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Homework answers / question archive / Albany State University MGMT 4206Chapter 1: Data: The New Corporate Resource Multiple Choice 1)All of the following were early forms of record keeping associated with the rise of cities, except                                  

Albany State University MGMT 4206Chapter 1: Data: The New Corporate Resource Multiple Choice 1)All of the following were early forms of record keeping associated with the rise of cities, except                                  

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MGMT 4206Chapter 1: Data: The New Corporate Resource

Multiple Choice

1)All of the following were early forms of record keeping associated with the rise of cities, except                                   .

    1. marriage records
    2. family trees
    3. annual reports
    4. calendars
    5. church contribution records

 

 

 

 

  1. The Crusades eventually led to an increased interest in record keeping because                        .
    1. they introduced Europeans to the possibilities of expanded trade
    2. data was required for military activities
    3. they involved the use of clay tokens sealed in hollow clay vessels
    4. they required annual reports
    5. none of the above

 

 

 

 

  1. Double-entry bookkeeping                 .
    1. was an outgrowth of the practice of sealing marked clay tokens in clay vessels
    2. was an outgrowth of trading partnerships
    3. became the “Code of Commerce” in France
    4. was developed in England
    5. was an early way of storing census data

 

 

 

 

  1. The forerunner of the annual report was the Code of Commerce, which was instituted in 1673 in                                                                                                                                                                                                                              .
    1. France
    2. England
    3. Greece
    4. Turkey
    5. Italy

 

 

 

 

  1. In 1805, Jacquard invented                    as a data storage medium for storing patterns to be woven into cloth.
    1. magnetic tape
    2. punched cards
    3. floppy disks
    4. double-entry bookkeeping

 

    1. notches in wooden sticks

 

 

 

  1. The data processing equipment that Herman Hollerith developed for the 1890 U.S. census is classified as electro-                equipment.
    1. optical
    2. physical
    3. rotational
    4. mechanical
    5. chemical

 

 

 

 

  1. The data processing equipment that Herman Hollerith developed for the 1890 U.S. census used                                                                                                                                                                                                            as a data storage medium.
    1. magnetic tape
    2. punched cards
    3. floppy disks
    4. double-entry bookkeeping
    5. notches in wooden sticks

 

 

 

 

  1. All of the following were types of electro-mechanical, punched card based devices, except                         .
    1. calculators
    2. collators
    3. punches
    4. sorters
    5. disk drives

 

 

 

  1. The earliest (1870s) form of modern data storage was                      .
    1. magnetic tape
    2. magnetic disk
    3. punched paper tape
    4. optical disk
    5. magnetic drum

 

 

 

  1. Which of the following is the correct order in which these magnetic storage technologies were introduced?
    1. tape, drum, disk
    2. disk, tape, drum
    3. tape, disk, drum
    4. drum, disk, tape
    5. drum, tape, disk

 

 

 

 

  1. All of the following are terms associated with magnetic disk technology, except                         .
    1. fixed
    2. removable
    3. non-removable
    4. punched
    5. multi-platter

 

 

 

 

  1. Optical disk technology is based on                    .
    1. radar
    2. lasers
    3. fusion
    4. sonar
    5. phasers

 

 

 

  1. All of the following are kinds of corporate resources, except                      .
    1. data
    2. capital
    3. inventory
    4. plant and equipment
    5. competitors

 

 

 

  1. All of the following are challenges to the efficient storage and access of data, except                         .
    1. the data type
    2. the data volume
    3. the number of people who want access to the data
    4. data security
    5. data privacy

 

 

 

  1. The software that was developed to handle the increasing volumes of data and treat it as a corporate resource is called a(n)                 .
    1. disk management system
    2. file management system
    3. optical management system
    4. database management system
    5. security management system

 

 

 

True/False

  1. The pebbles-in-the-pouch technique used by ancient Middle Eastern shepherds to keep track of their sheep was a primitive example of data storage and retrieval.

 

 

 

 

  1. In ancient times, hollow clay vessels with descriptively marked clay tokens sealed in them were primitive examples of annual reports.

 

 

 

 

  1. The rise of cities encouraged the development of data because people depended on each other for goods and services.

 

 

 

 

  1. Blaise Pascal invented a mechanical adding machine in the 1640s in order to help his father with a data tracking problem.

 

 

 

 

  1. Jacquard’s loom included the invention of magnetic tape for data storage.

 

 

 

 

  1. The data processing equipment that Herman Hollerith developed for the 1890 U.S. census is classified as electro-mechanical equipment.

 

 

  1. The magnetic disk was developed before the magnetic drum.

 

 

 

 

  1. Some magnetic disks have only a single platter.

 

 

 

 

  1. All magnetic disks are non-removable.

 

 

 

 

  1. Optical disk technology is based on lasers.

 

 

 

 

  1. Data is a corporate resource.

 

 

 

 

  1. Capital is the corporate resource that describes all of the other corporate resources.

 

 

 

 

 

  1. The efficient storage and access of data is challenged by increasing data volumes and decreasing numbers of people who want access to the data.

 

 

 

 

  1. Data security and data privacy are two factors that affect the efficient storage and access of data.

 

 

 

 

  1. A database management system is software that is designed to handle large amounts of data efficiently.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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