CIS3250 Exam 2

The standard of living varies greatly among groups within a country as well as from nation to nation.

true
false

true

Labor productivity is measured by the annual revenue an employee generates divided by the employee's annual salary.
true
false

false

In the early days of IT in the 1960s

productivity improvements were difficult to measure.
true
false

Since businesses implemented automated payroll systems

fewer accounting employees are needed.
a. true
b. false

It usually takes less than two years for IT investment to result in a significant increase in productivity in large firms.
a. true
b. false

b. false

Machine learning is a branch of engineering that involves the development and manufacture of mechanical or computer devices that can perform tasks that require a high degree of precision or that are tedious or hazardous for human beings.
a. true
b. false

b. false

Natural language processing is an aspect of artificial intelligence that involves technology that allows computers to understand

analyze

Computers and robots can perform a wide range of routine physical work activities better

cheaper

The types of work-related activities best suited for automation include activities associated with managing others

applying expertise in making decisions and offering recommendations

Machine learning has contributed to the development of a much more in-depth understanding of the human genome as well as practical speech recognition

improved web search results

The development and use of new medical technology

such as new diagnostic procedures and treatments

Lifestyle changes have led to a decrease in chronic illnesses

such as diabetes and heart disease

Electronic medical records capture data on the total health of the patient and include more than just the standard clinical data collected in the provider's office thus enabling a broader view of a patient's care.
a. true
b. false

b. false

A PHR can exist either as a stand-alone application that allows information to be exported to or imported from other sources or as a "tethered" application connected to a specific healthcare organization's information system.
a. true
b. false

a. true

The information in an EHR is not easily shared with others outside of the healthcare organization where the data originated.
a. true
b. false

b. false

Clinical decision support (CDS) is a process and a set of tools designed to enhance healthcare-related decision making through the use of clinical knowledge and patient-specific information to improve healthcare delivery.
a. true
b. false

a. true

Effective use of CDS systems increases the quality of patient care but at the expense of rising healthcare costs.
a. true
b. false

b. false

More advanced artificial-intelligence-based clinical decision support systems can help doctors choose the proper dosage levels of medication based on a patient's most recent tests results.
a. true
b. false

a. true

A computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system enables physicians to place orders (for drugs

laboratory tests

In hospital-related settings

implementing CPOE is associated with a 10 percent decline in preventable adverse drug effects.
a. true
b. false

Today most radiologists employ a personal health record system to review cases from a remote location.
a. true
b. false

b. false

Store-and-forward telemedicine involves acquiring data

sound

Live telemedicine requires the presence of patients and healthcare providers at the same site.
a. true
b. false

b. false

Remote monitoring involves the regular

ongoing

There are thousands of mobile applications available to improve patient's access to healthcare information and to enable doctors to keep a close watch on patients' conditions.\
a. true
b. false

a. true

How often does The Bureau of Labor Statistics track U.S. productivity?
a. monthly
b. annual
c. semiannual
d. quarterly

d. quarterly

A measure of economic performance that compares the amount of goods and services produced (output) with the number of labor hours used in producing those goods and services is known as which of the following?
a. labor innovation
b. outsourcing
c. labor productivity
d. workplace automation

c. labor productivity

Innovation is a key factor in productivity improvement. Which of the following has played an important role in enabling innovation?
a. productivity
b. economy
c. research and statistics
d. information technology

d. information technology

IT investments may produce tangible results such as:
a. improved quality
b. improved reliability
c. cost savings
d. improved service

c. cost savings

Advances in which of the following areas are fundamentally changing the way work gets done and have the potential to affect the tasks

roles

Almost every job has partial automation potential

and research suggests what percentage of human work activities could be automated using existing technology?
a. 5 percent
b. 15 percent
c. 45 percent
d. 85 percent

An electronic medical record includes which of the following?
a. a patient's Medicare reimbursements
b. inpatient codes
c. audit trails of patient health information
d. a patient's immunization records

d. a patient's immunization records

Which of the following involves acquiring data

sound

Which of the following requires the presence of patients and healthcare providers at different sites at the same time and often involves a videoconference link between the two sites?
a. Store-and-forward telemedicine
b. Live telemedicine
c. Electronic consultation
d. Remote monitoring

b. Live telemedicine

Which of the following involves the regular

ongoing

What type of system enables physicians to place orders electronically

with the order transmitted directly to the recipient?
a. telemedicine system
b. computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system
c. clinical decision support (CDS) system
d. health information exchange (HIE) system

Researchers have found that it can take how long for IT investment to result in a significant increase in productivity?
a. less than three years
b. more than 10 years
c. five to seven years
d. only a few months

c. five to seven years

Which of the following activities is least suited for automation?
a. physical tasks performed in highly structured environments
b. activities related to data collection and processing
c. activities associated with managing others
d. tasks in the accommodation and food service industries

c. activities associated with managing others

Which of the following systems include the people

procedures

What type of artificial intelligence involves computer programs that can learn some task and improve performance with experience?
a. machine learning
b. robotics
c. natural language processing
d. electronic medial record

a. machine learning

Which aspect of artificial intelligence involves technology that allows computers to understand

analyze

One of the fundamental ways in which companies can try directly to increase productivity is by:
a. increasing the amount of input required to produce a given output
b. selling smaller quantities of goods to decrease capacity
c. decreasing the value of the output produced by a given amount of input
d. consolidating operations to better leverage economies of scale

d. consolidating operations to better leverage economies of scale

What is the name of the project at the Georgia Institute of Technology that uses stories to teach human values to robots?
a. Quixote
b. Watson
c. E.M. Rogers
d. McKinsey

a. Quixote

Which of the following is NOT one of the three major components of machine learning systems?
a. the learner
b. a function
c. a model
d. parameters

b. a function

An example of robotics can be found in which of the following examples?
a. pattern recognition
b. device used to move heavy pallets
c. website product recommendations
d. detecting fraud

b. device used to move heavy pallets

The primary areas where IT has been applied include all of the following except:
a. computerized patient records
b. clinical decision support
c. computerized provider order entry
d. medical language processing

d. medical language processing

A comprehensive view of the patient's complete medical history designed to be shared with authorized providers and staff from more than one organization is known as which of the following?
a. EHR
b. HIE
c. PHR
d. EMR

a. EHR

Which process can reduce expensive redundant tests that are ordered because one provider does not have access to the clinical information stored at another provider's location?
a. electronic medical records processing
b. health information exchange
c. telehealth
d. clinical decision support

b. health information exchange

What is another name for a tethered PHR?
a. patient portal
b. health information exchange
c. electronic medical record
d. clinical decision support

a. patient portal

A process and a set of tools designed to enhance healthcare-related decision making through the use of clinical knowledge to improve healthcare delivery is known as which of the following?
a. clinical decision support
b. remote monitoring
c. store-and-forward telemedicine
d. live telemedicine

a. clinical decision support

Remote monitoring is also known as which of the following?
a. real-time telehealth
b. home monitoring
c. telenursing
d. live telemedicine

b. home monitoring

Which of the following helps physicians keep tabs on patients prone to life-threatening health crises?
a. Inpatient codes
b. Medical information Web sites
c. Remote monitoring
d. SMS texts

c. Remote monitoring

Which of the following examples is a use of wireless technology in the healthcare field?
a. provide the public access to a patient's medical history
b. provide access to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements
c. transmit ECG data to a physician's smartphone
d. increase chances of duplicate care

c. transmit ECG data to a physician's smartphone

Which of the following technologies employs electronic information processing and telecommunications to support at-a-distance health care

provide professional and patient health-related training

It is difficult to quantify how much the use of IT has contributed to worker productivity because:
a. many other factors influence worker productivity rates besides IT
b. organizational efficiency tends to decrease despite increased investments in IT
c. all IT investments produce intangible benefits that cannot be analyzed
d. workers merely use the time provided by IT implementation to do some small tasks

a. many other factors influence worker productivity rates besides IT

The Fair Use Doctrine is a defense often employed by the defendant in trademark infringement cases
a. true
b. false

false

Formulas

inventions

Industrial espionage and competitive intelligence are essentially the same.
a. true
b. false

false

Copyright infringement is the act of stealing someone's ideas or words and passing them off as one's own
a. true
b. false

false

The Lanham Act (also known as the Trademark Act) defines the use of a trademark

the process for obtaining a trademark

Software

video games

Defining and controlling the appropriate level of access to intellectual property are complex tasks.
a. true
b. false

true

The fair use doctrine denies portions of patented materials to be used without permission under any circumstance.
a. true
b. false

false

Two software manufacturers could conceivably develop separate programs that perform the same functions in a nearly identical manner without infringing each other's copyrights.
a. true
b. false

true

The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act of 2008 increased trademark and copyright enforcement and substantially increased penalties for infringement.
a. true
b. false

true

Copyright law protects authored works such as art

books

The World Trade Organization (WTO) developed the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights to establish the minimum levels of protection that each government must provide to the intellectual property of all WTO members.
a. true
b. false

true

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed into law in 1998 and implements two 1996 WIPO treaties.
a. true
b. false

true

A trademark permits its owner to exclude the public from making

using

Cross-licensing agreements between organizations allow each party to sue the other over patent infringements.
a. true
b. false

false

The main body of law that governs patents is contained in Title 35 of the U.S. Code.
a. true
b. false

true

The term of copyright has been extended several times from its original limit of 25 years to 35 years.
a. true
b. false

false

A trademark is business information that represents something of economic value

has required effort or cost to develop

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty of 1996 eliminated many of the original copyright protections for electronic media.
a. true
b. false

false

A copyright is the exclusive right to distribute

display

Because organizations can risk losing trade secrets when key employees leave

they often try to prohibit employees from revealing secrets by adding non-compete clauses to employment contracts.
a. true
b. false

Reverse engineering can only be applied to computer hardware

not computer software.
a. true
b. false

Using reverse engineering

a developer can use the code of the current database programming language to recover the design of the information system application.
a. true
b. false

Open source code is any program whose source code is made available for use or modification

as users or other developers see fit.
a. true
b. false

A common use of open source software is to move data from one application to another and to extract

transform

In what year was The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) signed into law?
a. 1992
b. 1998
c. 1990
d. 1996

b. 1998

Patent law protects which of the following?
a. art and film
b. information critical to an organization's success
c. books
d. inventions

d. inventions

Which of the following imposes penalties of up to $10 million and 15 years in prison for the theft of trade secrets?
a. Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act
b. Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
c. The Economic Espionage Act (EEA) of 1996
d. The Lanham Act

c. The Economic Espionage Act (EEA) of 1996

The process of taking something apart in order to understand it

build a copy of it

Which of the following terms is defined as the existing body of knowledge available to a person of ordinary skill in the art?
a. Prior experience
b. Known facts
c. Body of practice
d. Prior art

d. Prior art

How many classes of items did the U.S. Supreme Court rule could not be patented?
a. two
b. three
c. four
d. five

b. three

Copyright and patent protection was established through which of the following?
a. the Bill of Rights
b. the U.S. Federal Codes and Statutes
c. the U.S. Constitution
d. various state laws

c. the U.S. Constitution

A patent is a grant of a property right issued by which entity?
a. USPS
b. USPTO
c. FTC
d. SEC

b. USPTO

Which act was drafted in the 1970s to bring uniformity to all the United States in the area of trade secret law?
a. The Economic Espionage Act (EEA)
b. Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA)
c. Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act
d. Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA)

d. Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA)

Which of the following enables a DVD player or a computer drive to decrypt

unscramble

Which of the following increased trademark and copyright enforcement and substantially increased penalties for infringement?
a. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
b. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
c. Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
d. Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act

d. Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act

Which of the following established the minimum levels of protection that each country must provide to all WTO members?
a. World Trade Organization (WTO)
b. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
c. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
d. Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)

d. Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)

Which of the following can read the machine language of a software program and produce the source code?
a. compiler
b. open source decoder
c. re-engineering device
d. decompiler

d. decompiler

What is the name of the agreement that prohibits a departing employee from working for any competitors for a period of time?
a. noncompete agreement
b. license agreement
c. nondisclosure agreement
d. union agreement

a. noncompete agreement

Unlike traditional copyright law

which of the following acts does not govern copying

instead

it focuses on the distribution of tools and software that can be used for copyright infringement as well as for legitimate non-infringing use?
a. TRIPS Agreement
b. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
c. WIPO Copyright Treaty
d. Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act

Which of the following allows portions of copyrighted materials to be used without permission under certain circumstances?
a. Plagiarism
b. Copyright infringement
c. Fair use doctrine
d. Use of prior art

c. Fair use doctrine

One of the tests that an invention must pass to be eligible for a patent is which of the following?
a. it must be a machine
b. it must not be economical to produce
c. it must be capable of providing economic benefit
d. it must be obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the same field

d. it must be obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the same field

Which act allows trademark owners to challenge foreign cybersquatters who might otherwise be beyond the jurisdiction of U.S. courts?
a. ACPA
b. PRO-IP Act
c. Economic Espionage Act
d. CAN-SPAM Act

a. ACPA

Which of the following was a legislator and former singer and entertainer who co-sponsored the Copyright Term Extension Act?
a. Frank Sinatra
b. Sonny Bono
c. Dean Martin
d. Sammy Davis Jr.

b. Sonny Bono