Management 3300 Midterm Exam 2025/2026 Must
PASS!!
(Graded A+)
said "efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." - Peter Drucker
Said to be inventor(s) of public-private key encryption - Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman
Works at CERN, developed HTTP and HTML protocols/languages - Tim Berners Lee
Developed the Relational Database model - Edgar F. Codd
Said to be inventor(s) of the world wide web - Tim Berners Lee
Cracked German Enigma Codes. Proposed separating a computer's hardware from it's software -
Allen Turning
Howard Reingold - Modern communication media
Dr. Grace Hopper - programmed the Mark I computer; invented on of the first linkers
Bill Inmon - Father of the data warehouse
_________ are the costs that customers incur when they change suppliers - switching costs
which of the following best describes support activities - 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 - by differentiating the products or
services that it offers
,the _____ code defines how keyboard characters are encoded into digital strings of ones and zeros -
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 - RFID
which of the following is true of a byte - it holds eight zeros and ones and represents a single
character
which of the following is an accurate description of "Moore's Law" - 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 - 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 _______ - open source software
which of the following transmission media is most commonly used in ordinary telephones - twisted
pair wires
a network which connects computers, printers, scanners, and other devices in a single building or
home is called a ________ - local area network
_______ is a cost-cutting approach to servers in which multiple operating systems run concurrently
on a single physical PC server - virtualization
structured information can be defined as data_______ - that can be organized into hierarchies
what is the main drawback of using unstructured information - it makes retrieving information very
difficult
how is metadata related to information - it helps clarify the nature of the information
, a foreign key is ________ - a primary key which appears as an attribute in a different table
which of the following is a function of normalization - minimizing duplication of information
SQL links tables together by ______ - using primary keys and foreign keys
which of the following technologies is better equipped than relational databases to handle big data?
- Hadoop
________ involves the automatic tagging of unusual events in financial transactions and is used to
spot mistakes and fraudulent activites - exception reporting
an electronic bridge between partner companies in a supply chain that is used to transmit real-time
information about orders, inventories invoices, and other data is called ________ - electronic data
interchange
what is cloud computing replacing - corporate data centers
expensive personal computer hardware
expensive software upgrades
(all of the above)
an integrated application suite to support a whole establishment that includes modules to manage
financials, human resources, supply chain, customer relationships, and other business processes is
called __________ - enterprise resource planning
the "big bang" approach for implementing ERP involves _____ - going live with all the core modules
in the engineered quite a the same time
the first step in the successful management of the next-generation supply chain is __________ -
planning
which of the following is an example of a consumer to consumer e-marketplace - a person posts
information about furniture he wishes to sell on eBay and sells it to another individual who views
that eBay page
PASS!!
(Graded A+)
said "efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." - Peter Drucker
Said to be inventor(s) of public-private key encryption - Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman
Works at CERN, developed HTTP and HTML protocols/languages - Tim Berners Lee
Developed the Relational Database model - Edgar F. Codd
Said to be inventor(s) of the world wide web - Tim Berners Lee
Cracked German Enigma Codes. Proposed separating a computer's hardware from it's software -
Allen Turning
Howard Reingold - Modern communication media
Dr. Grace Hopper - programmed the Mark I computer; invented on of the first linkers
Bill Inmon - Father of the data warehouse
_________ are the costs that customers incur when they change suppliers - switching costs
which of the following best describes support activities - 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 - by differentiating the products or
services that it offers
,the _____ code defines how keyboard characters are encoded into digital strings of ones and zeros -
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 - RFID
which of the following is true of a byte - it holds eight zeros and ones and represents a single
character
which of the following is an accurate description of "Moore's Law" - 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 - 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 _______ - open source software
which of the following transmission media is most commonly used in ordinary telephones - twisted
pair wires
a network which connects computers, printers, scanners, and other devices in a single building or
home is called a ________ - local area network
_______ is a cost-cutting approach to servers in which multiple operating systems run concurrently
on a single physical PC server - virtualization
structured information can be defined as data_______ - that can be organized into hierarchies
what is the main drawback of using unstructured information - it makes retrieving information very
difficult
how is metadata related to information - it helps clarify the nature of the information
, a foreign key is ________ - a primary key which appears as an attribute in a different table
which of the following is a function of normalization - minimizing duplication of information
SQL links tables together by ______ - using primary keys and foreign keys
which of the following technologies is better equipped than relational databases to handle big data?
- Hadoop
________ involves the automatic tagging of unusual events in financial transactions and is used to
spot mistakes and fraudulent activites - exception reporting
an electronic bridge between partner companies in a supply chain that is used to transmit real-time
information about orders, inventories invoices, and other data is called ________ - electronic data
interchange
what is cloud computing replacing - corporate data centers
expensive personal computer hardware
expensive software upgrades
(all of the above)
an integrated application suite to support a whole establishment that includes modules to manage
financials, human resources, supply chain, customer relationships, and other business processes is
called __________ - enterprise resource planning
the "big bang" approach for implementing ERP involves _____ - going live with all the core modules
in the engineered quite a the same time
the first step in the successful management of the next-generation supply chain is __________ -
planning
which of the following is an example of a consumer to consumer e-marketplace - a person posts
information about furniture he wishes to sell on eBay and sells it to another individual who views
that eBay page
