MIS Revision Part 1 (MCQs)

Which of the following is not one of the six strategic business objectives of information systems?

• New products and services

• Improved decision making

• Competitive advantage

• Improved employee morale

All of the following are new technology-related trends in MIS except ____.

• Cloud computing

• Co-creation of business value

• Big data

• IoT

A very clear understanding of how a business works can be achieved by ____.

• Analyzing the business processes

• Analyzing the software

• Analyzing the computer hardware

• Using metrics to measure efficiency

The firm is viewed as a "nexus of contracts" among self-interested individuals rather than a unified, profit-maximizing entity, according to ___.

• Outsourcing theory

• Transaction cost theory

• Value-added theory

• Agency theory

According to Porter's competitive forces model, _____.

• There is usually no substitute for a particular company's product or service.

• New companies rarely enter the marketplace.

• Suppliers have no impact on a firm's profits.

• A profitable company depends on its ability to attract and retain customers and charge them high prices.

Which of the following statements is FALSE in the context of IT flattening organizations?

• Knowledge is not as important and not reliable in organization.

• Removing layer of management

• Fewer managers are needed

• Decision making is pushed to lower levels

Why do digital media pose greater challenges compared to physical media?

• Ease of replication

• Ease of transmission

• Ease of alteration

• All of the above

Which of the following is an interpretation of Moore's law?

• The price of computing falls by half every 18 months.

• Computing power doubles every 18 months.

• The power of microprocessors doubles every 18 months.

• All of the above

Older transaction processing systems created for mainframe computers that continue to be used to avoid the high cost of replacement are known as ____.

• Legacy systems

• Sun systems

• Real-time systems

• IBM systems

A computer system organizes data in a hierarchy as follows ____.

• Bit, byte, field, record, file, database.

• Bit, database, byte, record, file, field

• Bit, byte, database, record, file, field

• Byte, bit, file, field, record, database