MIS QUESTIONS COMPILED

1. The terms "data" and "information" mean 10. Information systems whose purpose is to
the same thing. glean from raw data relationships and trends
a. True that might help organizations compete better
b. False ANSWER : False are called business intelligence (BI) systems.
a. True
2. To become data, information is
b. False ANSWER: True
manipulated through tabulation, or any other
operation that leads to greater understanding 11. Geographic Information Systems can be
of a situation. used to manage daily operations as well as for
a. True planning and decision making.
b. False ANSWER: False a. True
b. False ANSWER : False
3. Every system has a single goal.
a. True 12. While accounting systems focus on
b. False ANSWER : True recording and reporting financial changes and
states, the purpose of human resource
4. Companies are implementing open
management systems is to facilitate financial
information systems that can be linked to
planning and business transactions.
other systems owned by business partners
a. True
such as suppliers and clients.
b. False ANSWER: False
a. True
b. False ANSWER : True 13. A programmer is responsible for
researching, planning, and recommending
5. Computers collect, store, and process data
software and systems choices to meet an
into information according to instructions
organization's business requirements.
people provide via computer programs.
a. True
a. True
b. False ANSWER : True
b. False ANSWER: False
14. In the capacity of project leaders, senior
6. Input is the information an information
systems analysts are put in charge of several
system produces and displays in the format
analysts and programmers.
most useful to an organization.
a. True
a. True
b. False ANSWER: True
b. False ANSWER: False
15. Project leaders seek and allocate
7. The computer processes data through
resources, such as personnel, hardware, and
output devices.
software, that are used in the development
a. True
process.
b. False ANSWER: True
a. True
8. Transaction processing systems (TPSs) are b. False ANSWER: True
the most widely used information systems.
16. Since access to information can connote
a. True
power, the database administrator must be
b. False ANSWER: False
astute not only technologically but politically
9. Many enterprise resource planning systems as well.
are used by service representatives in a. True
combination with a telephone. b. False
a. True
b. False ANSWER: True
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17. The rapid spread of the Web, intranets, 25. A large collection of electronic records is
and extranets has minimized the stature of the called a(n) .
organizational webmaster. a. open system b. closed system
a. True c. database d. webmaster
b. False
26. A supply chain management is an
18. is the raw material in the production of enterprise application because the systems
information. that support each business process:
a. Data b. Money a. record data collected at the boundaries of
c. Node d. Program organizations.
b. always take the form of a sequence.
19. A(n) is any manipulation of data, usually
c. consist of sophisticated statistical models.
with the goal of producing information.
d. are connected to each other to form one
a. transaction b. process
large IS.
c. brownout d. encryption
27. A(n) is a business event such as a sale, a
20. A is an array of components that work
purchase, the hiring of a new employee, and
together to achieve a common goal, or
the like.
multiple goals, by accepting input, processing
a. encryption b. allocation
it, and producing output in an organized
c. decryption d. transaction
manner.
a. node b. process 28. Changing and manipulating the data in an
c. project d. system information system is called .
a. data warehousing
21. Records sums owed to the organization
b. cloud computing
and by whom.
c. data processing
a. Accounts payable
d. resource planning
b. Accounts receivable
c. Accounts programmable
29. The term refers to the sequence of
d. Accounts writable
activities involved in producing a product or
service.
22. A(n) interfaces and interacts with other
a. resource planning b. activity chain
systems.
c. warehousing d. supply chain
a. closed system b. host system
c. cloud system d. open system 30. The main goals of systems are to increase
the quality of customer service, reduce the
23. Thinking of an organization in terms of its
amount of labor involved in serving customers,
suborganizations or subsystems is called .
and learn as much as possible about the service
a. organizational thinking
preferences of individual customers.
b. organizational validating
a. customer relationship management
c. systems thinking
b. enterprise resource planning
d. systems validating
c. expert d. decision support
24. The of a modern business shows a 31. Business intelligence applications access
network of information subsystems that large pools of data, usually transactional
exchange information with each other and records stored in large databases called .
with the world outside the system. a. data warehouses b. digital systems
a. information hub b. information map c. subsystems d. supply chains
c. subsystem d. database

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32. Have been used to provide service via the
39. …….are normally responsible for
Web, such as helping residents find locations
developing cost analyses, design
of different services on a city map or plan
considerations, implementation timelines,
travel routes.
and feasibility studies of a computer
a. Business intelligence systems
system before making recommendations to
b. Decision support systems
senior management.
c. Geographic information systems
a. Database designers
d. Expert systems
b. Network administrators
33. In …….., information systems help c. Project managers
organize budgets, manage cash flow, analyze d. Systems analysts
investments, and make decisions that could 40. A is responsible for the databases and data
reduce interest payments and increase warehouses of an organization—a very
revenues from transactions. sensitive and powerful position.
a. accounting b. e-commerce a. database administrator
c. finance d. marketing b. database programmer
c. system administrator
34. The purpose of ……….. is to pinpoint the
d. project manager
people and organizations most likely to
purchase what the organization sells and to 41. A oversees the planning and
promote the appropriate products and services implementation of sophisticated security
to those people and organizations. measures to block unauthorized access but
a. accounting b. e-commerce at the same time to allow easy and timely
c. finance d. marketing access to authorized users.
a. database administrator
35. Systems help mainly in record-keeping,
b. network administrator
employee evaluation, and employee benefits.
c. programmer
a. Accounting
d. systems analyst
b. Financial
c. Human resource management 42. A is highly involved in the
d. Marketing implementation of supply chain
management systems, because they access
36. ……….. refers to the buying and selling corporate databases.
goods and services via a telecommunications a. database administrator
network. b. database programmer
a. Encapsulation b. Business intelligence c. network administrator
c. Enterprise application d. E-commerce d. systems analyst
37. A is responsible for researching, planning,
43. In most organizations, the chief security
and recommending software and systems
officer (CSO) reports to the .
choices to meet an organization's business
a. chief administrative officer (CAO)
requirements.
b. chief information officer (CIO)
a. network administrator
c. chief information security officer
b. network analyst
(CISO)
c. system administrator
d. systems executive officer (SEO)
d. systems analyst
38. A is responsible for managing an
organization's computer operating systems.
a. database administrator b. webmaster
c. systems analyst
d. system administrator
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44. The is responsible for all aspects of an 53. In addition to communication that takes
organization's ISs and is often a corporate place between computer components,
vice president. communication occurs between computers
a. chief information security officer over distances called …………. ANSWER:
b. chief security officer telecommunications
c. chief information officer
54. Supply chain management systems are
d. chief administrative officer
often called ………..because the
45. A is responsible for creating and information they provide supports the
maintaining an organization's intranet and planning of shipping resources such as
extranet. personnel, funds, raw materials, and
a. webmaster vehicles.
b. network administrator
ANSWER: enterprise resource planning
c. database administrator
systems ERP systems
d. systems analyst
55. systems help manage an organization's
46. ………is facts or conclusions that have
relationships with its customers.
meaning within a context.
ANSWER: CRM
ANSWER: Information
Customer relationship management
Customer relationship management
(CRM)
47. Raw data is in information systems to
create useful information. ANSWER: 56. A(n) relies on artificial intelligence
processed techniques to support knowledge-intensive
decision-making processes.
ANSWER: expert system ES
48. The components of a larger system are
called . ANSWER: subsystems
57. ………rely on models and formulas to
produce concise tables or a single number that
determines a decision.
49. A(n) consists of several subsystems, ANSWER: Decision support systems
components of a larger system, with sub
goals, all contributing to meeting the main 58. ISs provide information that helps
goal. ANSWER: system management decide how many sales
representatives to assign to specific
products in specific geographical areas.
50. A(n) consists of all the components that ANSWER: Marketing
work together to process data and produce 59. A(n) helps track every click a web user
information. makes on that site, so that companies
ANSWER: information system (IS) specializing in consumer profiling can
learn their shopping and buying habits.
51. The computer's greatest contribution to
ISs is efficient ……. ANSWER: data ANSWER: cookie
processing 60. The job of a(n) involves the creation of
52. is the information an IS produces and new systems or the modification of existing
displays in the format most useful to an ones.
organization. ANSWER: systems analyst
ANSWER: Output

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61. The is responsible for acquiring, 69. A _____ is responsible for managing an
implementing, managing, maintaining, organization's computer operating systems.
and troubleshooting local area networks
ANSWER : System administrator
throughout the organization and their
interfaces with the wide area networks 70. A _____ is responsible for researching,
such as the Internet. planning, and recommending software and
systems choices to meet an organization's
ANSWER: network administrator
business requirements.
62. A(n) is involved in creatively deciding
ANSWER: Systems analyst
how to represent the organization on the web.
71. A _____ is responsible for the databases
ANSWER: webmaster
and data warehouses of an organization—a
63. In most cases when both positions are very sensitive and powerful position.
encountered in one organization, the chief
ANSWER : Database administrator
technology officer (CTO) reports to the
_____. 72. A(n) _____ consists of all the components
that work together to process data and
ANSWER: chief information officer (CIO)
produce information.
ANSWER : Information system
64. A person who holds the position of must
have both technical understanding of 73. A(n) _____ helps track every click a web
current and developing information user makes on that site, so that companies
technologies and business knowledge. specializing in consumer profiling can
learn their shopping and buying habits.
ANSWER: chief information officer (CIO)
ANSWER : Cookie
65. A(n) _____ is a business event such as a 74. A(n) _____ interfaces and interacts with
sale, a purchase, the hiring of a new other systems.
employee, and the like.
ANSWER : Open system
ANSWER: Transaction
75. A(n) _____ is involved in creatively
66. A _____ is an array of components that deciding how to represent the organization on
work together to achieve a common goal, the web.
or multiple goals, by accepting input,
processing it, and producing output in an ANSWER : Webmaster
organized manner. 76. A _____ oversees the planning and
ANSWER : System implementation of sophisticated security
measures to block unauthorized access but at
67. A _____ is highly involved in the the same time to allow easy and timely access
implementation of supply chain to authorized users.
management systems, because they access
corporate databases. ANSWER : Database administrator

ANSWER : Database administrator 77. A person who holds the position of _____
must have both technical understanding of
68. A _____ is responsible for creating and current and developing information
maintaining an organization's intranet and technologies and business knowledge.
extranet.
ANSWER : Chief information officer (CIO)
ANSWER : Webmaster

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78. A programmer is responsible for True/False
researching, planning, and recommending
87. In _____, information systems help
software and systems choices to meet an
organize budgets, manage cash flow,
organization's business requirements.
analyze investments, and make decisions
ANSWER: False that could reduce interest payments and
increase revenues from transactions.
79. _____ are normally responsible for
developing cost analyses, design ANSWER : Finance
considerations, implementation timelines,
88. In most cases when both positions are
and feasibility studies of a computer
encountered in one organization, the chief
system before making recommendations to
technology officer (CTO) reports to the
senior management.
_____.
ANSWER : Systems analysts
ANSWER : Chief information officer (CIO)
80. A supply chain management is an
89. In most organizations, the chief security
enterprise application because the systems
officer (CSO) reports to the _____.
that support each business process:
ANSWER : Chief information officer (CIO)
ANSWER : Are connected to each other to
form one large IS. 90. In the capacity of project leaders, senior
systems analysts are put in charge of
81. Changing and manipulating the data in an
several analysts and programmers.
information system is called _____.
True/False
ANSWER : Data processing
91. _____ is facts or conclusions that have
82. Companies are implementing open
meaning within a context.
information systems that can be linked to
other systems owned by business partners ANSWER : Information
such as suppliers and clients.
92. _____ ISs provide information that helps
True/False management decide how many sales
representatives to assign to specific
83. In addition to communication that takes
products in specific geographical areas.
place between computer components,
communication occurs between computers ANSWER : Marketing
over distances called _____.
93. Project leaders seek and allocate
ANSWER : Telecommunications resources, such as personnel, hardware,
and software, that are used in the
84. Every system has a single goal.
development process.
True/False
True/False
85. Geographic Information Systems can be
94 _____ records sums owed to the
used to manage daily operations as well as
organization and by whom.
for planning and decision making.
ANSWER : Accounts receivable
True/False
95. ______ refers to the buying and selling
86. Information systems whose purpose is to
goods and services via a telecommunications
glean from raw data relationships and
network.
trends that might help organizations
compete better are called business ANSWER : E-commerce
intelligence (BI) systems.
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96. Supply chain management systems are 98. ____ systems help mainly in record-
often called _____, because the keeping, employee evaluation, and employee
information they provide supports the benefits.
planning of shipping resources such as
ANSWER : Human resource management
personnel, funds, raw materials, and
vehicles. 99. The computer's greatest contribution to
ISs is efficient _____.
ANSWER : enterprise resource planning
systems (ERP systems) ANSWER : data processing
97. Since access to information can connote 100. IS stands for ……..
power, the database administrator must be
astute not only technologically but ANSWER: Information System
politically as well.
True/False