mis 11

1.

1 point

In the video case “Get Shorty,” COPLINK assisted the law enforcement officers in solving the crime by allowing the officers to:

Improve detective’s efficiency by eliminating crime scene investigations

Contact judges to Issue arrest warrants for suspects in the case

Allow citizens to report important information about crimes anonymously

Use partial information about several factors to narrow the list of possible suspects

2.

1 point

Contains all three elements of the “Tripe Constraint”

control

Stakeholders

Gantt Chart

Feasibility constraints

Variance reports

3.

1 point

In the decision support process, formulating a module to be evaluated and setting criteria for making a choice would occur during what phase of the decision making process?

Intelligence phase

Functional phase

Design phase

Operational phase

Choice phase

4.

1 point

What method of Data Mining Analysis relates to identifying a pattern of two events that commonly occur in pairs but at different times (i.e., have an ordered temporal relationship)?

sequencing

classification

association

forecasting

clustering

5.

1 point

In a relational database, what term refers to the collection of individual data values that are all related to a single unique value that commonly serves as the primary key

A Table

A relationship

A field

A record

A form

6.

1 point

In the real-time data mining video case, why were some of the responses entered rejected by the data mining software and even described as being “weird” by the narrator?

Values were impossibly large for the field

Pairs of values (e.g., education and age) were seen as uncommon

Expected data fields were left blank or unanswered

Both A and B are correct

All the above are correct

7.

1 point

Activities such as approving a loan application, contract negotiation, recruiting for a new position, and developing new technology can all be described as what type of decision?

Structured

Unstructured

Organizational

Independent

Fuzzy

8.

1 point

Technical, Economic and Operational

Stakeholders

Controls

Gantt Chart

Feasibility Constraints

Variance reports

9.

1 point

In a vertical cross-functional business process diagram, the order of items in one column (from top to bottom) shows what relationship among these items?

Time

Skill level

Cost

Importance

Frequency

10.

1 point

The terms “contextual,” “relevant,” and “actionable” are commonly related to what term?

Knowledge

Repository

Alignment

Information

Relationship

11.

1 point

A “Fishbone” process analysis diagram is also known as:

Cause-and-effect diagram

cross functional flowchart

Organizational chart

numerical analysis diagram

Correlation diagram

12.

1 point

How does telemedicine make the delivery of medical care more efficient?

Telemedicine allows a physician to meet with multiple patients at the same time

Telemedicine prevents physicians from making errors during surgery

Telemedicine allows patients to make a preliminary self-diagnosis

Telemedicine reduces the need for patients to travel to physicians’ offices

Telemedicine can perform routine procedures without the physician

13.

1 point

Which of the following knowledge management concepts includes an organizational culture focused on problem solving, a desire to share knowledge because of mutual interest, and norms that build trust, such as might be found in an MIS 111 FlexLab?

click-stream analysis

intellectual capital community

Best practices community

community of practice

knowledge management cycle

14.

1 point

With respect to a database, what term is used to describe an abstract representation of all of the information included in a data structure about a particular type of entity?

Entity key

Entity attribute

Entity class

Entity Table

Entity Model

15.

1 point

With respect to a business model, the value proposition describes what?

How the business’ products or services fulfill the needs of a customer

The price that a business sells products to distributors

The product ratio of the material cost to the sales price

A business forecast based on proposed price increases

Whether a line of business earns a profit

16.

1 point

Includes project sponsors, managers, and opponents

Variance reports

Stakeholders

Control

Gantt Chart

Feasibility Constraints

17.

1 point

Occurs in parallel with the project’s “execution” phase

Variance reports

Feasibility constraints

Gantt chart

Stakeholders

Control

18.

1 point

What type of problem has an optimal solution that can be reached through single set of steps typically expressed as an algorithm?

Unstructured

Strategic

Structured

Operational

Management

19.

1 point

What technique has been used by companies such as Starbucks, Netflix and the restaurant Elements discussed in one of the case studies to engage large numbers of community members to innovate, manage, design and market new products and business concepts?

Six sigma

Click-stream analysis

Executive dashboards

Capacity planning

Crowdsourcing

20.

1 point

Concerns over discrimination, data contamination, and intellectual property (ownership of information) were legal and ethical issues discussed in relation to what topic?

Crowdsourcing

Data mining

Telemedicine

Click-stream analysis

Project management

21.

1 point

In a project plan, the set of tasks that define the minimum amount of time required to complete the project is known as the:

Work product

Project plan

Critical path

Work breakdown structure

Milestone

22.

1 point

Tacit or sticky knowledge is based on information that is

Subjective and Cognitive

organized as a policy

A process easily learned by inexperienced employees

Techincal and procedural

Objective and rational

23.

1 point

The sequence of activities performed by users of GroupSystems’ ThinkTank product directly parallel the steps in what other business process?

Operational CRM

Transaction process system

Economic globalization

Just-in-time Inventory Management

Knowledge management cycle

24.

1 point

All of the symbols representing tasks and decisions that are shown in single column of a vertical cross-functional diagram are related to the same what?

Actor

Enity

Organizational

Deceision Model

Root cause

25.

1 point

Identifying patterns in data based on common temporal (time) or spatial (geographic) traits is based on what type of data mining analysis?

Clustering

Forecasting

Classification

Association

Sequencing

26.

1 point

An entrepreneur developing detailed documentation of their business processes so that they can be offered to other individuals as a franchise operation is an example of:

Converting explicit knowledge into Tacit knowledge

Converting Tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge

Dependent demnad

Time-delayed response

Creating a community of practice

27.

1 point

In the Wal*Mart and Dossia case study, what type of information was stored by employees in the Dossia database?

Dividends on stock purchases

Electronic Medical Records

Vacation and holiday schedules

Job applications and resumes

Employee purchases at Wal*Mart stores