REVIEW SHEET FOR BMGT301 MIDTERM EXAM SPRING 20111 Format of the Midterm Exam approximately 35 40 multiple choice true false questions and approximately 5 short answer questions Information Goods Intellectual Property Rights Ch 1 and part of 10 What IS an information good and what properties do information goods possess Copyright protection The Incentive Problem IT Strategy Ch 1 and 2 What is competitive advantage o Operational Effectiveness and Strategic Positioning The forms of price discrimination Five Forces Model o What is its purpose What are the 5 components and why are they important Value Chain be familiar with primary and secondary support activities how technology can influence the activities Project Management supplemental postings on BB What is a project Failure rate for IS projects Defining Success of a project Causes of project failure ways to ensure success Systems Analysis and Design supplemental postings on BB Be familiar with the phases of SDLC what occurs in each one etc Advantages Disadvantages to different ways of implementing a system Custom pre packaged outsourcing Types of methodologies Waterfall RAD Prototyping Database Fundamentals parts of Ch 11 Core definitions e g relation table primary foreign key SQL attribute etc 4 components of a DBMS Why normalize a database design Interpret an entity relationship diagram i e understand how to read one Software Ch 9 10 Types of software examples of each Lifetime Costs Software Economics Netflix Ch 4 Long Tail How they use technology for competitive advantage o Cinematch collaborative filtering distribution etc 1 This review sheet is intended to focus your study efforts Exam questions will come from lectures in class exercises the text book and or supplemental readings
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