What are the four major threats to information security? (as discussed by Pfleeger and Pfleeger)
Interception, Interruption, Modification, and Fabrication
Interception, Interruption, Modification, and Environmental threats
Interception, Interruption, Viruses, and Fabrication
Theft, Interruption, Modification, and Environmental Threats
Label the Hierarchy of Data with the options below.
❌ - the technology involved in capturing and manipulating data. This includes the hardware, software, peripherals, communications media, and business systems protocols.
❌ - the united set of business systems designed to achieve a certain purpose. Comprised of IT as well as people, business processes, and context.
Label the diagram of the 6 Stages of Growth with the correct option from the drop down menu.
The technology involved in capturing and manipulating data, including the hardware, software, peripherals, communications media and protocols of computer systems is______.
Information systems
Value Creation
Information Technology
System specification
Which of the following is not True about IT investment pyramid model?
Reduce Marginal cost of BU’s IT.
The model allows organisations to identify the relative percentage of their IS budget.
Four IT spending categories —infrastructure, transactional, informational and strategic.
Need to focus on the Business integration and Business flexibility.
________________ is a specific type of software for creating, storing, organizing, and accessing data from a database
Object Oriented Approach
Database Management System
Entity Relationship Diagram
Relational Database
A IS Development methodology consist of phases, themselves consisting of sub-phases, which will guide the systems developers in their choice of the techniques that might be appropriate at each stage of the project and also help them to __________________ information systems projects.
Define ,Create ,Update and Implement
Procedure ,technique, tool and Implement
Change, Update, Modify and Evaluate
Plan, Manage ,Control and Evaluate
What is a relational database?
A place to store relational information
A database that is related to other databases
A database to store human relations
Software for accessing data from a database
In a relational model, relations are termed as
Tuples
Attributes
Tables
Rows
The property of a database is ______ EXCEPT :
It is an integrated collection of logically related records.
A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming a complex whole.
It consolidates separate files into a common pool of data records.
Data stored in a database is independent of the application programs using it.
What are the key features of a primary key? Choose the best options i) One field in each table ii) Cannot be duplicated iii) Provides unique identifier for all information in any row iv) store data representing an attribute
i,ii,iii
i,ii,iv
i,iii,iv
ii,iii,iv
Firms invest in information systems in order to, EXCEPT:
Achieve operational excellence
Develop new products and services
Attain customer intimacy and service
Lower market entry costs
i) Strategic information systems (SIS) offers organization ___________ and can extend the use of IS outside boundaries of the organization. ii)__________is a high-level declaration that describes an organization's reason for being ( it embodies organizational objectives)
External focus ,Vision statement
Internal focus , Mission statement
Cost Leadership ,Company Objective
Dependency ,Strategy Making
Porter's five forces model includes all of the following, EXCEPT:
Threats of substitute products
Threats of new entrance
Measure actual performance
Competition among existing firms
The total margin for a value chain comes from:
the cost of the primary activities only.
the values and cost of the primary activities only
the values plus cost of all the activities.
the values minus the cost of all the activities
This approach seeks to use IS and IT to change the way in which an organisation is internally operated and managed, by: i) changing how decisions are made ii) offering more communication options for individuals iii) providing tools for improving coordination, such as conferencing systems
In the above explanation which approach is mentioned?
Working inward Approach
Working across Approach
Working outward Approach
Working over Approach
15) Which of the following are barriers to Effective IT Strategy Development?
i) A governance structure for enterprise wide projects. ii) Enterprise wide funding models. iii) Degree of competitive advantage. iv) Parallel and linked resources for developing IT and business strategies.
ii.iii,iv
Business organizations are hierarchies consisting of principal levels, where Scientists and knowledge workers often work with/as __________
Operational Management
Middle Management
Senior Management
Individual Contributors
i) An _________________in a very broad way is the collection of information technology, procedures and people responsible for the capture, movement, management and distribution of data and information. ii) ______________is the hardware and software a business uses to achieve its objectives
Information Database, Business Process
Information Process ,Management Information System
Information System ,Information Technology
Information Management ,System analysis
State whether True or False.
i) Balancing IT solutions with business strategy will not position organizations to respond to rapidly changing business environments. ii) Any information system that encourages the sharing of knowledge across business units enhances competency
False, True
False, False
True, False
True ,True
Businesses invest in IT to achieve six important business objectives. Which of the following is NOT one of them ?
Sharing of knowledge.
Improved decision making
Customer and supplier intimacy
New products, services, and business models
In which stage of the organisational learning curve does management succeeds in achieving a balance between looseness and control by succeeding in integrating technology into the organizations business processes.
Integration
Data Administration
Maturity
Control
Which of the following is not a motivating factors for organisations to enter the network economy.
Strategic opportunity and advantage
Establishing or expanding brand awareness
The desire to obtain more timely and accurate information
Expanding the range of products and services
Which of the following is NOT one of the elements of a business model in network economy?
The business process required to make and deliver the products and services
The resources required and the identification of which ones are available, which will be developed in house, and which will need to be acquired
The most efficient store in world as result of digital links between suppliers and stores
The organization’s supply chain, including suppliers and other business partners
Mobile e-commerce is the fastest growing type of:
Consumer-to-consumer (C2C)
Consumer-to-business (C2B)
Business-to-business (B2B)
Business-to-consumer (B2C)
Which of the following is not relevant to marketing via the internet?
Brick and Mortar
Mobile Marketing
Pure Plays
Click and mortar
Which of the following is not true about digital marketing?
Marketing costs remain the same
Cost of producing first unit almost entire cost of product:
Costs of delivery over the Internet remains the same.
Industries with digital goods are undergoing revolutionary changes
The ________________suggests that an organisation with a significant resource base can absorb risks and sustain more losses than its competitors, resulting in short-term advantage.
‘Hypercompetitive Model
’Limited resources’ Model
'Unlimited resources' model
'Shareholder value' model
75 percent of businesses fail to align their IT with their business objectives, leading to lower profitability,which of the following is Not a strategy to align IT with business objective?
Identify business goals and strategies
Break strategic goals into concrete activities and processes
Identify metrics for measuring progress
Adopt multiple approaches to justify project funding
Which of the following is not true about e-commerce?
E-commerce: the use of the Internet and Web to transact business
Began in 1995 and grew exponentially
Retail e-commerce revenues grew 15–25 % per year until the recession of 2008–2009
In 2011, e-commerce revenues are growing again at an estimated 25% annually
Which of the following are the unique features of the E-Commerce Technology? i) One set of technology standards: Internet standards ii) The technology reaches across national boundaries, around Earth iii) It produce the product and service iv) The technology works through interaction with the user
Which of the following is NOT a step-by-step IS strategic-planning process?
Creating strategic, high-level IS mission
Developing IT architecture to support that vision
Creating explicit, high-level IS vision
Developing strategic and operational plans to make the vision and architecture a reality.
_______is the name given to the organisation of the interrelationships of all IS throughout the entire organisation , It will include establishing standards for processes, deliverables and people.
Operational Plan
Enterprise architecture
Strategic Plan
Developing Information system
Long-term planning is nowadays considered to be___________, and focuses on selecting and prioritising specific projects or strategic initiatives that will be undertaken to realise the IS strategy and objectives.
One to three years
Four to Six years
Three to five years
Three to Seven years
____________is a one-year plan that sets out the specific tasks that will be completed that year. It is linked to the business priorities of the organisation through the annual budget.
Business Management Plan
Short-term operational plan
Long –term operational Plan
_________________ is a piece of software that manages a collection of data.
Utility Software
Information System
Data
______________works with the computer's operating system to store and modify data and to make data accessible to users in a variety of ways.
Processing data
Electronic commerce
DBMS
Digital economies
Managing external data include unstructured data: Which among the following is not one among them?
National and international news of events that impact the business
Videos & Voice recording of news or weather reports
Stock Exchange Reports
Reports market entry costs
Fields (columns) store data representing an/a _________. Rows store data for separate ____________.
Files, Primary key
Entity ,Tables
Attributes, Tuples
Entity, Primary key
_________________typically consolidates information from many departments into one database. Then, _____________are used to perform sophisticated searches to discover new data patterns and relationships.
Information System, Data Repository
Data-warehousing tools, Data mining tools
Relational Database, Database Management System
Primary Key, Data Mart
The different ERP vendors tend to target different markets based on their business model, wherein SAP and JD Edwards are based on ____________
Information System Management
Retail Industry
Whole Sale industry
Supply Chain Management
________ provide high-level graphical user interfaces to databases that enable management to obtain high-level summary data at any time, in graphical form.
Enterprise Resource Planning
Executive Information Systems
Knowledge Management System
Enterprise System
Which of the following is not a typical organisation database systems ?
Data-warehousing systems
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) Systems
Executive Information Systems (EIS)
Transaction processing systems
In the Hierarchy of Data ,what is called as the ‘ difference between increasing efficiency and increasing effectiveness’ or evaluates understanding.
Wisdom
Information
Knowledge
Understanding
Which of the following is required in managing internal data more than just using a DBMS?
Committing management to share data resources
Keep track of basic activities
Information system accepts data inputs
Choose the best example of Database Management Systems.
Microsoft Access
MS-Word
Excel
MATLAB
____________ is the liaison between the database and its users
System administrator
Data Administrators
Database Administrator
Software Administrator
Executive Information Systems offer drill-down _________, which enables an executive manager to work down from a ____________summary to obtain more detailed information at successively lower and lower levels, and ultimately to pinpoint low-level operational detail.
Transparency, lower level
Collaboration, high level
Operationality, lower level
Functionality, high level
In Enterprise system life-cycle ________________is led by a manager / team leader and a team of specialists and advisors to manage the enterprise systems over its life using a strategy to ensure the well-being of the system technical, business, data and users aspect of the system.
a) Evaluation phase
b) Implementation
c) Post-Implementation
d) Pre Implementation
The following E-R diagram is interpreted as follows:
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