Test Bank for Experiencing MIS, 10th Edition (Kroenke & Boyle, 2022) | All Chapters 1–12 Covered

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Test Bank: Experiencing MIS, 10th Edition
Authors: David Kroenke, Randall Boyle
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PART 1: WHY MIS?
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Chapter 1. The Importance of MIS
Chapter 2. Organizational Strategy, Information Systems, and Competitive Advantage
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Chapter 3. Business Intelligence Systems

PART 2: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
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Chapter 4. Hardware and Software
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Chapter 5. Database Processing
Chapter 6. The Cloud

PART 3: USING IS FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
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Chapter 7. Collaboration Information Systems for Decision Making, Problem Solving, and
Project Management
Chapter 8. Processes, Organizations, and Information Systems
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Chapter 9. Social Media Information Systems

PART 4: INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
Chapter 10. Information Systems Security
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Chapter 11. Information Systems Management
Chapter 12. Information Systems Development
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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1) Which of the following is necessary for effective collaboration? 1)
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A) proper division of tasks B) modeling the components of a system
C) giving and receiving critical feedback D) focusing on individual goals


2) Data needs to be just barely . 2)
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A) available B) timely C) sufficient D) expensive


3) Which of the following statements is TRUE about the management and use of information systems? 3)
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A) An employee must be a programmer to manage information systems.
B) Organizations with dynamic business environments do not use information systems.
C) Information systems need not be maintained after development.
D) Information systems must be adapted to new requirements.
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4) The "point" of Moore's Law is to . 4)
A) recognize the cost of data processing is approaching zero
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B) understand that current applications, such as artificial intelligence, use small amounts of
processing power
C) understand the cost of processing is increasing.
D) the speed of a computer to purchase
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5) is making a reasoned analysis of an opportunity, envisioning potential solutions, 5)
evaluating those possibilities, and developing the most promising ones, consistent with the
available resources.
A) Abstraction B) Experimentation
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C) Systems thinking D) Collaboration


6) Which of the following best describes collaboration? 6)
A) It is the ability to assess, evaluate, and apply emerging information technology to business.
B) It is the activity of two or more people working together to achieve a common goal, result, or
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work product.
C) It is the activity of constructing or modifying models with the help of one's nonroutine
cognitive skills.
D) An individual can model the components of the system, to connect the inputs and outputs
among those components into a sensible whole that reflects the structure and dynamics of the
phenomenon observed.
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7) Since 1990, the most significant determinant of employment and salary is . 7)
A) education B) ethical behavior
C) industry D) the nature of work performed
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8) is/are defined as recorded facts or figures. 8)
A) Information B) An information system
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C) Procedures D) Data




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, 9) In a job interview, Roy is asked to use a product that he has never used before and is unfamiliar 9)
with its functioning. Which of the following skills is the interviewer trying to test?
A) ability to experiment B) systems thinking
C) collaboration skills D) abstract reasoning


10) Which of the following is a reason why Introduction to MIS is currently the most important course 10)
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in the business school?
A) Business professionals need to be able to develop better communication and information
technologies.
B) Business professionals no longer need to focus on skills such as abstract reasoning and
collaboration.
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C) Business professionals concentrate more on developing routine skills than nonroutine skills.
D) Business professionals need to be able to assess, evaluate, and apply emerging information
technology to business.
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11) What is one indication that a graph contains information? 11)
A) The graph includes various colors.
B) If the dog learns from the printed graph it is information.
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C) Because the graph is in the mind of a human, it is information.
D) Graphs are never information.
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12) Which of the following is a result of Moore's law? 12)
A) The price to performance ratio of computers has fallen dramatically.
B) The outsourcing of nonroutine skills has increased drastically.
C) The cost of data processing has increased considerably.
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D) The risk of technology becoming obsolete has decreased.


13) All of the following are strong nonroutine cognitive skills EXCEPT . 13)
A) collaboration B) concrete reasoning
C) systems thinking D) the ability to experiment
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14) Which of the following information examples is useless as it relates to timely data? 14)
A) A report revealing spelling errors in an ad before the ad is printed.
B) The monthly January report arriving in July.
C) The ability to view how often a customer clicked on a Web ad.
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D) A customer's bad credit report is checked before an item is shipped out.


15) Data should be relevant both to the and . 15)
A) CEO; manager B) context; subject
C) time; cost D) department; division
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16) is the ability to model the components of a unit to connect the inputs and outputs among 16)
those components into a sensible whole that reflects the structure and dynamics of the phenomenon
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A) Critical reasoning B) Collaboration
C) Adaptive learning D) Systems thinking
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