BTMA 317 Midterm questions with
complete solutions
IAM - correct answer ✔✔ Identity and access management
Digital Transformation - correct answer ✔✔ business strategy that leverages IT to dramatically improve
employee, customer, and business partner relationships; to support continuous improvement in business
operations and business processes; and to develop new business models and businesses
main function of the MIS department - correct answer ✔✔ use IT to solve end users' business problems.
Information Systems (IS) - correct answer ✔✔ collects, processes, stores, analyzes, and disseminates
information for a specific purpose
Information Technology (IT) - correct answer ✔✔ any computer-based tool that people use to work with
information and support the information and information-processing needs of an organization.
Data Items - correct answer ✔✔ elementary descriptions of things, events, activities, and transactions
that are recorded, classified, and stored but are not organized to convey any specific meaning. Data
items can be numbers, letters, figures, sounds, and images.
Information - correct answer ✔✔ data that have been organized so that they have meaning and value to
the recipient
Knowledge - correct answer ✔✔ data and/or information that have been organized and processed to
convey understanding, experience, accumulated learning, and expertise as they apply to a current
business problem
Computer-Based Information Systems (CBIS) - correct answer ✔✔ An information system that uses
computer technology to perform some or all of its intended tasks.
complete solutions
IAM - correct answer ✔✔ Identity and access management
Digital Transformation - correct answer ✔✔ business strategy that leverages IT to dramatically improve
employee, customer, and business partner relationships; to support continuous improvement in business
operations and business processes; and to develop new business models and businesses
main function of the MIS department - correct answer ✔✔ use IT to solve end users' business problems.
Information Systems (IS) - correct answer ✔✔ collects, processes, stores, analyzes, and disseminates
information for a specific purpose
Information Technology (IT) - correct answer ✔✔ any computer-based tool that people use to work with
information and support the information and information-processing needs of an organization.
Data Items - correct answer ✔✔ elementary descriptions of things, events, activities, and transactions
that are recorded, classified, and stored but are not organized to convey any specific meaning. Data
items can be numbers, letters, figures, sounds, and images.
Information - correct answer ✔✔ data that have been organized so that they have meaning and value to
the recipient
Knowledge - correct answer ✔✔ data and/or information that have been organized and processed to
convey understanding, experience, accumulated learning, and expertise as they apply to a current
business problem
Computer-Based Information Systems (CBIS) - correct answer ✔✔ An information system that uses
computer technology to perform some or all of its intended tasks.
