MHA705 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS | 2025 EDITION
What method are these three phases part of?
1. Pre-project
2. Project life cycle
3. Post-project - Answer-Dynamic system development method (DSDM)
Automates many of the tasks required in a systems development effort - Answer-
Computer-aided software engineering tools (CASE)
Encourages adherence to the SDLC, thus instilling a high degree of rigor and
standardization to the entire systems development process - Answer-Computer-Aided
Software Engineering (CASE) Tools
These tools help to reduce cost and development time while enriching the quality of the
product - Answer-Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) Tools
With this, any programmer can implement, modify, apply, reconstruct, and restructure
the rich libraries of source codes available from proven, well-tested products - Answer-
Open Source Software (OSS)
The ability to share information across organizations; this will remain paramount under
the HITECH Act - Answer-Interoperability
True or false: it is only important to have the ability to share patient data within an
organization as you cannot share patient data across organizations - Answer-False; it's
important both within an organization and across organizational boundaries
True or false: to be valuable, information must be: accessible, timely, complete, cost
effective, flexible, reliable, relevant, simple, verifiable, and secure. - Answer-True
Refers to whole, complete, correct, and consistent data - Answer-Data integrity
Can be compromised through human error, viruses, worms, other bugs, hardware
failures or crashes, transmission errors, and/or hackers entering the system - Answer-
Data integrity
Data that are relevant and accurately represent their corresponding concepts - Answer-
High quality data
, True or false: Data is considered "dirty" when there are errors in the database - Answer-
True
True or false: Errors in the database consist of duplicate, incomplete, or outdated
records. - Answer-True
True or false: the data that we process into information must be of high quality and
integrity to create meaning to inform our assessments and decision making - Answer-
True
Necessary for information to be valuable and meaningful - Answer-quality of information
Accessibility, security, timeliness, accuracy, relevancy, completeness, flexibility,
reliability, etc. are all characteristics of what kind of information? - Answer-valuable,
quality information
Studying the application and usage of information and knowledge in organizations and
the interfacings or interaction between people, organizations, and information systems -
Answer-Information of science
Enables the processing of information - Answer-information science
a multidisciplinary science that involves aspects from computer science, cognitive
science, social science, communication science, and library science - Answer-
information science
Deals with obtaining, gathering, organizing, manipulating, managing, storing, retrieving,
recapturing, disposing of, distributing, or broadcasting information - Answer-information
science
studies everything that deals with information and can be defined as the study of
information systems - Answer-information science
True or false: information science originated as a subdiscipline of computer science -
Answer-true
The conversion of latent information into manifest information - Answer-information
processing
true or false: latent information is apparent - Answer-false; it is not yet realized or
apparent
obvious and clearly apparent information is..... - Answer-manifest information
ANSWERS | 2025 EDITION
What method are these three phases part of?
1. Pre-project
2. Project life cycle
3. Post-project - Answer-Dynamic system development method (DSDM)
Automates many of the tasks required in a systems development effort - Answer-
Computer-aided software engineering tools (CASE)
Encourages adherence to the SDLC, thus instilling a high degree of rigor and
standardization to the entire systems development process - Answer-Computer-Aided
Software Engineering (CASE) Tools
These tools help to reduce cost and development time while enriching the quality of the
product - Answer-Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) Tools
With this, any programmer can implement, modify, apply, reconstruct, and restructure
the rich libraries of source codes available from proven, well-tested products - Answer-
Open Source Software (OSS)
The ability to share information across organizations; this will remain paramount under
the HITECH Act - Answer-Interoperability
True or false: it is only important to have the ability to share patient data within an
organization as you cannot share patient data across organizations - Answer-False; it's
important both within an organization and across organizational boundaries
True or false: to be valuable, information must be: accessible, timely, complete, cost
effective, flexible, reliable, relevant, simple, verifiable, and secure. - Answer-True
Refers to whole, complete, correct, and consistent data - Answer-Data integrity
Can be compromised through human error, viruses, worms, other bugs, hardware
failures or crashes, transmission errors, and/or hackers entering the system - Answer-
Data integrity
Data that are relevant and accurately represent their corresponding concepts - Answer-
High quality data
, True or false: Data is considered "dirty" when there are errors in the database - Answer-
True
True or false: Errors in the database consist of duplicate, incomplete, or outdated
records. - Answer-True
True or false: the data that we process into information must be of high quality and
integrity to create meaning to inform our assessments and decision making - Answer-
True
Necessary for information to be valuable and meaningful - Answer-quality of information
Accessibility, security, timeliness, accuracy, relevancy, completeness, flexibility,
reliability, etc. are all characteristics of what kind of information? - Answer-valuable,
quality information
Studying the application and usage of information and knowledge in organizations and
the interfacings or interaction between people, organizations, and information systems -
Answer-Information of science
Enables the processing of information - Answer-information science
a multidisciplinary science that involves aspects from computer science, cognitive
science, social science, communication science, and library science - Answer-
information science
Deals with obtaining, gathering, organizing, manipulating, managing, storing, retrieving,
recapturing, disposing of, distributing, or broadcasting information - Answer-information
science
studies everything that deals with information and can be defined as the study of
information systems - Answer-information science
True or false: information science originated as a subdiscipline of computer science -
Answer-true
The conversion of latent information into manifest information - Answer-information
processing
true or false: latent information is apparent - Answer-false; it is not yet realized or
apparent
obvious and clearly apparent information is..... - Answer-manifest information
