MIS Test 2

-IaaS- is a cloud service where a cloud service provider (CSP) rents out highly scalable and automated IT infrastructure, usually over the internet, to a small and medium business (SMBs) or individual developers. Popular IaaS examples include Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Windows Azure, and Google Compute Engine. -FaaS- Function-as-a-Service. kind of cloud computing service that allows developers to build, compute, run, and manage application packages as functions without having to maintain their own infrastructure IBM Cloud Functions. Amazon's AWS Lambda. Google Cloud Functions. Microsoft Azure Functions (open source) OpenFaaS -SaaS- SaaS platforms involve software that is available via third-party over the Internet. Examples of popular SaaS providers include: BigCommerce. Google Workspace, Salesforce HubSpot.Trello.Netflix. Zoom .Zendesk -PaaS- a cloud computing platform where a third party offers the necessary software and hardware resources. PaaS solutions cope with modern business requirements while considerably reducing costs and complexities of buying, installing, and managing in-house hardware and software. Facebook PaaS products include AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Google App Engine. 1. What is a challenge for cloud computing that could cause employee performance to decrease? a. Required Internet connectivity 2. Name a primary computing model that has shaped the collection of “Big Data”? d. Distributed Computed 3. Which of the below uses both GIS and GPS? d. All of the above 4. What e-business was discussed as using a data driven website in class and in the book? a. Zappos 5. What is one of the major challenges of networking or performing business in a connected world? a. Security issues 6. Kassandra Young is a business manager at Weith Productions. Although she does not have a background in technology, her job requires her to work with analytical tools to make data-driven decisions. To make her job easier, what can she customize to display data quickly and run custom reports? a. Dashboard 7. Ben works at a top accounting firm in Salt Lake City and his responsibilities include developing individual and departmental goals, and generating financial analysis across departments and the enterprise as a whole for the executive team to review. Ben’s duties provide value-added to his company and would be categorized occuring at the different information __________. c. Levels 8. Which of the following statements is true? d. The more complete and accurate an organization wants to get its information, the more it costs 9. What is usability a. The system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use

10. Shawn works at the local electrical company in Nampa, ID, which provides electricity to the entire city of Boise. This area is prone to floods, high winds, and tornados. As the lead enterprise architect on the night shift, Shawn has been asked to suggest ways the company can protect its information MIS infrastructure. Shawn notices that the company does not have the ability to for its systems to respond to unexpected failure or crashes and there is not a backup system that can automatically take over without a lost of service to Boise residents. What should Shawn recommend his company implement? c. Fault tolerance 11. The primary purpose of a data warehouse is to _______. c. Combine strategic information 12. Which of the below is not an example of an advantage of using a relational database? a. Decreased information security 13. Which business application uses location information to provide a service and is designed to give mobile users instant access to personalized local content? d. Location-based services 14. What type of business were you tasked to organize their systems to support growth as the newly hired CIO? b. Soft Drink 15. What is one of the biggest pitfalls associated with real-time information b. It continually changes 16. The Internet is a hierarchical structure linking different levels of service providers whose millions of devices supply all the interconnections. The three levels outlined in the book from the top down include _______. c. National service provider (NSP), Regional service provider (RSP), and Internet service provider (ISP) 17. What are the main methods for encrypting network traffic on the Web? b. SSL and SHTTP 18. What question below would a company need to answer when first establishing a backup and recovery plan? d. All of the above 19. Which of the following represents a reason for low-quality information? d. All of the above 20. Using __________ to mask your IP address can sometimes lead to discounted airfare. d. VPN 21. What is asset tracking? b. Occurs when a company places active or semi-passive RFID tags on expensive products or assets to gather data on the items’ location with little or no manual intervention. 22. What is a benefit of network convergence? a. Multiple devices supported by one provider

37. What is VoIP d. VoIP offers all of the above 38. What did the Guest Lecture Student use his drone for in his business? a. To create a full 18 Hole Virtual Tour of a Country Club 39. What charts the cost to the company of the unavailability of information and technology and the cost to the company of recovering from a disaster over time? c. Disaster recovery cost curve 40. Which business application is a satellite-based navigation system providing extremely accurate position, time, and speed information? d. Global positioning systems 41. Which of the following occurs during data cleansing d. All of the above 42. Which of the following implies that aggregate or summary information is in agreement with detailed information? d. Consistency 43. A wireless WAN (WWAN) is a wide area network that uses radio signals to transmit and receive data and can be divided into which two categories? c. Cellular and satellite communication systems 44. What is it called when a manager has so much data and information that they cannot make a decision? b. Data rich, information poor 45. The information MIS infrastructure supports the day-to-day business operations and plans for _______. d. All of the above 46. What are the seven characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure? a. Accessibility, availability, maintainability, portability, reliability, scalability, usability 47. What does a business continuity plan typically include? b. Which systems and business processes are critical and the maximum amount of time the company can continue to operate without functioning systems. 48. Which characteristics support a sustainable MIS infrastructure? a. Grid computing, cloud computing, and virtualizations 49. What is a company that uses the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)? a. Spotify 50. Professor Geiger who spoke with us in class about “Big Data” has B.S. in _______. d. Marketing 51. ______ was a peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service that emphasized sharing digital audio. b. Napster

52. Which of the following represent the four primary traits that help determine the value of information? b. Information type, information timeliness, information quality, and information governance 53. Why were data warehouses created? d. All of the above 54. LANs, WANs, and MANs, all provide users with an accessible and reliable network infrastructure. Which of the below are the most important network differentiating dimensions? b. Cost and performance 55. Which of the following is an example of unstructured data? d. Email data 56. Why would a company use an Intranet? d. All of the above 57. What is the ultimate outcome of a data warehouse? b. Data marts 58. In class we debated net neutrality for a group exercise. Did the students that reported out think that net neutrality was good or bad for business? b. Good 59. Managers can use BI to answer tough business questions. Which of the following describes the value of knowing where the business has been? c. A historical perspective offers important variables for determining trends and patterns 60. What are the two most prevalent types of broadband access? d. Digital subscriber line and cable connection 1. Which of the following is NOT a reason to study trends? ○ None of the above 2. Which of the following is NOT a benefit of a connected world? ○ Security 3. What has Not enabled cloud computing? ○ Distributed computing 4. What are the four “v’s” of Big Data? ○ Volume, velocity, variety, veracity 5. Each year businesses lose time and money because of system crashes and failures. Which of the following does NOT offer the best way to protect a system from crashes and failures? ○ Data stored on a PC 6. Which of the following is correct in reference to a database? ○ A database can support many logical views 7. Which characteristics support a sustainable MIS infrastructure? ○ Grid computing, cloud computing, and virtualization 8. ____ public cloud providers offer storage and compute services on a pay per use basis ○ IaaS 9. Which of the following is a problem that has been identified with Fiat cash? ○ Inflation through governments 10. According to Professor Geiger, what percentage of aggregated data is being analyzed?

○ Accessibility, availability, maintainability, portability, reliability, scalability, and Usability 33. What are the three types of clouds? ○ Private, public, hybrid 34. What is an encryption algorithm designed to protect wireless transmission data? ○ WEP 35. Which of the following statements is NOT correct? ○ Usability of an MIS infrastructure refers to the varying levels that allow system users to access, view, or perform operational functions 36. A data warehouse is a ________ collection of information, gathered from many different ________ databases, that supports business analysis activities and decision-making tasks. ○ Logical, operational 37. Which of the following are examples of analytical information? ○ Future growth analysis, sales projections, and product statistics 38. What is erroneous or flawed data? ○ Dirty data 39. When discussing networking elements, which network provider describes NAPs? ○ NAPs are traffic exchange points in the routing hierarchy of the Internet that connects NSPs’ 40. What is an example of a device without edge computing? ○ Amazon blender 41. What is NOT part of business continuity planning as discussed in class? ○ IaaS recovery 42. What refers to how well a system can adapt to increased demands? ○ Scalability 43. 90% of all data that exists today was created in the last _____ years. ○ 2 44. Which of the following is NOT a primary trait of information? ○ Quantity 45. What are the two most prevalent types of broadband access? ○ Digital subscriber line and cable connection 46. What does extraction, transformation, and loading mean? ○ It is a process that extracts information from internal and external databases, transforms it using a common set of enterprise definitions, and loads it into a data warehouse 47. What are the primary differences between a data warehouse and a data mart? ○ Data warehouses have a more organization-wide focus, data marts have functional focus 48. What is net neutrality in the most basic sense? ○ Using the internet free of discrimination 49. Which of the following is NOT a benefit of a solid (good) MIS infrastructure? ○ Reduces disaster recovery capability 50. What is a system weakness that can be exploited by a threat? ○ Vulnerability 51. What is usability? ○ The system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use 52. Which of the following implies that aggregate or summary information is in agreement with detailed information? ○ Consistency 53. What is the primary purpose of using a data warehouse? ○ To aggregate information throughout an organization into a single repository for decision making 54. During the BAE Systems disaster recovery initiative following the 2006 event, what is a lesson learned by the Johnson City business? ○ Critical information should be stored in recoverable computer systems offsite 55. The information MIS infrastructure supports the day-to-day business operations and plans for ________. ○ All of the above 56. Cloud computing has which of the following characteristics? ○ Local systems and nearly unlimited scalability

57. NSPs are private companies that own and maintain the worldwide backbone that supports the Internet. Which of the below is NOT an NSP? ○ Microsoft 58. What question below would a company need to answer when first establishing a backup and recovery plan? ○ All of the above 59. 59. What is a great example of using cluster analysis in business to create target- marketing strategies? ○ Zip code segmentation 60. What is it called when a manager has so much data and information that they cannot make a decision? ○ Data rich, information poor 61. Which term refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system? ○ Accessibility 62. What was an example used in class during Professor Geiger’s presentation about data complexities of Big Data? ○ Different ways to write a persons name 63. Managers can use BI to answer tough business questions. Which of the following describes the value of knowing where the business has been? ○ 64. How would you put a zettabyte into context from Professor Geiger’s presentation? ○ It would take 100 million years to download one zettabyte 1. What refers to how well a system can adapt to increased demands?  Scalability 2. What is the benefit of network convergence?  All of the above 3. Which of the following implies that aggregate or summary information is in agreement with detailed information?  Consistency 4. What kind of time is used on mobile devices? 5. What are the three business functions an MIS infrastructure supports?  Supports operations, change, and the environment or sustainability 6. What type of integrity constraint does NOT allow someone to create an order for a nonexistent customer?  Relational integrity constraint 7. What natural disaster occurred while Professor Shannon was working at BAE Systems in Johnson City?  Floods 8. What is an encryption algorithm designed to protect wireless transmission data?  Wired equivalent privacy (WEP) 9. If there was ever a national disaster, a company would move to its ______ so the company could immediately resume business.  Hot Site 10. What are the two most prevalent types of broadband access?  Digital subscriber line and cable connection 11. What is an example of a LAN?  School Area Network, City Library 12. What charts the cost to the company of the unavailability of information and technology and the cost to the company of recovering from a disaster over time?  Disaster Recovery Cost Curve 13. What is a VPN?  Uses the internet to create the appearance of point-to-point connections 14. What is a great example of using cluster analysis in business to create target-marketing strategies?  Zip code segmentation 15. Which characteristics support a sustainable MIS infrastructure?  Grid computing, cloud computing, virtualization 16. Jessica started her own online company, which specializes in selling items for bachelorette parties, wedding

36. Which of the following is correct in reference to a database?  A database can support many logical views 37. What is usability?  The degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use 38. Which term refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system?  Accessibility 39. What is asset tracking?  When a company places active/semi-passive RFID tags on expensive products/assets to gather data on item locations with little to no manual intervention 40. Which of the below is NOT an example of an advantage of using a relational database?  Increase information redundancy (: increased information quality, flexibility, security) 41. Which business application is a satellite-based navigation system providing extremely accurate position, time, and speed information?  Global positioning systems 42. Which of the following statements is NOT correct? 43. Managers can use BI to answer tough business questions. Which of the following describes the values of knowing where the business has been?  Historical perspective offers important variables for determining trends and patterns 44. A data warehouse is a ____ collection of information, gathered from many different _____ databases, that supports business analysis activities and decision-making tasks.  Logical / Operational 45. What are the two main methods for encrypting network traffic on the Web?  SSL and SHTTP 46. What is one of the biggest pitfalls associated with real-time information?  It continually changes 47. What is erroneous or flawed data?  Dirty data 48. What is one of the major challenges of networking or performing business in a connected world?  Security issues 49. What question would a company need to answer when first establishing a backup and recovery plan?  What types of storage mechanisms will meet the needs of the company? How often does the company need to back up its information? What types of recovery systems does the company infrastructure need? 50. What are the primary differences between a data warehouse and a data mart?  Data warehouses have a more organization-wide focus, data marts have a functional focus 51. Which of the following are examples of analytical information?  Information showing which airline routes in the United States have the most sales 52. The information MIS infrastructure supports the day-to-day business operations and plans for _____.  All of the above (security breaches and theft, floods and earthquakes, malicious internet attacks) 53. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of database-stored information?  Increased information redundancy 54. Why would a company use an intranet?  All of the above ( intranets are used for business operations and management, intranets are used for communications and collaboration, intranets are used for Web publishing ) 55. What does a business continuity plan typically include?  Which systems and business processes are critical and the maximum amount of time the company can continue to operate without functioning systems 56. Which of the following statements is true?  The more complete and accurate an organization wants its information to be, the more it costs 57. What do extraction, transformation, and loading mean?  It is a process that extracts information from internal and external databases, transforms it using a common set of enterprise definitions, and loads it into a data warehouse 58. Which of the below uses both GIS and GPS?  Navigation, Wireless advertising, Vehicle location 59. What is a challenge for cloud computing that could cause employee performance to decrease?  Required internet connectivity 60. Which of the following is NOT a benefit of a connected world?  Increases resource threats 61. Which of the following occurs during data cleansing?

 All of the above 62. According to Professor Geiger, what percentage of aggregated data is being analyzed? 63. Which of the following is NOT a reason to study trends?  Generate ideas and identify opportunities, identify early warning signals, gain confidence, beat the competition, understand a trend, balance strategic goals, understand the future of specific industries, prepare for the future 64. What is AI NOT predicted to take over?  65. 90% of all data that exists today was created in the last ____ years.  Two