1. The manager for the eastern division sales force is upset because she wants to determine which members of her sales force need awards for high monthly sales, and which employees need remediation because they have not sold enough product during the past month. However, all of the sales information has not yet been entered into the database. What kind of information is at issue in this instance?
2.Once you have worked with the data entry team to make sure that they are getting the monthly sales data into the database in a timely fashion, your next challenge is to change the method of disseminating this information from a printed report that is snail-mailed to all sales managers across the country, to an online dissemination strategy that e-mails the reports to the managers. What kind of information is at issue in this instance?
3.All of the following are permissible under a EULA except which of the following?
a. Jamie installs Quark Xpress on a single computer.
b. Christine leases her copy of Dreamweaver 8.
c. Phuong-Dao makes one copy of Microsoft Office 2007 as a backup.
d. Isaiah sells his copy of Adobe Photoshop CS2, having removed it from his computer first.
4.Which of the following is NOT a question of computer ethics?
a. Users are required to provide a software product’s 25-character identification number before installing software.
b. A student copies text from the Web and uses it in a research paper for his English class.
c. A student who has been expelled from school installs a computer virus on a computer in the student lab.
d. Someone copies The DaVinci Code to the Web and encourages others to read it.
Critical Thinking Questions
Case 2
In your work in the IT department, you are charged with asking the difficult questions about the feasibility of new systems as they are being developed.
5.
Which of the following is not a question of operational feasibility?
a. Will the users like the new system?
b. Will the new system cause any changes in the work environment?
c. Will the new system meet the requirements of users?
d. What is the return on investment of the new system?
2.Once you have worked with the data entry team to make sure that they are getting the monthly sales data into the database in a timely fashion, your next challenge is to change the method of disseminating this information from a printed report that is snail-mailed to all sales managers across the country, to an online dissemination strategy that e-mails the reports to the managers. What kind of information is at issue in this instance?
3.All of the following are permissible under a EULA except which of the following?
a. Jamie installs Quark Xpress on a single computer.
b. Christine leases her copy of Dreamweaver 8.
c. Phuong-Dao makes one copy of Microsoft Office 2007 as a backup.
d. Isaiah sells his copy of Adobe Photoshop CS2, having removed it from his computer first.
4.Which of the following is NOT a question of computer ethics?
a. Users are required to provide a software product’s 25-character identification number before installing software.
b. A student copies text from the Web and uses it in a research paper for his English class.
c. A student who has been expelled from school installs a computer virus on a computer in the student lab.
d. Someone copies The DaVinci Code to the Web and encourages others to read it.
Critical Thinking Questions
Case 2
In your work in the IT department, you are charged with asking the difficult questions about the feasibility of new systems as they are being developed.
5.
Which of the following is not a question of operational feasibility?
a. Will the users like the new system?
b. Will the new system cause any changes in the work environment?
c. Will the new system meet the requirements of users?
d. What is the return on investment of the new system?