COMPUTER SCIENCE 1032 STUDY QUESTION
Facilities - Answers - structures used in business processes (inventories, databases)
Information - Answers - used to determine how to transform the inputs into outputs
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) - Answers - standard set of terms and
graphical notations for documenting business processes
Information System - Answers - components interacting to produce information
Hardware, Software, Data, Procedures, People - Answers - What are the Information
System components?
raw technology - Answers - Information Technology (IT)
Management Information Systems - Answers - What does MIS stand for?
MIS - Answers - the development and use of information systems that help businesses
achieve their goals
1.Development and Use
2.Information Systems
3.Business Goals and Objectives - Answers - components of MIS
8% - Answers - What percent of GDP growth does ICT (Information and
Communications Technologies) influence?
Moore's Law - Answers - predicts number of transistors in a computer chip to double
every two years
1. knowledge derived from data
2. data presented in a meaningful way
3. processes data
4. difference that makes a difference - Answers - What are the 4 definitions of
information?
recorded facts or figures - Answers - What is data?
accurate, timely, relevant, sufficient and worth its cost - Answers - What constitutes
good information?
Business Process Management (BPM) - Answers - a field of management that
promotes the development of effective and efficient processes through continuous
improvement and innovation
, system designers - Answers - Who determines the relationship of activities to
information systems?
Managerial Decisions - Answers - Decisions that concern the allocation and utilization of
resources, unstructured decisions
management information systems (MIS) - Answers - Information systems that support
managerial decision making are called...
Strategic Decisions - Answers - Decisions concerned with broader organizational
issues, both structured and unstructured decisions
executive information systems (EIS) - Answers - Information systems that support
strategic decision making are called...
Structured Decision - Answers - a Decision for which there is an understood and
accepted method for making the decision
Unstructured Decision - Answers - a Decision for which there is no agreed-upon
decision-making method
True - Answers - Structured and Unstructured refers to decision-making process, not to
the underlying subject
Intelligence gathering - Answers - Step in the decision-making process that the decision
maker determines what is to be decided
Alternatives formulation - Answers - Step in the decision-making process in which
decision makers lay out various alternatives
Choice Step - Answers - Step in the decision-making process that they make the
decision
Implementation Step - Answers - Step in the decision-making process where they
implement the decision
automated system - Answers - When an activity in a business process is handled by a
__________________ it means that work formerly done by people is now done by
software.
the rate at which new employees arrive and existing ones department - Answers -
Turnover
processing exceptions is complicated - Answers - Why are manual systems used for
payment activities?
Facilities - Answers - structures used in business processes (inventories, databases)
Information - Answers - used to determine how to transform the inputs into outputs
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) - Answers - standard set of terms and
graphical notations for documenting business processes
Information System - Answers - components interacting to produce information
Hardware, Software, Data, Procedures, People - Answers - What are the Information
System components?
raw technology - Answers - Information Technology (IT)
Management Information Systems - Answers - What does MIS stand for?
MIS - Answers - the development and use of information systems that help businesses
achieve their goals
1.Development and Use
2.Information Systems
3.Business Goals and Objectives - Answers - components of MIS
8% - Answers - What percent of GDP growth does ICT (Information and
Communications Technologies) influence?
Moore's Law - Answers - predicts number of transistors in a computer chip to double
every two years
1. knowledge derived from data
2. data presented in a meaningful way
3. processes data
4. difference that makes a difference - Answers - What are the 4 definitions of
information?
recorded facts or figures - Answers - What is data?
accurate, timely, relevant, sufficient and worth its cost - Answers - What constitutes
good information?
Business Process Management (BPM) - Answers - a field of management that
promotes the development of effective and efficient processes through continuous
improvement and innovation
, system designers - Answers - Who determines the relationship of activities to
information systems?
Managerial Decisions - Answers - Decisions that concern the allocation and utilization of
resources, unstructured decisions
management information systems (MIS) - Answers - Information systems that support
managerial decision making are called...
Strategic Decisions - Answers - Decisions concerned with broader organizational
issues, both structured and unstructured decisions
executive information systems (EIS) - Answers - Information systems that support
strategic decision making are called...
Structured Decision - Answers - a Decision for which there is an understood and
accepted method for making the decision
Unstructured Decision - Answers - a Decision for which there is no agreed-upon
decision-making method
True - Answers - Structured and Unstructured refers to decision-making process, not to
the underlying subject
Intelligence gathering - Answers - Step in the decision-making process that the decision
maker determines what is to be decided
Alternatives formulation - Answers - Step in the decision-making process in which
decision makers lay out various alternatives
Choice Step - Answers - Step in the decision-making process that they make the
decision
Implementation Step - Answers - Step in the decision-making process where they
implement the decision
automated system - Answers - When an activity in a business process is handled by a
__________________ it means that work formerly done by people is now done by
software.
the rate at which new employees arrive and existing ones department - Answers -
Turnover
processing exceptions is complicated - Answers - Why are manual systems used for
payment activities?
