Welcome to our guide on “MIS” (Management Information Systems), an essential component in today’s business landscape. MIS refers to using technology and systems to manage, process, and analyze data for effective decision-making and organizational management.
We’ll explore the fundamental concepts of MIS and its significance in modern organizations. MIS helps businesses collect, store, and retrieve data from various sources, enabling managers to access timely and relevant information to support their decision-making process.
We’ll delve into the key components of MIS, including databases, software applications, hardware infrastructure, and networking technologies. Understanding these components is crucial for leveraging MIS effectively within an organization.
So, let’s move on to the quiz questions with answers.
Q1. According to a recent report by Tech Republic and ZDNet, other IT jobs that will be most in demand in 2020 include computer vision engineer and machine learning engineer.
Select one:
a. True
b. FalseQ2. The top reasons respondents gave for becoming gig workers in a recent survey was they wanted to be an independent contractor, freelancer, temporary worker or consultant (89%).
Select one:
a. True
b. FalseQ3. IT agility, flexibility, and mobility are tightly interrelated and primarily dependent on:
Select one:
a. An organization’s IT infrastructure and architecture
b. The IT division’s strategic hiring and training practices
c. IT’s integration with production and accounting units
d. Strategic alignment between IT budget and company mission statementQ4. In the simplest terms, a business process consists of activities that convert inputs into outputs by doing work.
Select one:
a. True
b. FalseQ5. _ is a company’s core strategy for making a profit. It defines the products and/or services it will sell, its target market, costs
associated with doing business, and the company’s ongoing plans for achieving its goals.Select one:
a. Business model
b. Website
c. Data analytics
d. Technology stackQ6. An effective informal business process documents who will perform the tasks; what materials to use; and where, how, and when the tasks are to be performed.
Select one:
a. True
b. FalseQ7. Machine-to-machine (M2M) technology enables sensor-embedded products to share reliable real-time data __.
Select one:
a. over short distances
b. via radio signals
c. using cloud services
d. via databasesQ8. Data Virtualization has led to a new type of facility called the _, which optimizes the use of resources, balances workloads,
and maximizes operational efficiency by dynamically distributing workloads and provisioning networksSelect one:
a. Data Center for Software Development
b. Software-Defined Logistics Center
c. Software-Defined Data Center
d. Cloud Computing Data CenterQ9. When data is processed, organized, structured, and analyzed, the result is tacit knowledge.
Select one:
a. True
b. FalseQ10. The technical architecture of the EA (enterprise architecture) describes __.
Select one:
a. The hardware and software infrastructure that supports applications and their interactions.
b. How an enterprise’s data stores are organized and accessed.
c. How specific applications are designed and how they interact with each other.
d. The processes the business uses to meet its goals.Q11. Cloud computing solutions are growing in popularity with organizations because they reduce the burden of deploying, provisioning, and updating software apps.
Select one:
a. True
b. FalseQ12. Jackson Stiles is a marketing manager for Rock Hardware. His boss has told him to make sure each product earns at least a 25% net profit margin. When new products come into the store, Jackson enters data into Rock’s DSS about the product, shipping and promotional costs associated with carrying the product. The DSS then calculates a target price based on this information. Jackson is using the DSS to conduct a __ analysis.
Select one:
a. Input-Output
b. Factor
c. Goal seeking
d. What-ifQ13. As companies move toward implementing cloud computing on a wide scale, managers need to consider all of the following strategic questions except __.
Select one:
a. Which workloads should be exported to the cloud?
b. What will be the impact of cloud computing on the company’s market share and brand image?
c. How to resolve issues of privacy and security as things move out to the cloud?
d. How will departments or business units get new IT resources?Q14. Jared is a sales manager at a large company where employees use several cloud apps such as salesforce.com and Google Apps. The company decided to use these apps instead of purchasing apps that would run from their own servers, reducing the cost and complexity associated with their use. Apps like these are known as:
Select one:
a. Virtual enterprise apps
b. Enterprise systems
c. Software as a service
d. Mobile appsQ15. A SaaS provider licenses an application to customers either on demand, through a subscription, based on usage, or increasingly at no cost when there is opportunity to generate revenue from advertisement or other method.
Select one:
a. True
b. FalseQ16. In the cloud computing stack, a service provider hosts the application at its data center and customers access it via a standard Web browser.
Select one:
a. True
b. FalseQ17. Online transaction processing (OLTP) systems are designed to manage transaction data, which are volatile.
Select one:
a. True
b. FalseQ18. __ data model is a data model that allows multiple records to be linked to the same parent.
Select one:
a. Network
b. Hierarchical
c. Object-oriented
d. RelationalQ19. The primary disadvantage of centralized database systems is __.
Select one:
a. IT security
b. data quality
c. ease of use
d. transmission delay when users are geo-dispersedQ20. According to the __, a majority of data is seldom accessed after a 3-month period.
Select one:
a. Principle of data in context
b. Principle of 90/90 data use
c. Principle of diminishing data value
d. Principle of data qualityQ21. __ is any paper, electronic form, file, email, fax, contract, lease, and so on actively being worked on.
Select one:
a. Electronic document
b. Electronic record
c. EDMS
d. Electronic contentQ22. Volatile refers to data that change frequently.
Select one:
a. True
b. FalseQ23. Before selecting a vendor, it is important to examine workflows and how data, documents, and communications flow throughout the company.
Select one:
a. True
b. FalseQ24. Structure Query Language (SQL) is the most widely-used mainstream declarative language that works with any database to simplify data access by requiring that users only declare what data they want rather than tell the DBMS how to get it.
Select one:
a. True
b. FalseQ25. Which of these refers to a collection of data sets or records stored in a systematic way?
Select one:
a. Database
b. Data warehouse
c. Data mart
d. Data silo