MIS 200 ACTUAL FINALS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Structured Decisions - ✔✔Type of decision for which there is a formalized and
accepted method for making the decision
✔✔Unstructured decisions - ✔✔A type of decision for which there is no agreed-on
decision-making method
✔✔Problem - ✔✔a perceived difference between what is and what ought to be
✔✔Collaboration Information Systems - ✔✔information system that supports
collaboration
✔✔Project Data - ✔✔Data that is part of a collaboration's work product
✔✔Project metadata - ✔✔data that is used to manage the project
✔✔synchronous communication - ✔✔communication that occurs in real time
✔✔asynchronous communication - ✔✔communication such as email in which the
message and the response do not occur at the same time
✔✔Virtual Meetings - ✔✔meetings that take place online rather than in person
✔✔Screen-sharing applications - ✔✔enable users to view the same whiteboard,
application, or other display
✔✔Webinar - ✔✔a virtual meeting in which attendees view one of the attendees'
computer screens for a more formal and organized presentation
✔✔videoconference - ✔✔allows people at two or more locations to interact via two-way
video and audio transmissions simultaneously as well as share documents, data,
computer displays, and whiteboards
, ✔✔Discussion Forums - ✔✔one group member posts an entry, perhaps an idea, a
comment, or a question, and other group members respond
✔✔team surveys - ✔✔one team member creates a list of questions and other team
members respond
✔✔File server - ✔✔a server that stores and manages files for network users
✔✔Libraries - ✔✔shared directories that allow access to various documents by means
of permissions
✔✔Workflow control - ✔✔manage activities in a predefined process
✔✔Power curve - ✔✔a graph that shows the relationship of the power (the utility that
one gains from a software product) as a function of the time using that product
✔✔gig economy - ✔✔economic system where businesses hire people as independent
contractors for a short period of time
✔✔Sharing economy - ✔✔Economic system where consumers temporarily share their
assets or services with other consumers via renting or lending
✔✔ Bell's Law - ✔✔a new computer class forms roughly each decade establishing a
new industry
✔✔Moore's Law - ✔✔The number of transistors per square inch on an integrated chip
doubles every 18 months
✔✔Metcalfe's Law - ✔✔the value of a network is equal to the square of the number of
users connected to it
✔✔Nielsen's Law - ✔✔network connection speeds for high-end users will increase by
50% per year
✔✔Kryder's Law - ✔✔the storage density on magnetic disks is increasing at an
exponential rate
✔✔abstract reasoning - ✔✔construct a model or representation
✔✔Systems Thinking - ✔✔Model system components and show how components'
inputs and outputs relate to one another
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Structured Decisions - ✔✔Type of decision for which there is a formalized and
accepted method for making the decision
✔✔Unstructured decisions - ✔✔A type of decision for which there is no agreed-on
decision-making method
✔✔Problem - ✔✔a perceived difference between what is and what ought to be
✔✔Collaboration Information Systems - ✔✔information system that supports
collaboration
✔✔Project Data - ✔✔Data that is part of a collaboration's work product
✔✔Project metadata - ✔✔data that is used to manage the project
✔✔synchronous communication - ✔✔communication that occurs in real time
✔✔asynchronous communication - ✔✔communication such as email in which the
message and the response do not occur at the same time
✔✔Virtual Meetings - ✔✔meetings that take place online rather than in person
✔✔Screen-sharing applications - ✔✔enable users to view the same whiteboard,
application, or other display
✔✔Webinar - ✔✔a virtual meeting in which attendees view one of the attendees'
computer screens for a more formal and organized presentation
✔✔videoconference - ✔✔allows people at two or more locations to interact via two-way
video and audio transmissions simultaneously as well as share documents, data,
computer displays, and whiteboards
, ✔✔Discussion Forums - ✔✔one group member posts an entry, perhaps an idea, a
comment, or a question, and other group members respond
✔✔team surveys - ✔✔one team member creates a list of questions and other team
members respond
✔✔File server - ✔✔a server that stores and manages files for network users
✔✔Libraries - ✔✔shared directories that allow access to various documents by means
of permissions
✔✔Workflow control - ✔✔manage activities in a predefined process
✔✔Power curve - ✔✔a graph that shows the relationship of the power (the utility that
one gains from a software product) as a function of the time using that product
✔✔gig economy - ✔✔economic system where businesses hire people as independent
contractors for a short period of time
✔✔Sharing economy - ✔✔Economic system where consumers temporarily share their
assets or services with other consumers via renting or lending
✔✔ Bell's Law - ✔✔a new computer class forms roughly each decade establishing a
new industry
✔✔Moore's Law - ✔✔The number of transistors per square inch on an integrated chip
doubles every 18 months
✔✔Metcalfe's Law - ✔✔the value of a network is equal to the square of the number of
users connected to it
✔✔Nielsen's Law - ✔✔network connection speeds for high-end users will increase by
50% per year
✔✔Kryder's Law - ✔✔the storage density on magnetic disks is increasing at an
exponential rate
✔✔abstract reasoning - ✔✔construct a model or representation
✔✔Systems Thinking - ✔✔Model system components and show how components'
inputs and outputs relate to one another
