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\_____ is a good site to develop your professional network.

LinkedIn

A(n) \______ is a telecommunications network that connects large geographic areas.

wide area network (WAN)

When you are looking for a 'hotspot', you are searching for \_____​

a wireless access point

Liesel is an entrepreneur, and she'd like to publish a website for her small business. Liesel \____________.

can use hosting services

The Internet is the infrastructure on which the Web exists.

True

The fiber-optic cables that span the globe over land and under sea make up the Internet \_____.

backbone

Which of the following systems can help identify your geolocation​?

GPS

\_____ is a very short-range wireless connectivity technology designed for consumer electronics, cell phones, and credit cards.

Near field communication (NFC)

\_____ is the control or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on the Internet.

Internet censorship

A personal area network (PAN) is a wireless network that connects information networking devices within a small area, such as an office, home, or several floors of a building.

False

\_____ is a popular programming language for client-side applications that enable a user to create interactive Web pages that respond to user actions.

JavaScript

Which of the following statements is true of network-management software?

With network-management software, a manager on a networked personal computer can scan for viruses.

A(n) \_____ is a Website that people can create and use to write about their observations, experiences, and opinions on a wide range of topics.

blog

When you use your lab computer to access a printer, you are using the local area network (LAN).

True

A \_____ network is one in which all network devices are connected to one another through a single central device called the hub node.

star

\_____ is a communication standard that enables computers to route communications traffic from one network to another as needed.

A Wi-Fi

The Internet Protocol (IP)

The ancestor of the Internet was \_____.

the ARPANET

Network management software is a system software that controls the computer systems and devices on a network and allows them to communicate with each other.

False

\_____ is online, real-time communication between two or more people who are connected to the Internet.

Instant messaging

A \_____ satellite system employs many satellites that are spaced so that, from any point on the Earth at any time, at least one satellite is on a line of sight, each in an orbit at an altitude of less than 1,000 miles.

low earth orbit (LEO)

The computers and devices on a network are also known as \_____.

network nodes

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) uses companies called \_____ to handle the business of registering domain names.

accredited domain name registrars

\_____ refers to a computing environment where software and storage are provided as an Internet service and accessed with a Web browser.

Cloud computing

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) use special Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) tags to globally define font characteristics for a variety of page elements as well as how those elements are laid out on a Web page.

True

Using \_____, Web users can jump between Web pages stored on various Web servers, creating the illusion of interacting with one big computer.

hyperlinks

\_____ consist of standards and tools that streamline and simplify communication among Websites and that promise to revolutionize the way the Web is developed and used for business and personal purposes.

Web services

A virtual private network (VPN) supports a secure, encrypted connection between a company's employees and remote users through a third-party service provider.

True

As an organization's purchasing systems generate purchase orders and the items ordered are received, information is sent to the \_____ system to manage the amounts owed by the organization.

accounts payable

With \_____, transactions are accumulated for as long as necessary to meet the needs of the users of a system.

batch processing systems

Which of the following transactions definitely require online transaction processing and cannot work on batch processing approach?

Stock investments

In an organization, a transaction processing system (TPS) supports routine operations associated with its business processes.

True

Which of the following statements is true of product lifecycle management (PLM) software?

It provides documents required for FDA and environmental compliance.

In business, SME stands for \_____.

small and medium-sized enterprises

External users of product lifecycle management (PLM) software include design partners and raw material suppliers.

True

\_____includes the planning, executing, and controlling of all activities involved in raw material sourcing and procurement, converting raw materials to finished products, and the warehousing and delivering finished product to customers.

Supply chain management (SCM)

If an organization is using several separate systems, they can be replaced with a single integrated set of applications for the entire enterprise.

True

The efficiency of processes for managing customer payments can vary; some processes are more efficient than others.

True

Customer support, sales management, and contact management are key features of a customer relationship management (CRM) system.

True

\_____ is the use of software to analyze the robustness and performance of components and assemblies.

Computer-aided engineering (CAE)

CAE

Computer-aided engineering

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems evolved from \_____ systems developed in the 1970s.

materials requirement planning

materials requirement planning (MRP)

MRP

To successfully implement a supply chain management system, an organization must be able to integrate its systems with its suppliers.

True

Payroll transactions and billing are typically done via \_____.

batch processing

An integrated database for the entire organization makes it easier to share data among different business units.

True

\_____ is the use of software to assist in the creation, analysis, and modification of the design of a component or product.

Computer-aided design

A small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) is a legally independent enterprise with \_____ employees.

up to 500

In a transaction processing system (TPS), a(n) \_____ must track the flow of data related to all the cash flows that affect an organization.

accounting system

​Smaller lot sizes from vendors will help reduce the purchasing complexities for the consumer.

True

Enterprise systems use multiple databases aimed at different business units.

False

Suppose a small business owner does not invest in implementing an expensive enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, she can choose to use \_______ software and modify the code to suit her needs.

free, opensource

free and open source

open source

open-source

A customer relationship management (CRM) system helps a company to plan, execute, and control all the activities involved in raw material sourcing and procurement, conversion of raw materials to finished products, and the warehousing and delivery of finished product to customers.

False

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems work directly with manufacturing machines on the production floor.

False

Organizations frequently need to customize a vendor's enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to integrate other business systems.

True

Small and medium size organizations do not employ enterprise systems.

False

Manufacturing enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems follow a systemic process for developing a production plan that starts with \_______ to develop an estimate of future customer demand.

sales forecasting

In a manufacturing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, demand management \_______.

refines a production plan by determining the amount of weekly or daily production needed to meet the demand for individual products

Which of the following is IBM's BI product?

Cognos

To solve the product mix problem that will maximize the profits, you can use Excel's Solver add-in.

True

Which of the following is NOT a commonly used BI tool?

automated customer service

Excel's scenario manager can be used to solve optimization-type problems​.

False

​Similar to what you find in a car, a business \_____ provides rapid access to information, in an easy-to-interpret and concise manner, which helps organizations run more effectively and efficiently.

dashboard

dashboards

In linear regression, you are to find a line that best fits the data. Sometimes the line may be curved.

False

​Which of the following is a potential disadvantage with self-service BI?

​Can lead to over spending on unapproved data sources and business analytics tools.

​Suppose you are viewing a database of your monthly expenses, categorized under broad headings such as food, entertainment and accommodation. If you have drill down ability, you are able to view details under each category.

True

The goal of business intelligence is to \_____.

support and improve decision making

Mastery over which subject is NOT required for being a data scientist?

English

Data cubes can be created on an ad hoc basis. There is no need to create them ahead of time.

False

​Which of the following will be a 'fact' measure in a data cube used at a chain retail business?

Sales revenue

Suppose you have access to quantitative data on populations by ZIP code and crime rates. You wish to determine if there is a relationship between the two variables and display the results in a graph. Which BI tool will be most useful?

Data visualization tool

A \______ is a visual depiction of a set of words that have been grouped together because of the frequency of their occurrence.

word cloud

​To analzye various alternative scenarios, a manager would use \_______.

​the spreadsheet's 'what-if' capability

A user interface makes an expert system easier to develop and use.

True

A genetic algorithm can be used to search the vast resources of the Internet to find information on any topic.

False

One of your colleagues has temporarily lost the ability to use his hands and fingers due to a rare medical condition. He would like to continue to interact with the computers at work. A solution based on \___________ would help him.

voice recognition

natural language processing

\_____ is text, graphics, video, animation, audio, and other media that can be used to help an organization efficiently and effectively achieve its goals.

Multimedia

The haptic interface relays the sense of \_____ in the virtual world.

touch

The \_____ attempts to determine whether a computer can successfully impersonate a human.

Turing Test

\_____ include the people, procedures, hardware, software, data, and knowledge needed to develop computer systems and machines that can simulate human intelligence processes including learning, reasoning, and self-correction.

Artificial intelligence systems

​A conversion funnel is a visual depiction of a set of words that have been grouped together because of the frequency of their occurrence.

False

A \_____ is a computer system that can act like or simulate the functioning of a human brain.

neural network

Sophisticated computer systems require an extension of understanding visual images. This is called a \_____ system.

perceptive

​A marketing manager who does not have deep knowledge of information systems or data science, will NOT be able to use BI tools

False

A(n) \_____ is a system that enables one or more users to move and react in a computer-simulated environment.

virtual reality system

A(n) \_____ is an organized collection of people, procedures, software, databases, and devices used to create, store, share, and use the organization's knowledge and experience.

knowledge management system (KMS)

Which of these analysis methods describes neural computing?

​historical data is examined for patterns that are then used to make predictions

\_____ do not need any previous training in computers or expert systems.

Knowledge users

A neural network relies on massively parallel processing to enable a computer to simulate the function of a human brain.

True

In the regression line Y \= a+ bX + e, a is the slope of the regression line.

False​

Expert systems use heuristics to arrive at conclusions or make recommendations.

True

\_____ can process many pieces of data at the same time and learn to recognize patterns.

Neural networks

​During drill-down, you go from high-level summary data to detailed levels of data.

True