COMM 335 - Final Exam Prep with correct answers

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Budgeting would likely be a decision made at the: |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




a) Managerial level
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b) Strategic level
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c) Operational level
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d) Executive level - correct answer✔✔a) Managerial level
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Waterfall Valley is a popular tourist destination. During the winter months, the population
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dwindles to a meager few, but when summer comes, the size of the town surges. Jo Jackson is
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the town sanitation
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engineer. When the size of the town surges, so do his responsibilities. Among them is the
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management of the sewage processing volume. In an interview with the local paper, Jo |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




complained that a report on the tourist population that he uses to adjust processing volume
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refers to data that was collected four days ago and it takes him a week to make adjustments.
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Which of the following characteristics of useful information is absent in the situation described
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above?

a) timely
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b) accessible
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c) verifiable
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d) understandable
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e) complete
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f) reliable
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g) relevant - correct answer✔✔a) timely
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, The sales process that records the sales order, ships the product, and bills the customer is a(n)
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process.

a) outbound logistics
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b) marketing
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c) service
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d) operations - correct answer✔✔a) outbound logistics
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Which one of the following is a disadvantage of real-time processing?
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a) Unwieldy input processing because of error corrections
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b) Unnecessary report distribution
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c) Potential inconsistencies due to different processing cycles
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d) Sensitivity to input errors - correct answer✔✔d) Sensitivity to input errors
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Each time the same data is entered into a computer system
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a) The risk of errors increases
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b) The data becomes more reliable
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c) The more likely the data is correct
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d) Efficiency improves because the desired data can be located more quickly - correct
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answer✔✔a) The risk of errors increases |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




A company upgraded production machinery to capture data about the fit tolerance for all
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assembled parts of each unit produced. Before the upgrade, inspectors were only sampling 10
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percent of units produced. The upgrade represents an increase in
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a) data volume
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b) data veracity
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c) data velocity
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d) data variety - correct answer✔✔a) data volume
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