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IT Application Tools in Business – First Quiz

April 04, 2023

I. True or False (1 point each)

Choose "True" if the statement provided is correct. Otherwise, select "False".

1. A business refers to an integrated set of activities and assets that is capable of being
conducted and managed for the purpose of providing goods or services to customers,
generating investment income or other income from ordinary activities.
2. A business consists of inputs and processes applied to those inputs that have the ability
to contribute to the creation of outputs.
3. Intangible assets or rights to use non-current assets are examples of business output.

4. Business process refers to any system, standard, protocol, convention or rule that
when applied to an input creates outputs or has the ability to contribute to the creation
of outputs.
5. If an acquired set of activities and assets has outputs, continuation of revenue indicates
in general that both an input and a substantive process have been acquired.
6. Digitalization takes an analog process and changes the same to a digital form without
any different-in-kind changes to the process itself.
7. Cloud computing forms part of the digitalization process.
8. Information Technology (IT) is a general term that describes any technology that helps
to produce, manipulate, store, communicate, and disseminate information.
9. Computer technology consists of electromagnetic devices and/or systems for
communicating over long distances.
10. The use of a bank’s website through a desktop computer or laptop such as an online
payment system and money transfer is an example of mobile banking.
11. World wide web refers to an interconnected system of internet computers (called
servers) that support specially formatted documents in multimedia form accessible
through the Internet.
12. A database refers to the connection of two or more computers established for the
purpose of sharing various data.
13. A traditional computer system takes inputs and processes the same to create outputs.

14. Data, information, and instructions from applications are stored temporarily in the
Random Access Memory (RAM).
15. Unlike the RAM, the operating system does not regularly overwrite the contents of the
Read Only Memory (ROM).
16. The software on most personal computers has a command line interface which
displays icons and other visual elements that allow users to interact with data and
execute commands.
17. Information processing refers to data processing functions that are commonly related
to internal operations and economic and financial activities.
18. Device drivers are generally used to support, enhance, or expand existing programs
in a computer system.
19. Buffer refers to a first-in, first-out sequence of data and programs that “wait in line” in
a temporary holding place to be processed.
20. The application software directs the processor to spend a predetermined amount of
time executing the instructions for each program one at a time.

II. Multiple Choice (2 points each)

Answer the following questions by choosing the option that corresponds to the BEST
response.

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 1. Which of the following is not an example of a business process?

a. Strategic management
b. Resource management
c. Administrative system
d. Operational system

2. Which of the following qualifications will make an acquired business process

substantive?

a. It is critical to the ability to develop or convert an acquired input or inputs into

outputs
b. The inputs acquired include both an organized workforce that has the
necessary skills, knowledge, or experience to perform the said process
c. Both A and B
d. Neither A nor B

3. Which of the following is an example of a business input?

a. Technology
b. In-process research
c. Development project
d. All of the above

4. Which of the following defines modern IT?

a. Combination of hardware and software resources

b. Support business activities of an organization
c. Readily accessible to internal and external stakeholders
d. All of the above

5. Which of the following is considered as an internal stakeholder of IT?

a. Employees
b. Suppliers
c. Clients
d. Government

6. Which of the following uses the transmission control protocol or industrial protocol
ethernet to connect multiple users?

a. Metropolitan Area Network

b. Local Area Network
c. Wide Area Network
d. All of the above

7. Which of the following refers to the fact that an information system is a technologically
implemented medium for the purpose of recording, storing, and disseminating
linguistic expressions as well as for the supporting of inference making?

a. Structural perspective
b. Functional perspective
c. Both A and B
d. Neither A nor B

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 8. Which of the following deals with policies and procedures to plan, manage, and
control overall business performance relative to planning and decision-making?

a. Management Process
b. Operation Process
c. Information Process
d. Business Process

9. Which of the following is an advantage of using an information system?

a. Ease of transaction
b. Supported decision making
c. Improved organization process
d. All of the above

10. Which of the following refers to a specialized type of information system that assists
top management in decision making?

a. Decision support system

b. Executive information system
c. Management information system
d. Transaction processing system

11. Which of the following refers to a named collection of data or program that exists in
the secondary storage of a computer?

a. File
b. Path
c. Application software
d. Operating system

12. Which of the following capabilities of an operating system allows a computer to hold
only the most immediately needed data and programs within the main memory?

a. File management
b. Task management
c. Memory management
d. Security management

13. Which of the following is a benefit of using a data center with regard to capital
expenditure?

a. Software licensing costs can be reduced

b. Storage costs of networking equipment can be reduced
c. Carbon footprint of the organization can be reduced
d. Operating costs can be reduced

14. Which of the following is a potential challenge of using a data center?

a. Data loss
b. Low employee turnover
c. Project scheduling
d. Contingency planning

15. Which of the following is an advantage of using a business to consumer system?

a. Increased overhead expense

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 b. Increased competition
c. Increased target audience
d. Increased capital expenditure

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