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COMP111 (Introduction To Information System) Q1 ANSWER KEY

The document contains a series of multiple choice questions related to business and information systems concepts. The questions cover topics such as competitive advantage strategies, types of business pressures, definitions of key terms, and the impact of information technology on organizations and managers.

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COMP111 (Introduction To Information System) Q1 ANSWER KEY

The document contains a series of multiple choice questions related to business and information systems concepts. The questions cover topics such as competitive advantage strategies, types of business pressures, definitions of key terms, and the impact of information technology on organizations and managers.

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The introduction of the ATM in the banking industry is an example of the innovation strategy.

Select one:
a. False
b. True

End user computing is when employees directly use computers in their work to solve problems or produce results.
Select one:
a. False
b. True

A collection of related activities and services that produce a product of value to an organization
Select one:
a. Information Systems
b. Competitive Advantage
c. Business Processes
d. Data/Facts

Information-based industries face a great threat from substitute products.


Select one:
True
False

The introduction of ATM machines by Citibank was a classic example of which strategy for competitive advantage?
Select one:
a. Cost leadership
b. Customer orientation
c. Innovation
d. Differentiation
e. Operational effectiveness

Competitive advantage for an organization manifests itself as all of the following except:
Select one:
a. Increased time to market
b. Increased speed
c. Lower costs
d. Higher quality
e. Increased profits

Which of the following is not a major capability of information systems?


Select one:
a. increase the effectiveness and efficiency of people working in groups
b. store large amounts of information in a very large space
c. provide fast, accurate communications among organizations
d. automate semiautomatic business processes
e. perform high-speed, high-volume numerical computations

is a set of interrelated components that collect, manipulate, store, and disseminate data and information
and provide a feedback mechanism to meet an objective. – information system

When Amazon welcomes you by name back to its Web site on your second visit, this is an example of which
strategy for competitive advantage?
Select one:
a. Customer orientation
b. Operational effectiveness
c. Innovation
d. Differentiation
e. Cost leadership

Which of the following statements about the impact of IT on managers is not correct?
Select one:
a. IT will reduce the number of middle managers.
b. IT increases the number of employees who can report to one manager.
c. IT makes managers more productive.
d. IT will increase the number of managerial levels in an organization.

Today's customers have __________ .


Select one:
a. difficulty in comparing prices
b. higher expectations
c. less sophistication
d. difficulty in finding information about products
e. less knowledge about products

IT workers are still in demand and are projected to be in demand for the next ten years
Select one:
False
True

When a business must abide by government regulations such as HIPPA or FERPA, what type of business pressure
is created?
Select one:
a. Societal
b. Market
c. Competitive Advantage
d. Technology
Any computer based tool that people use to work with information and support the information processing needs of
an organization.
Select one:
a. data items
b. mass customization
c. information technology
d. made to order

Improving the manner in which internal business processes are executed is which strategy for competitive
advantage?
Select one:
a. Cost leadership
b. Operational effectiveness
c. Differentiation
d. Innovation
e. Customer orientation

Data and/or information that is organized to convey understanding as it applies to a current problem is
Select one:
a. Facts
b. Information Systems
c. Knowledge
d. process

Dashboards provide rapid access to timely information and direct access to structured information in the form of
reports.
Select one:
True
false

A combination of your high school grades, application essays, letters of recommendation, and Scholastic Aptitude
Test (SAT) scores would be considered knowledge.
Select one:
False
True

The Internet increases traditional barriers to entry into a market.


Select one:
True
False

Which of these consists of raw facts, such as an employee's name?


Select one:
a. Knowledge
b. Process
c. Data
d. Information

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