a connection between systems to share data
Procedures - ✔✔Directions to begin processes and organize data as operator
desires
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems - ✔✔Provide communication among
functional areas of IS
Transaction Processing Systems - ✔✔Support real time monitoring, collection,
storage, and processing of data from org's day to day operations
Inter organizational Information Systems - ✔✔Supply Chain Management and
electronic commerce
Business Processes - ✔✔Ongoing collection of related activiteis that create a
product or service of value
Inputs - ✔✔Materials, services and info that flow through and are transformed
Outputs - ✔✔Product or services created by the process
Resources - ✔✔People and equipment that perform activities
Efficiency - ✔✔Doing things well
Information Technology - ✔✔Any computer based tool that people use to work
with info and to support the info and info processing needs of an org
Information Systems - ✔✔Collects, processes, stores, analyzes and disseminates
info for a specific purpose
Computer Based Info Systems - ✔✔Getting the right info to the right people at
the right time in the right amount and in the right format
Data Items - ✔✔Description of things, events, activities, and transactions that are
recorded, classified, and stored but not organized
Information - ✔✔Data that have been organized so that they have meaning and
value
Knowledge - ✔✔Data or info that have been organized and processed to convey
understanding, experience, accumulated learning and expertise
Hardware - ✔✔Physical parts of system
Software - ✔✔Program that tells the hardware what to do
Database - ✔✔Data stored in an intuitive way
, Network - ✔✔System creating a connection between systems to share data
Procedures - ✔✔Directions to begin processes and organize data as operator
desires
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems - ✔✔Provide communication among
functional areas of IS
Transaction Processing Systems - ✔✔Support real time monitoring, collection,
storage, and processing of data from org's day to day operations
Inter organizational Information Systems - ✔✔Supply Chain Management and
electronic commerce
Business Processes - ✔✔Ongoing collection of related activiteis that create a
product or service of value
Inputs - ✔✔Materials, services and info that flow through and are transformed
Outputs - ✔✔Product or services created by the process
Resources - ✔✔People and equipment that perform activities
Efficiency - ✔✔Doing things well
