Strayer BUS 302 Week 9 Quiz

  
• Question 1
 
  ____ costs are the costs associated with implementing or monitoring control.
   
• Question 2
 
  Quality is typically defined and measured in three ways. They are ____.
   
• Question 3
 
  Several extended-stay hotel chains ask guests to hang their towels so they can be reused as a way to help the environment. This request reflects which stage of waste minimization?
   
• Question 4
 
  Companies that rely on bureaucratic control tend to ____.
   
• Question 5
 
  ____ should be used when it is difficult to create good measures of worker behavior and output and when organizational culture, values, and beliefs are strong.
   
• Question 6
 
  Control is a(n) ____ process.
   
• Question 7
 
  The three basic control methods are ____.
   
• Question 8
 
  A report calling for a company to set clear targets to improve fuel economy and to cut factory emissions would want the company to establish emission control ____.
   
• Question 9
 
  ____ control is a method of gathering information about performance deficiencies as they occur.
   
• Question 10
 
  ____ is a control method that encourages managers to look beyond traditional measures to evaluate four different perspectives on company performance.
   
• Question 11
 
  ____ are a basis of comparison for measuring the extent to which organizational performance is satisfactory or unsatisfactory.
   
• Question 12
 
  Companies may determine standards by ____.
   
• Question 13
 
  ____ control is a method of gathering information about performance deficiencies before they occur.
   
• Question 14
 
  Which of the following is NOT one of the four perspectives measured in the Balanced Scorecard approach to control?
   
• Question 15
 
  ____ control is a method of gathering information about performance deficiencies after they occur.
   
• Question 16
 
  Using ____ data mining, the user usually begins by telling the data mining software to look and test for specific patterns and relationships in a data set.
  
• Question 17
 
  Intranets are ____.
   
• Question 18
 
  The first company to use new information technology to substantially lower costs or differentiate products or services often gains ____.
   
• Question 19
 
  The two major types of data mining are ____.
   
• Question 20
 
  A company developed a(n) ____ to allow its more than 50 department heads and executive managers to use a Web browser to view sales results and distribution plans with a single click..
   
• Question 21
 
  The term ____ refers to facts and figures that are in an unusable form.
   
• Question 22
 
  Two critical steps are required to make sure that data can be accessed by authorized users and no one else. They are ____.
   
• Question 23
 
  For the purposes of data mining, ____ patterns are just the opposite of association patterns.
   
• Question 24
 
  In the process of capturing information, ASCII text is generated by ____.
   
• Question 25
 
  The key to sustaining competitive advantage is ____.
   
• Question 26
 
  Using ____ data mining, the user simply tells the data mining software to uncover whatever patterns and relationships it can find in a data set.
• Question 27
 
  ____ is the process of ensuring that data are reliably and consistently retrievable in a usable format for authorized users, but no one else.
   
• Question 28
 
  ____ allow managers and employees to use a Web browser to gain access to customized company information and to complete specialized transactions.
   
• Question 29
 
  A(n) ____ is an information system that helps managers understand problems and potential solutions by acquiring and analyzing information with sophisticated models and tools.
   
• Question 30
 
  Data mining is the ____.