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Question 21

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Beginning with the late 1980s the goal of information technology was to:

A) improve the flow of financial information throughout business organizations.
B) use new technologies to offer new methods of conducting business.
C) prevent proprietary information from falling into the hands of competitors.
D) use new technologies to improve old methods.

E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

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Question 22

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Sales manager Stephen Edmonson has just finished reading a printout of some statistics showing how his company's sales performance compares to that of competing firms. The statistics summarize a mass of raw figures into a few meaningful measures that Stephen will use to determine whether he needs to change his sales strategy. The statistics in the printout are:

A) information, while the raw figures used to compute the statistics are data.
B) data, while the raw figures used to compute the statistics are information.
C) less useful to Stephen than the raw figures would have been, since summarizing the figures necessarily reduces their accuracy.
D) an example of how managers have a tendency to oversimplify by reducing complex issues into a few simple numbers.

E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

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Question 23

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Information technology brings work to people instead of requiring people to go to work.

Over time, business technology has become much more sophisticated, but its basic application has remained to support the existing operations of businesses by providing key financial information.

The main reason a firm would establish a firewall for its intranet is that it wants to:

For the past several years, scientists and engineers at Equatech, Inc. have relied on the Internet to keep in touch with their peers at various universities and research organizations. In recent years these researchers have become frustrated because the increasing congestion on the Internet has disrupted their attempts to communicate and collaborate with colleagues at other institutions. Which of the following developments would be most likely to help Equatech's researchers overcome this problem? Equatech should:

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, businesses began to emphasize finding ways to employ new technologies to improve existing methods of doing business.

Many businesses choose to open their intranets to other selected organizations through the use of:

Today the primary concern of corporate and government security officials concerning electronic communication is in the area of cyberterrorism.

RFID devices collect biological data.

Computer technology has become so stable and mature in recent years that, except for problems caused by viruses and hackers, major glitches are essentially a thing of the past.

The extranet is the next stage in the evolution of the Internet, consisting of a revolutionary new fiber optic technology that will enable computer users throughout the world to send and receive data up to 256 times faster than they can using the Internet technology of the early 2010s.

Internal networking shares the resources of all computers with each networked computer.

Telecommuting is popular with workers, but it is costly for businesses.

During the 1980s business technology began to emphasize the use of technology to change how business was conducted by introducing new methods.

If you're traveling through Philadelphia on your way to Acadia National Park in the state of Maine, you can use your smartphone to make a room reservation and also find a place to eat, without talking with another person. Your phone is equipped with ____________________ to serve your needs.

_________ is a new system that is designed to overcome the speed limitations of the Internet and support heavy-duty applications such as videoconferencing and distance education.

Information mainly used for security purposes such as fingerprinting and retinal scans is known as:

One of the most revolutionary effects of computer networks is that they give employees the ability to do much of their work at home.

Rob has been using Dropbox. The cloud he is storing his information to is called a: