Which of the following is true of group decision support systems?
A) They allow users to collaborate with each other asynchronously, saving time and effort in coordination.
B) They allow users to express independent viewpoints that may differ from those of others in a group.
C) They do not support anonymity and require users to use their real names, to increase accountability.
D) They give high-status individuals within a group a disproportionate influence on decisions.
Q. 2Business processes are collections of
A) informal practices and behaviors.
B) formalized and documented practices.
C) business rules.
D) rights and privileges.
E) routines.
Q. 3________ use scanning software to look for known problems such as bad passwords, the removal of important files, security attacks in progress, and system administration errors.
A) Stateful inspections
B) Intrusion detection systems
C) Application proxy filtering technologies
D) Packet filtering technologies
E) Firewalls
Q. 4Which of the following would NOT improve a website's accessibility?
A) using fixed text sizes
B) using self-explanatory links
C) adding alternative text tags for every image
D) creating text-only alternative versions for devices such as PDA
Q. 5Which of the following is not a major feature of organizations that impacts the use of information systems?
A) business processes
B) environments
C) goals
D) agency costs
E) leadership styles
Q. 6The extreme difference among different social groups regarding their access to computers and the Internet is called the ________ divide.
A) computer
B) technology
C) digital
D) electronic
E) Internet
Q. 7What is a group decision support system?
A) a collaborative technology that reaches out to large groups of customers and is used to market products
B) a software that supports employee-customer interaction to help a firm collect feedback on product performance
C) a collaborative technology that helps teams brainstorm and exchange views about a topic to come to an agreement
D) a technology that allows the top management to interact with customers from various segments of their markets