A Transaction Processing System (TPS) Is the Basic Business System

question 4

Multiple Choice

A transaction processing system (TPS) is the basic business system that assists operational level analysts when making structured decisions. Which of the items below is not an example of a TPS?

• A) Target's internal company payroll system
• B) Comfort Dental patient diagnosis system
• C) First Bank's overall accounting system
• D) Stewart Sport's order entry system

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Definitions:

Box Plot

A standardized way of displaying the distribution of data based on a five number summary: minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum.

Distribution

The method by which something is distributed among a group or dispersed across an area.

Third Quartile

The value below which 75% of the data in a data set falls, or the upper quartile in a distribution of data.

Hours

A unit of time equal to 60 minutes or 3,600 seconds, used to measure the duration of events or the length of time allocated to activities.