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Information Management System Chapter 7 Quiz

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  • Question 1

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Enterprise resource planning is recognized as a necessary ingredient that many companies need in order to:
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Gain the efficiency, agility and responsiveness required to succeed in today’s dynamic business environment
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Gain the efficiency, agility and responsiveness required to succeed in today’s dynamic business environment
Acquire profitable customers
Reduce inventory levels
Keep competent employees in a competitive environment
  • Question 2

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The demands of today’s competitive business environment are pushing manufacturers to use which of the following technologies to help them re-engineer their relationships with their suppliers, distributors and retailers?
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All of the choices are correct
Answers: Intranets
Extranets
E-commerce Web portals
 

All of the choices are correct
  • Question 3

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Companies are turning to customer relationship management (CRM) to improve their customer focus. CRM uses information technology to create a cross-functional enterprise system that integrates and automates many of the customer-serving processes in which functional business areas?
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Marketing, sales and customer service
Answers: Sales and customer service
Sales and marketing
 

Marketing, sales and customer service
Marketing, sales, customer service and financial management
  • Question 4

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Electronic communication tools include which of the following software applications?
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Electronic mail, voice mail and faxing
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Electronic mail, voice mail and faxing
Presentation graphics, spreadsheets and word processors
Customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning and supply chain management
Transaction processing systems
  • Question 5

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Collaborative work management tools help people accomplish or manage group work activities. According to your text, which of the following is NOT a collaborative work management tool?
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Instant messaging capability
Answers: Calendaring and scheduling software
 

Instant messaging capability
Task and project management software
Document sharing
  • Question 6

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Which one of the following functional business systems does not support the accounting business function?
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Capital budgeting
Answers: General ledger
Inventory control
 

Capital budgeting
Payroll
  • Question 7

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The first step of the transaction processing cycle is _______________.
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data entry
Answers: nquiry processing
document generation
 transaction processing
 

data entry
  • Question 8

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When a manufacturer automates production of a product by installing computer systems to monitor processes and robots to do some of the assembly tasks, it is an example of ____________________.
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process control
Answers: computer integrated manufacturing
 

computer-aided manufacturing
 process control
task control
  • Question 9

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An enterprise application architecture provides a business with which of the following?
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An overview of the cross-functional enterprise applications and their relationships
Answers: Client/server applications
 

An overview of the cross-functional enterprise applications and their relationships
Mainframe applications
Specific hardware and software needs for the organization
  • Question 10

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________________ are cross-functional information systems that enhance communication and coordination among the members of business teams and workgroups.
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Enterprise collaboration systems
Answers: Enterprise coordination systems
Enterprise integration systems
 

Enterprise collaboration systems
Transition processing systems
  • Question 11

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EDI over the Internet is:
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A major B2B e-commerce application
Answers: Rarely done do to security problems
 

A major B2B e-commerce application
Requires powerful mainframe systems
All of the answers are correct
  • Question 12

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As described in the text, customer relationship management focuses on:
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Providing a firm’s employees with tools that support group collaboration and decision support.
Answers: Developing the most efficient and effective sourcing and procurement processes.
 

Acquiring and retaining profitable customers via marketing, sales, and service processes.
Acquiring and retaining partners who can enhance the selling and distribution of a firm’s products and services.
Providing a firm’s employees with tools that support group collaboration and decision support.
  • Question 13

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_____________________ is defined as the use of the Internet and other networks and information technologies to support electronic commerce, enterprise communication and collaboration and Web-enabled business processes both within a networked enterprise and with its customers and business partners.
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Electronic business
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Electronic business
Enterprise collaboration
Cross-functional system management
Supply chain management
  • Question 14

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Which of the following correctly describes e-commerce?
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The buying and selling and marketing and servicing of products, services and information over the Internet and other networks
Answers: Cross-functional integrated suite of software modules that supports basic internal business processes of a company
Use of the Internet and other networks to support enterprise communications and collaboration
Using IT to create a cross-functional enterprise system that automates many of the customer-serving processes of a business
 

The buying and selling and marketing and servicing of products, services and information over the Internet and other networks
  • Question 15

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________________ serves as a cross-functional enterprise backbone that integrates and automates many internal business processes and information systems within the manufacturing, logistics, distribution, accounting, finance and human resource functions of a company.
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Enterprise resource planning
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Enterprise resource planning
Supply chain management
Electronic data interchange
Partner relationship management
  • Question 16

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The supply chain is the process a company uses to build and sell its products, it is also sometimes called:
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A value chain
Answers: A companies integrated functional strategy
 

A value chain
A cross-functional process
The e-business process
  • Question 17

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________________ software assists customer service reps in helping customers who are having problems with a product or service, by providing relevant service data and suggestions for resolving problems.
Selected Answer:  

Help desk
Answers: Call center
 

Help desk
Sales force automation
Customer management
  • Question 18

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Advertising strategies based on a variety of tracking techniques, such as Web “cookies” is an example of which targeted marketing component?
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Online behavior.
Answers: Context.
Content.
Community.
 

Online behavior.
  • Question 19

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Your text describes several electronic business system applications. Which of the following applications focuses on acquiring and retaining profitable customers via marketing, sales and service processes?
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Customer relationship management
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Customer relationship management
Enterprise resource planning
Knowledge management
Supply chain management
  • Question 20

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Which one of the following functional business systems supports the marketing business function?
Selected Answer:  

Sales force automation
Answers: Compensation analysis
Process control
Credit management
 

Sales force automation

 

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