Producing a bill of materials is a business process in which of the following functional areas?
a. Finance and accounting
b. Human resources
c. Manufacturing and production
d. Research and development
e. Sales and marketing
c. Manufacturing and production
Which of the following is an example of a cross-functional business process
a. Identifying customers
b. Transporting the product
c. Creating a new product
d. Assembling a product
e. Paying creditors
c. Creating a new product
Cross-functional business process – quy trình kinh doanh liên phòng ban, cần sự phối hợp của nhiều bộ phận khác nhau trong công ty.
Để tạo ra một sản phẩm mới, bạn không thể chỉ nhờ một phòng ban.
Order fulfillment involves all of the following business processes except
a. Checking the customer’s credit
b. Assembling the product
c. Submitting the order
d. Making customers aware of the product
e. Shipping the product
d. Making customers aware of the product
If your main supplier was late in delivering goods, which type of system would you use to update your production schedule?
a. ESS
b. TPS
c. MIS
d. DSS
e. BIS
b. TPS
A) ESS (Executive Support System)
Example: Deciding which countries to expand into next year.
B) TPS (Transaction Processing System)
Example: Updating production schedule when delivery is late.
C) MIS (Management Information System)
Example: Monthly sales reports.
D) DSS (Decision Support System)
Example: Choosing the best supplier based on cost, speed, and quality.
E) BIS (Business Intelligence System)
Example: Predicting future customer demand using historical data.
You have been hired by a non-profit agency to implement a system to handle their donations. The system must be able to handle and record telephone, SMS and Internet donations, provide up-to-minute reports, and create highly customizable mailing lists. In addition, event fundraisers need to be able to quickly access a donor’s information and history. Which of the following systems will best meet these needs?
a. TPS
b. TPS with DSS capabilities
c. TPS with MIS capabilities
d. TPS with ESS capabilities
e. DSS with MIS capabilities
c. TPS with MIS capabilities
To monitor the status of internal operations and the firm’s relations with the external environment, managers need which of the following types of systems?
a. DSS
b. KWS
c. TPS
d. MIS
e. BIS
c. TPS
The term “management information systems” refers to a specific category of information systems serving:
a. Integrated data processing throughout the firm
b. Transaction process reporting
c. Employees with online access to historical records
d. Middle management functions
e. The information technology function
d. Middle management functions
MIS (Management Information Systems) là hệ thống tổng hợp dữ liệu từ TPS và các nguồn khác, rồi tạo báo cáo định kỳ hoặc báo cáo theo yêu cầu để hỗ trợ middle managers.
Middle managers dùng MIS để lập kế hoạch, theo dõi tiến độ, và kiểm soát hoạt động — không phải xử lý giao dịch hàng ngày (TPS) và cũng không chỉ ra quyết định chiến lược như top managers (ESS).
A relocation control system that reports summaries on the total moving, house hunting and home financing costs for employees in all company dividions falls into which of the following categories?
a. KMS
b. TPS
c. ESS
d. MIS
e. DSS
d. MIS
Non-typical business problems with causes and effects that are rapidly changing are typically handled by which of the following types of information system
a. MIS
b. TPS
c. ESS
d. DSS
e. KMS
d. DSS
Which of the following types of information systems are especially suited to situations in which of the procedure for arriving at a solution may not be fully defined in advance?
a. MIS
b. TPS
c. DSS
d. KMS
e. RPS
c. DSS
Which type of information system would you use to forecast the return on investment if your firm planned to switch to a new supplier that offered products at a lower cost?
a. ESS
b. TPS
c. MIS
d. CRM
e. DSS
e. DSS
Which of the following systems would you expect to deliver integrated, personalized business content through a web-based interface?
a. TPS
b. ESS
c. MIS
d. DSS
e. SCM
b. ESS
Which of the following is a highly structured decision
a. Creating a new product
b. Estimating the effect of changing costs of supply materials
c. Calculating the best trucking routes for product delivery
d. Granting credit to a customer
e. Forecasting new industry trends
d. Granting credit to a customer
“Highly structured decision” nghĩa là quyết định mà:
Thường có thể tự động hóa hoặc dùng hệ thống TPS/MIS để xử lý
“Granting credit to a customer” (Cấp tín dụng cho khách hàng) thuộc loại này vì:
All of the following are examples of business intelligence systems except a system that
a. Summarized and reports on a company’s basic operations
b. Tracks the flows of materials in a factory
c. Focuses on problems that are unique and rapidly changing
d. Compares total annual sales figures for specific products to planned targets
e. Addresses non-routine decisions
b. Tracks the flows of materials in a factory
Business Intelligence systems (BI) là hệ thống thu thập, phân tích và báo cáo dữ liệu để hỗ trợ ra quyết định kinh doanh — thường là về phân tích, so sánh, dự đoán, chứ không trực tiếp điều khiển hay theo dõi hoạt động vật lý.
C: Tập trung vào vấn đề độc nhất và thay đổi nhanh → Đây thường là phần của Decision Support Systems (DSS), mà DSS cũng được coi là một dạng hệ thống BI.
What is the most important function of an enterprise application?
a. Increasing speed of communicating
b. Enabling business functions and departments to share information
c. Enabling a company to work collaboratively with customers and suppliers
d. Enabling cost-effective e-business processes
e. Enabling inventory and supply chain management
b. Enabling business functions and departments to share information
Trong bối cảnh enterprise application (ví dụ ERP, CRM, SCM), đáp án B được coi là “most important” vì:
Which of the following systems is designed to support organization-wide process coordination and integration?
a. DSS
b. MIS
c. CRM
d. Enterprise applications
e. SCM
d. Enterprise applications
ERP, CRM, SCM
The 4 major types of enterprise applications are
a. SCM, CRM, DSS and KMS
b. SCM, CRM, ESS and KMS
c. ERP, SCM, DSS and CRM
d. ERP, SCM, DSS and CRM
e. TPS, MIS, DSS and ESS
d. ERP, SCM, DSS and CRM
4 loại enterprise applications chính trong doanh nghiệp là:
__ systems are also known as enterprise systems
a. Resource planning
b. Enterprise resource planning
c. Enterprise support
d. Management information
e. Decision - support
b. Enterprise resource planning
Which of the following types of systems enables management to make better decisions regarding organizing and scheduling sourcing, production and distribution?
a. SCM
b. TPS
c. KMS
d. ERP
e. MIS
a. SCM
SCM (Supply Chain Management) chính là hệ thống giúp quản lý toàn bộ chuỗi cung ứng — từ sourcing (tìm nguồn nguyên liệu), production (sản xuất), cho đến distribution (phân phối sản phẩm). Mục tiêu của SCM là tối ưu hóa việc tổ chức và lên lịch cho các hoạt động này → giảm chi phí, tăng hiệu quả, giao hàng đúng hạn.
Các đáp án còn lại:
Which type of system integrates supplier, manufacturer, distributor and customer logistics processes?
a. Collaborative distribution system
b. Supply chain management system
c. Reverse logistics system
d. Enterprise planning system
e. Transaction processing system
b. Supply chain management system
You manage the IT department at a small startup Internet advertiser. You need to set up an inexpensive system that allows customers to see real-time statistics such as views and click throughs about their current banner ads. Which type of system will most efficiently provide a solution?
a. CRM
b. Enterprise system
c. Extranet
d. Intranet
e. MIS
c. Extranet
Using __ to enable government relationships with citizens, businesses and other arms of government is called e-government
a. The Internet and networking technologies
b. E-commerce
c. E-business
d. Any computerized technology
e. Telecommunications
a. The Internet and networking technologies
In __, digital technology and the Internet are used to execute the major business processes in the interprise
a. E-commerce
b. E-business
c. Enterprise applications
d. MIS
e. SCM
b. E-business
E-business = sử dụng công nghệ số + Internet để thực hiện tất cả các quy trình kinh doanh chính trong doanh nghiệp (từ nội bộ đến quan hệ với khách hàng/đối tác). Nó bao gồm cả e-commerce, nhưng phạm vi rộng hơn nhiều.
True or False
A DSS is most commonly used by the operations management level of an organization
False
DSS (Decision Support System) thường được dùng ở management level trung gian (middle management) chứ không phải operations management.
Operations level thì chủ yếu dùng TPS (Transaction Processing Systems) để xử lý các giao dịch hàng ngày, mang tính lặp lại và chi tiết.
DSS giúp đưa ra quyết định bán cấu trúc hoặc không cấu trúc → cần ở cấp quản lý trung gian hoặc thậm chí cấp cao.