MGMT 3300 FINAL EXAM
UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2026
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-Whitefield 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
Cracked German Enigma Codes. Proposed separating a computer's hardware from it's
software - answer-Allen Turning
Said to be inventor of the world wide web - answer-Tim Berners Lee
Leading authority on competitive strategy and the competitiveness and economic
development of nations, states, and regions - answer-Michael Porter
_____ are the costs that customers incur when they change suppliers - answer-
Switching Costs
Which of the following best describes support activities?
A. Refers to activities directly related to the process by which products and services are
created, marketed, sold, and delivered
,B. It refers to activities that help the transformation of raw materials to finished
products
C. It refers to processes including administration and management, human resources,
procurement, and technology assistance
D. Refers to activities that comprise multiple tasks and are performed by one person or
department - answer-C. 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 and services that is has to offer
The ____ code defines how keyboard characters are encoded into digital strings of ones
and zeros - answer-ASCII
_____ is a technology placed 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 object's history - answer-RFID
Which of the following is true of a byte?
A. It holds eight zeros and ones and represents a single character
B. It holds twelve bits and represents a nibble
C. It is the equivalent of two key presses for text
D. It is the equivalent of a short, text-only email message - answer-A. It holds eight zeros
and ones and represents a single character
Which of the following is an accurate description of "Moore's Law"?
A. The cost of microprocessor chips is halved about every eighteen months
B. The amount of data that can be transmitted over an optical fiber cable doubles about
every nine months
C. The number of transistors fitting on a chip doubles about every four years
, D. The cost of a semiconductor fabrication plant doubles about every four years -
answer-C. The number of transistors fitting on a chip doubles about every four years
What has raised questions regarding the ethical implications of companies collecting
and analyzing enormous amounts of customer data? - answer-Use of target advertising
Software that is freely distributed, along with the code underlying the program, so that
people can access the code to improve it is known as ____ - answer-Open Source
Software
Which of the following transmission media is most commonly used in ordinary
telephones?
A. Legacy Software
B. Twisted Pair Wires
C. Optical Fiber
D. Ribbon Cables - answer-B. 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 (LAN)
_____ 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
UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2026
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-Whitefield 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
Cracked German Enigma Codes. Proposed separating a computer's hardware from it's
software - answer-Allen Turning
Said to be inventor of the world wide web - answer-Tim Berners Lee
Leading authority on competitive strategy and the competitiveness and economic
development of nations, states, and regions - answer-Michael Porter
_____ are the costs that customers incur when they change suppliers - answer-
Switching Costs
Which of the following best describes support activities?
A. Refers to activities directly related to the process by which products and services are
created, marketed, sold, and delivered
,B. It refers to activities that help the transformation of raw materials to finished
products
C. It refers to processes including administration and management, human resources,
procurement, and technology assistance
D. Refers to activities that comprise multiple tasks and are performed by one person or
department - answer-C. 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 and services that is has to offer
The ____ code defines how keyboard characters are encoded into digital strings of ones
and zeros - answer-ASCII
_____ is a technology placed 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 object's history - answer-RFID
Which of the following is true of a byte?
A. It holds eight zeros and ones and represents a single character
B. It holds twelve bits and represents a nibble
C. It is the equivalent of two key presses for text
D. It is the equivalent of a short, text-only email message - answer-A. It holds eight zeros
and ones and represents a single character
Which of the following is an accurate description of "Moore's Law"?
A. The cost of microprocessor chips is halved about every eighteen months
B. The amount of data that can be transmitted over an optical fiber cable doubles about
every nine months
C. The number of transistors fitting on a chip doubles about every four years
, D. The cost of a semiconductor fabrication plant doubles about every four years -
answer-C. The number of transistors fitting on a chip doubles about every four years
What has raised questions regarding the ethical implications of companies collecting
and analyzing enormous amounts of customer data? - answer-Use of target advertising
Software that is freely distributed, along with the code underlying the program, so that
people can access the code to improve it is known as ____ - answer-Open Source
Software
Which of the following transmission media is most commonly used in ordinary
telephones?
A. Legacy Software
B. Twisted Pair Wires
C. Optical Fiber
D. Ribbon Cables - answer-B. 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 (LAN)
_____ 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
