IMT SOLVED ASSIGNMENTS AVAILABLE – ITAE-001TEST 2
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MCQ 1: Who was the British Al pioneer responsible for proposing a test for determining if machines could think?
a. Alan Turing
b. John McCarthy
c. Allen Nevell
d. Herbert Simon
MCQ 2: How do information systems aid in decision making?
a. Information systems help companies determine investments.
b. Information systems help companies determine which products to sell or discontinue
c. Information systems can be used to gain competitive advantage.
d. All of the choices are correct
MCQ 3: Online analytical processes involve all of the following analytical operations except.
a. Consolidation
b. Filtration
c. Drill-down
d. Slicing and dicing
MCQ 4: By targeting customers who are already known to be likely buyers, the effectiveness of a given marketing effort is significantly increased-if the marketing takes the form of
a. in-store displays
b. catalogs
c. a direct offer
d. The form of the marketing does not matter
MCQ 5: All of the following are basic competitive strategies discussed in the text except:
a. Cost leadership
b. Innovation
c. Product differentiation
d. Strategic dominance
MCQ 6: Which one of the following should be used to answer the question, “What would happen to sales if we cut advertising by 25 percent?”
a. Goal-seeking
b. Optimization
c. Sensitivity
d. What-if
MCQ 7: A(n) companies______ strategy is a competitive strategy by which a firm establishes new business linkages with customers, suppliers, competitors, and other
a. growth
b. low cost leadership
c. differentiation
d. alliance
MCQ 8: All of the following are attributes of intelligent behavior that Al attempts to duplicate except
a. Reasoning and learning
b. Emotion
c. Problem solving
d. Responding quickly and successfully to new situations
MCQ 9: A(n)_________ architecture illustrates the inter-relationships of the major cross-functional enterprise applications that many companies have, or are installing, today
a. enterprise application
b. enterprise operation
c. cross-functional
d. none of the choices are correct
MCQ 10: The purpose of______ is to determine what products customers purchase together with other products.
a. a regression decision tree
b. neural networks
c. cluster detection
d. market basket analysis
MCQ 11: Analysis involves making repeated changes to selected variables until a chosen variable reaches a target value.
a. What-if
b. Sensitivity
c. Goal-seeking
d. Optimization
MCQ 12: Using a decision support system involves all of the following types of analytical modeling activities except______ analysis.
a. sensitivity
b. exception
c. what-if
d. goal-seeking
MCQ13: Which of the following statements is a characteristic of the content dimension of information?
a. Information is provided when it is needed.
b. Information is related to the information needs of a specific recipient for a specific situation.
c. Information is provided in an easy-to-understand form.
d. Information is presented in a narrative, numeric, or graphic form.
MCQ14: Which of the following is one of the most common and useful types of data mining for marketing? a. Goal seeking analysis
b. Market basket analysis
c. Optimization analysis
d. Sensitivity analysis
MCQ 15: The rapid development of microcomputer processing power, application software packages, and telecommunications networks gave birth to the phenomenon of________
a. manufacturer-to-public direct sales
b. MIS departments
c. End user computing
d. electronic monitoring
MCQ 16: Which of the following is a competitive force in the marketplace?
a. Cost leadership
b. Competition
c. Differentiation
d. Alliances
MCQ 17: Decision support in business is changing, driven by all of the following except:
a. Changing corporate spending patterns
b. Rapid developments in end user computing and networking
c. Internet and Web technologies
d. Web-enabled business applications
MCQ 18: A(n)______ strategy is a competitive strategy by which a firm develops ways to differentiate its products and services from those of its competitors.
a. low cost leadership
b. innovation
c. differentiation
d. growth
MCQ 19: A firm can survive and succeed in the long run if it successfully develops strategies to confront the_______ that shape the structure of competition in its industry.
a. technological innovations
b. competitive business processes
c. competitive forces
d. competitive strategies
MCQ 20: Decisions made at the strategic management level tend to be more:
a. Structured
b. Semi-structured
c. Unstructured
d. All the choices are correct
MCQ 21: A(n)_______ strategy is a competitive strategy by which a firm significantly expands its capacity to produce goods and services, expanding and diversifying in the market.
a. alliance
b. growth
c. differentiation
d. innovation
MCQ 22: All of the following are competitive forces in the marketplace except
a. Alliances
b. Competition
c. Substitutes
d. Bargaining
MCQ 23: A major freight company has several thousand drivers. A report containing information about only those company drivers who have not taken a mandatory defensive driving course is an example of a(n),____ report.
a. periodic scheduled
b. exception
c. demand
d. action
MCQ 24: Dell, Wal-Mart, and Amazon are a few of the companies using_____ DSS models to stimulate and optimize supply chain flow and reduce inventory levels.
a. pricing
b. product and service quality
c. financial performance
d. supply chain
MCQ 25: A(n)_______ is a Web-based interface and integration of MIS, DSS, EIS, and other technologies that gives all intranet users and selected extranet users access to a variety of internal and external business applications and services.
a. enterprise Resource System
b. enterprise Information Portal
c. executive Information System
d. collaborative Information System
MCQ 26: The information products from an MIS take all the following forms except:
a. scheduled reports.
b. exception reports.
c. push reports.
d. pull reports.
MCQ 27: The expanding role of information systems from the 1950s to the present, in sequential order, are: a. Management reporting, decision support, electronic business and commerce, data processing, strategic and end user support
b. Data processing, management reporting, strategic and end user support, electronic business and commerce, decision support
c. Data processing, management reporting, decision support, strategic and end user support, electronic business and commerce
d. Electronic business and commerce, management reporting, data processing, strategic and end user support, decision support
MCQ 28: Instead of focusing on the information processing requirements of business functions, enterprise software focuses on supporting integrated clusters_____ of involved in the operations of a business.
a. application software
b. business processes
c. customer relationships
d. all of the choices are correct.
MCQ 29: What type of analysis should be used to respond to the statement, “Let’s cut advertising by $1000 repeatedly so we can see its relationship to sales”?
a. Goal-seeking
b. Optimization
c. Sensitivity
d. What-if
MCQ 30: Developing a relationship with a customer such that the customer cannot afford to switch suppliers is an example of
a. Monopolistic enterprise
b. Locking in the customer
c. Growth strategies
d. None of the above is correct