MIS 309 CHAPTER 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
/.1) ________ states that the number of transistors per square inch on an integrated
chip doubles every 18 months.
A) Nielsen's Law
B) Faraday's Law
C) Moore's Law
D) Newton's Law - Answer-✅Answer: C
/.2) According to Moore's law, the ________.
A) price of integrated chips will increase once in eighteen months
B) size of computing devices and integrated chips doubles every year
C) number of transistors per square inch on an integrated chip doubles every 18 months
D) size of computing devices and integrated chips reduce by fifty percent every year -
Answer-✅Answer: C
/.3) Which of the following is a major implication of Moore's law?
A) Data processing activities have become complex and time consuming.
B) Costs of computing and processing have increased.
C) Physical size of integrated chips has increased.
D) Costs of data communications and storage have become very low. - Answer-
✅Answer: D
/.4) Which of the following ratios has fallen as a result of Moore's law?
A) price/performance
B) output/price
C) performance/input
D) performance/output - Answer-✅Answer: A
/.5) Which of the following types of skills is most likely be outsourced to the lowest
bidder?
A) ability to experiment
B) accounting skills
C) ability to collaborate
D) abstract reasoning skills - Answer-✅Answer: B
/.6) Which of the following is a nonroutine cognitive skill?
A) computer programming skill
B) marketing knowledge
C) tax accounting skill
, D) systems thinking ability - Answer-✅Answer: D
/.7) Kerin is a business student interning at Benson and Hodgson, a firm specializing in
exports of sophisticated equipment to other countries. She finds that she is unable to
create a representative chart depicting the relation between processes such as
procurement, shipping, and billing. This indicates that she lacks ________ skills.
A) abstract reasoning
B) collaborative
C) experimental
D) systems thinking - Answer-✅Answer: A
/.8) Abstract reasoning is the ability to ________.
A) work with others when performing tasks
B) make and manipulate models
C) act quickly on a problem
D) analyze and perform routine tasks - Answer-✅Answer: B
/.9) ________ refers to the ability to model components and show how the components'
inputs and outputs relate to one another.
A) Abstract reasoning
B) Systems thinking
C) Dynamic correlation
D) Operational logic - Answer-✅Answer: B
/.10) A manager will essentially require ________ skills to clearly understand how the
resources that his or her company uses are converted to desired outputs.
A) collaborative
B) experimental
C) interpersonal
D) systems thinking - Answer-✅Answer: D
/.11) You constantly analyze your work in terms of the contribution that you make to the
overall output of your organization. This shows your ________ skill.
A) collaborative
B) experimental
C) systems thinking
D) interpersonal - Answer-✅Answer: C
/.12) When presenting an idea to her colleagues, Marjorie failed to consider others'
perspectives and got defensive when people asked her questions. This situation
indicates that Majorie lacks ________ skills.
A) systems thinking
B) collaboration
C) abstract reasoning
D) experimentation - Answer-✅Answer: B
ANSWERS
/.1) ________ states that the number of transistors per square inch on an integrated
chip doubles every 18 months.
A) Nielsen's Law
B) Faraday's Law
C) Moore's Law
D) Newton's Law - Answer-✅Answer: C
/.2) According to Moore's law, the ________.
A) price of integrated chips will increase once in eighteen months
B) size of computing devices and integrated chips doubles every year
C) number of transistors per square inch on an integrated chip doubles every 18 months
D) size of computing devices and integrated chips reduce by fifty percent every year -
Answer-✅Answer: C
/.3) Which of the following is a major implication of Moore's law?
A) Data processing activities have become complex and time consuming.
B) Costs of computing and processing have increased.
C) Physical size of integrated chips has increased.
D) Costs of data communications and storage have become very low. - Answer-
✅Answer: D
/.4) Which of the following ratios has fallen as a result of Moore's law?
A) price/performance
B) output/price
C) performance/input
D) performance/output - Answer-✅Answer: A
/.5) Which of the following types of skills is most likely be outsourced to the lowest
bidder?
A) ability to experiment
B) accounting skills
C) ability to collaborate
D) abstract reasoning skills - Answer-✅Answer: B
/.6) Which of the following is a nonroutine cognitive skill?
A) computer programming skill
B) marketing knowledge
C) tax accounting skill
, D) systems thinking ability - Answer-✅Answer: D
/.7) Kerin is a business student interning at Benson and Hodgson, a firm specializing in
exports of sophisticated equipment to other countries. She finds that she is unable to
create a representative chart depicting the relation between processes such as
procurement, shipping, and billing. This indicates that she lacks ________ skills.
A) abstract reasoning
B) collaborative
C) experimental
D) systems thinking - Answer-✅Answer: A
/.8) Abstract reasoning is the ability to ________.
A) work with others when performing tasks
B) make and manipulate models
C) act quickly on a problem
D) analyze and perform routine tasks - Answer-✅Answer: B
/.9) ________ refers to the ability to model components and show how the components'
inputs and outputs relate to one another.
A) Abstract reasoning
B) Systems thinking
C) Dynamic correlation
D) Operational logic - Answer-✅Answer: B
/.10) A manager will essentially require ________ skills to clearly understand how the
resources that his or her company uses are converted to desired outputs.
A) collaborative
B) experimental
C) interpersonal
D) systems thinking - Answer-✅Answer: D
/.11) You constantly analyze your work in terms of the contribution that you make to the
overall output of your organization. This shows your ________ skill.
A) collaborative
B) experimental
C) systems thinking
D) interpersonal - Answer-✅Answer: C
/.12) When presenting an idea to her colleagues, Marjorie failed to consider others'
perspectives and got defensive when people asked her questions. This situation
indicates that Majorie lacks ________ skills.
A) systems thinking
B) collaboration
C) abstract reasoning
D) experimentation - Answer-✅Answer: B
