3) Discuss the various types of personnel required by a technology infrastructure and its attendant information technology services.

4) Identify and briefly describe the five moral dimensions raised by information systems.

5) List three ways in which all organizations are alike.

6) What is a supply chain? What is a supply chain management system?

7) Identify the three main categories of information systems in relation to the groups they serve and the functional areas in which they operate. Which do you believe is most difficult to implement? Why?

8) Describe and discuss the four stages of decision making as outlined by Simon. How does each relate to the use of information systems?

9) "With the Internet, the traditional business model is no longer valid." Describe the traditional business model and how the new business models differ. Do you agree, or disagree with the statement given here? Support your argument.

10) List the four technology trends given by the authors of your text that raise ethical issues. Give an example of an ethical or moral impact connected to each one.

11) Briefly describe Mintzberg's classification of organizations. Provide an example of each.

12) Define each of the following pairs of terms, distinguishing between the members of each pair. Logical view and physical view; data definition language and data manipulation language; data dictionary and data element.

13) Discuss the hierarchical organization of data in a typical database.

14) Identify the five step process for analyzing an ethical issue.

15) What is computer forensics? What problems does it deal with?

16) What are the five areas a corporate code of ethics should address? Give at least three examples of items that must be covered in each area.

17) Discuss the issue of organizational change, especially changes in power arrangements, which can occur when an organization institutes an organization-wide DBMS.

An algorithm performs (logN)1/2 find operations, N insert operations, (logN)1/2 delete operations, and (logN)1/2 decrease-key operations on a set of data items with keys drawn from a linearly ordered set. For a delete operation, a pointer is provided to the record that must be deleted. For the decrease-key operation, a pointer is provided to the record that has its key decreased. Which one of the following data structures is the most suited for the algorithm to use, if the goal is to achieve the best total asymptotic complexity considering all the operations?