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Information Systems Management C724 WGU PRE-Test Questions with accurate answers, latest Updates. Which activity is an example of how information systems support business functions of human resou... rce departments? - ✔✔-An employee processes monthly payroll checks and benefits using an open-source software. There are six major components of a computer-based information system, four of which are also in the information technology component. Which two components are only parts of the information system? Choose 2 answers - ✔✔-People & Processes A police department at a large metropolitan city implemented an information system that analyzes historical crime data, including date and locations as well as other external, environmental, and cityrelated data. The system then produces daily predictive reports of the major locations around the city that are likely to require additional police attention. The police department uses the reports to plan the officers' patrol routes, targeting the areas that the system predicted to have high likelihood of incidents. Which type of computer-based information system provides a competitive advantage based on the described scenario? - ✔✔-A decision support system (DSS) that improves decision-making A police department at a large metropolitan city implemented an information system that integrates historical crime data, including date and locations to other external, environmental, and city-related data. The system then produces daily predictive reports of the major locations around the city that are likely to require additional police attention. The police department uses the reports to plan the officers' patrol routes, targeting the areas that the system predicted to have high likelihood of incidents. Which two strategies does the information system at the police department aim to accomplish? Choose 2 answers - ✔✔-Improving decision-making & Operational efficiency Which business function is primarily the responsibility of production and operations information systems? - ✔✔-Quality control A small company that is growing quickly into a medium-sized company is facing the challenge of consolidating and storing information received from multiple sources from the ground up in order to ensure that operations run efficiently. The company needs to hire an expert who will, in addition to the above, maintain security and apply upgrades as needed. Which IT professional does the company need to hire in order to address this challenge? - ✔✔-Database administrator A university is looking for ways to customize its courses to the unique needs of its students by creating various levels of hybrid online courses, such as 80% online for one student, whereas only 30% online for another. Which IT management challenge is addressed in this scenario? - ✔✔-Develop new products and services A ride-sharing cab company is looking for ways to generate more business by attracting more customers, both on the supply (driver) and demand (passenger) side, via a strategy of tracking their monthly miles and offering "frequent flier" bonuses, just like airline companies have done. Which IT management challenge is addressed in this scenario? - ✔✔-Promote competitive advantage An automobile manufacturer is considering equipping the engines of its new models with the capability of detecting early symptoms of an imminent mechanical or electric failure, automatically transmitting that warning to the dealership from which the customer purchased the car, and the dealership automatically contacting the customer to schedule a repair appointment. It is facing the challenge of whether all this is technically feasible and operationally viable. Who needs to address this challenge of value creation through technology use? - ✔✔-Chief technology officer A car dealership has been receiving complaints from its customers about its inflexible repair system in which customers who drop off their cars the previous evening are not properly placed in the queue and tend to be placed behind those who drop off their cars the morning of the scheduled repair. It needs technical staff members who understand the scheduling/drop-off operation so it can determine and articulate precise customer needs to the programmers who would then build the code behind the system. What type of challenge is this? - ✔✔-User requirements An international company is facing the challenge of its software development team working on a specific application spread across the globe in 16 countries in 12 different time zones. Flying them to the same location once a week or even once a month for coordination purposes would be prohibitively expensive. Moreover, the issues that arise tend to be urgent and in need of almost immediate resolution in communication with team members in other countries. Which communication style is necessary to resolve the issues in the given scenario? - ✔✔-Synchronous What business strategy relies heavily on efficient and secure software implementations? - ✔✔-Web sales What business function benefits from both wireless networks and cellular technologies? - ✔✔-Product sales support In 1965, computers had .092 MIPS, and today's computer have about 238,000 MIPS. What business practices have taken advantage of this massive increase in computer speed? Choose 2 answers - ✔✔-Network management systems & Database management systems A marketing manager uses a desktop publishing software to create advertising brochures that will be mailed to potential customers. To which major software category does the desktop publishing software in this scenario belong? - ✔✔- Application software A company needs to allow multiple computers to have access to a shared printer. Which type of computer is required to manage the print requests to a shared printer? - ✔✔-A server computer A large online retail store needs a computer system that can quickly process sales orders, inventory, payment, and shipping. Which computer system is required to accomplish these tasks? - ✔✔-Mainframe computer Which development methodologies respond to a need to expedite and scale software development, with concepts that are concerned with the reuse of one or many software objects? Choose 2 answers - ✔✔-Object-oriented development & Component-based development Which approach to systems development has a limited emphasis on the planning process and uses prototypes in lieu of predetermined specifications? - ✔✔-Rapid application development A company has many separate departments that focus on different business aspects and uses data warehouse subsets to hold data specific to each individual department. The company started a new department and created a new subset. What is this new subset called? - ✔✔-Data mart An auto parts manufacturer is creating a new relational database to more accurately identify their customers and vendors. The manufacturer's database design team decided to use "vendorID" to link a given vendor to a specific product, as illustrated in the diagram shown. What type of attribute is "vendorID"? - ✔✔-Primary key in record "Vendor" Which database type, used frequently in early style databases but much less frequently today, contained inflexible data relationships that formed a treelike structure? - ✔✔-Hierarchical database Amanda has been asked to regularly extract and process databases from many sources into a data warehouse, which will be used by several divisions within the company. Which data type should Amanda recognize is prevented by her data warehouse design? - ✔✔-Variable A national publisher of newspapers wants to mine its data warehouse (including inputs from social media) to identify which of its publications customers believe provides reliable reporting. Which tool is used for this initiative? - ✔✔-Sentiment analysis A marketing research firm is planning a study involving consumer preferences toward new coffee flavors. The company needs to analyze coffee data from the coffee manufacturer, as well as preference data from consumers in order to discover whether certain flavors are more or less popular among certain segments of the population. Which database technology would help the company conduct this research project? - ✔✔-Business intelligence system utilizing data mining technology A fast food restaurant chain is in the process of adding more restaurants in an overseas market. One of the requirements is to have a reliable and scalable database technology that allows the local restaurants, as well as the corporate office, data access regardless of the platforms and locations. Which database technology supports these business data requirements? - ✔✔-Cloud-based database Which aspect of data governance is used to ensure that once an online payment transaction is successfully processed, the credit card information is removed from the company servers? - ✔✔-Data are properly destroyed. Which aspect of data governance is used to ensure that the customer data and payment information saved in the company server are properly encrypted? - ✔✔-Data are properly stored. A marketing manager would like to study customer behavior and how it relates to customer's purchase products from its online store. Specifically, she would like to know which website page the majority of customers spent the most time on, when and where they decided to abandon the shopping cart, and how long (on average) a customer takes to complete a sales transaction. Which database technology supports this study? - ✔✔-Clickstream analysis Which telecommunication protocol is used to connect devices in a wireless local area network (LAN)? - ✔✔-Wi-Fi Which telecommunication protocol is used to retrieve email from a mail server? - ✔✔-Post Office Protocol (POP) With technology trends such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, Cloud Computing, eCommerce, and mCommerce, the Internet has become a very important and useful aspect of society. To prepare for these trends and aid in technology evolution, a necessary and critical change in telecommunications was the conversion from IPv4 to IPv6. What was the primary reason to convert to IPv6? - ✔✔-To increase the number of available IP addresses Which tactic defeats a war driver by barring access to your secured wireless network? - ✔✔-Configuring the access point to accept only specific MAC addresses A food truck wants to connect with its customers using a site that enables users and businesses to use public messages to create informed commerce. Which concept describes service to consumers and busines [Show More]

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