Plug-In B12 Global Trends nan Test Questions & Answers

Business Driven Technology, 8e (Baltzan)

Plug-In B12 Global Trends

1) Trend analysis is the examination of a trend to identify its nature, causes, speed of development, and potential impacts.

2) Trend projection is the examination of a trend to identify its nature, causes, speed of development, and potential impacts.

3) The world's population will double in the next 20 years.

4) People in undeveloped countries are living longer.

5) The digital mesh, smart machines, and the new IT reality are the categories of technologies shaping our future.

6) The digital mesh, smart mechanics, and dirty data are the categories of technologies shaping our future.

7) Biological 3D printing includes the printing of skin and organs and is progressing from theory to reality.

8) Autonomic computing is a self-managing computing model named after, and patterned on, the human body's autonomic nervous system.

9) Real-time adaptive security is the network security model necessary to accommodate the emergence of multiple perimeters and moving parts on the network, and increasingly advanced threats targeting enterprises.

10) The ambient digital experience is a blend of the physical, virtual, and electronic environments creating a real-time ambient environment that changes as the user moves from one place to another.

11) Augmented reality is the viewing of the physical world with computer-generated layers of information added to it.

12) Augmented reality is a blend of the physical, virtual, and electronic environments creating a real-time ambient environment that changes as the user moves from one place to another.

13) The ambient digital experience is the viewing of the physical world with computer-generated layers of information added to it.

14) Organizations anticipate, forecast, and assess future events using a variety of rational, scientific methods including:

A) Trend analysis

B) Trend monitoring

C) Trend projection

D) All of these

15) What is trend analysis?

A) When numerical data are available, a trend can be plotted to display changes through time and into the future

B) A trend is examined to identify its nature, causes, speed of development, and potential impacts

C) Trends viewed as particularly important in a specific community, industry, or sector are carefully monitored, watched, and reported to key decision makers

D) Complex systems can be modeled by means of mathematical equations and different scenarios can be run against the model to determine "what if" analysis

16) What is trend monitoring?

A) When numerical data are available, a trend can be plotted to display changes through time and into the future

B) A trend is examined to identify its nature, causes, speed of development, and potential impacts

C) Trends viewed as particularly important in a specific community, industry, or sector are carefully monitored, watched, and reported to key decision makers

D) Complex systems can be modeled by means of mathematical equations and different scenarios can be run against the model to determine "what if" analysis

17) What is trend projection?

A) When numerical data are available, a trend can be plotted to display changes through time and into the future

B) A trend is examined to identify its nature, causes, speed of development, and potential impacts

C) Trends viewed as particularly important in a specific community, industry, or sector are carefully monitored, watched, and reported to key decision makers

D) Complex systems can be modeled by means of mathematical equations and different scenarios can be run against the model to determine "what if" analysis

18) What is historical analysis?

A) When numerical data are available, a trend can be plotted to display changes through time and into the future

B) A trend is examined to identify its nature, causes, speed of development, and potential impacts

C) Trends viewed as particularly important in a specific community, industry, or sector are carefully monitored, watched, and reported to key decision makers

D) Historical events are studied to anticipate the outcome of current developments

19) All of the following are scientific methods organizations use to anticipate, forecast, and assess the future, except:

A) Computer simulation

B) Historical analysis

C) Trend analysis

D) Trend simulation

20) Which of the following is not one of the top reasons organizations should study trends?

A) Generate current revenue

B) Gain confidence

C) Generate ideas

D) Beat the competition

21) All of the following are countries expected to have the largest increases in population between 2000 and 2050, except:

A) Palestinian territory

B) India

C) Democratic Republic of the Congo

D) Yemen

22) On average, how many years longer does each generation live than the previous in the United States?

A) One

B) Two

C) Three

D) Four

23) What are the life expectancies for men and women in many developed countries?

A) Over 65 years for males and over 75 years for females

B) Over 80 years for males and over 75 years for females

C) Over 75 years for males and over 80 years for females

D) Over 80 years for males and over 80 years for females

24) Which of the following is not a potential business impact from people in developed countries living longer?

A) Global demand for elderly products will grow

B) Global demand for elderly services will grow

C) The cost of health care will decrease

D) Pharmaceutical companies will be pushed for advances in geriatric medicine

25) What kind of society is being created by the growth in information industries?

A) Knowledge-independent global society

B) Knowledge-dependent global society

C) Knowledge-independent local society

D) Knowledge-dependent local society

26) Which of the following is not a potential business impact created by the growth in information industries?

A) Top managers must be computer literate

B) Knowledge workers are generally higher paid

C) Entry-level positions will require less education

D) Downsizing will continue

27) Why is the global economy becoming more integrated?

A) Relaxed borders in the European Union

B) The Internet

C) International outsourcing

D) All of these

28) Which of the following is one of the primary reasons for the increase in Internet use?

A) Reorganization

B) Connectivity technology

C) Organizational restructuring

D) All of these

29) All of the following jobs will be increasingly performed by robots, except:

A) Mundane commercial and service jobs

B) Environmentally dangerous jobs

C) The repair of inaccessible equipment such as space stations

D) Jobs performed by scientists, engineers, and technicians

30) What does 50 percent of what a student learns about innovative technology in their freshman year of college become by their senior year?

A) Obsolete

B) Revised

C) Taken for granted

D) All of these

31) What percentage will all of today's technical knowledge represent in 2050?

A) One

B) Ten

C) Twenty

D) Fifty

32) How long does a product's entire life cycle last today?

A) 4 weeks

B) 40 weeks

C) 4 months

D) 4 years

33) Which of the following is becoming one of the world's most precious commodities?

A) Ebusiness

B) Energy

C) Currency

D) Time

34) Which trend has the following potential business impact? Companies must take an active role in helping their employees balance their time at work with their family lives and need for leisure.

A) The global economy is becoming more integrated

B) Pace of technological innovation is increasing

C) The economy and society are dominated by technology

D) Time is becoming one of the world's most precious commodities

35) Which trend has the following potential business impact? The time to get products and services to market is being shortened by technology.

A) The global economy is becoming more integrated

B) Pace of technological innovation is increasing

C) The economy and society are dominated by technology

D) Time is becoming one of the world's most precious commodities

36) Which trend has the following potential business impact? Demand for personnel in distant countries will increase the need for foreign language training, employee incentives suited to other cultures, and many other aspects of performing business globally.

A) The global economy is becoming more integrated

B) Pace of technological innovation is increasing

C) The growth in information industries is creating a knowledge-dependent global society

D) The economy and society are dominated by technology

37) Which trend has the following potential business impact? Top managers must be computer literate to retain their jobs and achieve success.

A) The global economy is becoming more integrated

B) Pace of technological innovation is increasing

C) The growth in information industries is creating a knowledge-dependent global society

D) The economy and society are dominated by technology

38) What is a concept that extends the Internet of Things emphasis on machine-to-machine communications to describe a more complex system that also encompasses people?

A) Information of Everything

B) 3D printing

C) Machine learning

D) Virtual reality

39) What is a type of artificial intelligence that enables computers to both understand concepts in the environment, and also to learn and process?

A) Information of everything

B) 3D printing

C) Machine learning

D) Internet of things

40) What builds—layer by layer in an additive process—a three-dimensional solid object from a digital model?

A) Information of everything

B) 3D printing

C) Machine learning

D) Internet of things

41) What occurs when complex systems, such as the U.S. economy, can be modeled by means of mathematical equations and different scenarios can be run against the model to conduct "what if" analysis?

A) Information of everything

B) 3D printing

C) Machine learning

D) Computer simulation

42) What is the network security model necessary to accommodate the emergence of multiple perimeters and moving parts on the network, and increasingly advanced threats targeting enterprises?

A) Autonomic computing

B) Real-time adaptive security

C) Virtual assistant

D) Autonomous agent

43) What is a self-managing computing model named after, and patterned on, the human body's autonomic nervous system?

A) Autonomic computing

B) Real-time adaptive security

C) Virtual assistant

D) Autonomous agent

44) What is software that carries out some set of operations on behalf of a user or another program with some degree of independence or autonomy, and employ some knowledge or representation of the user's goals or desires?

A) Autonomic computing

B) Real-time adaptive security

C) Virtual assistant

D) Autonomous agent

45) What is a small program stored on a PC or portable device that monitors emails, faxes, messages, and phone calls?

A) Autonomic computing

B) Real-time adaptive security

C) Virtual assistant

D) Autonomous agent

46) What is a type of artificial intelligence that enables computers to both understand concepts in the environment, and also to learn and process?

A) Ambient digital experience

B) Augmented reality

C) Virtual reality

D) Machine learning

47) What is a computer-simulated environment that can be a simulation of the real world or an imaginary world?

A) Ambient digital experience

B) Augmented reality

C) Virtual reality

D) Machine learning

48) What is the viewing of the physical world with computer-generated layers of information added to it?

A) Ambient digital experience

B) Augmented reality

C) Virtual reality

D) Machine learning

49) What is a blend of the physical, virtual, and electronic environments creating a real-time ambient environment that changes as the user moves from one place to another?

A) Ambient digital experience

B) Augmented reality

C) Virtual reality

D) Machine learning

50) Identify the seven trends that will have the greatest impact on future business.

51) Explain why understanding trends and new technologies can help an organization prepare for the future.

52) List and define the five different scientific methods organizations use to anticipate, forecast, and assess future events.

53) Describe one technology trend discussed in the text and identify the potential business impacts related to the trend.