Management 3300 Christianson Final Exam
UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
said "efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." - CORRECT
ANSWER - Peter Drucker
Said to be inventor(s) of public-private key encryption - CORRECT ANSWER - Whitfield
Diffie and Martin Hellman
Works at CERN, developed HTTP and HTML protocols/languages - CORRECT
ANSWER - Tim Berners Lee
Developed the Relational Database model - CORRECT ANSWER - Edgar F. Codd
Said to be inventor(s) of the world wide web - CORRECT ANSWER - Tim Berners Lee
Cracked German Enigma Codes. Proposed separating a computer's hardware from it's software -
CORRECT ANSWER - Allen Turning
Howard Reingold - CORRECT ANSWER - Modern communication media
Dr. Grace Hopper - CORRECT ANSWER - programmed the Mark I computer; invented
on of the first linkers
Bill Inmon - CORRECT ANSWER - Father of the data warehouse
_________ are the costs that customers incur when they change suppliers - CORRECT
ANSWER - switching costs
,which of the following best describes support activities - CORRECT ANSWER - it refers
to processes including administration and management, human resources, procurement, and
technology assistance
how can a company avoid the trap of competing only on price - CORRECT ANSWER - by
differentiating the products or services that it offers
the _____ code defines how keyboard characters are encoded into digital strings of ones and
zeros - CORRECT ANSWER - ASCII
_________ is a technology places on tags that consist of small chips equipped with a
microprocessor, a tiny antenna to receive and transmit data, and sometimes a battery that stores
information on the tagged objects history - CORRECT ANSWER - RFID
which of the following is true of a byte - CORRECT ANSWER - it holds eight zeros and
ones and represents a single character
which of the following is an accurate description of "Moore's Law" - CORRECT
ANSWER - the number of transistors fitting on a chip doubles about every two years
which of the following has raised questions regarding the ethical implications of a companies
collecting and analyzing enormous amounts of customer data - CORRECT ANSWER -
use of target advertising
software that is freely distributed, along with the code of underlying the program, so that people
can access the code to improve it is know as _______ - CORRECT ANSWER - open
source software
which of the following transmission media is most commonly used in ordinary telephones -
CORRECT ANSWER - twisted pair wires
, a network which connects computers, printers, scanners, and other devices in a single building or
home is called a ________ - CORRECT ANSWER - local area network
_______ is a cost-cutting approach to servers in which multiple operating systems run
concurrently on a single physical PC server - CORRECT ANSWER - virtualization
structured information can be defined as data_______ - CORRECT ANSWER - that can
be organized into hierarchies
what is the main drawback of using unstructured information - CORRECT ANSWER - it
makes retrieving information very difficult
how is metadata related to information - CORRECT ANSWER - it helps clarify the nature
of the information
a foreign key is ________ - CORRECT ANSWER - a primary key which appears as an
attribute in a different table
which of the following is a function of normalization - CORRECT ANSWER -
minimizing duplication of information
SQL links tables together by ______ - CORRECT ANSWER - using primary keys and
foreign keys
which of the following technologies is better equipped than relational databases to handle big
data? - CORRECT ANSWER - Hadoop
________ involves the automatic tagging of unusual events in financial transactions and is used
to spot mistakes and fraudulent activites - CORRECT ANSWER - exception reporting
UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
said "efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." - CORRECT
ANSWER - Peter Drucker
Said to be inventor(s) of public-private key encryption - CORRECT ANSWER - Whitfield
Diffie and Martin Hellman
Works at CERN, developed HTTP and HTML protocols/languages - CORRECT
ANSWER - Tim Berners Lee
Developed the Relational Database model - CORRECT ANSWER - Edgar F. Codd
Said to be inventor(s) of the world wide web - CORRECT ANSWER - Tim Berners Lee
Cracked German Enigma Codes. Proposed separating a computer's hardware from it's software -
CORRECT ANSWER - Allen Turning
Howard Reingold - CORRECT ANSWER - Modern communication media
Dr. Grace Hopper - CORRECT ANSWER - programmed the Mark I computer; invented
on of the first linkers
Bill Inmon - CORRECT ANSWER - Father of the data warehouse
_________ are the costs that customers incur when they change suppliers - CORRECT
ANSWER - switching costs
,which of the following best describes support activities - CORRECT ANSWER - it refers
to processes including administration and management, human resources, procurement, and
technology assistance
how can a company avoid the trap of competing only on price - CORRECT ANSWER - by
differentiating the products or services that it offers
the _____ code defines how keyboard characters are encoded into digital strings of ones and
zeros - CORRECT ANSWER - ASCII
_________ is a technology places on tags that consist of small chips equipped with a
microprocessor, a tiny antenna to receive and transmit data, and sometimes a battery that stores
information on the tagged objects history - CORRECT ANSWER - RFID
which of the following is true of a byte - CORRECT ANSWER - it holds eight zeros and
ones and represents a single character
which of the following is an accurate description of "Moore's Law" - CORRECT
ANSWER - the number of transistors fitting on a chip doubles about every two years
which of the following has raised questions regarding the ethical implications of a companies
collecting and analyzing enormous amounts of customer data - CORRECT ANSWER -
use of target advertising
software that is freely distributed, along with the code of underlying the program, so that people
can access the code to improve it is know as _______ - CORRECT ANSWER - open
source software
which of the following transmission media is most commonly used in ordinary telephones -
CORRECT ANSWER - twisted pair wires
, a network which connects computers, printers, scanners, and other devices in a single building or
home is called a ________ - CORRECT ANSWER - local area network
_______ is a cost-cutting approach to servers in which multiple operating systems run
concurrently on a single physical PC server - CORRECT ANSWER - virtualization
structured information can be defined as data_______ - CORRECT ANSWER - that can
be organized into hierarchies
what is the main drawback of using unstructured information - CORRECT ANSWER - it
makes retrieving information very difficult
how is metadata related to information - CORRECT ANSWER - it helps clarify the nature
of the information
a foreign key is ________ - CORRECT ANSWER - a primary key which appears as an
attribute in a different table
which of the following is a function of normalization - CORRECT ANSWER -
minimizing duplication of information
SQL links tables together by ______ - CORRECT ANSWER - using primary keys and
foreign keys
which of the following technologies is better equipped than relational databases to handle big
data? - CORRECT ANSWER - Hadoop
________ involves the automatic tagging of unusual events in financial transactions and is used
to spot mistakes and fraudulent activites - CORRECT ANSWER - exception reporting
