1) Which of the following is considered an unstructured decision?

A. reordering inventory

B. Deciding to enter a new market

C. Creating weekly staff schedule

D. Creating the employee weekly production schedule

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Question 2 of 25 4 Points

How is RAM different from a CPU?

A. RAM usually sits outside the computer; the CPU is located inside the compute

B. The CPU is able to process data; RAM only holds it

C. RAM is the real brain of the computer, not the CPU

D. RAM is an obsolete CPU

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Question 3 of 25 4 Points

Dolly Johnson wants to study the change in sales if advertising is raised by ten percent. Dolly is performing a:

A. What-If analysis

B. Slice and dice analysis

C. Goal seeking analysis

D. Drill down analysis

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Question 4 of 25 4 Points

Andy Benton works at the local Starbucks coffee shop, and his responsibilities include taking orders, fulfilling orders, and ringing in sales. At what level of the organizational pyramid would you categorize Andy?

A. Strategic

B. Owner

C. Operational

D. Managerial

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Question 5 of 25 4 Points

TSA officer needs to decide if a person is a potential threat using information available from their IT system. Such a system can be classified as

A. Decision Support systems

B. Expert System

C. Online transaction processing system

D. Strategic Support systems

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Question 6 of 25 4 Points

Number 21 is equivalent to ASCII number in computers (assume 8 bit byte)

A. 00110021 00110021

B. 00110001 00110010

C. 00011010 00110001

D. 00011000 00110012

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Question 7 of 25 4 Points

A compiler is:

A. hardware which increases the processing speed of the microprocessor

B. Software which translates program into a specific series of machine code

C. Hardware which orders execution of the program

D. software which assists end users in writing their own programs

E. a Programmer who writes application code

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Question 8 of 25 4 Points

If you were visiting Disney World and you used its touch-screen monitors to locate a restaurant, what type of hardware device would you be using?

A. Input

B. Connecting

C. Input and Output

D. Storage

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Question 9 of 25 4 Points

Which of the following would create transactional information?

A. A semistructured decision to hire more employees

B. Projecting future sales growth

C. Buying toys at Macy's

D. Generating payroll reports

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Question 10 of 25 4 Points

Which of the following does not offer a good example of a system?

A. A bridge

B. A pencil

C. The light-rail tram.

D. A car.

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Question 11 of 25 4 Points

Mary is analyzing sales data for Macy's. She is creating a list of top 5% customer who generate 80% of Macy's revenue. She is creating:

A. information

B. knowledge

C. collecting data

D. business Intelligence

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Question 12 of 25 4 Points

Mary Dow is analyzing financial statement of Giant Food Company. She needs to improve rate of return to (profit/Sales) 10%. She wants to study the effect of 15% price increase on profits. Mary is involved in

A. Output

B. Input

C. Process

D. None of the above

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Question 13 of 25 4 Points

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, wants to study sales trends, costs, stock prices and many other key performance indicator to assess Tesla's performance, He is most liley to use

A. Decision Support System

B. Digital dashboard

C. Transaction processing systems (TPS)

D. raw data

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Question 14 of 25 4 Points

Anne-Marie Cole runs the sales division for a local auto insurance firm. One of her key duties is to ensure the company has 15 percent market share by the end of the year. When evaluating the current sales numbers she determines that her sales division has total sales of $6 million and the entire industry has total sales of $50 million. What additional sales must Anne-Marie's division meet to ensure they have 20 percent of the market by the end of the year? (NOTE: Market share is the proportion of the market that a firm captures).

A. $10 million

B. $5million

C. $6 million

D. None of the above

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Question 15 of 25 4 Points

Dr. Lenny is training a system to recognize financial fraud. How would you classify such a system?

A. Expert Systems (ES)

B. strategic system

C. Decision Support Systems (DSS)

D. None of the above

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Question 16 of 25 4 Points

A 32-bit system bus can transfer _____ bytes (ASCII) simultaneously

A. 4

B. 8

C. 32

D. 16

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Question 17 of 25 4 Points

Dr. Lu is looking for assistance on diagnosis of a patient with unusual symptoms. Which of the following system she is most likely to consult as discussed in class?

A. NN (Neural Networks)

B. TPS (Transaction Processing System)

C. DSS (Decision Support Systems)

D. ES (Expert System)

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Question 18 of 25 4 Points

Chuck Norris has been hired to oversee all of the plans that the city of Denver has created to expand its train transportation system by adding six more lines to the metro area. Chuck will be responsible for planning the project, managing the processes, and finalizing each new line as it is completed. How would you categorize the majority of the decisions Chuck will have to make to complete his job?

A. Unstructured decisions

B. Semistructured decisions

C. Structured decisions

D. Strategic decisions

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Question 19 of 25 4 Points

Leela Smith wants to wants to know how labor costs should be adjusted to get a 10% rate of return (ROR). She is performing:

A. optimization

B. Slice and dice analysis

C. Goal seeking analysis

D. Drill down analysis

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Question 20 of 25 4 Points

In flow charts, a rectangle depicts.

A. process

B. decision

C. input

D. ouput

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Question 21 of 25 4 Points

General motors wants to improve customer satisfaction and use online survey to collect customer responses. In the input-process-output model GM is generating

A. output

B. input

C. process

D. nothing

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Question 22 of 25 4 Points

In data-- Information- knowledge model The calculation of GPA's for students enrolled in INSS 300 is an example of _____.

A. information

B. Data

C. Knowledge

D. Business intelligence

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Question 23 of 25 4 Points

A student wants to draw a flow chart of the following situation if credit score >= 600 yes give loan no reject loan what would be appropriate representation of this?

A. rectangle

B. process

C. diamond

D. arrow (direction of flow)

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Question 24 of 25 4 Points

In flow charts, a diamond depicts.

A. process

B. flow

C. decision

D. All of the above

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Question 25 of 25 4 Points

In a dish water which is the process?

A. rinse

B. raw data

C. clean dishes

D. all of the above