laboursonline – MCQs, Mock Tests | Business Studies Business Information Systems MCQ Set 1

Processed data is called

1. Field
2. Information
3. Record
4. File

✅ Correct Answer: 2

_ is the most basic element of data

1. Character
2. Fields
3. Record
4. Database

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A group of related records constitutes a

1. Database
2. File
3. Information
4. Field

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Information systems are composed of basic components.

1. 4
2. 3
3. 2
4. many

✅ Correct Answer: 2

A human order taker can be bypassed when using a(n)

1. Automation system
2. Management information system
3. Transaction processing system
4. decision support system

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The—-can help you choose a product.

1. . office automation system
2. management information system
3. transaction processing system
4. decision support system

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The expert system uses a (n) to select the most appropriate response.

1. inference engine
2. decision support system
3. knowledge base
4. data source

✅ Correct Answer: 1

An intranet that is accessible by outside workers.

1. Firewall
2. EXTRANET
3. MIS
4. P2P

✅ Correct Answer: 2

__Is the capability to continue as if nothing has happened, even after a major component failure.

1. Redundancy
2. Interoperability
3. Fault Tolerance
4. Backup

✅ Correct Answer: 3

A storage device that is connected directly to a network is an example of _____

1. A. network attached storage
2. storage area network
3. direct attached storage
4. RAID

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A tape library will use a robotic component called a(n)____ to change and store multiple tape cartridges

1. RAID
2. backup device
3. redundant system
4. autoloader

✅ Correct Answer: 4

More than one of the same component is an example of a___ system.

1. Scalable
2. redundant
3. RAID
4. back-up

✅ Correct Answer: 2

. Which of the following information systems are used in the daily running of the business?

1. TPS
2. OPS
3. OAS
4. All the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

. Which of the following information systems are used in the daily running of the business?

1. TPS
2. OPS
3. OAS
4. All the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

. Which of the following information systems are used in the daily running of the business?

1. TPS
2. OPS
3. OAS
4. All the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is not one of the three ‘Cs’ describing groupware?

1. Coordination.
2. Communication
3. Compliance
4. Collaboration

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) software is an example of an information systems applicationMaterials Requirements Planning (MRP) software is an example of an information systems application in which of the following areas?

1. Office automation systems.
2. Operations management.
3. Marketing
4. Human resource management.

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) software is an example of an information systems applicationMaterials Requirements Planning (MRP) software is an example of an information systems application in which of the following areas?

1. Office automation systems.
2. Operations management.
3. Marketing
4. Human resource management.

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Business Intelligence and data warehousing are used for which of the following?

1. Data mining.
2. Analysis of large volumes of product sales data.
3. What-if scenarios
4. All the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is true about ERP software?

1. Always adaptable to how the business works.
2. Extensive skills available for development.
3. Supplier costs kept low.
4. Simplified support and maintenance through a supplier.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is an EIS?

1. External information system.
2. Extended information system
3. Electronic information system
4. Executive information system.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What is the role of document image processing (DIP) systems?

1. Conversion into digital format
2. Product management.
3. Cash flow forecasting
4. Producing customer invoices.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Buy-side e-commerce is:

1. The use of electronic communications for all business processes.
2. Any electronically mediated communication between an organisation and its stakeholders.
3. An organisation using electronic media to sell direct to its customers.
4. An organisation using electronic media to purchase from its suppliers.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

To determine demand for Internet services in a market, companies should survey what?

1. Percentage that have access to the Internet.
2. Percentage that purchase online.
3. Percentage that use the Internet to inform their buying decision
4. All the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

To determine demand for Internet services in a market, companies should survey what?

1. Percentage that have access to the Internet.
2. Percentage that purchase online.
3. Percentage that use the Internet to inform their buying decision
4. All the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of these is a cost/efficiency driver of e-commerce?

1. Improving the range and quality of services offered.
2. Avoid losing market share to businesses already using e-commerce. C.
3. Increasing speed with which supplies can be obtained
4. Customer demand.

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following system components is responsible for ensuring that the system is working to fulfil its objective?

1. Outputs
2. Processing
3. Feedback
4. Control

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In terms of a system, finished products and information are examples of:

1. Feedback
2. Outputs
3. Control
4. Processing

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following describes exchanges between a system and other systems or a system and any external agencies?

1. . Interface
2. Suprasystem
3. Environment
4. Subsystem

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A system that responds to changes in the environment and modifies its operation accordingly known as:

1. A deterministic system.
2. A closed system.
3. A soft system
4. An adaptive system.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In terms of the resources that support information systems, the procedures used by people are a example of:

1. . Hardware resources.
2. Software resources
3. People resources
4. Data resources.

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is not one of the five competitive forces identified by Michael Porter?

1. The bargaining power of customers.
2. The threat of substitute products or services.
3. The threat of new entrants.
4. The threat of changes in the global economy.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which category of computer-based information systems is concerned with supporting the functional areas of an organisation?

1. Strategic information systems.
2. Business information systems
3. Expert systems.
4. End user computing systems.

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which category of computer-based information systems is concerned with improving efficiency by applying information technology to common administrative tasks, such as creating business documents?

1. Expert systems.
2. Office automation systems
3. Business information systems.
4. Strategic information systems.

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following defines the scope of a system?

1. Interface.
2. Boundary
3. Process
4. Feedback mechanism.

✅ Correct Answer: 2

E-business is:

1. Any electronically mediated communication between an organisation and its stakeholders.
2. The use of electronic communications for all business processes.
3. An organisation using electronic media to purchase from its suppliers.
4. . An organisation using electronic media to sell direct to its customers.

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Projections and responses to queries are information output characteristics associated with a(n):

1. DSS
2. MIS
3. ESS
4. TPS

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Summary transaction data, high-volume data, and simple models are information inputs characteristic of a(n):

1. DSS
2. MIS
3. ESS
4. TPS

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following individuals typically have less formal, advanced educational degrees and tend to process rather than create information?

1. knowledge workers
2. executives
3. systems analysts
4. data workers

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Decision support systems usually:

1. Serve managers interested in weekly, monthly, and yearly results, not day-to-day activities.
2. Help managers make decisions that are unique, rapidly changing, and not easily specified in advance.
3. Provide managers with a generalized computing and telecommunications capacity that can be applied to a changing array of problems.
4. Perform and record the daily routine transactions necessary to the conduct of business.

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Identifying customers and markets using data on demographics, markets, consumer behaviour, and trends is an example of a(n):

1. Operational-level sales and marketing information system.
2. Knowledge-level sales and marketing information system.
3. Management-level sales and marketing information system.
4. Strategic-level sales and marketing information system.

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Deciding where to locate new production facilities is a(n) example of a manufacturing and production information system operating at the:

1. Operational level.
2. Management level.
3. Knowledge level.
4. Strategic level.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

preparing short-term budgets is an example of a finance and accounting information system operating at the:

1. Operational level.
2. Management level
3. Knowledge level
4. Strategic level.

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Tracking employee training, skills, and performance appraisals is an example of a human resource information system operating at the:

1. Operational level.
2. Management level.
3. Knowledge level.
4. Strategic level.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is a network of facilities for procuring materials, transforming raw materials into intermediate and finished products, and distributing the finished products to customers?

1. production chain
2. primary chain
3. supply chain
4. distribution chain

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Information systems can facilitate supply chain management by:

1. Tracking the status of orders.
2. Rapidly communicating orders
3. Providing product specifications
4. Doing all of the above.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Enterprise systems support:

1. Manufacturing processes.
2. Financial and accounting processes
3. Human resource processes.
4. All the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following level of managers develop short- and medium-range plans, schedules, and budgets and specify the policies, procedures, and business objectives for their sub-units of the company?

1. Strategic
2. Tactical
3. Operational
4. Front line

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Information has three dimensions. They are

1. Time, consent, and form
2. Time, content, and form
3. Cost, content, and form
4. Time, content, and Value

✅ Correct Answer: 2

According to your text book, the emerging class of applications focuses on personalized decision support, modelling, information retrieval, data warehousing, what-if scenarios, and reporting is called:

1. Decision Support Trends
2. Decision Support History
3. Decision Support models
4. Decision Support class

✅ Correct Answer: 1