Practice exam #1

Business process modeling reviews and analyzes _____ activities.

• total quality, worker productivity, and technological

• • worker, legal, and reporting

• management, operational, and support

• sales, production, and quality control

• accounting, human resources, and information technology

Which of the following is NOT a component of e-commerce hardware infrastructure?

• Encryption Devices

• Servers

• Firewalls

• Web Analytics

A company goes to a website that brings together a large and diverse group of commercial buyers and sellers. What type of e-commerce is this?

• Exchange

• Private industrial network

• E-procurement

• None of the answers are correct.

• E-distribution

What happens during the classification step?

• The information is given to departments within the company.

• The information is organized.

• The information is collaborated.

• The information is gathered from within the company.

LISP is an acronym that stands for:

• List partitioning

• Language instance symbolic programming

• List processing

• Limited interactive system programming

A field in a database table whose values are the same as the primary key of another table is called:

• A foreign key

• An alternate key

• A primary key

• A secondary key

The database administrator has already set permissions for several people to use the system. Three of the users need to be able to use the database at the same time. What function does the administrator need to set?

• • Backup and recovery

• User permissions

• Concurrency

• Security

• Integrity

Which of the following is an example of a general purpose information system?

• Enterprise resource planning (ERP)

• Database management system (DBMS)

• Geographic information system (GIS)

• Expert system

A benefit of information technology (IT) is that businesses can safeguard company information by employing _____ systems to protect financial and customer information from hacking.

• sales programs and service

• product programs and service

• relation programs and reliable

• storage programs and security

Which of the following is a disadvantage of outsourcing?

• Security of information

• Cost savings

• Increased flexibility

• Increased competitive advantage