BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION SOLVED
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWER KEY
●● Accounting Information System
Answer: Receives information from transaction processing systems
(TPSs). Automatically routes purchases to accounts payable.
Automatically routes sales to accounts receivable.
●● Advantages of Higher-Level Programming
Answer: Ease of learning the language. Ease of programming.
Significantly shorter code. Ease of debugging. Ease of maintenance (for
example, modification of a procedure).
●● Analog
Answer: In the past, these were part of information systems,
representing information as a continuous signal or wave that varied in
strength or quality. Can experience loss, distortion, and cannot be
compressed.
●● Analytical Information
Answer: The information collected and used in support of analytical
tasks. Is based on operational (transactional) information. Time-horizon
,of years, summarized, values over time, used by narrower set of users,
subject-oriented.
●● Application-Specific Software
Answer: Programs designed to perform specific jobs.
●● Applications
Answer: Computer programs that contribute to productivity. Enables
task completion.
●● Applications Developer
Answer: Responsible for software development tools for mobile devices
and programming languages; ability to determine users' needs.
●● Assembly Language
Answer: Easier to program than machine language using "words" for
commands.
●● Bargaining Power of Buyers
Answer: The ability of consumers to drive your price down. How many
consumers do you have? Size of orders? Importance of your product to
them?
●● Bargaining Power of Suppliers
, Answer: How much providers can increase prices by. Unique? Variety?
Can you find alternative ones?
●● Big Data
Answer: Data with sizes beyond the ability of commonly used software
tools to capture, curate, manage, and process data within a tolerable
elapsed time. Consists of structured and unstructured data.
●● Bill of Materials (BOM)
Answer: List of all raw materials and subcomponent demands to
produce a product.
●● Central Processing Unit (CPU)
Answer: Accepts instructions and data. Decodes and executes
instructions. Stores results (output) in memory. Is a silicon chip with
multiple circuits (microprocessors) that are embedded with transistors (a
semiconductor that can represent binary code's two states, 0 or 1). Has
two units to store and process data, control unit and arithmetic logic unit
(ALU).
●● Challenges of ERP
Answer: They are complex. They often require special tailoring for
specific organizations. They may not support a company's unique sets of
business processes. They are expensive. A process that becomes a weak
link in one area may negatively affect other integrated processes.
Solutions include virtual ones, central database storage.
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION SOLVED
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWER KEY
●● Accounting Information System
Answer: Receives information from transaction processing systems
(TPSs). Automatically routes purchases to accounts payable.
Automatically routes sales to accounts receivable.
●● Advantages of Higher-Level Programming
Answer: Ease of learning the language. Ease of programming.
Significantly shorter code. Ease of debugging. Ease of maintenance (for
example, modification of a procedure).
●● Analog
Answer: In the past, these were part of information systems,
representing information as a continuous signal or wave that varied in
strength or quality. Can experience loss, distortion, and cannot be
compressed.
●● Analytical Information
Answer: The information collected and used in support of analytical
tasks. Is based on operational (transactional) information. Time-horizon
,of years, summarized, values over time, used by narrower set of users,
subject-oriented.
●● Application-Specific Software
Answer: Programs designed to perform specific jobs.
●● Applications
Answer: Computer programs that contribute to productivity. Enables
task completion.
●● Applications Developer
Answer: Responsible for software development tools for mobile devices
and programming languages; ability to determine users' needs.
●● Assembly Language
Answer: Easier to program than machine language using "words" for
commands.
●● Bargaining Power of Buyers
Answer: The ability of consumers to drive your price down. How many
consumers do you have? Size of orders? Importance of your product to
them?
●● Bargaining Power of Suppliers
, Answer: How much providers can increase prices by. Unique? Variety?
Can you find alternative ones?
●● Big Data
Answer: Data with sizes beyond the ability of commonly used software
tools to capture, curate, manage, and process data within a tolerable
elapsed time. Consists of structured and unstructured data.
●● Bill of Materials (BOM)
Answer: List of all raw materials and subcomponent demands to
produce a product.
●● Central Processing Unit (CPU)
Answer: Accepts instructions and data. Decodes and executes
instructions. Stores results (output) in memory. Is a silicon chip with
multiple circuits (microprocessors) that are embedded with transistors (a
semiconductor that can represent binary code's two states, 0 or 1). Has
two units to store and process data, control unit and arithmetic logic unit
(ALU).
●● Challenges of ERP
Answer: They are complex. They often require special tailoring for
specific organizations. They may not support a company's unique sets of
business processes. They are expensive. A process that becomes a weak
link in one area may negatively affect other integrated processes.
Solutions include virtual ones, central database storage.
