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You ask your secretary to send information on the meetings that you need to attend in the month.He provides you the details immediately, but he leaves out certain additional details that he deems to be surplus to your requirements.Judge your secretary's action.

A) The information that your secretary provided was partly good as it was timely, but insufficient.
B) The secretary provided adequate and timely information, but the information did not add value to you.
C) The information that your secretary gave will be considered as good information.
D) The information that you obtained through the secretary was not timely and worth its cost.

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Glazer & Hicks is a firm that offers enterprise software solutions to independent retailers.The firm recently bagged a contract from a major national retail chain to develop and implement proprietary software that tracks inventory, restocking, and supplier information.Which of the following actions will be most difficult to perform when implementing the new information system?

A) upgrading the computer systems used by the retail chain
B) writing the programs for creating the software
C) changing the structure of existing databases that reflect supplier and customer data
D) training the employees to use and manage the new system

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Discuss the common definitions of information.

It is generally more difficult to make changes to the ________ of an information system than to the database itself.

According to Moore's Law, the ________.

An operating system like Windows or Linux is an example of the ________ component of an information system.

Moore's Law predicts that the price to performance ratio of computers will double once in eighteen months.

The hardware components of an information system will act as a(n) ________.

Adobe Acrobat is an application that allows users to create and edit digital documents.Adobe Acrobat is an example of a ________.

Information technology is an assembly of hardware, software, data, procedures, and people that produces information.

Data needs to be sufficient for the purpose for which it is generated, but just barely so.

Users should take an active role in system development to create an information system that meets their needs.

Information systems should be subject to the same financial analyses to which other assets are subjected.

Data is worth its cost when an appropriate relationship exists between the cost of data and its value.

Applications such as MS Word and Excel are examples of procedures.

Which of the following is an example of computer hardware?

Timeliness of data is not a critical component of good information.

If you need someone's password, you should ask them to enter their password and look away while they do that.

The five components of an information system are computer hardware, software, data, procedures, and people.

________ is the activity of two or more people working together to achieve a common goal, result, or work product.