TAMU ISTM 210 EXAM 1 PHINNEY
EXAMINATION SCRIPT FINAL PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS COMPLETE
SOLUTION BUNDLE
●● What is the study, design, development, implementation, support,
and management of computer-based information systems?
Answer: Information Technology
●● What is the knowledge that enables a person to understand
something?
Answer: Competency
●● What is a way of thinking that involves analysis and evaluation and
includes considering all possible outcomes in order to form a solid
decision?
Answer: Critical Thinking
●● What is a management process, technique, or method that is most
effective at arriving at a desired outcome or better outcome than other
processes
Answer: Best Practice
,●● What is simply memorizing keystrokes to accomplish a task?
Answer: Rote
●● What is something with a practical use and expected outcome?
Answer: Application
●● What states that computing power doubles every 18 months?
Answer: Moore's Law
●● How does Professor Phinney define Critical Thinking?
Answer: Weighing options and making choices
●● What do business people need to use to make good decisions?
Answer: Information
●● What does ROI stand for?
Answer: Return on Investment
●● What was the first technology that connected the world?
Answer: Telegraphs (1837)
●● Who used carrier pigeons to find information about the market?
, Answer: Paul Reuters (1850s)
●● Who is the Co-founder of Intel?
Answer: Gordon Moore (1965)
●● What are businesses that buy new technology as it comes to market
in the hopes that it will afford them a competitive advantage?
Answer: Leaders
●● What is another term for a leader?
Answer: First adopter
●● What are organizations that abstain from buying new technology and
wait for it to improve from its original version, believing that there is no
competitive advantage to be gained?
Answer: Followers
●● What is the most important aspect of Business Information systems
and critical to utilize the tools?
Answer: People
●● What involves being willing to try and learn things?
Answer: Attitude
EXAMINATION SCRIPT FINAL PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS COMPLETE
SOLUTION BUNDLE
●● What is the study, design, development, implementation, support,
and management of computer-based information systems?
Answer: Information Technology
●● What is the knowledge that enables a person to understand
something?
Answer: Competency
●● What is a way of thinking that involves analysis and evaluation and
includes considering all possible outcomes in order to form a solid
decision?
Answer: Critical Thinking
●● What is a management process, technique, or method that is most
effective at arriving at a desired outcome or better outcome than other
processes
Answer: Best Practice
,●● What is simply memorizing keystrokes to accomplish a task?
Answer: Rote
●● What is something with a practical use and expected outcome?
Answer: Application
●● What states that computing power doubles every 18 months?
Answer: Moore's Law
●● How does Professor Phinney define Critical Thinking?
Answer: Weighing options and making choices
●● What do business people need to use to make good decisions?
Answer: Information
●● What does ROI stand for?
Answer: Return on Investment
●● What was the first technology that connected the world?
Answer: Telegraphs (1837)
●● Who used carrier pigeons to find information about the market?
, Answer: Paul Reuters (1850s)
●● Who is the Co-founder of Intel?
Answer: Gordon Moore (1965)
●● What are businesses that buy new technology as it comes to market
in the hopes that it will afford them a competitive advantage?
Answer: Leaders
●● What is another term for a leader?
Answer: First adopter
●● What are organizations that abstain from buying new technology and
wait for it to improve from its original version, believing that there is no
competitive advantage to be gained?
Answer: Followers
●● What is the most important aspect of Business Information systems
and critical to utilize the tools?
Answer: People
●● What involves being willing to try and learn things?
Answer: Attitude
