BUS 250 EXAMS SCRIPT ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔functional area info systems support activities - ✔✔strategic, tactical, operational
✔✔ERP Benefits - ✔✔integrate financial info, integrate customer order info, standardize
and speed up manufacturing process, reduce inventory, standardize human resource
info
✔✔ERP Disadvantages - ✔✔complex, expensive, time consuming, can take several
years
✔✔ERP reports - ✔✔routine - scheduled
ad hoc - on demand
exception
✔✔Computer Network - ✔✔Computers connected together for the purpose of sharing
information and resources
✔✔Bandwidth - ✔✔the transmission capacity of a communication channel -
narrowband, twisted pair wire
✔✔broadband - ✔✔A high-speed Internet connection that is always connected - coaxial
cable, fiber optic
✔✔Local Area Network (LAN) - ✔✔a computer network that covers a small area
✔✔Wide Area Network (WAN) - ✔✔wide geographic area
✔✔enterprise network - ✔✔an organization's network composed of interconnected
multiple LANs and WANs
✔✔Intranet - ✔✔a network designed for the exclusive use of computer users within an
organization that cannot be accessed by users outside the organization
, ✔✔Extranet - ✔✔parts of intranets of multiple companies/locations connected together
✔✔wireless media channels - ✔✔bandwidth and broadband
✔✔wireless media channel short range - ✔✔wireless LANs wifi
bluetooth
RFID
✔✔wireless media channel long range - ✔✔terrestrial microwave
communications satellites
cellular
✔✔Packet Switching - ✔✔typical technology used for the internet. full messages >
smaller blocks of data > different routes > reassemble @ destination
✔✔Internet - ✔✔interconnected computers that provide infrastructure for web to exist
✔✔world wide web - ✔✔one app the internet supports
✔✔problems w/ foreign language - ✔✔imperfect, expensive
✔✔discovery - ✔✔search engines, portals
✔✔communication - ✔✔email, chatroom, social media
✔✔elearning/distance learning - ✔✔flexibility but miss fade to face interaction
✔✔telecommuting - ✔✔reduced stress, work life but isolation, supervision
✔✔software - ✔✔system and application
✔✔issues w/ software - ✔✔defects, licensing, open, proprietary open source
✔✔personal application software - ✔✔-Spreadsheets
-Word Processing
-Desktop Publishing
-Data Management
-Presentation
-Graphics
✔✔Know the three roles of managers as far as decision making. - ✔✔a. Interpersonal
b. Informational
c. Decisional
SET A+
✔✔functional area info systems support activities - ✔✔strategic, tactical, operational
✔✔ERP Benefits - ✔✔integrate financial info, integrate customer order info, standardize
and speed up manufacturing process, reduce inventory, standardize human resource
info
✔✔ERP Disadvantages - ✔✔complex, expensive, time consuming, can take several
years
✔✔ERP reports - ✔✔routine - scheduled
ad hoc - on demand
exception
✔✔Computer Network - ✔✔Computers connected together for the purpose of sharing
information and resources
✔✔Bandwidth - ✔✔the transmission capacity of a communication channel -
narrowband, twisted pair wire
✔✔broadband - ✔✔A high-speed Internet connection that is always connected - coaxial
cable, fiber optic
✔✔Local Area Network (LAN) - ✔✔a computer network that covers a small area
✔✔Wide Area Network (WAN) - ✔✔wide geographic area
✔✔enterprise network - ✔✔an organization's network composed of interconnected
multiple LANs and WANs
✔✔Intranet - ✔✔a network designed for the exclusive use of computer users within an
organization that cannot be accessed by users outside the organization
, ✔✔Extranet - ✔✔parts of intranets of multiple companies/locations connected together
✔✔wireless media channels - ✔✔bandwidth and broadband
✔✔wireless media channel short range - ✔✔wireless LANs wifi
bluetooth
RFID
✔✔wireless media channel long range - ✔✔terrestrial microwave
communications satellites
cellular
✔✔Packet Switching - ✔✔typical technology used for the internet. full messages >
smaller blocks of data > different routes > reassemble @ destination
✔✔Internet - ✔✔interconnected computers that provide infrastructure for web to exist
✔✔world wide web - ✔✔one app the internet supports
✔✔problems w/ foreign language - ✔✔imperfect, expensive
✔✔discovery - ✔✔search engines, portals
✔✔communication - ✔✔email, chatroom, social media
✔✔elearning/distance learning - ✔✔flexibility but miss fade to face interaction
✔✔telecommuting - ✔✔reduced stress, work life but isolation, supervision
✔✔software - ✔✔system and application
✔✔issues w/ software - ✔✔defects, licensing, open, proprietary open source
✔✔personal application software - ✔✔-Spreadsheets
-Word Processing
-Desktop Publishing
-Data Management
-Presentation
-Graphics
✔✔Know the three roles of managers as far as decision making. - ✔✔a. Interpersonal
b. Informational
c. Decisional
