A GDSS can enhance group decision making by
Improving preplanning
Increasing participation
Providing documentation of meeting
Doing all of the above
Each of the following is a basic GDSS element EXCEPT
Hardware
Software tools
A data warehouse
A user interface
The particular form that information technology takes in an organization to achieve selected goals or functions defines
Information architecture
Network topology
Computer platform
Network
Information systems that monitor the elementary activities and transactions of the organizations are
Management-level systems
Operational-level systems
Knowledge-level systems
Strategic –level systems
Projections and responses to queries are information output characteristics associated with an
DSS
MIS
ESS
TPS
Summary transaction data, high – volume data, and simple models are information inputs characteristics of an
DSS
MIS
ESS
TPS
Management information systems
Offer users flexibility, adaptability, and a quick response
Operate with little or no assistance from professional programmers
Have little analytical capability
Use sophisticates data analysis and modeling tools
The analysis of large pools of data to find patterns and rules that can be used to guide decision-making and predict future behavior defines
Data mining
Data concatenation
Normalization
Data warehousing
Outbound logistics would be classified as a
Support activity
Value added activity
Competitive threat
Primary activity
Conformance to producer specifications and satisfaction of customer criteria defines
Benchmarking
Leveraging
Specification enforcement
Quality
A concept that makes quality control a responsibility to be shared by all people in an organization defines
Quality awareness
Total quality management
Benchmarking
Strategic transitioning
A movement from one level of sociotechnical system to another is referred to as
A strategic transition
Leveling
A sociotechnical modification
Sustaining a competitive advantage
Each of the following is a true statement except
Primary storage holds data that are being used by the program
Primary storage stores all or part of the program that is being executed
Primary storage stores data and programs for long-term storage
Primary storage is composed is composed of semiconductors
A gigabyte is approximately
One million bytes
One trillion bytes
One billion bytes
One thousand bytes
A computer specifically optimized provide software and other resources to other computers over a network over a network best describes a
Server
Client
Mainframe
Network computer