MIS Trivia 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is 'business process reengineering' (BPR) in the context of MIS?
- Incremental improvement of existing workflows
- Radical redesign of core business processes to achieve dramatic improvements (Correct answer)
- Automating manual tasks with robotics
- Outsourcing non-core processes to third parties
Correct answer: Radical redesign of core business processes to achieve dramatic improvements
BPR involves fundamentally rethinking and redesigning business processes from scratch to achieve major performance gains.
Question 2: In network security, what is a 'DMZ' (Demilitarized Zone)?
- A segment of a network isolated between the public internet and internal network (Correct answer)
- A zone where all traffic is encrypted
- A backup server location offsite
- A firewall rule set for mobile devices
Correct answer: A segment of a network isolated between the public internet and internal network
A DMZ is a network perimeter zone that hosts public-facing services while shielding the internal network from direct internet access.
Question 3: Which type of e-commerce involves transactions between two businesses rather than between a business and a consumer?
- B2C
- C2C
- B2B (Correct answer)
- G2C
Correct answer: B2B
B2B (Business-to-Business) e-commerce refers to online transactions conducted between companies, such as wholesale purchasing.
Question 4: What is the purpose of 'data normalization' in relational database design?
- Compressing data to save storage space
- Encrypting sensitive fields
- Organizing data to reduce redundancy and improve integrity (Correct answer)
- Converting data types to a standard format
Correct answer: Organizing data to reduce redundancy and improve integrity
Normalization restructures a database into tables and relationships to minimize data duplication and prevent anomalies.
Question 5: Which technology uses radio waves to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects?
- GPS
- NFC
- RFID (Correct answer)
- Barcode scanning
Correct answer: RFID
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags on objects without line of sight.
Question 6: In project management for IS, what does a 'Gantt chart' display?
- Network topology of a system
- Project tasks and their scheduled durations on a timeline (Correct answer)
- Hierarchical breakdown of system functions
- Cost vs. benefit analysis over time
Correct answer: Project tasks and their scheduled durations on a timeline
A Gantt chart is a bar chart that shows project tasks, their durations, and start/end dates on a horizontal timeline.
Question 7: What is 'data mining' used for in organizational decision-making?
- Extracting physical drives from servers
- Discovering hidden patterns and relationships in large datasets (Correct answer)
- Archiving old transactional records
- Importing data from external APIs
Correct answer: Discovering hidden patterns and relationships in large datasets
Data mining uses statistical and machine learning techniques to uncover patterns, correlations, and insights in large data sets.
MIS Trivia 4
What is 'business process reengineering' (BPR) in the context of MIS?