Exam 1
Duration: 2 hours
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Section 1: Multiple Choice Questions (2 points each, 40 points total)
1. The company intranet is typically accessible by ____
a. Employees
2. A retired accountant with very basic IT knowledge started a business to provide video training over the internet. The best technology you would recommend for that person to get the business started quickly and with minimum capital is _____
a. A Public Cloud to host web site.
3. An OLTP (Online transaction processing) system processes TPS data _____
a. in real time mode
b.
4. The five major components, hardware, software, networks and communication facilities, databases, and information management personnel, are supported by an organization’s ____
a. information technology infrastructure
5. The _______ idea is to store applications and information in the vendors’ data centers rather than on local company-owned servers.
a. Cloud
6. _____ is an increasingly popular IT model in which software is available to users as needed.
a. Software as a service (SaaS)
7. Which of the following is not a component of an information system?
a. Input
8. What has made location practically irrelevant to doing business?
a. widespread use of mobile devices
9. For most organizations, if their computer networks go down, __________.
a. so does the business
10. What is the goal of data management?
a. To provide the infrastructure and tools to transform raw data into usable corporate information of the highest quality.
11. In the healthcare industry, data errors __________.
a. increase healthcare costs by billions of dollars
b.
12. __________ is a structured approach for capturing, storing, processing, integrating, distributing, securing, and archiving data effectively throughout their life cycle.
a. Data management
13. All companies create __________, which are documents that record business