Information Management Quiz 1

These are considered raw facts or figures that has no meaning.

• Information

• Unstructured

• Data

• Structured

The following are example of DATA except:

• 1,2,3,4

• Yes, No, Yes, No

• 100,50,150,400

• 400 students answered Yes in the survey.

Ways to collect data.

• Indirect, Observations, Existing Documents, Interview, Questionnaires

• Indirect, Direct

• External, Internal

• Structured, Unstructured

This category of data is highly specific and can be stored in rows/ columns or in a predefined format.

• Direct

• Indirect

• Structured

• Unstructured

This category of data has different variations and are stored in their native formats.

• Unstructured

• Structured

• External

• Internal

Organized form of data is called

• Information

• Data

• Questionnaires

• Collections of survey answer

This source of data are originally collected for another purpose, but it is now being processed to provide extra information.

Example of this is:

Spending patterns from credit cards.

• Direct

• Indirect

• External

• Internal

____________ are the unofficial ones, like gossips, rumors, and these can be unreliable.

• Data

• Structured

• Informal

• Formal

This type of information channel is considered as reliable, example of this are memos, letters, company notice board etc.

• Formal

• Informal

• Direct

• External

The following are characteristics of a good quality information EXCEPT..

• Intelligible

• Relevant

• Incomplete

• Up to date