Question

1.

Carlos is a business student doing an internship at Bruno and Venus, a firm specializing in exports of sophisticated equipment to other countries. He finds that he is unable to create a representative chart depicting the processes such as procurement, shipping, and billing. This indicates that he lacks -----------skills.

Data analysis

Abstract reasoning

Collaborative

Experimental

2.

The persons, places, things or events about which databases record information are referred to as:

Keys

Fields

Tuples

Entities

3.

Before a business firm can identify the data and information needs of a business process, the firm must

Obtain internet access

Hire programmers

Understand and document the business process

Purchase computers and/or workstations

4.

Which of the following statements is true of business process restructuring or reorganization using a new information system?

It requires people to think and work in new ways

It should be accompanied by a change in the top management

It attracts very little employee resistance

It does not involve the need to train people

5.

Which of the following statements below shows the contrast between data and information?

Data is the input and information is the primary output of an IS

Information is the input and data is the primary output of an IS

Data is more useful in decision making than information

Data and information are the same

6.

The confusion created by ________ makes it difficult for companies to create systems that integrate data from different sources.

Batch processing

Data redundancy

Metadata

Online processing

7.

An operating system like Windows or iOS is an example of the ________ component of an information system.

Data

Hardware

Software

Procedure

Answer 1

1. Abstract reasoning skills are something that is being indicated by the acts of Carlos in this case. Whereas the remaining ones are not applicable in this context.

2. Entities is the term with which the persons, places, things or events about which databases record information are referred. Whereas the remaining terms are not appropriate in this context.

3. Understand and document the business process is something that the firm must do before it can identify the data and information needs of a business process. Whereas the remaining steps are not recommended to do in such case.

4. It requires people to think and work in new ways is true of business process restructuring or reorganization using a new information system. Whereas the remaining statements are not true in this context.

5.  Data is the input and information is the primary output of an IS is the statement that shows the contrast between data and information. Whereas the remaining statements are not relevant in this context.

6. Data redundancy is the one through which the confusion gets created that makes it difficult for companies to create systems that integrate data from different sources. Whereas the remaining ones are not applicable in this context.

7. Software component of an information system of which an operating system like Windows or iOS is an example of. Whereas the remaining components can't be used in this context.

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