Engineering Homework Help

Which of the following statements is true about supply chain management (SCM)?

SCM systems cannot automate

the supply chain.

SCM systems are used to improve business processes that span organizational boundaries.

SCM systems are often integrated with legacy systems.

SCM systems are great standalone systems, but cannot be integrated with an ERP system.

SCM systems are used by mostly smaller organizations.

QUESTION 27

With respect to the types of information systems used in organizations, a grocery store checkout cash register with a connection to a network is an example of a(n) ________.

intelligent system

transaction processing system

electronic commerce system

functional area information system

decision support system

QUESTION 28

Which of the following terms refers to a computer, data, or network site that is designed to be enticing to crackers so as to detect, deflect, or counteract illegal activity?

honeypot

firewall

bot herder

zombie computer

botnet

QUESTION 29

Which of the following defines marginal cost?

It is the cost of an alternative that must be forgone in order to pursue a certain action.

It is the cost of producing an additional unit of output.

It is the cost that has already been incurred and cannot be recovered.

It is the cost incurred in making an economic exchange.

It is the cost that is independent of the level of goods or services produced by the business.

QUESTION 30

Identify the focus of managers at the tactical level of an organization.

managing routine, day-to-day business processes and interactions with customers

solving complex problems with broad and long-term ramifications for the organization

deploying organizational resources to achieve the strategic objectives of the organization

maintaining the efficiency of business processes within the organization

designing long-term strategic questions facing the organization

QUESTION 31

A ________ information flow relates to the information that is produced by a company and sent along to another organization.

stand-alone

downstream

custom

legacy

packaged

QUESTION 32

With regards to the World Wide Web, Web pages are stored on ________.

Web hosts

Web servers

Web consortiums

Web consoles

Web rings

QUESTION 33

________ emulate traditional bulletin boards and allow for threaded discussions between participants.

Blogs

Discussion forums

Instant messages

Online document systems

Wikis

QUESTION 34

Applications that integrate business activities across departmental boundaries are often referred to as ________ planning systems.

enterprise resource

materials requirement

computer-integrated

manufacturing resource

capacity requirement

QUESTION 35

Online analytical processing tools enable users to ________.

extract textual information from Web documents

analyze different dimensions of data beyond simple data summaries

discover hidden predictive relationships in the data

find associations or correlations among sets of items

group related records together based on having similar values for attributes

QUESTION 36

________ is data about data.

Data system

Metadata

Pointer data

Data house

Multi data

QUESTION 37

Once the data model is created, the format of the data is documented in a data ________.

mart

domain

warehouse

dictionary

entry

QUESTION 38

________ decisions are referred to as unstructured decisions because the problems are relatively complex and non-routine.

Tactical-level

Illusive-level

Executive-level

Operational-level

Managerial-level

QUESTION 39

A(n) ________ information flow consists of information that is received from another organization.

upstream

packaged

downstream

stand-alone

legacy

QUESTION 40

Which of the following is an example of business-to-consumer electronic commerce?

Reuben buys a pair of shoes on Mysticshoes.com.

Juan buys guitars for resale on Monsung.com.

Brenda files her income tax online.

Neal places a bid for a mobile phone on the online auction site Feliciate.com.

Canchi, a shoe manufacturer, conducts business over the Web with its retailers.

QUESTION 41

The auction site eBay.com is an example of ________ electronic commerce.

government-to-business

business-to-consumer

business-to-business

consumer-to-business

consumer-to-consumer

QUESTION 42

With respect to computer networking, ________ refers to the physical pathway (cable(s) and wireless) used to carry network information.

random-access memory

multiplatform

transmission control protocol

traceroute

transmission media

QUESTION 43

Which of the following statements is true about an information system?

Its design goal is to enhance performance.

Its primary purpose is to run the business on a current basis.

It is primarily used by online customers, clerks, salespersons, and administrators.

Its design goal is to enhance ease of access and use.

It consists of narrow and simple updates and queries.

QUESTION 44

Which of the following statements is true about the infrastructure as a service model?

The customer has to manage the licenses for the operating systems being used.

The customer does not have to manage operating system licenses.

The customer can run his or her own applications that are typically designed using tools provided by the service provider.

The user has control over the applications, but has limited or no control over the underlying infrastructure.

The customer has no knowledge or control over the underlying infrastructure and has only limited ability to control or configure application-specific settings.

QUESTION 45

The purpose of a data warehouse is to ________.

put key business information into the hands of more decision makers

increase the complexity of the data to be analyzed

allow managers to run queries and reports themselves without having to know query languages or the structure of the underlying data

standardize the format of data retrieved from different systems

provide capabilities for discovering hidden predictive relationships in the data

QUESTION 46

Which of the following is NOT a typical revenue model in the digital world?

Subscriptions

Channel marketing

Freemium

Affiliate marketing

Licensing

QUESTION 47

At the ________ level of an organization, managers focus on long-term strategic questions facing the organization, such as which products to produce, which countries to compete in, and what organizational strategy to follow.

executive

managerial

tactical

illusory

operational

QUESTION 48

An enterprise license is also known as a(n) ________ license.

volume

shrink-wrap

implied

shareware

click-wrap

QUESTION 49

Governmental regulations such as the ________ Act mandate archiving business documents and relevant internal communication, including e-mail and instant messages.

Celler-Kefauver

Robinson-Patman

Glass-Steagall

Taft-Hartley

Sarbanes-Oxley

QUESTION 50

Companies using a ________ business strategy are also called virtual companies.

click-and-mortar

click-only

brick-and-mortar

click-and-flip

bricks-and-clicks