Pre Assessment C724- Information Systems Management (new version as of 2022)

Pre Assessment C724- Information Systems Management (new version as of 2022) Match the description of business functions supported by information systems to its corresponding department name. Answer options may be u ...

Pre Assessment C724- Information Systems Management (new version as of 2022) Match the description of business functions supported by information systems to its corresponding department name. Answer options may be used more than once or not at all. Select your answers from the pull-down list. An employee processes accounts payable using proprietary software. An employee verifies a customer's credit status using a credit check software. An employee processes monthly payroll checks and benefits using an open-source software. An employee reviews daily inventory reports using an inventory management software. ✔✔Accounting department Sales and marketing department Human resources department Production and operations department There are six major components of a computer-based information system, four of which are also in the information technology component. Which two components are only parts of the information system? Choose 2 answers ✔✔People Processes An organization has recently implemented an enterprise resource planning system. What competitive advantage will this system provide to the business? ✔✔Providing real-time assessment of organizational choices A retail organization has implemented a data warehouse. The organization has also recently implemented a customer relationship management system. What benefit will the functionalintegration of these two systems provide for this business? ✔✔Provide a competitive advantage based on business intelligence What are three primary components of information technology? Choose 3 answers ✔✔A network router A host computer operating system An Android-based smartphone A small company that is growing quickly into a medium-sized company is facing the challenge of consolidating and storing information received from multiple sources from the ground up in order to ensure that operations run efficiently. The company needs to hire an expert who will, in addition to the above, maintain security and apply upgrades as needed. Which IT professional does the company need to hire in order to address this challenge? ✔✔Database administrator The manufacturer of a popular mouthwash liquid brand is losing sales to a competitor who has been able to use bulk purchasing of its main ingredients from its wholesalers to receive a substantial price break in materials. Which IT management challenge is addressed in this scenario? ✔✔Develop strong relationships with suppliers A medium-sized legal services firm is facing an uncertain future as its larger competitors have managed to outsource their legal transcriptions services to virtual companies, thereby substantially reducing their internal secretarial pool. Which IT management challenge is does the medium-sized legal services firm face in this scenario? ✔✔Ensure long-term survival An automobile manufacturer is considering equipping the engines of its new models with the capability of detecting early symptoms of an imminent mechanical or electric failure, automatically transmitting that warning to the dealership from which the customer purchased the car, and the dealership automatically contacting the customer to schedule a repair appointment. It is facing the challenge of whether all this is technically feasible and operationally viable. Whoneeds to address this challenge of value creation through technology use? ✔✔Chief technology officer A car dealership has been receiving complaints from its customers about its inflexible repair system in which customers who drop off their cars the previous evening are not properly placed in the queue and tend to be placed behind those who drop off their cars the morning of the scheduled repair. It needs technical staff members who understand the scheduling/drop-off operation so it can determine and articulate precise customer needs to the programmers who would then build the code behind the system. What type of challenge is this? ✔✔User requirements An international company is facing the challenge of its software development team working on a specific application spread across the globe in 16 countries in 12 different time zones. Flying them to the same location once a week or even once a month for coordination purposes would be prohibitively expensive. Moreover, the issues that arise tend to be urgent and in need of almost immediate resolution in communication with team members in other countries. Which communication style is necessary to resolve the issues in the given scenario? ✔✔Synchronous Database management systems have evolved over time to include user-friendly command interfaces. What issues does a healthcare organization risk experiencing when deploying userfriendly interface tools to access complex data? Choose 2 answers ✔✔Data corruption Inaccurate search results What business strategy relies heavily on efficient and secure software implementations? ✔✔Web sales What business function benefits from both wireless networks and cellular technologies? ✔✔Product sales supportAn architect needs to create a multidimensional model on a computer of a proposed construction project in order to demonstrate the functionality and aesthetics of the building. Which hardware component is required to accomplish this task? ✔✔3-D printer A company needs to allow multiple computers to have access to a shared printer. Which type of computer is required to manage the print requests to a shared printer? ✔✔A server computer A large online retail store needs a computer system that can quickly process sales orders, inventory, payment, and shipping. Which computer system is required to accomplish these tasks? ✔✔Mainframe computer A large and established client gives your company an inflexible list of requirements and expects a formal, systematic, and structured methodology to develop a large-scale and completed deliverable for a fixed price and with a scope that will not change appreciably or quickly. Which approach or methodology would be most appropriate? ✔✔Waterfall approach Which approach to systems development has a limited emphasis on the planning process and uses prototypes in lieu of predetermined specifications? ✔✔Rapid application development A multinational financial firm has decided to develop a new accounting system in-house using its existing information technology personnel. These personnel are distributed over several countries around the world so communication between the groups will be limited to emails with a response time of 48-72 hours. Which development strategy can the company choose to overcome these limitations? ✔✔Rational unified process A company has many separate departments that focus on different business aspects and uses data warehouse subsets to hold data specific to each individual department. The company started a new department and created a new subset. What is this new subset called? ✔✔Data martAn auto parts manufacturer is creating a new relational database to more accurately identify their customers and vendors. The relational database records shown below are examples from the new database. Which three attributes are required to make the "Vendor" record accurate? Choose 3 answers ✔✔address_number address_city address_state An auto parts manufacturer is creating a new relational database to more accurately identify their customers and vendors. The manufacturer's database design team decided to use "vendorID" to link a given vendor to a specific product, as illustrated in the diagram shown. What type of attribute is "vendorID"? ✔✔Primary key in record "Vendor" Amanda has been asked to regularly extract and process databases from many sources into a data warehouse, which will be used by several divisions within the company. Which data type should Amanda recognize is prevented by her data warehouse design? ✔✔Variable A marketing research firm is planning a study involving consumer preferences toward new coffee flavors. The company needs to analyze coffee data from the coffee manufacturer, as well as preference data from consumers in order to discover whether certain flavors are more or less popular among certain segments of the population. Which database technology would help the company conduct this research project? ✔✔Business intelligence system utilizing data mining technology A marketing manager would like to study customer behavior and how it relates to customer's purchase products from its online store. Specifically, she would like to