IS 3003 Exam 1 Ch. 1,2,3 UTSA
questions with correct answers
New Tech in IS - ANS ✔✔Cloud Computing, software as a service, big data, mobile digital
technologies
Management - ANS ✔✔Managers use social networks, Business intelligence applications
accelerate decision making, Virtual Meetings
Organizations - ANS ✔✔Social Business, telework gains momentum, co-creation of value,
collaboration across firm
Business invest in IT to achieve 6 objectives - ANS ✔✔operational excellence, new products,
services, business models, customer and supplier intimacy, improved decision making,
competitive advantages, survival
IT Advantage - ANS ✔✔Reduces cost, improves productivity
Information System - ANS ✔✔interrelated set of components or resources that collect (or
retrieve) process, store, and distribute information
Information Technology - ANS ✔✔the hardware and software a business uses to achieve
objectives
Activities in an IS that produce information - ANS ✔✔input (data), processing (using data),
output (information), feedback (information about how well its done)
, Data - ANS ✔✔raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event; the raw input for entry
into an IS
Information - ANS ✔✔data that has been converted into meaningful and useful context
4 Characteristics of Quality Information - ANS ✔✔accurate, complete, relevant, timely
3 Dimensions of IS - ANS ✔✔technology, people, organizational
IT Infrastructure - ANS ✔✔foundation or platform that information is built on
Technology Dimension - ANS ✔✔computer hardware, computer software, data management
technology, networking and telecommunications technology
Hardware - ANS ✔✔physical components of an information system
Software - ANS ✔✔the instructions that operate the information systenm
Data Management Technology - ANS ✔✔HW components for storage, SW governing the
organization and access of data on physical storage media
Networking and Telecommunications - ANS ✔✔combination of HW and SW needed for the
electronic transmission of signals for data transfer and communications
People Dimension - ANS ✔✔information systems require skilled people to build, maintain, and
use them
questions with correct answers
New Tech in IS - ANS ✔✔Cloud Computing, software as a service, big data, mobile digital
technologies
Management - ANS ✔✔Managers use social networks, Business intelligence applications
accelerate decision making, Virtual Meetings
Organizations - ANS ✔✔Social Business, telework gains momentum, co-creation of value,
collaboration across firm
Business invest in IT to achieve 6 objectives - ANS ✔✔operational excellence, new products,
services, business models, customer and supplier intimacy, improved decision making,
competitive advantages, survival
IT Advantage - ANS ✔✔Reduces cost, improves productivity
Information System - ANS ✔✔interrelated set of components or resources that collect (or
retrieve) process, store, and distribute information
Information Technology - ANS ✔✔the hardware and software a business uses to achieve
objectives
Activities in an IS that produce information - ANS ✔✔input (data), processing (using data),
output (information), feedback (information about how well its done)
, Data - ANS ✔✔raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event; the raw input for entry
into an IS
Information - ANS ✔✔data that has been converted into meaningful and useful context
4 Characteristics of Quality Information - ANS ✔✔accurate, complete, relevant, timely
3 Dimensions of IS - ANS ✔✔technology, people, organizational
IT Infrastructure - ANS ✔✔foundation or platform that information is built on
Technology Dimension - ANS ✔✔computer hardware, computer software, data management
technology, networking and telecommunications technology
Hardware - ANS ✔✔physical components of an information system
Software - ANS ✔✔the instructions that operate the information systenm
Data Management Technology - ANS ✔✔HW components for storage, SW governing the
organization and access of data on physical storage media
Networking and Telecommunications - ANS ✔✔combination of HW and SW needed for the
electronic transmission of signals for data transfer and communications
People Dimension - ANS ✔✔information systems require skilled people to build, maintain, and
use them
