MBA 619 Final Exam Questions &
Answers 2024/2025
Offensive IT - ANSWERShow much the company relies on IT for its competitive edge through systems
that provide new value-added services and products, or high responsiveness to customers
Spy Games - ANSWERSinvolve having outsiders test the organization's vulnerability to abnormal crisis
Middleware - ANSWERSsoftware layer simplifying the integration of different technologies
Robust Resilience(Quadrant 4) - ANSWERSFully electric cars vs gasoline fueled cars, RFID Chips vs bar
codes, DNA Memory vs semiconductor memory, cloud computing vs desktop computing
Creative Destruction(quadrant 1) - ANSWERS16GB vs 8HB flash drives, inkjet printers vs dot matrix
printers
Illusion of Resilience(quadrant 3) - ANSWERSGPS v paper maps, high definition vs standard definition,
MP3 vs CDs
Robust coexistence - ANSWERSsolid state vs magnetic storage, hybrid engines vs internal-combustion
engines, and Cloud Computing vs desktop computing
Strategy - ANSWERSthe creation of a unique and valuable position involving different set of activities
Core Argument of IT doesn't matter - ANSWERSThe benefits of IT will go to whole industries rather than
anyone competitor
Strategic positions can be based on customers' needs customers' accessibility, or the variety of a
company's products or services - ANSWERStrue
, Not a way to restrict the availability of a technology - ANSWERSuniversal technical standards
Cloud computing - ANSWERSon-demand access to a shared pool of resources such as storage and
applications
According to management's role in information security, an organization cannot achieve privacy without
appropriate security(T/F) - ANSWERSTrue
According to preparing for evil which of the following are true about crisis prepared companies -
ANSWERSreport fewer crisis, stay in business longer, have a better corporate reputation, and report high
profitability
Factory Mode - ANSWERSif systems fail for a minute or more there's an immediate loss of business,
decrease in response time beyond one second has serious consequences for both internal and external
users, most core business activities are online, systems work is mostly maintenance, and systems work
provides little strategic differentiation or dramatic cost reduction
Support Mode - ANSWERSeven with repeated service interruptions of up to 12 hours, there are no
serious consequences, user response time can take up to 5 seconds with online transactions, internal
systems are almost invisible to suppliers and customers, there's little need for extranet capability,
company can quickly revert to manual procedures for 80% of value transactions, systems work is mostly
maintenance
Strategic Mode - ANSWERSif systems fail for a minute or more, there's an immediate loss of business,
decrease in response time beyound one second has serious consequences for both internal and external
users, new systems promise major process and service transformations, new systems promise major cost
reductions, and new systems will close significant cost, service, or process performance gap with
competitors
Turnaround Mode - ANSWERSnew systems promise major process and service transformations, new
systems promise major cost reductions, new systems will close significant cost, service, or process
performance gap with competitors, IT constitutes more than 50% of capital spending, IT makes up more
then 15% of total corporate expenses
Answers 2024/2025
Offensive IT - ANSWERShow much the company relies on IT for its competitive edge through systems
that provide new value-added services and products, or high responsiveness to customers
Spy Games - ANSWERSinvolve having outsiders test the organization's vulnerability to abnormal crisis
Middleware - ANSWERSsoftware layer simplifying the integration of different technologies
Robust Resilience(Quadrant 4) - ANSWERSFully electric cars vs gasoline fueled cars, RFID Chips vs bar
codes, DNA Memory vs semiconductor memory, cloud computing vs desktop computing
Creative Destruction(quadrant 1) - ANSWERS16GB vs 8HB flash drives, inkjet printers vs dot matrix
printers
Illusion of Resilience(quadrant 3) - ANSWERSGPS v paper maps, high definition vs standard definition,
MP3 vs CDs
Robust coexistence - ANSWERSsolid state vs magnetic storage, hybrid engines vs internal-combustion
engines, and Cloud Computing vs desktop computing
Strategy - ANSWERSthe creation of a unique and valuable position involving different set of activities
Core Argument of IT doesn't matter - ANSWERSThe benefits of IT will go to whole industries rather than
anyone competitor
Strategic positions can be based on customers' needs customers' accessibility, or the variety of a
company's products or services - ANSWERStrue
, Not a way to restrict the availability of a technology - ANSWERSuniversal technical standards
Cloud computing - ANSWERSon-demand access to a shared pool of resources such as storage and
applications
According to management's role in information security, an organization cannot achieve privacy without
appropriate security(T/F) - ANSWERSTrue
According to preparing for evil which of the following are true about crisis prepared companies -
ANSWERSreport fewer crisis, stay in business longer, have a better corporate reputation, and report high
profitability
Factory Mode - ANSWERSif systems fail for a minute or more there's an immediate loss of business,
decrease in response time beyond one second has serious consequences for both internal and external
users, most core business activities are online, systems work is mostly maintenance, and systems work
provides little strategic differentiation or dramatic cost reduction
Support Mode - ANSWERSeven with repeated service interruptions of up to 12 hours, there are no
serious consequences, user response time can take up to 5 seconds with online transactions, internal
systems are almost invisible to suppliers and customers, there's little need for extranet capability,
company can quickly revert to manual procedures for 80% of value transactions, systems work is mostly
maintenance
Strategic Mode - ANSWERSif systems fail for a minute or more, there's an immediate loss of business,
decrease in response time beyound one second has serious consequences for both internal and external
users, new systems promise major process and service transformations, new systems promise major cost
reductions, and new systems will close significant cost, service, or process performance gap with
competitors
Turnaround Mode - ANSWERSnew systems promise major process and service transformations, new
systems promise major cost reductions, new systems will close significant cost, service, or process
performance gap with competitors, IT constitutes more than 50% of capital spending, IT makes up more
then 15% of total corporate expenses
