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Edition by Keri E. Pearlson
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Multiple Choice
1. What requires a unit of analysis, has been processed, and requires human mediation?
a) Data
b) Information
c) Knowledge
d) Legacy
e) None of the above
Ans: b (Medium)
2. Roles that managers fill, according to Mintzberg, include all of the following EXCEPT:
a) Figurehead
b) Disseminator
c) Disciplinarian
d) Entrepreneur
e) Resource Allocator
Ans: c (Hard)
3. Which of the following is NOT a Decisional role?
a) Entrepreneur
b) Disturbance handler
c) Negotiator
d) Resource allocator
e) Spokesperson
Ans: e (Medium)
4. What skills would be required to be a visionary manager?
a) Communication and Information gathering
b) Flexibility and creativity
c) Analytical and organizational
d) All of the above
e) None of the above
,Ans: b (Easy)
5. Wisdom can be defined as:
a) knowledge infused with intuition and judgment that facilitates the ability to make
decisions.
b) a process.
c) all forms of technology used to create data.
d) anything that makes a person clever.
e) only b and d
Ans: a (Easy)
6. Data is:
a) information endowed with relevance and purpose.
b) a set of specific objective facts or observations.
c) some information.
d) all of the above
e) only a and c
Ans: b (Medium)
7. Cisco estimates that by 2021 what percentage global internet traffic will be the data
transmitted by “things”?
a) 2%
b) 5%
c) 8%
d) 11%
e) 14%
Ans: b (Medium)
True/False
8. Information systems (IS) managers should participate in all of the important IS decisions, even
if those decisions do not impact the IS department.
Ans: True (Easy)
,9. Information for top management is usually based on a long time horizon, with great
detail and high structuredness.
Ans: False (Medium)
10. A successful process begins only once a company has access to a variety of sophisticated
technologies.
Ans: False (Easy)
11. For companies to stay current and success, they must adopt traditional information retrieval
systems that are similar to those they’ve used in the past.
Ans: False (Medium)
Short Answer
12. Pricing of things is most often based on _____, while pricing of information goods is most
often based on _____.
Ans: cost; value (Hard)
13. If a manager exhibits creativity, curiosity, and confidence, we would say that he or she
supports the role of ______ very well.
Ans: visionary (Hard)
14. The Chief Technology Officer of Walmart states that every company is becoming a ______
company.
Ans: tech or technology (Medium)
15. While digital natives grew up in an era with Internet availability, digital grew
up at a time when computer access wasn’t available or common.
Ans: immigrants (Medium)
,Essay
16. Provide two examples of how the economics of things are different from the economics of
information.
17. Provide two reasons business managers should participate in information systems decisions.
18. How does a functional view differ from a process view of a firm?
,File: 7e chapter1TestBank.docx, Chapter 1, The Information Systems Strategy Triangle
Multiple Choice
1. The “Managerial Levers” concept is useful for the following reasons:
a) Management can find what “levers” to push to force people to do what
they want.
b) Management should not make a change unless they align multiple issues,
such as tasks, measures, values, incentives, etc.
c) System investments need to be financially highly leveraged.
d) All of the above
e) None of the above
Ans: b (Medium)
2. All of the following are likely causes of Kaiser Permanente’s difficulties before their
new KPHealthConnect EXCEPT for:
a) Bonus incentives not matching strategy
b) The alignment of the Information Systems Strategy Triangle
c) The failure of automated systems
d) The leadership and organizational culture
e) Patient service processes needing to be updated and streamlined
Ans: c (Medium)
3. A general manager should:
a) Rely on IS personnel to make IS decisions
b) Ignore how IS are used and managed
c) Have a deep technical knowledge of IS
d) Understand the use and consequences of technologies relevant to the business
e) Not be expected to ask or understand technology related questions
Ans: d (Easy)
4. When a company’s business strategy and technology strategy are intertwined, this
situation is known as _______.
a) convergence
b) alignment
c) dynamic
, d) differentiation
e) technologically adjusted
Ans: a (Hard)
5. Organizational, cultural, and control variables are considered the ________ used by
decision makers to effect change in their organization.
a) collaboration tools
b) managerial levers
c) events
d) IS
e) organization objectives
Ans: b (hard)
6. The ____________ is a plan articulating where a business seeks to go and how it
expects to get there.
a) vision statement
b) mission statement
c) stakeholder statement
d) stockholder statement
e) business strategy
Ans: e (Medium)
7. Organizations seek to gain a competitive advantage by differentiation, cost, or
_________.
a) service
b) focus
c) profit
d) value
e) speed
Ans: b (Easy)
8. Google has disrupted a number of industries, particularly the advertising and software
industries. Google's ability to quickly and aggressively provide new products and
services is best described by:
a) Porter’s Generic Strategies
b) The Hypercompetition Model
c) The Information Systems Strategy Triangle
, d) The Social Business Strategy
e) Customer Relationship Management
Ans: b (Easy)
9. Through the use of various technologies, a ski resort tracks the slopes each customer
skis and the times he or she skis them. Skiers then have the ability to view this
information online, and can choose to seamlessly share their accomplishments on
Facebook. In addition, photographers positioned at the resort post pictures on Facebook
for the skier. This ski resort has worked hard to develop a strong:
a) IS Strategy
b) Social business strategy
c) Business strategy
d) Organizational strategy
e) Customer strategy
Ans: b (Hard)
10. The organizational strategy should ideally _____ the IS strategy.
a) drive
b) complement
c) dictate
d) ignore
e) sustain
Ans: b (Easy)
11. The general manager for a retail clothing outlet was recently cited as saying, “IT is
the cornerstone of our company. All of our decisions are based on the sophisticated
systems that we have deployed throughout our organization. IT drives our decisions.”
What position should the manager hold regarding IT and its influence on decision
making?
a) IT should drive business decisions.
b) Organizational goals should drive IT decisions.
c) Organizational strategy should drive IS decision making.
d) Business strategy should drive IS decision making
e) All strategy should be driven by IT strategy.
Ans: d (Hard)
, 12. To remain competitive, an organization’s business strategy must adapt and respond to
all of the following variables. Which variable in particular does IS help to determine?
1. Market forces
2. Customer demands
3. The capabilities of the organization
4. The organization’s mission
5. Organizational design
Ans: c (Hard)
13. The physical means by which information is exchanged among hardware components
is called _______.
a) hardware
b) software
c) networking
d) personnel
e) data
Ans: c (Medium)
14. Significant changes in IS should trigger a reassessment of the _____________.
a) business strategy
b) social strategy
c) process strategy
d) data strategy
e) system strategy
Ans: a (Medium)
15. A social business strategy is designed to use social IT tools for all of the following
EXCEPT:
a) Collaborating with stakeholders
b) Building deeper connections with stakeholders
c) Innovating with stakeholders
d) Excluding stakeholders
e) Networking with employees, customer and/or suppliers
Ans: d (Easy)
16. General managers should take an active role in decisions about information systems.
This is vital because:
a) The IS department cannot be trusted to make good decisions.
Information Systems A Strategic Approach, 7th
Edition by Keri E. Pearlson
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,File: 6e c00 introTestBank.docx, Chapter 0, Introduction
Multiple Choice
1. What requires a unit of analysis, has been processed, and requires human mediation?
a) Data
b) Information
c) Knowledge
d) Legacy
e) None of the above
Ans: b (Medium)
2. Roles that managers fill, according to Mintzberg, include all of the following EXCEPT:
a) Figurehead
b) Disseminator
c) Disciplinarian
d) Entrepreneur
e) Resource Allocator
Ans: c (Hard)
3. Which of the following is NOT a Decisional role?
a) Entrepreneur
b) Disturbance handler
c) Negotiator
d) Resource allocator
e) Spokesperson
Ans: e (Medium)
4. What skills would be required to be a visionary manager?
a) Communication and Information gathering
b) Flexibility and creativity
c) Analytical and organizational
d) All of the above
e) None of the above
,Ans: b (Easy)
5. Wisdom can be defined as:
a) knowledge infused with intuition and judgment that facilitates the ability to make
decisions.
b) a process.
c) all forms of technology used to create data.
d) anything that makes a person clever.
e) only b and d
Ans: a (Easy)
6. Data is:
a) information endowed with relevance and purpose.
b) a set of specific objective facts or observations.
c) some information.
d) all of the above
e) only a and c
Ans: b (Medium)
7. Cisco estimates that by 2021 what percentage global internet traffic will be the data
transmitted by “things”?
a) 2%
b) 5%
c) 8%
d) 11%
e) 14%
Ans: b (Medium)
True/False
8. Information systems (IS) managers should participate in all of the important IS decisions, even
if those decisions do not impact the IS department.
Ans: True (Easy)
,9. Information for top management is usually based on a long time horizon, with great
detail and high structuredness.
Ans: False (Medium)
10. A successful process begins only once a company has access to a variety of sophisticated
technologies.
Ans: False (Easy)
11. For companies to stay current and success, they must adopt traditional information retrieval
systems that are similar to those they’ve used in the past.
Ans: False (Medium)
Short Answer
12. Pricing of things is most often based on _____, while pricing of information goods is most
often based on _____.
Ans: cost; value (Hard)
13. If a manager exhibits creativity, curiosity, and confidence, we would say that he or she
supports the role of ______ very well.
Ans: visionary (Hard)
14. The Chief Technology Officer of Walmart states that every company is becoming a ______
company.
Ans: tech or technology (Medium)
15. While digital natives grew up in an era with Internet availability, digital grew
up at a time when computer access wasn’t available or common.
Ans: immigrants (Medium)
,Essay
16. Provide two examples of how the economics of things are different from the economics of
information.
17. Provide two reasons business managers should participate in information systems decisions.
18. How does a functional view differ from a process view of a firm?
,File: 7e chapter1TestBank.docx, Chapter 1, The Information Systems Strategy Triangle
Multiple Choice
1. The “Managerial Levers” concept is useful for the following reasons:
a) Management can find what “levers” to push to force people to do what
they want.
b) Management should not make a change unless they align multiple issues,
such as tasks, measures, values, incentives, etc.
c) System investments need to be financially highly leveraged.
d) All of the above
e) None of the above
Ans: b (Medium)
2. All of the following are likely causes of Kaiser Permanente’s difficulties before their
new KPHealthConnect EXCEPT for:
a) Bonus incentives not matching strategy
b) The alignment of the Information Systems Strategy Triangle
c) The failure of automated systems
d) The leadership and organizational culture
e) Patient service processes needing to be updated and streamlined
Ans: c (Medium)
3. A general manager should:
a) Rely on IS personnel to make IS decisions
b) Ignore how IS are used and managed
c) Have a deep technical knowledge of IS
d) Understand the use and consequences of technologies relevant to the business
e) Not be expected to ask or understand technology related questions
Ans: d (Easy)
4. When a company’s business strategy and technology strategy are intertwined, this
situation is known as _______.
a) convergence
b) alignment
c) dynamic
, d) differentiation
e) technologically adjusted
Ans: a (Hard)
5. Organizational, cultural, and control variables are considered the ________ used by
decision makers to effect change in their organization.
a) collaboration tools
b) managerial levers
c) events
d) IS
e) organization objectives
Ans: b (hard)
6. The ____________ is a plan articulating where a business seeks to go and how it
expects to get there.
a) vision statement
b) mission statement
c) stakeholder statement
d) stockholder statement
e) business strategy
Ans: e (Medium)
7. Organizations seek to gain a competitive advantage by differentiation, cost, or
_________.
a) service
b) focus
c) profit
d) value
e) speed
Ans: b (Easy)
8. Google has disrupted a number of industries, particularly the advertising and software
industries. Google's ability to quickly and aggressively provide new products and
services is best described by:
a) Porter’s Generic Strategies
b) The Hypercompetition Model
c) The Information Systems Strategy Triangle
, d) The Social Business Strategy
e) Customer Relationship Management
Ans: b (Easy)
9. Through the use of various technologies, a ski resort tracks the slopes each customer
skis and the times he or she skis them. Skiers then have the ability to view this
information online, and can choose to seamlessly share their accomplishments on
Facebook. In addition, photographers positioned at the resort post pictures on Facebook
for the skier. This ski resort has worked hard to develop a strong:
a) IS Strategy
b) Social business strategy
c) Business strategy
d) Organizational strategy
e) Customer strategy
Ans: b (Hard)
10. The organizational strategy should ideally _____ the IS strategy.
a) drive
b) complement
c) dictate
d) ignore
e) sustain
Ans: b (Easy)
11. The general manager for a retail clothing outlet was recently cited as saying, “IT is
the cornerstone of our company. All of our decisions are based on the sophisticated
systems that we have deployed throughout our organization. IT drives our decisions.”
What position should the manager hold regarding IT and its influence on decision
making?
a) IT should drive business decisions.
b) Organizational goals should drive IT decisions.
c) Organizational strategy should drive IS decision making.
d) Business strategy should drive IS decision making
e) All strategy should be driven by IT strategy.
Ans: d (Hard)
, 12. To remain competitive, an organization’s business strategy must adapt and respond to
all of the following variables. Which variable in particular does IS help to determine?
1. Market forces
2. Customer demands
3. The capabilities of the organization
4. The organization’s mission
5. Organizational design
Ans: c (Hard)
13. The physical means by which information is exchanged among hardware components
is called _______.
a) hardware
b) software
c) networking
d) personnel
e) data
Ans: c (Medium)
14. Significant changes in IS should trigger a reassessment of the _____________.
a) business strategy
b) social strategy
c) process strategy
d) data strategy
e) system strategy
Ans: a (Medium)
15. A social business strategy is designed to use social IT tools for all of the following
EXCEPT:
a) Collaborating with stakeholders
b) Building deeper connections with stakeholders
c) Innovating with stakeholders
d) Excluding stakeholders
e) Networking with employees, customer and/or suppliers
Ans: d (Easy)
16. General managers should take an active role in decisions about information systems.
This is vital because:
a) The IS department cannot be trusted to make good decisions.
