Management 3300 Christianson Final Exam
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Said "efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." - Answer✔Peter
Drucker
Said to be inventor(s) of public-private key encryption - Answer✔Whitfield Diffie and Martin
Hellman
Works at CERN, developed HTTP and HTML protocols/languages - Answer✔Tim Berners Lee
Developed the Relational Database model - Answer✔Edgar F. Codd
Said to be inventor(s) of the world wide web - Answer✔Tim Berners Lee
Cracked German Enigma Codes. Proposed separating a computer's hardware from it's software
- Answer✔Allen Turning
Howard Reingold - Answer✔Modern communication media
Dr. Grace Hopper - Answer✔programmed the Mark I computer; invented on of the first linkers
Bill Inmon - Answer✔Father of the data warehouse
_________ are the costs that customers incur when they change suppliers - Answer✔switching
costs
which of the following best describes support activities - Answer✔it refers to processes
including administration and management, human resources, procurement, and technology
assistance
how can a company avoid the trap of competing only on price - Answer✔by differentiating the
products or services that it offers
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the _____ code defines how keyboard characters are encoded into digital strings of ones and
zeros - Answer✔ASCII
_________ is a technology places on tags that consist of small chips equipped with a
microprocessor, a tiny antenna to receive and transmit data, and sometimes a battery that
stores information on the tagged objects history - Answer✔RFID
which of the following is true of a byte - Answer✔it holds eight zeros and ones and represents a
single character
which of the following is an accurate description of "Moore's Law" - Answer✔the number of
transistors fitting on a chip doubles about every two years
which of the following has raised questions regarding the ethical implications of a companies
collecting and analyzing enormous amounts of customer data - Answer✔use of target
advertising
software that is freely distributed, along with the code of underlying the program, so that
people can access the code to improve it is know as _______ - Answer✔open source software
which of the following transmission media is most commonly used in ordinary telephones -
Answer✔twisted pair wires
a network which connects computers, printers, scanners, and other devices in a single building
or home is called a ________ - Answer✔local area network
_______ is a cost-cutting approach to servers in which multiple operating systems run
concurrently on a single physical PC server - Answer✔virtualization
structured information can be defined as data_______ - Answer✔that can be organized into
hierarchies
what is the main drawback of using unstructured information - Answer✔it makes retrieving
information very difficult
how is metadata related to information - Answer✔it helps clarify the nature of the information
a foreign key is ________ - Answer✔a primary key which appears as an attribute in a different
table
which of the following is a function of normalization - Answer✔minimizing duplication of
information
SQL links tables together by ______ - Answer✔using primary keys and foreign keys
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which of the following technologies is better equipped than relational databases to handle big
data? - Answer✔Hadoop
________ involves the automatic tagging of unusual events in financial transactions and is used
to spot mistakes and fraudulent activites - Answer✔exception reporting
an electronic bridge between partner companies in a supply chain that is used to transmit real-
time information about orders, inventories invoices, and other data is called ________ -
Answer✔electronic data interchange
what is cloud computing replacing - Answer✔corporate data centers
expensive personal computer hardware
expensive software upgrades
(all of the above)
an integrated application suite to support a whole establishment that includes modules to
manage financials, human resources, supply chain, customer relationships, and other business
processes is called __________ - Answer✔enterprise resource planning
the "big bang" approach for implementing ERP involves _____ - Answer✔going live with all the
core modules in the engineered quite a the same time
the first step in the successful management of the next-generation supply chain is __________ -
Answer✔planning
which of the following is an example of a consumer to consumer e-marketplace - Answer✔a
person posts information about furniture he wishes to sell on eBay and sells it to another
individual who views that eBay page
the unique global address for a web page or other resource on the Internet is called the
_______ - Answer✔uniform resource locator
which of the following is a transmission protocol which specifies that the resource is a web
page containing code the web browser can interpret and display - Answer✔hypertext transfer
protocol
what is the difference between asynchronous and synchronous communication -
Answer✔asynchronous is communication that does not occur at the same time. synchronous
communication occurs at the same time
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