Rise Above with the 2024 [Fundamentals of Information Systems Stair,8e] Test Bank

1. Information is simply a collection of raw facts such as an employee number or the total hours
worked in a week.
a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

POINTS: 1

DIFFICULTY: Easy

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 01.01

NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Knowledge



2. Providing information to customers can help companies increase revenues and profits.
a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

POINTS: 1

DIFFICULTY: Easy

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 01.01

NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Knowledge



3. Information and data are essentially the same thing.
a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

POINTS: 1

,DIFFICULTY: Easy

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 01.01

NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Knowledge



4. Using a computer to forecast future sales and order more inventory before a shortage can occur
is an example of information system feedback.
a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

POINTS: 1

DIFFICULTY: Easy

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 01.01

NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Knowledge



5. The technology infrastructure is a set of shared IS resources that form the foundation of each
computer-based information system.
a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

POINTS: 1

DIFFICULTY: Easy

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 01.01

NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Knowledge

,6. Application software, such as Microsoft Windows, manages basic computer operations such as
start-up.
a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

POINTS: 1

DIFFICULTY: Easy

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 01.01

NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Knowledge



7. Both system software and application software are needed for all types of computers, from
small handheld computers to large supercomputers.
a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

POINTS: 1

DIFFICULTY: Easy

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 01.01

NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Knowledge



8. Information about the documents on the Web and access to these documents are controlled and
provided by tens of thousands of special computers called Web servers.
a. True

b. False

, ANSWER: True

POINTS: 1

DIFFICULTY: Easy

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 01.01

NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Knowledge



9. The World Wide Web (WWW) is a network of links on the Internet to documents containing
text, graphics, video, and sound.
a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

POINTS: 1

DIFFICULTY: Easy

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 01.01

NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Knowledge



10. An intranet is a network based on Web technologies that allows selected outsiders, such as
business partners and customers, to access authorized resources of a company's extranet.
a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

POINTS: 1

DIFFICULTY: Easy

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 01.01