QUESTION 36

1. Which type of system would you use to predict the effect on product sales if a greater investment was made in advertising the product?

   		DSS
   		KMS
   		MIS
   		MIS and TPS hybrid

1 points

QUESTION 37

1. Nicholas Carr in his controversial Harvard Business Review article "IT Does Not Matter" contends that IT is not a unique factor of production.

   True

   False

1 points

QUESTION 38

1. The need for an SCM system to ensure that the supply chain is well-synchronized is felt more strongly in pull-based rather than push-based supply chains.

   True

   False

1 points

QUESTION 39

1. Which of the following statements are true about packet switching?

   I. The packets resulting from the segmentation, or packetization, of a file can take different routes to the destination computer.

   II. There is no mechanism available in packet-switched networks to give some packets a higher priority than other other packets.

   III. Packet-switched networks cannot support voice traffic.

   IV. Packet-switched networks can support streaming video traffic.

   		I, III, IV
   		I, III
   		I, IV
   		III, IV

1 points

QUESTION 40

1. Web Services communicate by exchanging XML messages between them.

   True

   False

1 points

QUESTION 41

1. A business is deploying some new IT which will result in significant automation of the work done in several departments of the firm. What are two direct benefits that this IT can be expected to bring?

   I. Increase in worker productivity

   II. Increase in customer satisfaction

   III. Increase in operational efficiency

   IV. Increase in market share of the firm's offerings

   		I, III
   		I, II
   		II, III
   		I, IV

1 points

QUESTION 42

1. You are creating a database with normalized tables to store information about products and materials your firm buys from suppliers for use in the firm's manufacturing process. Orders are uniquely identified by means of an ID issued to an order. A good choice for the primary key in the normalized orders table would be

   		Supplier ID
   		Order ID
   		Combination of Supplier ID and Order ID
   		Combination of Order ID, Supplier ID, and Order Date

1 points

QUESTION 43

1. The most important basis for Apple Computer's competitive advantage is

   		Low-cost leadership
   		Product differentiation
   		Niche
   		Supplier and customer intimacy

1 points

QUESTION 44

1. The XML standard is replacing EDI.

   True

   False

1 points

QUESTION 45

1. In mapping a relationship to a table, the primary key from each entity in the relationship is part of the primary key for the relationship table.

   True

   False