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Q: The first component of the strategic management process is crafting the organization's mission statement, which provides the framework or context within which strategies are formulated.
Q: Strategy formulation involves putting the strategies (or plan) into action.
Q: The task of analyzing the organization's external and internal environment and then selecting appropriate strategies is known as strategy implementation.
Q: The CEO is a company's principal general manager.
Q: The formal strategic planning process has four main steps.
Q: A business unit is a self-contained division (with its own functions - for example, finance, purchasing, production, and marketing departments) that provides a product or service for a particular market.
Q: Corporate-level managers, and particularly the CEO, can be viewed as the agents of the shareholders.
Q: The corporate-level of management consists of the chief executive officer (CEO), other senior executives, the board of directors, and corporate staff.
Q: Corporate-level managers provide a link between the people who oversee the strategic development of a firm and those who own it (the shareholders).
Q: A multi-divisional company is a company that competes in several different businesses and has created a separate, self-contained division to manage each of them.
Q: Functional managers bear responsibility for the overall performance of the company or one of its major self-contained subunits or divisions.
Q: General managers bear responsibility for specific departments within the company.
Q: Managers are the lynch pin in the strategy-making process.
Q: A company is said to have a sustained competitive advantage when it is able to maintain above-average profitability for at least two quarters.
Q: A company is said to have a competitive advantage over its rivals when its profitability is greater than the average profitability for all firms in its industry.
Q: Capital means the sum of money invested in the company, that is, stockholders' equity plus debt owed to creditors.
Q: The more efficient a company is, the higher are its profitability and return on invested capital.
Q: Superior performance is typically thought of in terms of one company's profitability relative to that of other companies in the same or a similar kind of business or industry.
Q: If a company's strategy does result in superior performance, it is said to have a competitive advantage.
Q: A strategy can be defined as a set of related actions that managers take to increase their company's performance relative to rivals.
Q: What are the elements of a graph database?
Q: What is an XML Schema?
Q: What is an XML DTD?
Q: What is XML, and why is it significantly better than HTML?
Q: What is the CAP theorem, and what does it show?
Q: Specify the four categories of NoSQL databases used in the text, and give an example of each.
Q: What does NoSQL stand for, and what does it mean?
Q: Graph databases are composed of ________.
Q: The default cardinality for elements in an XML Schema is ________.
Q: In database/ XML applications, it is a recommended practice that ________ carry data, and that ________ carry metadata.
Q: XML Schemas consist of ________.
Q: An important improvement of XML Schema over DTDs is that XML Schema are ________.
Q: XML documents that conform to their DTD are said to be ________.
Q: The CAP theorem defines the three properties of ________, ________, and ________.
Q: The four categories of NoSQL databases used in the text are the ________ database, the ________ database, the ________ database, and the ________ database.
Q: NoSQL really stands for ________.
Q: Graph databases are composed of ________. A) Nodes B) Properties C) Edges D) A and C E) A, B and C
Q: The use of the XML Schema expression minOccurs="0" ________. A) is an XML Schema default B) is required as there are no defaults in an XML Schema C) is similar to the SQL schema NULL constraint D) A and C E) B and C
Q: The default cardinality for elements in an XML Schema is ________. A) 0.1 B) 1.1 C) 1.N D) N.1 E) M.N
Q: In database/ XML applications, it is a recommended practice that ________. A) elements carry data, and attributes carry metadata B) elements carry metadata, and attributes carry data C) elements and attributes carry data, and the XML Schema carry metadata D) elements and attributes carry metadata, and the XML Schema carry data E) either A or B
Q: XML Schema elements of the complexType may contain ________. A) one simple element B) one complexType element C) more than one simple element D) more than one complexType element E) Any of the above
Q: Which of the following is a type of element in an XML Schema? A) simple B) composite C) compound D) complex E) A and D
Q: XML Schemas consist of ________. A) elements B) attributes C) properties D) A and B E) A, B, and C
Q: The XML Schema statement xmlns:xsd indicates that ________. A) this XML Schema uses a labeled namespace calledxsd B) this XML Schema is validated at www.xsd.com C) this XML Schema is validated at www.xmlns.com using the xsd XML Schema located there D) this XML Schema is using a non-standard looping procedure, where xsd is the variable name of the loop increment E) the value of the variable xmnls is being set equal to the value of the variable xsd
Q: An important improvement of XML Schema over DTDs is that ________. A) XML Schema can be stored external to the document B) XML Schema support XQL queries C) XML Schema are XML documents D) XML Schema are not required E) XML Schema can validate XML documents
Q: XML documents can be ________ against their XML Schema. A) measured B) grown C) validated D) browsed E) All of the above
Q: XML Schema is used to define ________. A) document content and structure B) XQL queries C) DOM-compliant parsers D) DTDs E) XPath searches
Q: Which of the following is not true about document type declarations for XML documents? A) They are not required. B) They are required for type-valid documents. C) They cannot be contained inside the XML document. D) Storing the DTD externally allows many documents to be validated against the same DTD. E) The DTD can be extended by the developer with any elements he or she wants to include.
Q: XML documents that are not-type-valid can still be ________. A) DTD-valid B) XML-valid C) DTD-compliant D) XML-compliant E) proper XML documents
Q: XML documents that conform to their DTD are said to be ________. A) DTD-valid B) XML-valid C) DTD-compliant D) not-type-valid E) type-valid
Q: The document type declaration for an XML document begins with the keyword ________. A) XML B) DTD C) TYPE D) DOCTYPE E) TYPEDECL
Q: The first section of an XML document might be a ________. A) Document Definition Section (DDS) B) Document Type Declaration (DTD) C) Data Type (DTYPE) D) Document Type (DOCTYPE) E) Type Declaration (TYPEDECL)
Q: Which of the following is true about XML? A) It allows the confounding of document structure, content, and format. B) It is non-standardized to allow for extension by developers. C) The structure of documents is formally defined. D) XML tags, like some HTML tags, are vague and arbitrary. E) None of the above
Q: SOAP has become ________. A) just a name, not an acronym B) a standard protocol for sending any type of message C) an old technology replaced by XML D) A and B E) A, B, and C
Q: SOAP originally stood for ________. A) Simple Operational Application Protocol B) Standard Operational Application Protocol C) Simple Object Application Protocol D) Simple Object Access Protocol E) Standard Object Access Protocol
Q: XML stands for ________. A) Experimental Markup Language B) Extendable Markup Language C) Extensible Markup Language D) Active X-control Markup Language E) Active X-control Management Language
Q: An example of a graph database is ________. A) Dynamo B) Couchbase Server C) Bigtable D) Neo4j E) MySQL
Q: An example of a document database is ________. A) Dynamo B) Couchbase Server C) Bigtable D) Neo4j E) MySQL
Q: An example of a key-value database is ________. A) Dynamo B) Couchbase Server C) Bigtable D) Neo4j E) MySQL
Q: The CAP Theorem defines three properties of distributed database systems, which are: A) consistency, always-on, properties. B) competency, always-on, properties. C) consistency, availability, partition tolerance. D) competency, availability, partition tolerance. E) consistency, availability, properties.
Q: DBMSs associated with the NoSQL movement use ________ databases. A) Key-Value B) Document C) Column Family D) Graph E) All of the above
Q: Graph databases are composed of three elements, one of which is the edge.
Q: Graph databases are composed of three elements, one of which is the attribute.
Q: Graph databases are composed of three elements, one of which is the node.
Q: Column family databases that use column families and super column families contain keyspaces.
Q: Column family databases may use columns, super columns, column families and super column families.
Q: In XML Schema, the default minimum cardinality can be overridden using the minOccurs attributes.
Q: In XML Schema, the default cardinality of elements is 0.1.
Q: For database/XML applications, a good rule to follow is that elements are used to carry data and attributes are used to carry metadata.
Q: A complex element must have more than one simple element.
Q: In XML Schema, there are two types of elements, simple and composite.
Q: XML Schemas consist of elements, attributes, and properties.
Q: An important improvement of XML Schema over DTDs is that XML Schemas are themselves XML documents.
Q: XML documents and XML Schemas are created in different languages.
Q: XML documents that conform to an XML Schema are validated against that schema.
Q: XML Schema is a synonym for Document Type Declaration (DTD).
Q: XSLT is a robust and powerful transformation language that can be used to materialize XML documents into HTML.
Q: XML documents that do not conform to their DTD are said to be non-type-valid XML documents.
Q: XML documents that conform to their DTD are said to be type-valid XML documents.
Q: All type-valid XML documents are required to have a DTD.
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