Transcript Exam 1 Terminology Review

Exam 2
Terminology Review
MIS 2003
Question 1
The second generation of the Web:
A. Ecommerce
B. Internet2
C. Web 2.0
D. All of the above
Question 2
A company that provides individuals,
organizations, and businesses access to the
Internet:
A. Internet backbone
B. Network access point
C. Network service provider
D. Internet service provider
Question 3
An Internet connection that uses a phone line
to connect but allows taking a phone call while
connected:
A. Cable
B. DSL
C. Satellite
D. Telephone
Question 4
A type of business that only exists online; it
has no physical store:
A. Brick-and-click
B. Brick-and-mortar
C. Click-and-mortar
D. Dot-com
Question 5
Where the majority of the ecommerce money
is:
A. B2B
B. B2C
C. C2B
D. C2C
Question 6
The percentage of customers who visit a
website and actually buy something:
A. Click-through
B. Conversion rate
C. Financial cybermediary
D. Financial electronic data interchange (EDI)
Question 7
A series of logically related two-dimensional
tables or files to store information in the form
of a database:
A. Hierarchical database
B. Network database
C. Relational database
D. All of the above
Question 8
A single cell entry in a database (part of the
logical structure of data):
A. Character
B. Field
C. File
D. Record
Question 9
A group of fields that are used to uniquely
identify a record in a database:
A. Composite primary key
B. Foreign key
C. Logical key
D. Primary key
Question 10
Eliminating M:M relationships, assuring fields
depend on the primary key, and removing
derived fields (i.e. calculated fields) is the
process of:
A. Integrity
B. Normalization
C. Relations
D. Structured query language (SQL)
Question 11
A subset of a data warehouse in which only a
focused portion of the data warehouse
information is kept:
A. Data house
B. Data mart
C. Data mine
D. Data tree
Question 12
Holds the logical structure and properties of
data in a database management system
(DBMS):
A. Application generation subsystem
B. Data definition subsystem
C. Data manipulation subsystem
D. DBMS engine
Question 13
Key dates in the life cycle of a systems
development project:
A. Activities
B. Deliverables
C. Milestones
D. Requirements
Question 14
The SDLC phase in which interviews are
conducted:
A. Analysis
B. Design
C. Development
D. Implementation
E. Maintenance
F. Planning
G. Testing
Question 15
The SDLC phase in which the system is verified
that it works and meets all the business
requirements previously defined:
A. Analysis
B. Design
C. Development
D. Implementation
E. Maintenance
F. Planning
G. Testing
Question 16
The SDLC phase in which problems are identified
with the current processing in the organization:
A. Analysis
B. Design
C. Development
D. Implementation
E. Maintenance
F. Planning
G. Testing
Question 17
The SDLC phase in which hardware and
software is installed:
A. Analysis
B. Design
C. Development
D. Implementation
E. Maintenance
F. Planning
G. Testing
Question 18
The implementation (conversion) method that
runs all of the new system for a select group of
users:
A. Parallel
B. Phased
C. Pilot
D. Plunge
Question 19
A knowledge worker developing a system on
his/her own:
A. Insourcing
B. Outsourcing
C. Partnersourcing
D. Selfsourcing
Question 20
The process of using another company from a
country far away to develop a system:
A. Farshore outsourcing
B. Nearshore outsourcing
C. Offshore outsourcing
D. Onshore outsourcing
Question 21
A working model that demonstrates the
features of a proposed system:
A. Data flow diagram (DFD)
B. Joint application development (JAD)
C. Prototype
D. Waterfall
Question 22
An infrastructure that involves dispensing the
information and processing power of IT
systems via a network:
A. Client/server
B. Decentralized
C. Distributed
D. Tiered
Question 23
A model in which any and all IT resources are
delivered as a set of services via the Internet:
A. Cloud computing
B. Collocation facility
C. Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
D. Service-oriented architecture
Question 24
An IT success metric used to measure
throughput and transaction speed:
A. Call center
B. Financial
C. Infrastructure-centric
D. Web-centric
Question 25
A ready to go, fully equipped site for
employees to relocate to in the event of a
disaster:
A. Cold site
B. Cool site
C. Hot site
D. Warm site