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Free DSST Management Information Systems Practice Test

This is a set of 25 original practice questions that follow the official DSST Management Information Systems content outline and its topic weights, each with a short explanation. Answer all 25, then read the explanations to see which topics need more study.

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Question 1 of 25Employees working from home need secure access to the company's internal servers over the public internet. Which technology creates an encrypted tunnel for this?
Question 2 of 25Which statement best describes HTML?
Question 3 of 25What is the main goal of normalizing a relational database?
Question 4 of 25In which phase of the systems development life cycle do analysts interview users and document what a new system must do, before deciding how it will be built?
Question 5 of 25In a relational database, the Orders table has a CustomerID column whose values must match the primary key of the Customers table. In the Orders table, CustomerID is a:
Question 6 of 25A regional manager uses a system that runs what-if models on price changes and sales forecasts to choose among three pricing plans. Which type of information system is this?
Question 7 of 25Which device works as both an input device and an output device?
Question 8 of 25One person sells a used bicycle to another person through an online marketplace that charges the seller a listing fee. Which category of e-commerce is this?
Question 9 of 25A retailer uses its information systems to cut supply chain and inventory costs so it can charge the lowest prices in its industry. Which of Porter's competitive strategies is it following?
Question 10 of 25A website shares visitors' browsing data with advertisers unless a visitor finds the setting and turns sharing off. Which privacy model is this?
Question 11 of 25A company runs its old and new payroll systems side by side for two pay periods and compares their results before retiring the old one. Which conversion approach is this?
Question 12 of 25Which description best fits a data warehouse?
Question 13 of 25A project has five tasks. A takes 3 days. B takes 4 days and starts after A. C takes 2 days and starts after A. D takes 5 days and starts after C. E takes 1 day and starts after both B and D finish. What is the shortest possible project duration?
Question 14 of 25A veteran technician can tell by the sound of a machine that it is about to fail, but this know-how has never been written down. In knowledge management terms, this is:
Question 15 of 25A program that compresses files, cleans up disk space and backs up folders on a schedule is best classified as which type of software?
Question 16 of 25A company's software becomes so built into its customers' daily operations that moving to a rival product would be costly and disruptive. Which competitive advantage has the company created?
Question 17 of 25A grocery chain mines its checkout data and finds that shoppers who buy tortilla chips often buy salsa in the same trip. Which data-mining technique produced this finding?
Question 18 of 25Moore's law, a long-cited observation about hardware trends, describes which pattern?
Question 19 of 25An analyst views total sales by region, drills down to individual stores, then pivots the view to show product line by quarter. Which kind of tool supports this?
Question 20 of 25A user opens a large spreadsheet, and the file is copied from the solid-state drive into memory that the CPU can read directly but that is wiped when the power goes off. Which component holds the open file?
Question 21 of 25In which network topology does every device connect to a central switch, so that one broken cable cuts off only the device on that cable?
Question 22 of 25Which SQL statement changes the price stored in an existing product row?
Question 23 of 25Which approach manages work on a visual board with limits on work in progress and a continuous flow of tasks, without fixed-length iterations?
Question 24 of 25Which level of management mainly uses information systems for long-range, unstructured decisions, such as whether to enter a new country?
Question 25 of 25What does a compiler do?

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