CSIS Midterm Question and answers
correctly solved 2026/2027
Information Technology - correct answer ✔Relates to any computer based tool that people use to
work with information and support the information and information-processing needs of an
organization.
Information System - correct answer ✔Collects, processes, stores, and analyzes, and disseminates
information for a specific purpose
Computer Based Information Systems - correct answer ✔An information system that uses computer
technology to perform some or all of its intended tasks
Hardware - correct answer ✔Devices such as the processor, monitor, keyboard, and printer. Together,
these devices accept, process, and display data and information.
Software - correct answer ✔Program or collection of programs that enable the hardware to process
data.
Database - correct answer ✔Collection of Related Files or Tables Containing Data
Network - correct answer ✔Connecting System (wire line or wireless) that permits different
computers to share resources
Procedures - correct answer ✔Instructions for combining the above components in order to process
information and generate the desired output
Application - correct answer ✔Computer program designed to support a specific task or business
process
, Functional Area Information Systems - correct answer ✔Supporting Pillars for the information system.
Each FAIS supports a particular functional area within the organization.
Enterprise Resource Planning - correct answer ✔Information systems that correct a lack of
communication among the functional area information systems by tightly integrating the functional area
IS via a common database.
Transaction Processing Information - correct answer ✔Supports the Monitoring, Collection, Storage,
and Processing of Data from the organization's basic business transactions, each of which generates
data
Supply Chain - correct answer ✔the flow of materials, information, money and services from suppliers
of raw materials through factories and warehouses to the end customers.
Electronic Commerce - correct answer ✔A type of inter organizational information systems that
enables organizations to conduct transactions, called business-to-business electronic commerce, and
customers to conduct transaction with businesses, called business-to-consumer electronic commerce
Inter-Organizational Information System - correct answer ✔Information systems that connect two or
more organizations
Business Process - correct answer ✔A collection of related activities that produce a product or a
service of value to the organization, its business partners, and/or its customers.
Cross-Functional Business Process - correct answer ✔A process in which no single functional area is
responsible for its completion; multiple functional areas collaborate to perform the function
Business Process Reengineering - correct answer ✔A radical redesign of a business process that
improves its efficiency and effectiveness, often by beginning with a "clean sheet"
correctly solved 2026/2027
Information Technology - correct answer ✔Relates to any computer based tool that people use to
work with information and support the information and information-processing needs of an
organization.
Information System - correct answer ✔Collects, processes, stores, and analyzes, and disseminates
information for a specific purpose
Computer Based Information Systems - correct answer ✔An information system that uses computer
technology to perform some or all of its intended tasks
Hardware - correct answer ✔Devices such as the processor, monitor, keyboard, and printer. Together,
these devices accept, process, and display data and information.
Software - correct answer ✔Program or collection of programs that enable the hardware to process
data.
Database - correct answer ✔Collection of Related Files or Tables Containing Data
Network - correct answer ✔Connecting System (wire line or wireless) that permits different
computers to share resources
Procedures - correct answer ✔Instructions for combining the above components in order to process
information and generate the desired output
Application - correct answer ✔Computer program designed to support a specific task or business
process
, Functional Area Information Systems - correct answer ✔Supporting Pillars for the information system.
Each FAIS supports a particular functional area within the organization.
Enterprise Resource Planning - correct answer ✔Information systems that correct a lack of
communication among the functional area information systems by tightly integrating the functional area
IS via a common database.
Transaction Processing Information - correct answer ✔Supports the Monitoring, Collection, Storage,
and Processing of Data from the organization's basic business transactions, each of which generates
data
Supply Chain - correct answer ✔the flow of materials, information, money and services from suppliers
of raw materials through factories and warehouses to the end customers.
Electronic Commerce - correct answer ✔A type of inter organizational information systems that
enables organizations to conduct transactions, called business-to-business electronic commerce, and
customers to conduct transaction with businesses, called business-to-consumer electronic commerce
Inter-Organizational Information System - correct answer ✔Information systems that connect two or
more organizations
Business Process - correct answer ✔A collection of related activities that produce a product or a
service of value to the organization, its business partners, and/or its customers.
Cross-Functional Business Process - correct answer ✔A process in which no single functional area is
responsible for its completion; multiple functional areas collaborate to perform the function
Business Process Reengineering - correct answer ✔A radical redesign of a business process that
improves its efficiency and effectiveness, often by beginning with a "clean sheet"
