CIS 205 IRAT/TRAT Questions for Exam 2 (Ch. 5-7)

Question 1

Which business app. uses location info. to provide services + give mobile users access to local personal content?

Accepted Answer

Location-based services

Question 2

Restricted network relies on Internet tech. for an Internet-like environ. within co. for info. sharing, coms., + collab.

Accepted Answer

Intranet

Question 3

Which of the following contains a subset of data warehouse information?

Accepted Answer

Data mart

Question 4

What are the components that make up an RFID tag device?

Accepted Answer

Chip, antenna

Question 5

What is a VPN?

Accepted Answer

direct private network creates "private tunnel" within Internet to connect

Question 6

Which of the following is incorrect in reference to a database?

Accepted Answer

Database users access information by a physical structure

Question 7

Which of the below represent the most important network differentiating dimensions?

Accepted Answer

Cost and performance

Question 8

What is the production, mgmt, use, + disposal of tech. in a way that minimizes damage to the environment?

Accepted Answer

Sustainability or green MIS

Question 9

You could query which recordings are 4 min.+, another user could determine dist. This is an advg. of which database ex.?

Accepted Answer

Increased flexibility

Question 10

Which of the following includes the three primary network access technologies?

Accepted Answer

DSL, Cable Modem, Broadband

Question 11

Which represents the three common types of info. found throughout an org.?

Accepted Answer

Levels, formats, granularities

Question 12

What is dynamic scaling?

Accepted Answer

MIS infrastructure can be automatically scaled up or down based on needs

Question 13

Which of the below statements is not accurate about mobile and wireless computing?

Accepted Answer

Wireless tech. is any op. accom. w/ the use of a hard-wired connection

Question 14

What is one of the biggest pitfalls associated with real-time information?

Accepted Answer

It continually changes

Question 15

What is information that people use to support their decision-making efforts?

Accepted Answer

Business intelligence

Question 16

A WWAN is a wide-area network that uses radio signals to transmit + receive data divided into which two categories?

Accepted Answer

Cellular and satellite communication systems

Question 17

Miranda White likes taking old computer parts and remaking them into products like earrings. What's she doing?

Accepted Answer

Upcycle

Question 18

An extranet is not available for use by a ________.

Accepted Answer

Competitior

Question 19

Which business application uses electronic tags and labels to identify objects wirelessly over short distances?

Accepted Answer

Radio-frequency identification

Question 20

Which sustainable infrastructure component is a collection of computers, geographically dispersed, and coordinated?

Accepted Answer

Grid computing

Question 21

Which of the following is not a common form of data mining analysis?

Accepted Answer

Division organization

Question 22

Which of the following implies that aggregate or summary information is in agreement with detailed information?

Accepted Answer

Consistancy

Question 23

Wireless network provides communication over a short distance w/ devices that are owned/operated by single user?

Accepted Answer

Personal area network

Question 24

What is it called when a manager has so much data and information that they cannot make a decision?

Accepted Answer

Data rich, information poor

Question 25

A data warehouse is a __ collection of info., from many diff. __ databases, that supports business analysis + decisions.

Accepted Answer

Logical, operational

Question 26

Ben writes letters, memos, emails, and reports. The value-added duties Ben provides his company occurs at the different:

Accepted Answer

formats

Question 27

Service w/ hardware ntwrking capab., including servers, networking, + cloud storage using a pay-per-use revenue model:

Accepted Answer

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Question 28

What are the three pressures driving sustainable MIS infrastructures?

Accepted Answer

Increases in electronic waste, energy waste, and carbon emissions

Question 29

What is a challenge for cloud computing that could cause employee performance to decrease?

Accepted Answer

Required Internet connectivity

Question 30

Which of the following is a disadvantage of database-stored information?

Accepted Answer

Increased information redundancy

Question 31

What are the four wireless communication network categories?

Accepted Answer

PANs, WLANs, WMANs, WWANs

Question 32

What is the process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone?

Accepted Answer

Data mining

Question 33

What displays information graphically so it can be easily understood?

Accepted Answer

Infographics

Question 34

What processes and manages algorithms across many machines in a computing environment?

Accepted Answer

Distributed computing

Question 35

Which of the following is not a type of wireless network?

Accepted Answer

MAN

Question 36

Which of the below statements means the same as easy to manage content?

Accepted Answer

Users can update a data-driven website with little or no training

Question 37

Which of the following is not a primary use of GIS?

Accepted Answer

Ensuring safety equipment is on an airplane before a flight.

Question 38

How do TCP and IP differ?

Accepted Answer

TCP verifies data delivery in case of corruption, where IP confirms address

Question 39

Which of the following is incorrect in terms of data warehousing and business intelligence?

Accepted Answer

Operational systems are integrated

Question 40

Which tags use a battery to run the microchip's circuitry, but communicate by drawing power from the RFID reader?

Accepted Answer

Semi-passive RFID

Question 41

What is corporate social responsibility?

Accepted Answer

A company's acknowledged responsibility to society

Question 42

What are the five elements that are needed to create a connected world or a network?

Accepted Answer

Categories, providers, access technologies, protocols, and convergence

Question 43

Which of the following are the three primary network categories?

Accepted Answer

LAN, WAN, MAN

Question 44

What is the primary difference between an entity and an attribute?

Accepted Answer

entity is a table that stores info., an attribute is a specific focus

Question 45

Which of the following includes the three primary network providers?

Accepted Answer

ISP, NSP, RSP

Question 46

What is storage virtualization?

Accepted Answer

Combines the physical resources from the apps.

Question 47

Why do relational databases use primary keys and foreign keys?

Accepted Answer

To create logical relationships

Question 48

The speed of the smallest ________ determines a network's transmission speed.

Accepted Answer

amount of bandwidth

Question 49

Which of the following is not an example of how different industries use business intelligence?

Accepted Answer

Identify the primary locations where data is collected.

Question 50

Which of the following reflects Moore's law?

Accepted Answer

computer chip performance per dollar doubles every 18 months

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