Is 4411 Midterm 2

Front 1

Social media is static in nature, and its process flow can be designed initially by the organizations. [Social Media]

Back 1

False

Front 2

Crowdsourcing is the investment in social relations with the expectation of returns in the marketplace. [Social Media]

Back 2

False

Front 3

The three roles of organizational units in social media information system (SMIS) are users, testers, and developers. [Social Media]

Back 3

False

Front 4

If a SM site wants to increase its publicity, it will want to relate to as many tiers of communities as it can. It needs to create a viral hook, which is an inducement - such as a prize or other reward, for passing communications along through the tiers. [Social Media]

Back 4

True

Front 5

The data acquisition activity of the BI process is the process of delivering business intellignece to the knowledge workers. [Business Intelligence]

Back 5

False

Front 6

A data mart is a data collection that addresses a particular functional area of the business. [Business Intelligence]

Back 6

True

Front 7

Total sales, average sales, and average cost are examples of dimensions while purchase date, customer type, and customer location are examples of measures used in an OLAP report. [Business Intelligence]

Back 7

False

Front 8

In supervised data mining technique, a hypothesis is developed after the analysis. [Business Intelligence]

Back 8

False

Front 9

Both structured processes and dynamic processes are formally defined processes. [Processes]

Back 9

False

Front 10

Process efficiency is a measure of the ratio of process outputs to inputs. [Processes]

Back 10

True

Front 11

The problems of duplicated data, disjointed systems, limited information, and inefficiencies are solved by spreading the data across multiple databases. [Processes]

Back 11

False

Front 12

Enterprise application integration is a suite of applications, a database, and a set of inherent processes for consolidating business operations into a single, consistent, computing platform. [Processes]

Back 12

False

Front 13

Usurpation occurs when computer criminals invade a computer system and replace legitimate programs with their own unauthorized ones. [Security]

Back 13

True

Front 14

Authentication is the process of transforming clear text into coded, unintelligible text for secure storage or communication. [Security]

Back 14

False

Front 15

Companies should establish security policies and procedures for the termination of employees. [Security]

Back 15

True

Front 16

SQL injection attack occurs when users enter an SQL statement into a form in which they are supposed to enter a name or other data. [Security]

Back 16

True

Front 17

The chief information officer (CIO) often heads the technology group, and is responsible for evaluating new technologies, new ideas, and new capabilities. [IS Management]

Back 17

False

Front 18

The steering committee serves an important communication function between the executive group and the users of the information systems (IS). [IS Management]

Back 18

False

Front 19

The acquisition and operation of hardware infrastructure cannot be outsourced. [IS Management]

Back 19

False

Front 20

Information systems (IS) users have a responsibility to follow security and backup procedures. [IS Management]

Back 20

True

Front 21

All business processes must include one or more information systems. [IS Development]

Back 21

False

Front 22

In Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), diamonds represent decisions and usually contain a question that is answered with yes or no. [IS Development]

Back 22

True

Front 23

The goal of information security is to protect information by finding an appropriate trade-off between the risk of loss and the cost of implementing safeguards. [Security]

Back 23

True

Front 24

Agile development is the traditional process used to develop information systems and applications. [IS Development]

Back 24

False

Front 25

Systems are created to help organizations and people achieve their strategies, so the more the requirements change, the closer they come to facilitating strategies. This is a principle of SDLC. [IS Development]

Back 25

False

Front 26

Which below is false about social media? [Social Media]

Back 26

Impede the creation of social networks or social relations among people with common interest.

Front 27

According to the textbook, the ________ is determined by the number of relationships in a social network, by the strength of those relationships, and by the resources controlled by those related. [Social Media]

Back 27

Value of social capital

Front 28

Which of the following usually happens in a malicious denial-of-service attack? [Security]

Back 28

A hacker floods a Web Server with millions of bogus service requests

Front 29

The term _______ means the more people use a site, the more value it has, and the more people will visit. [Social Media]

Back 29

Use increases value

Front 30

________ requires the user to request business intelligence (BI) results. [Business Intelligence]

Back 30

Pull Publishing

Front 31

With reference to the picture below on RFM Analysis, which customer has not ordered in recent times but when it did order its orders were of the highest frequency and monetary value. [Business Intelligence]

Back 31

St. Louis Soccer Club

Front 32

A ________ is a data mining technique in the form of a hierarchical arrangement of criteria that predicts a classification or a value. [Business Intelligence]

Back 32

Decision Tree

Front 33

________ is the process of obtaining, cleaning, organizing, relating, and cataloging source data. [Business Intelligence]

Back 33

Data acquisition

Front 34

Joseph wishes to increase the operational efficiency of his new startup. In order to achieve this, what should Joseph do? [Processes]

Back 34

Use integrated data stored in his firm's central database to analyze its day-to-day activities

Front 35

Below are benefits of using enterprise application integration (EAI) except: [Processes]

Back 35

Utilizes a centralized EAI database

Front 36

________ is the activity of altering existing and designing new business processes to take advantage of new information systems. [Processes]

Back 36

Business process reengineering

Front 37

_______ are predesigned procedures (standardized business processes) for using software products. [Processes]

Back 37

Inherent processes

Front 38

Which of the following is considered a threat caused by human error? [Security]

Back 38

An employee inadvertently installing an old database on top of the current one

Front 39

________ occurs when someone deceives by pretending to be someone else. [Security]

Back 39

Pretexting

Front 40

Which of the following is a high priority critical security function that should be addressed by the senior management of an organization? [Security]

Back 40

Establishing the company-wide security policy

Front 41

Secure Sockets Layer is also known as _______. [Security]

Back 41

Transport Layer Security

Front 42

In the information system (IS) department, the _______ group manages the process of creating new information systems as well as maintaining existing information systems. [IS Management]

Back 42

Development

Front 43

Which of the following is an example of outsourcing an entire business function? [IS Management]

Back 43

Outsourcing the function of arranging employee travel

Front 44

According to Brooks' Law, adding more people to a late project will _______. [IS Development]

Back 44

Create diseconomies of scale

Front 45

In the systems development life cycle (SDLC), the work done during ________ phase is either to fix the system so that it works correctly or to adapt it to changes in requirements. [IS Development]

Back 45

Maintenance

Front 46

Below are phases of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) except for: [IS Development]

Back 46

Plan system security

Front 47

In information security, which of the following is true about managing risk? [Security]

Back 47

Organizations should implement safeguards that balance the trade-off between risk and cost

Front 48

What is false about BI applications? [Business Intelligence]

Back 48

Placing business intelligence (BI) applications on operational servers can dramatically increase system performance

Front 49

Which is false about RFM analysis? [Business Intelligence]

Back 49

RFM analysis considers how recently (R) a customer ordered, how fast (F) the order was delivered, and how much margin (M) the company made on the order

Front 50

Supply chain management is an example of a(n) _________. [Processes]

Back 50

Inter-enterprise information system