1. List and define the four primary reasons for the growth of decision-making information systems.
2. Describe the three common forms of data-mining analysis?
3. Explain the business benefits of outsourcing.
4. Explain systems thinking and how management information systems enable business communications.
5. Explain why competitive advantages are temporary.
6. Compare disruptive and sustaining technologies, and explain how the Internet and WWW caused business disruption.
7. List and describe each phase in the systems development life cycle.
8. Compare the continuous process improvement model and business process reengineering.
9. Compare the waterfall methodology and the agile methodology.
10. Compare relational integrity constraints and business-critical integrity constraints.
11. Explain the primary difference between a database and a data warehouse.
12. Compare the four categories of ebusiness models.
13. Explain the concept of a primary key and a foreign key. How are they related?