Management Information Systems

31. ______________ is the process of converting a message into a secret code and changing the encoded message back to regular text.

1. Encryption
2. Fraud
3. Encoding
4. Cryptography

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32. Problems that are routine and have well-defined relationships are called ______________.

1. Structured problems
2. Programmed decisions
3. Simple problems
4. Heuristics

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33. ______________ is an awareness and understanding of a set of information and ways that information can be made useful to support a specific task or reach a decision

1. Knowledge
2. Data
3. Feedback
4. A process

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34. Day's critical activities and is typically available at the beginning of each workday.

1. Demand report
2. scheduled report
3. key-indicator report
4. exception report

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35. ______________ is factors that are essential to the success of certain functional areas of an organization.

1. Mission-critical factors
2. Critical success factors
3. Performance objectives
4. Strategic factors

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36. The four key questions related to fairness in information use are ______________

1. cost, timing, content, and frequency
2. notice, consent, accuracy, and authorization
3. knowledge, control, notice, and consent
4. knowledge, accuracy, timing, and permission

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37. Which of the following SDLCs listed below takes an iterative approach to the systems development process?

1. end user
2. RAD
3. prototyping
4. traditional waterfall

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38. ______________ is a crime in which the imposter obtains key pieces of personal information in order to impersonate the victim.

1. Social engineering
2. Dumpster diving
3. Computer fraud
4. Identity theft

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39. The translation of strategic and organizational goals into system development initiatives is called ______________.

1. Systems development
2. information systems planning
3. project planning
4. project definition

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