1) The governor of New York that he has directed the state's Division of Criminal Justice Services to gather DNA from the broadest range of convicted criminals permitted under current law. This will result in the collection of as many as 40,000 DNA profiles. The additional DNA profiles may be obtained as a condition of release on parole or probation, as a condition of participation in the Department of Correctional Services' temporary release programs, and as a condition of a plea bargain. This __________ will be used for solving crimes.
| A. | Criminal relation network | |
| B. | Database | |
| C. | Spreadsheet | |
| D. | Information processing network | |
| E. | Transactional network |
2) At Samaritan Medical Center (SMC) in Watertown, N.Y., care providers needed to continuously monitor patients' vital signs as staff moved them from the emergency department to radiology and other hospital areas. The hospital administrators decided to use a(n) __________, a cost-effective way to connect the monitoring devices and to prioritize the critical data that the devices were gathering. A nurse sitting at a terminal knows immediately if there is a problem.
| A. | Administrative portal | |
| B. | Extranet | |
| C. | Public network | |
| D. | Local area network | |
| E. | Linking network |
3) NMCI is the name used for a large-scale effort to link Navy and Marine Corps computer systems on bases, boats, and in offices around the world. When completed, this internal WAN will use Internet technology to link soldiers in the field with support personnel on bases, etc. NMCI is an example of a(n):
| A. | Intranet | |
| B. | Functional network | |
| C. | Specialized network | |
| D. | Extranet | |
| E. | Information system |
4) Any Houston, Texas, resident, armed with a free Houston Public Library PowerCard, can tap into a suite of office applications to write a resume, maintain a personal calendar, or keep records for a business. The city signed a contract with Internet Access Technologies (IAT) in June 2002 to provide these services. IAT is more than likely an example of a(n):
| A. | Batch processor | |
| B. | Application service provider | |
| C. | Extranet | |
| D. | Intranet | |
| E. | Service warehouse |
5) When a bank collects deposits during the day, then deposits them all after banking hours, it is using a reserve processing system.
True
False
6) Processing data as they become available is called __________ processing.
| A. | Off-line | |
| B. | Coordinated | |
| C. | Auxiliary | |
| D. | Batch | |
| E. | Online |
7) The United States Army retains a history of all equipment acquisition from approval of requirements through funding, authorizing, fielding, and maintenance to equipment retirement. This data would be kept in a(n):
| A. | Data mart | |
| B. | Information network | |
| C. | Data mine | |
| D. | Information cluster | |
| E. | Data nugget |
8) How does an executive information system (EIS) differ from a decision support system (DSS)?
| A. | An EIS answers “what-if” questions; a DSS does not. | |
| B. | All EIS are provided by application service providers, and DSS are typically purchased. | |
| C. | EIS is customized for an individual executive, and DSS is not. | |
| D. | An DSS answers “what-if” questions; an EIS does not. | |
| E. | An EIS is a communication system while a DSS is a transaction system. |
9) ____________ management focuses on gathering and sharing an organization’s collective knowledge to improve productivity and foster innovation.
| A. | Knowledge | |
| B. | Entrepreneurial | |
| C. | Creative | |
| D. | Information | |
| E. | Productivity |
10) According to the text, the three IT trends that are having the greatest impact on the IT environment are:
| A. | Privacy management, virus suppression, and enterprise portals | |
| B. | Grid computing, on-demand computing, and real-time computing | |
| C. | Digital forensics, the distributed workforce, and grid computing | |
| D. | Knowledge management, privacy management, and intranets | |
| E. | Privacy management, enterprise warehouses, and knowledge management |
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