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Apiporn Simapornchai
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Psychologist Henry Mintzberg classifies managerial tasks into three categories:______________ .
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Choose one a. organizing work, planning jobs, and controlling workers
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b. setting schedules, directing the processes, and communicating with other
managers

c. preparing reports, talking on the phone, and attending meetings

d. interpersonal, informational, and decisional

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The ___________ character set can be used to represent all modern languages.
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Choose one a. EBCDIC
answer.
b. Sans Serif

c. UNICODE

d. ASCII

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A management information system consists of five related components:______

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Choose one a. hardware, software, programmers, users, managers
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b. computer, operating system, application software, network, keyboard

c. hardware, software, people, procedures, data

d. programmers, computers, software, network, internet

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Management information systems are designed to ________ .

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Choose one a. improve individual productivity
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b. help managers analyze data and solve business problems

c. develop and manage a database

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d. build computer systems and networks

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Cache memory is used in computer systems to address the problem of:

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Choose one a. parallel processing
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b. the need for portable storage

c. differences in the speed of the processor and the speed of I/O

d. ergonomics

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What type of decision is required to change the overall structure of the firm to give it an advantage over the
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competition?
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Choose one a. Operational

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b. Cheating

c. Strategic

d. Tactical

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What is the computer-based information system that helps integrate data in a collaborative environment?
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Choose one a. Expert Systems
answer.
b. Decision support system

c. Enterprise resource planning system

d. Executive information system

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Computers are typically discussed in
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terms of two important classifications:
hardware and software
_________ and _________.

To a computer user, the most important

aspect of the computer is the data that it handles

The _________ is software that is

responsible for communication among
operating system
the hardware components.

The computer processor can handle

only ___________ in the form of
binary data, bits
______.

One of the interesting aspects of

computers is that the various
different speed
components operate at ____________.

One of the first hardware-independent

operating systems was______ UNIX

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Unicode is a(n) __________ standard

that uses two bytes to count each
character or ideogram, enabling it to
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handle _________ ideograms in each
language

The _______ carries out instructions

written by programmers and uses
__________ to temporarily store
instructions and data. Data and
processor, RAM, secondary storage
instructions that need to be stored for a
longer time are transferred to
__________.

The purpose of an input device is to

convert data into __________ form. electronic binary

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To perform e-business tasks, the server needs to evaluate programmed _______ and interact with a
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________.
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Choose one a. Web site, server

answer.
b. Web code, database

c. database, Web server

d. Web server, Web site

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Hardware is defined as _________________ .

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Choose one a. equipment, programs and data used in systems
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b. the physical elements of a computer system

c. sets of instructions to the system

d. the logical components of a computer system

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Converting motion pictures and TV signals to binary form used by todays computers can be done without
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losing data or reducing the quality of the images
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Answer: True

False

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Applications create objects by combining data types. The functions that apply to an object are the same as
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those available to the data types that make up the object.
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Answer: True

False

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McDonald’s has created multiple career tracks for information technology specialists.
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Answer: True

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False

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Technology products’ price and performance typically exhibit what kind of trend over time?
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Choose one a. Price stays the same, performance increases
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b. Performance increases, price decreases

c. Price increases, performance decreases

d. Performance stays the same, Price decreases

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One of the most important
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changes in organizational
structure is the move away hierarchical structure, team-based structure
from ______ to ________.

Information systems enable

executives to gather and
manipulate information
themselves or with
automated systems; and
less, middle
consequently, there is
_______ need for
_________ managers to
prepare and analyze data.

_________ jobs are often

dedicated to collecting and
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analyzing data.

Many business tasks and

decisions are _________, in
the sense that they can be
structured
defined by a set of rules or
procedures.

American Hospital Supply

changed the industry by
providing a __________ just-in-time
inventory delivery service.

The process of decision-

making
collecting data, identifying problems, evaluating alternatives, and making choices
involves_______________ .

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