ISA 235 Practice Quiz/Exam Questions ch. 5-9
questions with accurate answers
"Bluetooth" can be best used to address which of the following?
Ans✓✓✓ A college student wishes to wirelessly link his stereo
speakers to his iPod to reduce the number of cables in his dorm room
a data warehouse is a logical collection of information Ans✓✓✓
gathered from many different operational databases - that supports
business analysis activities and decision-making tasks
A designated location where Wi-Fi access points are publicly available.
Its also a term used when an individual turns on their personal internet
connection from their own mobile cell phone. Ans✓✓✓ hotspot
A DNS service provides users of the Internet a means to enter a
____________ name as opposed to a _____________ address to view
that sites information. Ans✓✓✓ recognizable, IP
Accessibility, availability, maintainability, portability, reliability,
scalability, usability are all elements of a(n) ________ MIS
infrastructure. Ans✓✓✓ agile
Activities that govern the flow of tangible, physical materiass through
the supply chain such as shipping, transport, distribution and
warehousing is called... Ans✓✓✓ materials management
,Anthony is the Chief Information Officer of Hammaker Corporation. He
has recently been asked to allocate funds for a new GIS for his firm. The
GIS will rely most directly on which of the following as its foundation?
Ans✓✓✓ GPS
As the Chief Information Officer of a company, you find corporate
employees wanting to use different devices for connecting to the
company data through different devices such as Apple MacBooks,
iPhones, iPads as well as Windows laptops and tablets or Android
phones. In order to support all of these devices, my IT infrastructure
must provide which of the following abilities Ans✓✓✓ Accessibility
Backup and recovery plan, disaster recovery plan, business continuity
planning are all elements of a(n) ________ MIS infrastructure.
Ans✓✓✓ information
Big data is a collection of large, complex data sets, including structured
and unstructured data, which cannot be analyzed using traditional
database methods and tools. What are some reasons traditional database
methods do not work. (Choose three answers) Ans✓✓✓ big data can
contain both structured and unstructured data
includes enormous volumes of data
the analysis of streaming data flowing across the Internet
Business intelligence can provide managers with the ability to make
better decisions. Which of the following is not an example of how
different industries use business intelligence? Ans✓✓✓ Printing a list
of all customers and suppliers
, Catrina is the Chief Information Officer of Bramus Corporation in
Charlotte, North Carolina, a small but growing provider of landscape
services. The firm's projected growth path for next few years is so steep
that Catrina's CEO, Richardo, has expressed some concern about the
firm's Information Systems capabilities. He has asked Catrina to
investigate the difficulties for the Information System infrastructure to
expand quickly to meet this growing demand. It appears that Richardo is
concerned about which of these characteristics of the Information
Systems infrastructure? Ans✓✓✓ scalability
Clare, who lives in Denver, sent an e-mail to her friend Li, who is in
Beijing, China. The e-mail was broken up into packets, and one of them
got lost during transit. So, it was re-transmitted, and Clare's message was
then reassembled, and it arrived in Li's inbox. Which of the following
protocols was responsible for this process of tracing the packets, asking
for the re-transmission, and then re-assembling them? Ans✓✓✓ TCP
Clarissa, who is in Chicago, sent an e-mail to her friend Lorenzo, who is
in Madrid, Spain. The e-mail was broken up into packets, and one of
them got lost during transit. So, it was retransmitted, and Clarissa's
message was then reassembled, and it arrived in Lorenzo's inbox. Which
of the following protocols was responsible for this process of tracing the
packets, asking for the retransmission, and then re-assembling them?
Ans✓✓✓ Transmission control protocol (TCP)
Connie just moved to a new city and has been offered the option of a
"DSL." Which of the following utility companies is most likely to have
offered her this service? Ans✓✓✓ Her landline telephone company
questions with accurate answers
"Bluetooth" can be best used to address which of the following?
Ans✓✓✓ A college student wishes to wirelessly link his stereo
speakers to his iPod to reduce the number of cables in his dorm room
a data warehouse is a logical collection of information Ans✓✓✓
gathered from many different operational databases - that supports
business analysis activities and decision-making tasks
A designated location where Wi-Fi access points are publicly available.
Its also a term used when an individual turns on their personal internet
connection from their own mobile cell phone. Ans✓✓✓ hotspot
A DNS service provides users of the Internet a means to enter a
____________ name as opposed to a _____________ address to view
that sites information. Ans✓✓✓ recognizable, IP
Accessibility, availability, maintainability, portability, reliability,
scalability, usability are all elements of a(n) ________ MIS
infrastructure. Ans✓✓✓ agile
Activities that govern the flow of tangible, physical materiass through
the supply chain such as shipping, transport, distribution and
warehousing is called... Ans✓✓✓ materials management
,Anthony is the Chief Information Officer of Hammaker Corporation. He
has recently been asked to allocate funds for a new GIS for his firm. The
GIS will rely most directly on which of the following as its foundation?
Ans✓✓✓ GPS
As the Chief Information Officer of a company, you find corporate
employees wanting to use different devices for connecting to the
company data through different devices such as Apple MacBooks,
iPhones, iPads as well as Windows laptops and tablets or Android
phones. In order to support all of these devices, my IT infrastructure
must provide which of the following abilities Ans✓✓✓ Accessibility
Backup and recovery plan, disaster recovery plan, business continuity
planning are all elements of a(n) ________ MIS infrastructure.
Ans✓✓✓ information
Big data is a collection of large, complex data sets, including structured
and unstructured data, which cannot be analyzed using traditional
database methods and tools. What are some reasons traditional database
methods do not work. (Choose three answers) Ans✓✓✓ big data can
contain both structured and unstructured data
includes enormous volumes of data
the analysis of streaming data flowing across the Internet
Business intelligence can provide managers with the ability to make
better decisions. Which of the following is not an example of how
different industries use business intelligence? Ans✓✓✓ Printing a list
of all customers and suppliers
, Catrina is the Chief Information Officer of Bramus Corporation in
Charlotte, North Carolina, a small but growing provider of landscape
services. The firm's projected growth path for next few years is so steep
that Catrina's CEO, Richardo, has expressed some concern about the
firm's Information Systems capabilities. He has asked Catrina to
investigate the difficulties for the Information System infrastructure to
expand quickly to meet this growing demand. It appears that Richardo is
concerned about which of these characteristics of the Information
Systems infrastructure? Ans✓✓✓ scalability
Clare, who lives in Denver, sent an e-mail to her friend Li, who is in
Beijing, China. The e-mail was broken up into packets, and one of them
got lost during transit. So, it was re-transmitted, and Clare's message was
then reassembled, and it arrived in Li's inbox. Which of the following
protocols was responsible for this process of tracing the packets, asking
for the re-transmission, and then re-assembling them? Ans✓✓✓ TCP
Clarissa, who is in Chicago, sent an e-mail to her friend Lorenzo, who is
in Madrid, Spain. The e-mail was broken up into packets, and one of
them got lost during transit. So, it was retransmitted, and Clarissa's
message was then reassembled, and it arrived in Lorenzo's inbox. Which
of the following protocols was responsible for this process of tracing the
packets, asking for the retransmission, and then re-assembling them?
Ans✓✓✓ Transmission control protocol (TCP)
Connie just moved to a new city and has been offered the option of a
"DSL." Which of the following utility companies is most likely to have
offered her this service? Ans✓✓✓ Her landline telephone company
