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Data mining looks for previously unknown relationships among vast amounts of dat A.

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Compared to intranets,one advantage of an extranet is that it protects a company's information from hackers.

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During the 1970s business technology employees often dealt directly with customers.

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A major reason for the creation of Internet2 was that private businesses wanted to establish a network that was free from government regulation.

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Public domain software is software that is free for the taking.

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A major impact of information technology has been to:


A) encourage the growth of giant corporations.
B) create organizations that are independent of location.
C) reduce the demand for skilled labor.
D) increase overall costs of production.

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One of the most revolutionary impacts computer technology has had on business has been to:


A) allow employees of organizations to do much of their work at home and on the road.
B) increase the number of layers of management.
C) replace human creativity with artificial creativity.
D) make it easier for businesses to keep proprietary information safe and secure.

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The first step a manager should take to cope with information overload is to:


A) obtain a good database management system and use it to organize information more efficiently.
B) hire a qualified information systems analyst.
C) identify four or five key goals,and eliminate information that is not related to those goals.
D) purchase more sophisticated hardware that can process and store information more efficiently.

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As businesses begin using business intelligence,managers will spend less time finding information and more time using it to make decisions.

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In a ___________ computing system,the tasks are performed by personal computers using information stored in databases controlled by a server.


A) mainframe
B) data exchange
C) network
D) application

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In the 1970s,business technology was known as:


A) data processing.
B) information processing.
C) information technology.
D) systems analysis.

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Application service providers rented access to the latest software applications to firms via an Internet connection.

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Timeliness is one of the characteristics of useful management information.

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Public data includes electronic traces that people leave when posting to the Internet and sending email.

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When it comes to computers and information technology,government and corporate security officials are now most worried about:


A) credit card fraud.
B) online theft.
C) cyberterrorism.
D) counterfeiting.

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An) _________ is a semiprivate network that uses Internet technology to enable more than one company to access the same information or to allow people on different servers to collaborate.


A) crossnet
B) extranet
C) outernet
D) alternet

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Hunter Mixon is an information management specialist for a large corporation.He believes that his company could benefit from data mining techniques,and is looking for ways to implement data mining in his company.One key to Hunter's success will be finding ways to integrate and access data from different divisions and departments of his company.

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Intranets use a different,less sophisticated,type of technology than the Internet.

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It is illegal for companies to scan e-mails written by their employees at work unless the employees have given permission in advance or the firm has received approval from a federal judge.

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Users of Internet2 each pay the same fee for their connection and share bandwidth equally.

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