Ch 15

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Select the true statement from those provided below.
A. An ERP system is designed to interact with a stand-alone sales and inventory application to create general ledger information.
B. An ERP system is designed to be a stand-alone software application to accomplish revenue, expenditures, conversion, and administrative processes.
C. An ERP system will accomplish e-commerce but relies on other software applications for the accomplishment of e-business transactions.
D. An ERP system will not collect, process, store, and report the data resulting from e-business transactions.

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An ERP system uses:
A. One database for each module associated with the organization - sales, inventory, human resources, etc.
B. One database for manufacturing, one database for sales, one database for administrative, and one database for design and research.
C. One database which contains all data items associated with the organization.
D. Relational databases for interactive queries between modules and departments.

An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system would:
A. Update both accounts receivable and inventory when purchased goods are received from a vendor.
B. Update both accounts payable and accounts receivable when inventory purchased from a vendor is received.
C. Update both accounts payable and sales when purchased goods are received from a vendor.
D. Update both accounts payable and inventory when purchased goods are received from a vendor.

An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system allows a sales representative to provide a customer with all of the following information EXCEPT:
A. Is the product in stock?
B. What is the price of the product?
C. What is the cost of the product?
D. When will it be shipped?

MRP applications are:
A. Management resource programs software
B. Manufacturing resources planning software
C. Management reporting programs software
D. Manufacturing reporting programs software

ERP modules include all EXCEPT:
A. Financial.
B. Operational database.
C. Sales and services.
D. Product development and manufacturing.

Within an ERP program:
A. The operational database contains five to ten years of transaction histories.
B. The data warehouse is updated as daily transactions are recorded.
C. The data warehouse contains five to ten years of transaction histories.
D. The data warehouse information is available to sales personnel for customer histories.

Interfaces between modules of ERP systems would be accepted for all of the following EXCEPT:
A. Sales and inventory.
B. Sales and human resources.
C. Sales and accounts receivable.
D. Sales and manufacturing.

Material requirements planning (MRP) software:
1. Calculated raw materials quantities needed for manufacturing.
2. Calculated lead times on raw materials orders.
3. Calculated material needs on accounts payable data.
A. 1, 2, and 3.
B. 1 and 2 only.
C. 2 and 3 only.
D. 1 and 3 only.

The purpose of MRP II was to integrate all of the following into a single database EXCEPT:
A. Human resources.
B. Manufacturing.
C. Marketing.
D. Finance.

SAP R/3 operates on a:
A. Mainframe environment with closed architecture.
B. Client-server environment with open architecture.
C. Client-server environment with closed architecture.
D. Mainframe environment with open architecture.

Y2K compatibility issues arose because:
A. Older computer systems recorded dates in mm/dd/yyyy formats and memory for these was expense.
B. Older computer systems recorded dates in mm/dd/yyyy formats and memory in older systems was unreliable.
C. Old computer systems kept dates in mm/dd/yy formats.
D. Memory in older systems would fail when challenged with a mm/dd/yy formatted date.

Select the correct statement from those provided below.
A. MRP II allows interaction between suppliers and their customers via the internet or other electronic means.
B. While MRP II provides automatic inventory reordering, it does not allow suppliers to see customer inventory levels.
C. MRP II systems preclude e-commerce and e-business transactions due to internal security measures to protect data.
D. To increase operational response times, MRP II systems utilize operational databases but not data warehouses.

Spending on ERP systems increased or decreased based on several factors. These factors include all of the following EXCEPT:
A. Y2K compliance concerns.
B. The need for better customer service.
C. Multi-national sites of operation.
D. Compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons for the increased spending on ERP systems since 2004?
A. Bigger IT budgets replaced leaner budgets as economic conditions improved.
B. Many companies needed upgraded systems to enhance compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
C. Business processes were separated and standardized.
D. ERP has become so important to daily operations that many companies cannot allow their ERP system to become outdated.

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