Test Bank For Managing and Using Information Systems: A Strategic Approach 6th Edition by Keri E. Pearlson, Carol S. Saunders, Dennis F. Galletta

,Managing and Using Information Systems: A
Strategic Approach, 6th Edition

Complete Test Bank

, Chapter 0 (Introduction)
File: 6e c00 introTestBank.docx, Chapter 0, Introduction



Multiple Choice


1. What requires a unit of analysis, has been processed, and requires human mediation?

a) Data
b) Information
c) Knowledge
d) Legacy
e) None of the above

Ans: b (Medium)
Response: See page 11


2. Roles that managers fill, according to Mintzberg, include all of the
following except:

a) Figurehead
b) Disseminator
c) Disciplinarian
d) Entrepreneur
e) Resource Allocator

Ans: c (Hard)
Response: See page 9


3. Which of the following is not a Decisional role?
a) Entrepreneur
b) Disturbance handler
c) Negotiator
d) Resource allocator
e) Spokesperson

Ans: e (Medium)
Response: See page 9

, 4. What skills would be required to be a visionary manager?
a) Communication and Information gathering
b) Flexibility and creativity
c) Analytical and organizational
d) All of the above
e) None of the above
Ans: b (Easy)
Response: See page 7


5. Define Wisdom:
a) knowledge infused with intuition and judgment that facilitates the ability to make
decisions
b) a process
c) all forms of technology used to create data
d) anything that makes a person clever
e) only d and b

Ans: a (Easy)
Response: See page 12


6. Data is:
a) information endowed with relevance and purpose
b) set of specific objective facts or observations
c) some information
d) all of the above
e) only a and c

Ans: b (Medium)
Response: See pages 10-12


True/False


7. Information systems (IS) managers should participate in all of the important IS
decisions, even if those decisions do not impact the IS department.

Ans: True (Easy)
Response: See page 2

8. Information for top management is usually based on a long time
horizon, with great detail and high structuredness.