Test Bank for Management Information Systems 4th Edition by Baltzan

Test Bank for Management
Information Systems 4th
Edition by Baltzan




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,Chapter 01 Management Information Systems: Business Driven



True / False Questions


1. Companies today are successful when they combine the power of the information
age with traditional business methods.

TRUE
Companies today are successful when they combine the power of the information
age with traditional business methods.



2. Competitive intelligence is information collected from multiple sources such as
suppliers, customers, competitors, partners, and industries that analyzes patterns,
trends, and relationships for strategic decision making.

FALSE
This is the definition of business intelligence which is information collected from
multiple sources such as suppliers, customers, competitors, partners, and
industries that analyzes patterns, trends, and relationships for strategic decision
making.




3. Business intelligence is information collected from multiple sources such as
suppliers, customers, competitors, partners, and industries that analyzes patterns,
trends, and relationships for strategic decision making.

TRUE
This is the definition of business intelligence.




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, AACSB: Reflective Thinking
AACSB: Technology
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy




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, Learning Objective: 01-01 Describe the information age and the differences among data, information, business
intelligence, and knowledge.
Topic: Competing in the Information Age

4. The information age is the present time, during which infinite quantities of facts
are widely available to anyone who can use a computer.

TRUE
The information age is the present time, during which infinite quantities of facts
are widely available to anyone who can use a computer.


AACSB: Reflective Thinking
AACSB: Technology
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Describe the information age and the differences among data, information, business
intelligence, and knowledge.
Topic: Competing in the Information Age

5. Technology provides countless business opportunities, but can also lead to pitfalls
and traps for a business.

TRUE
Technology provides countless business opportunities, but can also lead to pitfalls
and traps for a business.


AACSB: Reflective Thinking
AACSB: Technology
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 01-01 Describe the information age and the differences among data, information, business
intelligence, and knowledge.
Topic: Competing in the Information Age

6. Top managers use social intelligence to define the future of the business, analyzing
markets, industries and economies to determine the strategic direction the
company must follow to remain unprofitable.

FALSE
Top managers use business intelligence, not social intelligence and want to remain
profitable not unprofitable.


7. A variable is a business intelligence characteristic that stands for a value that
cannot change over time.

FALSE
A variable is a data characteristic that can change over time.




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