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1
A company wants to find the number of employees who will qualify for retirement from their workforce in the coming year. Which of the following data is considered potential information in the context of this question?
A)The types of departments in the company
B)The ethnicity of the company's employees
C)The age of the company's employees
D)The salary package drawn by the company's employees
2
Which of the following terms is used to describe the process where information coming into your decision making process is in bad form and negatively affects decisions made?
A)GIGO
B)Tainted data interference
C)Corruption
D)Outflow pollution
3
What aspect of information is the organizational perspective of information mainly concerned with?
A)Time
B)Flow
C)Process
D)Form
4
Which of the following terms refers to the extent of detail provided in the information; for instance, some information may provide summary information while others may provide a great amount of detail?
A)Information depth
B)Information entropy
C)Information granularity
D)Information validity
5
With regard to hardware technology, which of the following is an input device?
A)A modem
B)A monitor
C)A hard disc
D)A bar code reader
6
Which of the following hardware devices is used to send information from one computer to another in a network?
A)An output device
B)A telecommunications device
C)A connecting device
D)The CPU
7
Which of the following types of software coordinates the interaction of technology devices?
A)Application software
B)Utility software
C)RAM
D)Systems software
8
Max Denton decides to start a café in his neighborhood. He rents a large showroom for $1,500 a month; he rents a coffee machine for $200 a month and furniture for $300 a month. It costs him $2 to make a cup of coffee and he sells a cup of coffee for $5. What is the minimum number of cups of coffee Max would have to sell a month to break even?
A)1000
B)873
C)667
D)400
9
Companies obtain patents and trademarks to reduce the extent of duplication of their products. This strategy:
A)increases customer buying power.
B)increases companies' supplier power.
C)decreases switching costs associated with products.
D)decreases barriers to entry for competitors.
10
Which of the following is an approach in which you allocate in terms of percentages how you will spend your IT dollars on various types of business strategies?
A)Overall cost leadership
B)Five Forces Model
C)Differentiation strategy
D)Run-grow-transform framework





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