Principles Of Information Systems 12th Edition By Ralph Stair – Test Bank

1. Data is the awareness and understanding of a set of information.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 11.01
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Technology
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge

2. Many organizations actively attempt to convert explicit knowledge to tacit knowledge.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 11.01
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Technology
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge

3. Knowledge workers are people who earn their living by creating, using, and disseminating knowledge.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 11.02
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Technology
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge

4. A group of people with common interests who come together to create, store, and share knowledge of a specific topic is known as a community of practice.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 11.02
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Technology
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Comprehension

5. Many groups use patents, copyrights, trade secrets, Internet firewalls to keep prying eyes from seeing important knowledge that is expensive and hard to create.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 11.03
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Technology
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge

6. Data mining and business intelligence are powerful tools to capture and use knowledge.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 11.03
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Technology
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge

7. Artificial intelligence involves the development of machines and computer systems that can stimulate human intelligence processes.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 11.04
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Technology
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge

8. A perceptive system allows a machine to approximate the way a person sees, hears, and feels objects.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 11.05
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Technology
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge

9. Although computers excel at numerical calculations, they are not as good at dealing with symbols and three-dimensional objects.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 11.05
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Technology
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge

10. An experiment, called the Brain Computer Interface, is ongoing to directly connect the human brain to a computer and have human thought control computer activities.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 11.05
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Technology
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge