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Question

1) A(n) refers to the flow of materials, information, money, and services from raw material suppliers, through factories and warehouses to the end customers.

A. business process

B. manufacturing process

C. supply chain

D. enterprise resource process

2) is (are) data that have been organized to have meaning and value to a recipient. A. Insights

a- Information

b- Knowledge

c- Experience

3) The threat of competitors' entering the automobile manufacturing industry isentry are so____ because barriers to.

a- low, low

b- high, high

c- high, low

d- low, high

4) Which of the following is not an advantage of the buy option for acquiring IS applications?

A. Few types of off-the-shelf software are available, thus limiting confusion.

B. The software can be tried out.

C. The buy option saves time.

D. The company will know what it is getting.

5) Place the stages of the systems development life cycle in order:

a- Investigation - analysis - design - programming/testing - implementation - operation/maintenance

b- Investigation - design - analysis - programming/testing - implementation - operation/maintenance

c- Analysis - design - investigation - operation/maintenance - programming/testing - implementation

d- Investigation - analysis - design - programming/testing - operation/maintenance - implementation

e- Investigation - implementation - analysis - programming/testing - design - operation/maintenance

6- feasibility determines if the project is an acceptable financial risk and if the organization can afford the expense and time needed to complete the project.

A. Technical

b- Economic

c- Organizational

d- Behavioural

7) conversion is the riskiest type of conversion process.

a- Parallel

b- Direct

c- Pilot

d- Phased

8) What is the relationship between advances in information technology and the practice of profiling?

A. Advances in IT make it more difficult to profile individuals.

B. Advances in IT have no impact on profiling.

C. Advances in IT make it more expensive to profile individuals.

D. Advances in IT make it easier to profile individuals.

9) Information processing controls are those that are put in place within the organisation to work towards the of transactions.

A. efficiency, effectiveness, and accuracy

B. timeliness, efficiency, and completeness

C. accuracy, completeness, and authorisation

D. authorisation, processing, accuracy

10) To decide whether a payment should be made to a supplier, an accounts payable clerk should:

A. Examine the receiving report.

B. Be involved in the interaction with suppliers of the goods during the purchasing phase

C. Ensure there are on-going good relationships with suppliers.

D. Search for any unpaid invoices from that supplier.