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Business Driven Information Systems
Paige Baltzan
5th Edition
Business Driven Information Systems 5e
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Baltzan: Business Driven Information Systems 5th Edition Test Bank
Chapter 1
Student:
1. Why do students need to study information technology?
A. Information technology is everywhere in business
B. Information technology is rarely discussed in business magazines
C. Information technology is rarely used in organizations
D. Information technology is found in only a few businesses
2. What is any computer-based tool that people use to work with information and support the information andinformation-
processing needs of an organization?
A. Information systems
B. Management information systems
C. Technology's role in business
D. Technology's impact on business
3. What is the function that plans for, develops, implements, and maintains IT hardware, software, and
applications that people use to support the goals of an organization?
A. Information technology
B. Management information systems
C. Technology's role in business
D. Technology's impact on business
4. What can IT enable an organization to accomplish?
A. Reduce costs
B. Improve productivity
C. Generate growth
D. All of the above
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5. Which of the following represents the order of priority for the three primary organizational key resources?
A. Information systems, People, Processes
B. People, Processes, Information systems
C. Information systems, Processes, People
D. People, processes, profit
6. Which of the following represents the relationship between functional areas in a business?
A. Independent
B. Autonomous
C. Interdependent
D. Self-sufficient
7. Which of the following statements is true?
A. IS equals business success
B. IS equals business innovation
C. IS represents business success and innovation
D. IS enables business success and innovation
8. Which of the following is not a department found in most businesses?
A. Human resources
B. Accounting
C. Management information systems (MIS)
D. Payroll
9. What is the name of a company's internal IT department?
A. Management information systems (MIS)
B. Information systems (IS)
C. Information technology (IT)
D. All of the above
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10. What are raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event?
A. Information
B. Knowledge
C. Data
D. All of the above
11. What is data that has been converted into meaningful and useful context?
A. Information
B. Knowledge
C. Information systems
D. All of the above
12. Which of the following is considered information?
A. Quantity sold
B. Date sold
C. Best selling item by month
D. All of the above
13. Which of the following is considered data?
A. Quantity sold
B. Best customer by month
C. Best selling item by month
D. Worst selling item by month
14. Which information culture can cause an organization to have a great degree of difficulty operating?
A. Information-functional culture
B. Information-sharing culture
C. Information-inquiring culture
D. Information-discovery culture
Business Driven Information Systems 5e
TEST BANK
Business Driven Information Systems
Paige Baltzan
5th Edition
Business Driven Information Systems 5e
,@PROFDOCDIGITALLIBRARIES
Baltzan: Business Driven Information Systems 5th Edition Test Bank
Chapter 1
Student:
1. Why do students need to study information technology?
A. Information technology is everywhere in business
B. Information technology is rarely discussed in business magazines
C. Information technology is rarely used in organizations
D. Information technology is found in only a few businesses
2. What is any computer-based tool that people use to work with information and support the information andinformation-
processing needs of an organization?
A. Information systems
B. Management information systems
C. Technology's role in business
D. Technology's impact on business
3. What is the function that plans for, develops, implements, and maintains IT hardware, software, and
applications that people use to support the goals of an organization?
A. Information technology
B. Management information systems
C. Technology's role in business
D. Technology's impact on business
4. What can IT enable an organization to accomplish?
A. Reduce costs
B. Improve productivity
C. Generate growth
D. All of the above
Business Driven Information Systems 5e
,@PROFDOCDIGITALLIBRARIES
5. Which of the following represents the order of priority for the three primary organizational key resources?
A. Information systems, People, Processes
B. People, Processes, Information systems
C. Information systems, Processes, People
D. People, processes, profit
6. Which of the following represents the relationship between functional areas in a business?
A. Independent
B. Autonomous
C. Interdependent
D. Self-sufficient
7. Which of the following statements is true?
A. IS equals business success
B. IS equals business innovation
C. IS represents business success and innovation
D. IS enables business success and innovation
8. Which of the following is not a department found in most businesses?
A. Human resources
B. Accounting
C. Management information systems (MIS)
D. Payroll
9. What is the name of a company's internal IT department?
A. Management information systems (MIS)
B. Information systems (IS)
C. Information technology (IT)
D. All of the above
Business Driven Information Systems 5e
, @PROFDOCDIGITALLIBRARIES
10. What are raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event?
A. Information
B. Knowledge
C. Data
D. All of the above
11. What is data that has been converted into meaningful and useful context?
A. Information
B. Knowledge
C. Information systems
D. All of the above
12. Which of the following is considered information?
A. Quantity sold
B. Date sold
C. Best selling item by month
D. All of the above
13. Which of the following is considered data?
A. Quantity sold
B. Best customer by month
C. Best selling item by month
D. Worst selling item by month
14. Which information culture can cause an organization to have a great degree of difficulty operating?
A. Information-functional culture
B. Information-sharing culture
C. Information-inquiring culture
D. Information-discovery culture
Business Driven Information Systems 5e
