The Headquarters Building of a Global Corporation Experienced a Technical

question 18

Multiple Choice

The headquarters building of a global corporation experienced a technical problem that disabled email for the afternoon.The work of over 200 employees came to a sudden stop.This is an example of which information system limitation?

• A)Information systems are expensive and difficult to develop and implement.
• B)Managers sometimes rely on information systems too much.
• C)Information systems are subject to sabotage, viruses, or downtime.
• D)Information systems are suitable for all tasks or problems.
• E)Managers may have unrealistic expectations of what information systems can do.

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Definitions:

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a set of data, indicating the spread or dispersion of the data points.

Interquartile Range

A measure of statistical dispersion, representing the difference between the upper (75th percentile) and lower (25th percentile) quartiles in a dataset.

Middle 50%

A statistical term referring to the interquartile range, which is the range between the 25th percentile and the 75th percentile of a data set.

Population Variance

A statistical measure of the dispersion of a set of values in a population, indicating how spread out the data points are from the population mean.