Fundamentals of Information Systems 8th Edition By Ralph Stair - Test Bank

,Chapter 01: Information Systems in Perspective
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
Cengage Learning Testing, Powered by Cognero Page 1

,Chapter 01: Information Systems in Perspective
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
Cengage Learning Testing, Powered by Cognero Page 2

, Chapter 01: Information Systems in Perspective
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
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Knowledge

11. Mobile commerce (m-commerce) is the use of mobile, wireless devices to place orders and conduct business.
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

12. Despite being technologically advanced, e-commerce offers few advantages for streamlining work activities.
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

13. Electronic business (e-business) goes beyond e-commerce and e-procurement by using information systems and the
Internet to perform all business-related tasks and functions.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 01.01
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking
Cengage Learning Testing, Powered by Cognero Page 3