Information Systems - Chapter 2

Question 1

Exformation can be described as _____:

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common sense

Question 2

According to Katz, which is characterised as being possibly true, unimportant and/or confusing?

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Non-information

Question 3

The new go-to technology to prevent unauthorised drones around airports is

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Geo-fencing

Question 4

Competitive advantage occurs when a firm _____.

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Does something that its rivals cannot

Question 5

Digital is to analog as:

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Integers are to real numbers

Question 6

In the average organisation, Measurement (as an activity) is primarily done by _____.

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Machines

Question 7

Sustainable competitive advantage differs from simple competitive advantage in that it is ____.

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Persistent

Question 8

According to Katz, non-information is:

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Possibly true

Question 9

Mobile payment systems are _____ financial institutions.

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Disintermediating

Question 10

Un-information is potentially more ____ than non-information

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Interesting

Question 11

Victor Hugo and his publisher exchanged messages consisting of which two characters below?

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? and !

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT one of Katz's 5 faces of information?

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Re-information

Question 13

Sparkl and nuGrill are:

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Fictitious Competitors of the dental hygienist Industry

Question 14

Rules that govern what data is collected/how it's stored... in a database system/organization

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Data architecture

Question 15

Analog is the real _____ of nature.

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Numbers

Question 16

The letters R, G and B refer to what?

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Red, Green and Blue

Question 17

Beacons allow for which activities:

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Location tracking, Application Launching, Proximity sensing

Question 18

Entropy is the friend of ____ but the enemy of good ____.

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Data volume/decision making

Question 19

Beacons send a message like _____.

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Here I am!, I am here!

Question 20

The ____ associated with a situation is the measure of the degree of randomness

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Entropy

Question 21

Beacons are _____ than sensors:

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Less functional

Question 22

Context is the same as?

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Circumstance and setting

Question 23

ICT impacts/is impacted by how many of the 11 discrete areas of the knowledge creation process?

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all 11

Question 24

Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne starred in what iconic 1999 thriller?

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The Matrix

Question 25

If Sir John A. Macdonald were transported to today, he would suffer from a lack of_____?

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Culture

Question 26

If we can't tell the difference betweena digital and an analog representation of something,then

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it's Good enough

Question 27

_____ represents the highest level of decision making

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Corporate governance

Question 28

hardware cost in 2013 USD to compute at 1 GFLO has dropped from __to ___between 1961 and 2015.

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8.3 trillion / 0.08

Question 29

As resolution increases, so increases _____.

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Data

Question 30

Because we care both that messaging is occurring and what is being messaged:

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Weiner is our man

Question 31

_____ is a concept whereas _____ is tangible data.

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Length/6 cm

Question 32

Information is:

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shared context

Question 33

Effective communication depends on a shared knowledge between the communicators.This describes:

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exformation

Question 34

Data becomes information when located in a(n) _____.

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context

Question 35

he resolution of a sensor is ____.

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Smallest change it can detect in the quantity it's measuring

Question 36

Which of the following is a goal of Information Architecture?

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To determine how to move forward, To understand our place in the market, To reply to employees, customers, stakeholders, regulators, To determine how we are performing

Question 37

How long does it currently take us to generate 5 exabytes of data?

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2 days

Question 38

The Wagon Wheel Effect is often seen

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In old western movies

Question 39

Nescience is _____:

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The utter absence of knowledge

Question 40

The ICT approach to Kat’z non-information is to:

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Filter

Question 41

The opposite of context is?

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Vacuum

Question 42

How many contexts are required in order to generate new knowledge?

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2

Question 43

A rudimentary ____ is created when a child first encounters a dog

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Schema

Question 44

M-commerce is facilitated by?

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mobile payment systems, location services

Question 45

Beacons can _____.

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allow for the calculation of secondary indicators

Question 46

Facts are _____.

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Data

Question 47

The Black Box in an airplane is an example of an:

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Beacon

Question 48

AI researchers have given up trying to teach machines to recognise objects. Instead, they ____.

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show machines pictures/labels, to have them learn

Question 49

Which of the 6 Ts of context is not strictly required to be present for a context to occur?

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Task

Question 50

The 6 T’s of context are:

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Time, Terroir, Team, Trail, Task, Tools

Question 51

information that can be used to characterize the situation ofa participant in an interaction is

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context

Question 52

The operating system function to assemble and package data for transport is referred to as ___.

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Marshalling

Question 53

Data becomes information when it is:

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interpreted by a recipient and mapped onto familiar concepts

Question 54

The feedback loop in the knowledge creation process can also be thought of as?

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Experience

Question 55

Superiority gained by an organization, _____ results from matching _____ to the opportunities.

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Competitive advantage / core competencies

Question 56

GFLOPS stands for?

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power to execute 1billion floating point calculations/second

Question 57

A loose translation of 'tabula rasa' is?

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Blank slate

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