Sunday, September 6, 2020

MGT1 short questions

Q1.What are the major threats to doing business in global markets?



Q2.What key challenges must India and Russia face before becoming global economic leaders?



Q3.What does the acronym BRIC stand for, and why is it important to know this term?

Q4.What are the two primary concerns associated with offshore outsourcing?



MGMT305 Week-3 DB -System Development Lifcycle

  • Explain the life cycle of an information systems
  • Apply the steps of the life cycle to the scenario listed below

Imagine that you run a photography printing store. Your employees have been using punch cards for time entry since you started the business. This has lead to many problems including lost cards, inaccurate hours, and employees punching in other employees. Because of these problems you are considering implementing a computerized time entry system. Describe each step of the life cycle, and apply it to your problem in your business.



MGMT305 Unit-4 DB

·         Define a decision support system (DSS).

·         What is the difference between management information systems and decision support systems?

·         Describe the different components of a decision support system and explain each one.

·         Think of an example where a decision support system helps with making internal decisions.

 

 

Sunday, August 23, 2020

MGMT305 Unit-2 DB

There are multiple Internet browsers available today, and many people choose which to use without giving it consideration. However, there are advantages and disadvantages to each for your Discussion Board consider:

  • Which is the better software tool: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome?
  • Supplement your argument with evidence, and indicate whether or not you changed your position based upon the discussion. Why or why not?

MGMT305 Management Information Systems Unit-1 DB

While information systems has one meaning, it can be used in different ways for companies to keep a competitive edge on the marketplace. Compare and Contrast two distinctly different organizations on how they use information systems in their organizations.

Include in your post the following:

  • Research the 4 competitive strategies and briefly describe them.
  • From the 4 strategies, pick 2 and provide an example of a company that uses each strategy.
    • How do they implement the strategy?
    • Provide examples of how the companies use the strategy, and do not simply write the description.
    • Appraise the individual and organizational consequences of the use of information technology and recognize potential security breaches and computer crimes.

Properly reference the companies in your post if required using APA format.





 

MCQ Strategic mgt Set-5

   
The __________ point(s) to the strategic issues organizational decision makers need to address in their pursuit of sustainable competitive advantage and high levels of performance.

A. portfolio analysis   

B. capabilities assessment   

C. financial analysis   

D. SWOT analysis   


Question 2 of 20

Which of the following is included under the product functional strategies?

A. Marketing   

B. Management   

C. Supervision   

D. Leadership   


Question 3 of 20

__________ strategies are the short-term goal-directed decisions and actions of the organization's various functional areas.

A. Competitive   

B. Functional   

C. Corporate   

D. Business   


Question 4 of 20

__________ refer(s) to the process of creating and providing goods and services.

A. Production-operations   

B. Marketing   

C. High-performance work practices   

D. Information system   


Question 5 of 20

An organization that's first to bring a new product or innovation to the marketplace is a(n):

A. primary competitor.   

B. first mover.   

C. early adopter.   

D. innovator.   


Question 6 of 20

Which of the following is a possible production-operations management strategy?

A. Selective specialization   

B. Inventory management systems   

C. User positioning   

D. Database marketing   


Question 7 of 20

Which are the two biggest factors in marketing?

A. Competitors and pricing   

B. Product and competitors   

C. Customers and competitors   

D. Pricing and customers   


Question 8 of 20

The geographic segmentation variable for consumer markets could include factors such as:

A. region, metropolitan area, and population density.   

B. social class, lifestyle, and personality.   

C. occasions of product use, benefits, and user status.   

D. purchasing function organization, power structure, and purchasing criteria.   


Question 9 of 20

The four Ps in marketing are:

A. product, price, promotion, and place.   

B. production, placement, personnel, and place.   

C. promotion, price, positioning, and perception.   

D. perception, perspective, promotion, and price.   


Question 10 of 20

Human resource management strategies regarding employee separations include all of the following EXCEPT:

A. downsizing.   

B. hiring freezes.   

C. organizing for efficiency or innovation.   

D. preferential or nonpreferential rehiring process.   


Question 11 of 20

The strategic decisions associated with the organization are the choice of a system and the choice of type of system needed for which system type?

A. Marketing   

B. Human resources   

C. Information   

D. Financial-accounting   


Question 12 of 20

Designing which of the following systems involves making sure we have the information we need, when the information is needed, and in the form needed?

A. Marketing   

B. Human resources   

C. Information   

D. Financial-accounting   


Question 13 of 20

Strategy evaluation at the __________ level involves using __________ and __________ performance measures for each area.

A. functional; quantitative; qualitative   

B. marketing; quantitative; qualitative   

C. management; financial; quantitative   

D. research and development; quantitative; qualitative   


Question 14 of 20

The __________ analysis points to the strategic issues decision makers need to address in their pursuit of sustainable competitive advantage and high performance levels.

A. functional   

B. SWOT   

C. competitive   

D. organizational   


Question 15 of 20

The process of creating goods and services in which organizational resources are transformed into outputs is called:

A. production-operations.   

B. manufacturing-operations.   

C. product-production.   

D. organizational performance.   


Question 16 of 20

Strategy evaluation at the __________ level involves using specific performance measures-qualitative and quantitative-for each functional area.

A. organizational   

B. operational   

C. functional   

D. production   


Question 17 of 20

When a group of individuals from various functional departments work together on product or process development, it can be in a:

A. technical environment.   

B. cross-functional team.   

C. global organization.   

D. matrix organization.   


Question 18 of 20

Which of the following is NOT one of the three functional concerns of organizations?

A. People   

B. Technology   

C. Support processes   

D. Product   


Question 19 of 20

A(n) __________ system is a system for collecting, processing, storing and disseminating any and all information that managers need to operate a business.

A. database   

B. reporting   

C. support   

D. information   


Question 20 of 20

__________ at the functional level involves using specific performance measures quantitative and qualitative – for each functional area.

A. Management   

B. Reporting   

C. Performance evaluation   

D. Strategy evaluation   






MCQ Social Sc

An example of a post and lintel system is:
A. A Greek temple
B. A painting by Artemisia Genteleschi
C. The sculpture of the Seated Scribe

Pieter Breugel's, The Harvesters is unusual in what way?
A. It is a representation of a scene from the French Revolution.
B. It is made in the difficult technique of fresco.
C. It is a genre called landscape and relates to the Protestant Reformation.

The proper term for sculpture that is fully finished all around and free from a background is:
A. Relief
B. In the round
C. Ionic

Can we apply standards of beauty in art from one culture to another?
A. Yes
B. No
C. Only during Leap year

Which of the following is an art object used for funerals?
A. Bayeux Tapestry
B. El Anatsui, Sasa
C. The Greek Krater

Assyrian power was often depicted in which art form?
A. Relief sculpture
B. Oil painting
C. Life sized marble figures

Which of the following aided the illiterate to learn their religion in the Middle Ages?
A. County Fairs
B. Stained glass
C. Elementary school

What does the term historic context mean?
A. It is a term used for the understanding of objects within their time period, culture, and social conditions.
B. It is a term used for the content found in academic paintings.
C. It is a term used for the images found on Chinese and Japanese art scrolls.

Baroque art in Italy did which of the following?
A. Used Landscapes to convey religious messages
B. Was exemplified by Michelangelo's Creation of Adam
C. Used opulence and dramatic settings to bring the faithful back to the Church

A set of orders is:
A. The rules used for making an oil painting in Egypt
B. The Greek system consisting of base, column, capital, and entablature
C. A repository for Holy relics

Manuscript is a term for which of the following?
A. An early book made of animal skins and often illuminated
B. An important relief carving depicting royalty
C. The process for making bronze sculpture

Which of the following is true about academies?
A. An academy is a school that trained male artists.
B. Women artists could belong, but not take lessons.
C. It is both of the above.

Which of the following is particular to a Gothic building?
A. Pointed arches, buttresses, stained glass
B. Domes and rotundas
C. Ionic, Doric, or Corinthian columns

The word Renaissance means which of the following?
A. It means the rebirth of the piety of the Middle Ages.
B. It is the philosophy known as the Age of Enlightenment.
C. It is the rebirth of Greek and Roman ideas and culture.

Since humanism was a Renaissance focus, how might we see it represented in art?
A. Works of art may contain references to the Industrial Revolution.
B. Works of art may reflect the Philosophy of the Age of Enlightenment.
C. Works of art may have a focus on rendering the figure as individualistic.

The Death of Marat contains what references?
A. Marat has been depicted as a Christian martyr.
B. Marat is being associated with the French Revolution.
C. It is both of the above.

What change in art took place in Roman sculpture?
A. The Romans invented equestrian sculptures.
B. The Romans created Hellenistic sculpture.
C. It is both of the above.

The interior of San Vitale is decorated in which of the following?
A. Large scale Greek marbles
B. Intricate and glittering mosaics
C. Frescoes

The plan of the Romanesque church of Sainte-Foy contains a new innovation. What is it for and what is it called?
A. It is a flying buttress and it is to help stabilize the tall walls.
B. It is an octagonal central plan and it is designed to represent the cycle of life.
C. It is an ambulatory and it offers more space for pilgrims to view relics.

Which of the following ideas can be attached to Botticelli's Birth of Venus?
A. This is the first time we see an artist use his wife as a model.
B. The painting represents Neo-Platonistic thought.
C. The painting is a fresco based on work by Michelangelo.



H400 Thesis Revised

Requirement: Write a double-spaced, one-page outline that includes the thesis, major points, supporting points of evidence, and conclusio...