Chapter 1
Business Information Systems in Your Career
Classification Schema:
AACSB: The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
CASE: Bloom/author cognitive categories of content, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation
True-False Questions
1. Internet advertising is growing at a rate of more than 30 percent a year
Answer: False Page Reference: 6 Difficulty: Hard
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
2. A business model describes how a company produces, delivers, and sells a product or
service to create wealth.
Answer: True Page Reference: 8 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
,3. Information technology (IT) consists of all the hardware that a firm needs to use in
order to achieve its business objectives, whereas information systems consist of all the
hardware and software needed.
Answer: False Page Reference: 10-11 Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Use of IT
4. Computers are only part of an information system
Answer: True Page Reference: 12 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
5. Information systems literacy describes the behavioral approach to information
systems, while computer literacy describes the technical approach.
Answer: False Page Reference: 13 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
,6. The dimensions of information systems are people, organizations, and information
technology.
Answer: True Page Reference: 13 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
7. In order to understand how a specific business firm uses information systems, you need
to know something about the history and culture of the company.
Answer: True Page Reference: 13 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
8. Developing a new product, fulfilling an order, or hiring a new employee are examples of
business processes.
Answer: True Page Reference: 14 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
, 9. Business processes are those logically related tasks for accomplishing tasks that have
been formally encoded by an organization.
Answer: False Page Reference: 14 Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
10. Employee attitudes about their jobs, employers, or technology can have a powerful
effect on their abilities to use information systems productively.
Answer: True Page Reference: 14 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
11. A network requires at least three computers and a shared resource.
Answer: False Page Reference: 15 Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Use of IT
12.. An IT infrastructure provides the platform on which the firm can build its information
systems.
Answer: True Page Reference: 15 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
Business Information Systems in Your Career
Classification Schema:
AACSB: The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
CASE: Bloom/author cognitive categories of content, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation
True-False Questions
1. Internet advertising is growing at a rate of more than 30 percent a year
Answer: False Page Reference: 6 Difficulty: Hard
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
2. A business model describes how a company produces, delivers, and sells a product or
service to create wealth.
Answer: True Page Reference: 8 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
,3. Information technology (IT) consists of all the hardware that a firm needs to use in
order to achieve its business objectives, whereas information systems consist of all the
hardware and software needed.
Answer: False Page Reference: 10-11 Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Use of IT
4. Computers are only part of an information system
Answer: True Page Reference: 12 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
5. Information systems literacy describes the behavioral approach to information
systems, while computer literacy describes the technical approach.
Answer: False Page Reference: 13 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
,6. The dimensions of information systems are people, organizations, and information
technology.
Answer: True Page Reference: 13 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
7. In order to understand how a specific business firm uses information systems, you need
to know something about the history and culture of the company.
Answer: True Page Reference: 13 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
8. Developing a new product, fulfilling an order, or hiring a new employee are examples of
business processes.
Answer: True Page Reference: 14 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
, 9. Business processes are those logically related tasks for accomplishing tasks that have
been formally encoded by an organization.
Answer: False Page Reference: 14 Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
10. Employee attitudes about their jobs, employers, or technology can have a powerful
effect on their abilities to use information systems productively.
Answer: True Page Reference: 14 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
11. A network requires at least three computers and a shared resource.
Answer: False Page Reference: 15 Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Use of IT
12.. An IT infrastructure provides the platform on which the firm can build its information
systems.
Answer: True Page Reference: 15 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
