Practice Test: Question Set - 18
1. The advent of personal computers:
- (A) Will make
our lives more productive
- (B) Could cause
us to lose some of our basic skills
- (C) Will take
away some of the boring tasks that we have to perform
- (D) All
of the above
2. A management information system is composed of
- (A) Data
- (B) Software
- (C) Hardware
- (D) All of the
above
3. Labour standards are provided by
- (A) IE time and
motion study
- (B) Analysis of
historical data
- (C) Both (a) and
(b)
- (D) Neither (a)
nor (b)
4. Sales figures in the market forecast file are updated by the
- (A) Sales
forecasting procedures
- (B) Sales
analysis procedures
- (C) Market
research procedures
- (D) All of the
above
5. ________ attempt to provide the same judgmental advice that human experts such as doctors provide.
- (A) ES
- (B) AI
- (C) KBS
- (D) RAND
6. Purchased items are distinguished from manufactured items by
- (A) Stock
location code
- (B) Product type
code
- (C) Item
number
- (D) Drawing
number
7. The engineering change control system makes changes in the
- (A) Operations
file
- (B) Production
schedule
- (C) Work force
data
- (D) All of the
above
8. Information is produced by processing data from which of the following sources?
- (A) Data
provided by higher levels of management
- (B) Data
provided by lower levels of management
- (C) Internally
generated data
- (D) All of the
above
9. Which of the following is characteristic of a transaction processing system?
- (A) Provides
summary information
- (B) Fairly easy
to computerize
- (C) Used by
upper management
- (D) None of the
above
10. An information processor includes
- (A) The data
base and the model base
- (B) The central
processing unit
- (C) Incoming
data and outgoing information
- (D) Incoming
data, the central processing unit, the model base, outgoing information, and
the data base
11. Which of the following is not a primary reason for the popularity of decision support systems?
- (A) Declining
cost of computer hardware
- (B) Advent
of data-base management systems
- (C) Increased
number of programmers
- (D) Management
trained in analytic techniques
12. A _______ purpose computer is designed for a specific application.
- (A) Special
- (B) Analog
- (C) Hybrid
- (D) Digital
13. Data integrity refers to
- (A) The
simplicity of data
- (B) The privacy
of data
- (C) The validity
of data
- (D) The security
of data
14. The employee profile report is used by
- (A) The
manager
- (B) The
individual department
- (C) The
personnel department
- (D) All
of the above
15. A Transportation Problem in which the total supply available at the origins exactly satisfies the total demand required at the destinations is known as:
- (A) Degenerate
Solution
- (B) Balanced
Transportation Problem
- (C) Unbalanced
Transportation Problem
- (D) All
of the above
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