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You work for Burger King, the restaurant chain. Your boss just showed you a touch screen display that will be implemented in all stores to enable direct ordering by customers. ‘This baby right here will double the speed of the ordering line’. From what your boss said, what is the primary reason for implementing the system?

The owner of a large car dealership in your hometown, just told you he is thinking about using virtual reality to reduce the number of test drives by customers. He is all excited about the initiative because he thinks it will increase efficiency. You think this initiative will be very disruptive to the structure component of the existing car dealership information system. Why?

The terms information system and information technology are synonymous (i.e., they mean the same thing and they can be used interchangeably).

In chapter 3, the book briefly introduced the notion of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) to refer to:

What is the area (in cm2) of a card that is [a] in by [b] in? Round your answer to two decimal places, do not include units in your answer

Delta just introduced a new system for alerting its pilots that they need to take rest times as required by the Federal Aviation Administration. What is the primary objective of this new alert system?

Read the following volume (in mL) to the correct number of significant digits. Do not include units. grad cyl.JPG  [BLANK-1]

Which of the following is not an example of information system failure?

We have identified a number of IT trends of managerial interest. Which of the following is not one of them?

You are the chief of security for an important rocket manufacturer. Currently, employees are required to swipe a card and insert a passphrase to access their offices. After significant investments in the acquisition of retina and fingerprint scanners you radically change how employees access the office buildings with the implementation of a biometric pass. The new system improves security while reducing lines at the entrance of the corporate building. Which of the following components are significantly impacted by the new system?