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Question 1

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What is the difference between data and information?
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  • Data is facts whereas information is facts within a context
  • Information is only facts
  • decisions are made based off of information
  • decisions are made based off of data and information

Question 2

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Select the characteristics of information
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  • Timely
  • Relevant
  • Understandable
  • Complete
  • Reliable
  • Material
  • Verifiable
  • Honest
  • Accessible

Question 3

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The Production Cycle consists of getting labor and giving materials
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  • True
  • False

Question 4

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What is the Business Cycle: Getting materials and giving cash
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  • Expenditure
  • Revenue
  • Production
  • Financing

Question 5

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What does an AIS fulfill?
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  • Collection of Data
  • Turning data into information
  • Providing adequate controls
  • Making decisions based off of decisions
  • Improving efficiency

Question 6

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An AIS adds value by improving the quality and efficiency of decision making, as well as reduce cost, share knowledge and improve internal controls
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  • True
  • False

Question 7

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Which of the following is NOT an example of a Primary Activity of an AIS in a value chain?
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  • Inbound logistics
  • Marketing and Sales
  • Operations
  • Purchasing

Question 8

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Which of the following is NOT an example of a support activity for an AIS in a value chain?
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  • Firm infrastructure
  • Human Resources
  • Technology
  • Purchasing
  • Service

Question 9

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Primary activities of an AIS in a value chain provides [blank_start]direct[blank_end] value to the customer
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  • direct

Question 10

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The steps in processing data input are: 1. [blank_start]capture[blank_end] transaction data 2. make sure captured data is [blank_start]accurate[blank_end] 3. ensure [blank_start]company policies[blank_end] are followed
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  • capture
  • accurate
  • company policies

Question 11

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Which of the following is an example of a turnaround document?
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  • Balance Sheet
  • Utility Bill
  • W4 Form
  • Sales Order

Question 12

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A code where two or more subgroups of digits are used to code the item is considered a ___ Code
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  • Block
  • Sequence
  • Group
  • Mnemonic

Question 13

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What are the general rules for the characteristics of code?
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  • Consistency with intended use
  • Allowable growth
  • Simple
  • Consistent with company
  • consistent with personal ideals

Question 14

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What is not a characteristic of a general ledger?
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  • summary level information
  • asset and liabilities shown
  • used for financial statements
  • contains control accounts

Question 15

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The sum of subsidiary account balances should be ____ to the balance in the control account
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  • Equal
  • Greater than
  • Less than

Question 16

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General Journals are used to record what types of transactions?
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  • non routine transactions
  • loan payments
  • adjusting entries
  • closing entries
  • cash receipts
  • credit sales

Question 17

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[blank_start]Specialized[blank_end] journals record repetitive transactions
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  • Specialized

Question 18

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Which of the following journals are not an example of a speciality journal?
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  • Cash receipts
  • Cash disembursements
  • Credit Sales
  • Closing entries

Question 19

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Why is a master file similar to a ledger in a manual AIS?
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  • Exists across only 1 fiscal period
  • Permanent
  • Changes can't be made to file

Question 20

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What makes a transaction file unique?
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  • Files are temporary
  • Files are permanent
  • Files are maintained for one fiscal period
  • Files maintained over many fiscal periods

Question 21

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Which of the following is NOT part of CRUD database processing?
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  • Creating new records
  • Reading existing data
  • Updating previous records
  • deleting databases

Question 22

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Batch processing: documents are stored in batches and periodically entered into the computer system. The temporary file is then run agains the master file to update the master and the output is printed along with error reports.
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  • True
  • False

Question 23

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What is the difference between online batch processing and online real time processing?
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  • Master file is immediately updated in the batch processing
  • Master file is immediately updated in transaction processing
  • Output is printed in transaction but not in batch
  • Transactions are entered as they occur for real time processing

Question 24

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Which of the following is NOT an advantage of an ERP?
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  • Integrated enterprises (better flow of the information)
  • Data captured only once
  • Complex
  • Improve access of control through security settings

Question 25

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What is the biggest disadvantage of an ERP?
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  • Costly
  • Significant amount of time
  • User resistance
  • disruptive to company's business cycle

Question 26

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Why were databases created?
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  • Duplicated information in many master files
  • data inconsistencies
  • data integration was difficult
  • organization-wide view of data was hard to acheive

Question 27

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The physical view of teh database is at the [blank_start]internal[blank_end] level, this is how the data is stored in the system
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  • internal

Question 28

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Who would NOT typically look at a database at its logical view?
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  • designers
  • users
  • creators

Question 29

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The ER diagram is typically used at the [blank_start]conceptual[blank_end] level because it shows the schema of the database with the entities connected by a diamond.
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  • conceptual

Question 30

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of DDL? (Data Definition Language)
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  • Builds the data dictionary
  • Creates the Database
  • describes the logical view
  • changes the content in the database
  • specifies recor or field security constraints

Question 31

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A [blank_start]primary[blank_end] key is the attribute or combination of attributes that uniquely define a specific row in a table
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  • primary

Question 32

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Say student A is shown in the database 3 times. You need to change their phone number, you only do it on the first row. In doing so, you forget to change the other 2 rows with the old phone number. What kind of anomoly is this?
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  • Delete
  • Update
  • Insert

Question 33

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Being unable to add a record to the database is considered what kind of anomoly?
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  • Insert
  • Update
  • Delete

Question 34

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A [blank_start]foreign[blank_end] key links the tables in a database together.
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  • foreign

Question 35

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Which of the following is NOT a rule for relational databases?
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  • Every column in a row must have a single value
  • Primary keys can be empty
  • Foreign keys can be empty, BUT if not empty the value must correspond to a primary key in another table
  • all attributes must describe characteristics of the object identified by the primary key

Question 36

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Cardinality is the max number of instances of [blank_start]1 entity[blank_end] that may be related to [blank_start]a specific instance[blank_end] of another entity
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  • 1 entity
  • a specific instance

Question 37

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Modality is the [blank_start]minimum[blank_end] number of instance of one entity that can be related to a specific instance of another entity
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  • minimum
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