Business Informatics

Prof. dr Nijaz Bajgoric

MIDTERM
School of Economics and Business

AE-7
November 9, 2011

Surname and Name: _______________________________________

1.

Index no: ________________________

Technology pressures consist of two preassures category and one of them is

Global economy.

a) True
b) False
2.

M-commerce (mobile commerce) refers to the conduct of e-commerce via

wireless devices.
a) True
b) False

3.

Information refer to an elementary description of things, events, activities, and

transactions that are recorded, classified, and stored, but not organized to
convey any specific meeting.
a) True
b) False

4.

Indexing agents are computer programs that carry out a set of routine
computer tasks on behalf of the user and in so doing employ some sort of
knowledge of the users goals.
a) True
b) False

5.

Pioneered by Priceline.com, model that allows the buyer to state a price he or

she is willing to pay for a specific product or service is.
a) Name-Your-Own-Price
b) Tendering via Reverse Auctions
c) Affiliate Marketing

6.

Virtual corporation that is designed to create or assemble productive resources

rapidly or frequently, on an ongoing basis, is:

a) Temporary virtual company

b) Permanent virtual company
c) Neither a or b
7.

The information systems that support operational activities are mainly:

a) ESS and DSS
b) MIS and TPS
c) GSS and ESS

8.

Supply chain that includes all of the in-house processes used in transforming the
inputs received from the suppliers into the organizations outputs is:
a) The downstream supply chain
b) The upstream supply chain
c) The internal supply chain

9.

High-level map or plan of the information assets in an organization including the

physical design of the building that holds the hardware, is:
a) Information technology architecture
b) Distributed processing
c) enterprisewide computing

10.

A variety of utility computing, puts the pieces of a computing platform together

as services, rather than as a collection of separately purchased components.
Here we talk about:
a) Grid computing
b) Utility computing
c) Subscription (service) computing

11.

Same place/different time in a framework for IT communication support has

following types of communications:
a) Multishift control center, workflow
b) A decision room, GDSS
c) Whiteboard, chat room

12.

Arrangement whereby employees can work at home, at the customers

premises, in special work places, or while traveling, usually using a computer
linked to their place of employment :

a) Workflow systems
b) Groupware
c) Telecommuting
13.

Network that connect several intranets via the Internet, by adding to the
Internet is:
a) LAN/External network
b) WAN
c) Extranet

14.

There are several types of ______________: sharing resources, doing

procurement jointly, establishing a permanent supplier-company relationship.

14.

The first type of IT system that was developed in the 1980s to improve
communications with business partners was ______________ ___________
_______________ (______), which involved computerto- computer direct
communication of standard business documents (such as orders and order
confirmations) between business partners.

16.

Explain Client/Server Architecture ________________________________

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