Testbank Chapter7

Chapter 1 (new version) MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. A set of two or more interrelated components that interact to achieve a goal is:

a) A system

b) An accounting information system

c) Data

d) Mandatory information

2. This results when a subsystem achieves its goals while contributing to the organization's overall goal.

e) Goal conflict

f) Goal congruence

g) Value of information

h) Systems congruence

3. Goal conflict may result when

i) A decision or action of a subsystem is inconsistent with the system as a whole.

j) A subsystem achieves its goals while contributing to the organization's overall goal.

k) Duplicate recording, storage and processes are eliminated.

l) The data exceeds the amount the handuman mind can absorb and process.

4. Facts that are collected, recorded, stored and processed by an information system

m) Information

n) Data

o) Systems

p) Mandatory information

5. Information is

q) What happens when the data exceeds the amount the human mind can absorb.

r) The benefit produced by the information minus the cost of producing it.

s) Facts that are collected, recorded, stored, and processed by an information system.

t) Data that have been organized and processed to provide meaning to a user.

6. Data are

u) facts entered, stored, and processed by an information system.

v) processed output that is useful to decision makers.

w) another word for information.

x) quantitative facts that are not qualitative by nature.

7. Which of the following statements below shows the contrast between data and information?

y) Data is the output of an AIS.

z) Information is the primary output of an AIS.

{) Data is more useful in decision-making than information.

|) Data and information are the same.

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