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Business process management systems evaluate and improve processes that include both person-to-person workflow and system-to-system communications.

A) True
B) False

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Explain the value of business processes for a company,and differentiate between customer-facing and business-facing process.

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A business process is a standardized set...

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What produces graphical displays of patterns and complex relationships in large amounts of data?


A) Granularity
B) Visualization
C) Digital Dashboard
D) All of the above

E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

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What is the basic business system that serves the operational level and assists in making structured decisions?


A) OLTP
B) OLAP
C) TPS
D) DSS

E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

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What are measurements that evaluate results to determine whether a project is meeting its goals?


A) Models
B) Metrics
C) Benchmarks
D) Genetic algorithms

E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Changing business processes with MIS outlines how to improve the three levels of business processes which include operational,managerial,and strategic.From operational to strategic,what are the three major improvement strategies that the author describes?


A) Automation - streamlining - reengineering
B) Artificial intelligence - streamlining - reengineering
C) Automation - workflow - reinvention
D) Automation - consolidating - restructuring

E) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

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What is the process of continuously measuring system results,comparing those results to optimal system performance,and identifying steps and procedures to improve system performance?


A) Benchmarking
B) Bottlenecking
C) Consolidation
D) Cycle time

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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____________ decisions are considered operational,and involve situations where established processes offer potential solutions.

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Which of the below would you include as decisions and responsibilities typically found at the operational level of a company?


A) Develop core business activities required to run the day-to-day operations
B) Control core business activities required to run the day-to-day operations
C) Maintain core business activities required to run the day-to-day operations
D) All of the above

E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

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What is the business process model that ensures the process is fully and clearly understood before the details of a process solution are decided upon?


A) As-is process model
B) Business process reengineering model
C) Customer facing process
D) To-Be process model

E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

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Which of the below is not considered a part of decision making at the managerial level?


A) Installing productivity software
B) Creating a short-term budget
C) Allocating resources to a department
D) Monitoring performance of a project team

E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

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When analyzing the interrelationships between efficiency and effectiveness,where would a company ideally want to operate?


A) With high efficiency
B) The upper right-hand corner of the interrelationship graph
C) With high effectiveness
D) All of the above

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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A _____________ is a temporary activity a company undertakes to create a unique product,service,or result.

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At the operational level employees are continuously evaluating company operations to hone the firm's abilities to identify,adapt to,and leverage change.

A) True
B) False

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The structure of a typical organization is similar to a pyramid,with different levels that require one consistent type of information to assist with all managerial decision making.

A) True
B) False

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Customer facing processes result in a product or service that is received by an organization's ___________ customer.

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As the product manager for the eatery division at Whole Foods,Jerry is responsible for analyzing sales data to help him manage his team.Today Jerry is analyzing his data using aggregation techniques allowing him to see simple roll-ups to complex groupings of interrelated information.Which of the following common digital dashboard capabilities is Jerry using to analyze his department's success?


A) Slice-and-Dice
B) Competitive tables
C) Drill-down
D) Consolidation

E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

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Fuzzy logic is the process within a genetic algorithm of randomly trying combinations and evaluating the success (or failure)of the outcome.

A) True
B) False

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Effectiveness MIS metrics include throughput,transaction speed,and system availability.

A) True
B) False

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What is the flow that a systems thinking approach using a TPS would follow?


A) Streamlining (Input) - CRUD,Calculate (Process) - Reports (Output)
B) Source Documents (Input) - Optimization Analysis (Process) - (Feedback) - (Output)
C) Source Documents (Input) - CRUD,Calculate (Process) - Reports (Output) - (Feedback)
D) Selling Documents (Input) - Cycle Time (Process) - Reports (Output) - (Feedback)

E) None of the above
F) A) and C)

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