- Many of today's businesses are being run by employees on their own devices, rather than on equipment specified and purchased by the IT department. This is sometimes referred to as the consumerization of IT, but also known by the term:
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
- Which of the following is not a component of the Input-Processing-Output (IPO) model of an Information System?
Upgrading software and/or hardware according to a strategic plan
- Data from sales orders, payroll, accounting, financial, marketing, purchasing, inventory control, and so forth are processed by a combination of hardware and software called ________________ Processing Systems.
Transaction (TPS)
- A company's MIS is used to generate different kinds of reports to managers. What kind of reports are created or run only when something is outside the norm because some unusual event or deviation has occurred?
Exception reports
- According to your text, what is the key factor that differentiates an MIS from a DSS?
A DSS contains models that use information to make decisions.
- Examples of _____________________ include data storage and computing hardware that are accessed via the Internet instead of being company-owned and on-site in a data center.
Cloud computing
- A _____________________ allows apps on computers and mobiles to access data from local and remote databases.
Distributed database system
- In terms of the major functions performed by a DBMS, "maintaining data integrity" refers to which of the following?
Correcting, standardizing, and verifying the integrity of the data.
- In terms of the major functions performed by a DBMS, data enrichment refers to which of the following?
Enhancing data using information from internal and external data sources.
- There are three kinds of enterprise data. Which of the following is not one of the types of enterprise data identified in your text?
Functional data
