Essentials of Management Information Science
Chapter 1
Business Information Systems in Your Career
Classification Schema:
AACSB: The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
CASE: Bloom/author cognitive categories of content, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation
True-False Questions
1.
Internet advertising is growing at a rate of more than 30 percent a year
Answer: False Page Reference: 6 Difficulty: Hard
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
2.
A business model describes how a company produces, delivers, and sells a product or service to create wealth.
Answer: True Page Reference: 8 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
3.
Information technology (IT) consists of all the hardware that a firm needs to use in order to achieve its business objectives, whereas information systems consist of all the hardware and software needed.
Answer: False Page Reference: 10-11 Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Use of IT
4.
Computers are only part of an information system
Answer: True Page Reference: 12 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
5.
Information systems literacy describes the behavioral approach to information systems, while computer literacy describes the technical approach.
Answer: False Page Reference: 13 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
6.
The dimensions of information systems are people, organizations, and information technology.
Answer: True Page Reference: 13 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
7.
In order to understand how a specific business firm uses information systems, you need to know something about the history and culture of the company.
Answer: True Page Reference: 13 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
8.
Developing a new product, fulfilling an order, or hiring a new employee are examples of business processes.
Answer: True Page Reference: 14 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
9.
Business processes are those logically related tasks for accomplishing tasks that have been formally
Business Information Systems in Your Career
Classification Schema:
AACSB: The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
CASE: Bloom/author cognitive categories of content, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation
True-False Questions
1.
Internet advertising is growing at a rate of more than 30 percent a year
Answer: False Page Reference: 6 Difficulty: Hard
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
2.
A business model describes how a company produces, delivers, and sells a product or service to create wealth.
Answer: True Page Reference: 8 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
3.
Information technology (IT) consists of all the hardware that a firm needs to use in order to achieve its business objectives, whereas information systems consist of all the hardware and software needed.
Answer: False Page Reference: 10-11 Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Use of IT
4.
Computers are only part of an information system
Answer: True Page Reference: 12 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
5.
Information systems literacy describes the behavioral approach to information systems, while computer literacy describes the technical approach.
Answer: False Page Reference: 13 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
6.
The dimensions of information systems are people, organizations, and information technology.
Answer: True Page Reference: 13 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
7.
In order to understand how a specific business firm uses information systems, you need to know something about the history and culture of the company.
Answer: True Page Reference: 13 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Use of IT
8.
Developing a new product, fulfilling an order, or hiring a new employee are examples of business processes.
Answer: True Page Reference: 14 Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
9.
Business processes are those logically related tasks for accomplishing tasks that have been formally