Using MIS 9th Edition Kroenke – Test Bank

Using MIS 9th Edition Kroenke – Test Bank

Using MIS, 9e (Kroenke)

Chapter 1   The Importance of MIS

1) ________ states that the number of transistors per square inch on an integrated chip doubles every 18 months.

A) Nielsen’s Law

B) Faraday’s Law

C) Moore’s Law

D) Newton’s Law

Answer:  C

AACSB:  Information Technology

Difficulty:  1: Easy

Course LO:  Discuss the key issues involved in managing the components of IT infrastructure

LO:  1.1: Why is introduction to MIS the most important class in the business school?

Classification:  Concept

2) According to Moore’s Law, the ________.

A) price of an integrated chip reduces once in 18 months

B) performance of each transistor on a square inch of an integrated chip doubles every year

C) number of transistors per square inch on an integrated chip doubles every 18 months

D) density of a transistor decreases every year

Answer:  C

AACSB:  Information Technology

Difficulty:  2: Moderate

Course LO:  Discuss the key issues involved in managing the components of IT infrastructure

LO:  1.1: Why is introduction to MIS the most important class in the business school?

Classification:  Concept

3) Which of the following is a major implication of Moore’s Law?

A) Data processing activities have become complex and time-consuming.

B) Costs of computing and processing have increased.

C) The size of integrated chips has increased.

D) Costs of communications and storage have become very low.

Answer:  D

AACSB:  Information Technology

Difficulty:  2: Moderate

Course LO:  Discuss the key issues involved in managing the components of IT infrastructure

LO:  1.1: Why is introduction to MIS the most important class in the business school?

Classification:  Concept

4) Which of the following ratios has fallen as a result of Moore’s Law?

A) price/performance

B) demand/supply

C) profit/loss

D) debt/equity

Answer:  A

AACSB:  Information Technology

Difficulty:  1: Easy

Course LO:  Discuss the key issues involved in managing the components of IT infrastructure

LO:  1.1: Why is introduction to MIS the most important class in the business school?

Classification:  Concept

5) In 1972, computer scientist ________ recognized that digital devices would change the world as they evolved and became widely used.

A) Gordon Bell

B) Robert Metcalfe

C) Gordon Moore

D) Jakob Nielsen

Answer:  A

AACSB:  Information Technology

Difficulty:  1: Easy

Course LO:  Describe the components of an information system (IS)

LO:  1.1: Why is introduction to MIS the most important class in the business school?

Classification:  Concept

6) ________ states that the value of a network is equal to the square of the number of users connected to it.

A) Moore’s Law

B) Metcalfe’s Law

C) Bell’s Law

D) Nielsen’s Law

Answer:  B

AACSB:  Information Technology

Difficulty:  1: Easy

Course LO:  Describe the components of an information system (IS)

LO:  1.1: Why is introduction to MIS the most important class in the business school?

Classification:  Concept

7) Google’s Project Loon is a major effort to ________.

A) decrease the size of storage devices, while increasing their capacity

B) facilitate the use of Internet on submarines, while they are submerged

C) promote the use of virtual machines, that operate on voice command

D) bring Internet access to everyone using a network of inflated balloons

Answer:  D

AACSB:  Information Technology

Difficulty:  2: Moderate

Course LO:  Describe the components of an information system (IS)

LO:  1.1: Why is introduction to MIS the most important class in the business school?

Classification:  Concept

8) Despite the rapid growth of technology, digital devices fail to impact the industry.

Answer:  FALSE

AACSB:  Information Technology

Difficulty:  1: Easy

Course LO:  Describe the components of an information system (IS)

LO:  1.1: Why is introduction to MIS the most important class in the business school?

Classification:  Concept

9) Gordon Moore was the inventor of Ethernet.

Answer:  FALSE

AACSB:  Information Technology

Difficulty:  1: Easy

Course LO:  Describe the components of an information system (IS)

LO:  1.1: Why is introduction to MIS the most important class in the business school?

Classification:  Concept

10) According to Moore’s Law, the number of transistors per square inch on an integrated chip doubles every 18 months.

Answer:  TRUE

AACSB:  Information Technology

Difficulty:  1: Easy

Course LO:  Discuss the key issues involved in managing the components of IT infrastructure

LO:  1.1: Why is introduction to MIS the most important class in the business school?

Classification:  Concept