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CLEP Information Systems Practice Test

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Office and technology applications 20

  • A firm wants each customer's history in one place so that staff can personalize their service. Which system is designed for this? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 3, Software. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), enterprise-wide systems.
  • A manager must project slides to an audience at a meeting. Which class of productivity software is built for that? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 3, Software. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), productivity software.
  • A system takes inputs about a loan application and gives a bank manager the information needed to approve or refuse it. What kind of system is it? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 7, Does IT Matter?. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), specialized systems.
  • How do ERP systems fit the needs of different companies? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 3, Software. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), enterprise-wide systems.
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Office and technology applications, continued

  • In supply chain management, what is a supply chain? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 3, Software. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), enterprise-wide systems.
  • Much of a company's know-how sits only in its employees' heads. Which practice sets out to capture, index and share it? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 4, Data and Databases. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), specialized systems.
  • What does a Gantt chart show a project manager? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 9, The People in Information Systems. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), business strategies.
  • What does the term business intelligence describe? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 4, Data and Databases. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), specialized systems.
  • What does voice over IP (VoIP) do? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 5, Networking and Communication. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), office systems.
  • What is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 1, What Is an Information System?. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), enterprise-wide systems.
  • What is an ISO 9000 certification focused on? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 8, Business Processes. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), business strategies.
  • What is an office suite? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 3, Software. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), productivity software.
  • What is electronic data interchange (EDI)? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 7, Does IT Matter?. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), e-commerce.
  • What is Porter's five forces model used for? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 7, Does IT Matter?. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), business strategies.
  • What is the central idea of business process reengineering? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 8, Business Processes. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), business strategies.
  • Which feature makes a spreadsheet more than a table of numbers? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 3, Software. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), productivity software.
  • Which kind of program was the "killer app" that led many businesses to buy their first personal computers? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 3, Software. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), productivity software.
  • Which of these is a notation for diagramming a business process? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 8, Business Processes. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), business strategies.
  • Which term describes computing whose results are ready during the actual time of a physical process, so that they can guide it? NIST Computer Security Resource Center, Glossary: real time. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), information processing methods.
  • Which tool lets employees in different cities brainstorm together without a face-to-face meeting? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 7, Does IT Matter?. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Office and Technology Applications (20% of the exam), office systems.

Internet and World Wide Web 15

  • A designer wants every first-level heading on a site to be blue and centered. Which technology sets that in one place? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 10, Information Systems Development. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Internet and World Wide Web (15% of the exam), web technologies.
  • A manufacturer lets its suppliers log in securely to check its stock levels. Which kind of network is this? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 5, Networking and Communication. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Internet and World Wide Web (15% of the exam), online networks.
  • By Metcalfe's law, how does the value of a network change when its users grow from 10 to 20? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 5, Networking and Communication. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Internet and World Wide Web (15% of the exam), communications.
  • How do the Internet and the World Wide Web differ? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 5, Networking and Communication. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Internet and World Wide Web (15% of the exam), online networks.
  • In networking, what is a protocol? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 5, Networking and Communication. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Internet and World Wide Web (15% of the exam), communications.
  • In the URL http://www.example.com/index.html, which part is the host name? NIST Computer Security Resource Center, Glossary: uniform resource locator. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Internet and World Wide Web (15% of the exam), web browsers.
  • What did the World Wide Web project of 1990 add to the Internet? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 5, Networking and Communication. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Internet and World Wide Web (15% of the exam), web browsers.
  • What does HTML do? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 10, Information Systems Development. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Internet and World Wide Web (15% of the exam), web technologies.
  • What is a browser cookie? NIST Computer Security Resource Center, Glossary: cookie. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Internet and World Wide Web (15% of the exam), web browsers.
  • What is an intranet? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 5, Networking and Communication. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Internet and World Wide Web (15% of the exam), online networks.
  • Which change is a mark of "Web 2.0"? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 5, Networking and Communication. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Internet and World Wide Web (15% of the exam), communications.
  • Which of these has the form of an IPv4 address? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 5, Networking and Communication. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Internet and World Wide Web (15% of the exam), web browsers.
  • Which of these is an advantage of cloud computing? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 3, Software. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Internet and World Wide Web (15% of the exam), online services.
  • Why do domain names exist? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 5, Networking and Communication. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Internet and World Wide Web (15% of the exam), web browsers.
  • Why was TCP/IP designed? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 5, Networking and Communication. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Internet and World Wide Web (15% of the exam), communications.

Security 13

  • A free game works as promised but also quietly opens a back door for an attacker. What is it? NIST Computer Security Resource Center, Glossary: trojan horse. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Security (10%–15% of the exam), malware.
  • A login asks for a password and then a fingerprint. Which two authentication factors are these? NIST Computer Security Resource Center, Glossary: multi factor authentication. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Security (10%–15% of the exam), management and controls.
  • An attacker changes the amounts in a payroll file. Which goal of the security triad has been violated? NIST Computer Security Resource Center, Glossary: integrity. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Security (10%–15% of the exam), management and controls.
  • Attackers flood a retailer's web server with requests until customers cannot reach it. Which kind of attack is this? NIST Computer Security Resource Center, Glossary: denial of service. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Security (10%–15% of the exam), malware.
  • How does a worm differ from a virus? NIST Computer Security Resource Center, Glossary: worm. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Security (10%–15% of the exam), malware.
  • In public key encryption, which key does the recipient use to decode a message? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 6, Information Systems Security. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Security (10%–15% of the exam), management and controls.
  • Under role-based access control, how does a user get permission to change a file? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 6, Information Systems Security. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Security (10%–15% of the exam), management and controls.
  • What does a cold site lack? NIST Computer Security Resource Center, Glossary: cold site. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Security (10%–15% of the exam), disaster recovery.
  • What does ransomware do? Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, StopRansomware: Ransomware 101. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Security (10%–15% of the exam), malware.
  • What does the principle of least privilege require? NIST Computer Security Resource Center, Glossary: least privilege. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Security (10%–15% of the exam), management and controls.
  • What sets a computer virus apart from other malicious software? NIST Computer Security Resource Center, Glossary: virus. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Security (10%–15% of the exam), malware.
  • Which kind of backup facility is fully equipped and ready to take over operations? NIST Computer Security Resource Center, Glossary: hot site. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Security (10%–15% of the exam), disaster recovery.
  • Which security step verifies that a user is who he or she claims to be? NIST Computer Security Resource Center, Glossary: authentication. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Security (10%–15% of the exam), management and controls.

Hardware and systems technology 15

  • A byte is a group of how many bits? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 2, Hardware. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Hardware and Systems Technology (15% of the exam), devices.
  • A processor's clock speed is 3 gigahertz. How many cycles per second is that? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 2, Hardware. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Hardware and Systems Technology (15% of the exam), devices.
  • A retail chain connects the networks of its stores in Ohio, Texas and Oregon. Which type of network joins them? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 5, Networking and Communication. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Hardware and Systems Technology (15% of the exam), network architectures.
  • How does a solid-state drive (SSD) differ from a hard disk? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 2, Hardware. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Hardware and Systems Technology (15% of the exam), devices.
  • What does "quad-core" tell you about a CPU chip? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 2, Hardware. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Hardware and Systems Technology (15% of the exam), devices.
  • What does an operating system do? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 3, Software. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Hardware and Systems Technology (15% of the exam), functions.
  • What does Moore's law say? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 2, Hardware. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Hardware and Systems Technology (15% of the exam), devices.
  • What happens to the data in random-access memory (RAM) when a computer is switched off? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 2, Hardware. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Hardware and Systems Technology (15% of the exam), devices.
  • What is the Internet of Things? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 2, Hardware. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Hardware and Systems Technology (15% of the exam), devices.
  • What is the job of the central processing unit (CPU)? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 2, Hardware. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Hardware and Systems Technology (15% of the exam), devices.
  • Which family of standards does Wi-Fi follow? NIST Computer Security Resource Center, Glossary: wi fi. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Hardware and Systems Technology (15% of the exam), wireless technologies.
  • Which network device receives packets and sends them on toward their destination? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 5, Networking and Communication. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Hardware and Systems Technology (15% of the exam), functions.
  • Which of these is an input device? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 2, Hardware. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Hardware and Systems Technology (15% of the exam), devices.
  • Which part of a personal computer is the main circuit board that the CPU, memory and storage connect into? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 2, Hardware. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Hardware and Systems Technology (15% of the exam), devices.
  • Which wireless technology is meant to link two nearby devices, such as a headset and a phone? NIST Computer Security Resource Center, Glossary: bluetooth. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Hardware and Systems Technology (15% of the exam), wireless technologies.

Software development 10

  • CLEP's systems development process has five phases. Which phase comes right after analysis? College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Software Development (10% of the exam), processes.
  • During testing, which test checks individual parts of the code for errors before the parts are tested together? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 10, Information Systems Development. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Software Development (10% of the exam), implementation.
  • In agile development, what is a "time box"? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 10, Information Systems Development. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Software Development (10% of the exam), methodologies.
  • In the systems development life cycle, what does the system analysis phase produce? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 10, Information Systems Development. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Software Development (10% of the exam), processes.
  • What do computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools let a designer do? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 10, Information Systems Development. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Software Development (10% of the exam), methodologies.
  • What makes software "open source"? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 3, Software. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Software Development (10% of the exam), standards.
  • Which development method builds a working model quickly, gets users' feedback and revises the model? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 10, Information Systems Development. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Software Development (10% of the exam), methodologies.
  • Which three kinds of feasibility does a feasibility study weigh before a project starts? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 10, Information Systems Development. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Software Development (10% of the exam), processes.
  • Which way of switching to a new system is the fastest and cheapest but carries the most risk? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 10, Information Systems Development. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Software Development (10% of the exam), implementation.
  • Which way of switching to a new system keeps the old system running beside it for a time? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 10, Information Systems Development. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Software Development (10% of the exam), implementation.

Data management and programming concepts 15

  • A program holds two Boolean values: paid is true and shipped is false. Which expression is true? College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Data Management and Programming Concepts (15% of the exam), programming logic. The answer is worked out from what the question prints.
  • A table named Student has the fields StudentName and StudentMajor. What does this query return? SELECT StudentMajor FROM Student WHERE StudentName = 'Ana Ruiz'; D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 4, Data and Databases. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Data Management and Programming Concepts (15% of the exam), programming logic.
  • How does a data warehouse get its data? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 4, Data and Databases. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Data Management and Programming Concepts (15% of the exam), management.
  • How does an object-oriented programming language differ from a procedural one? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 10, Information Systems Development. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Data Management and Programming Concepts (15% of the exam), methodologies.
  • In a table of a relational database, which part holds one record? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 4, Data and Databases. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Data Management and Programming Concepts (15% of the exam), database management systems.
  • In SQL, what does SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Student; return? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 4, Data and Databases. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Data Management and Programming Concepts (15% of the exam), programming logic.
  • What are the two aims of normalizing a database? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 4, Data and Databases. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Data Management and Programming Concepts (15% of the exam), database management systems.
  • What is a database management system (DBMS)? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 4, Data and Databases. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Data Management and Programming Concepts (15% of the exam), database management systems.
  • What is a primary key? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 4, Data and Databases. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Data Management and Programming Concepts (15% of the exam), database management systems.
  • What is data mining? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 4, Data and Databases. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Data Management and Programming Concepts (15% of the exam), management.
  • What is metadata? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 4, Data and Databases. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Data Management and Programming Concepts (15% of the exam), management.
  • What is the binary number 1011 in decimal? College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Data Management and Programming Concepts (15% of the exam), data. The answer is worked out from what the question prints.
  • What is the value of 6 + 4 * 3 - 2? College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Data Management and Programming Concepts (15% of the exam), programming logic. The answer is worked out from what the question prints.
  • Which characteristics does NIST name in its definition of big data? NIST Computer Security Resource Center, Glossary: big data. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Data Management and Programming Concepts (15% of the exam), management.
  • Which database model, common in the 1960s and 1970s, linked data in parent and child relationships? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 4, Data and Databases. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Data Management and Programming Concepts (15% of the exam), database management systems.

Social and ethical implications and issues 12

  • A firm hires an outside company to build its new website and does not hire or train staff for the job. What is this called? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 9, The People in Information Systems. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Social and Ethical Implications and Issues (10%–15% of the exam), economic and business decisions.
  • A student quotes two sentences from a copyrighted book in a research paper, with a citation. Which provision of copyright law allows this? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 12, The Ethical and Legal Implications of Information Systems. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Social and Ethical Implications and Issues (10%–15% of the exam), property rights.
  • An author wants to let anyone share her article as long as she is credited. Which organization provides legal tools for that? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 12, The Ethical and Legal Implications of Information Systems. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Social and Ethical Implications and Issues (10%–15% of the exam), property rights.
  • In a 2003 article, what did Nicholas Carr argue about information technology in business? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 7, Does IT Matter?. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Social and Ethical Implications and Issues (10%–15% of the exam), economic and business decisions.
  • Under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, what must a website do before it collects information from a child under 13? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 12, The Ethical and Legal Implications of Information Systems. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Social and Ethical Implications and Issues (10%–15% of the exam), social networking.
  • What does a chief information officer (CIO) do? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 9, The People in Information Systems. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Social and Ethical Implications and Issues (10%–15% of the exam), careers in IS.
  • What does copyright protect? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 12, The Ethical and Legal Implications of Information Systems. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Social and Ethical Implications and Issues (10%–15% of the exam), property rights.
  • What is personally identifiable information (PII)? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 12, The Ethical and Legal Implications of Information Systems. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Social and Ethical Implications and Issues (10%–15% of the exam), social networking.
  • What is the "productivity paradox" of information technology? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 7, Does IT Matter?. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Social and Ethical Implications and Issues (10%–15% of the exam), economic and business decisions.
  • Which information systems professional works with a department to identify business requirements for a new or redesigned system? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 9, The People in Information Systems. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Social and Ethical Implications and Issues (10%–15% of the exam), careers in IS.
  • Which kind of intellectual property protection covers the inventor of a new product or process? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 12, The Ethical and Legal Implications of Information Systems. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Social and Ethical Implications and Issues (10%–15% of the exam), property rights.
  • Which United States law keeps student education records private? D. Bourgeois, Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), chapter 12, The Ethical and Legal Implications of Information Systems. College Board, CLEP Information Systems outline: Social and Ethical Implications and Issues (10%–15% of the exam), social networking.

How this list was compiled: Our own questions, written to the College Board's published outline of the CLEP Information Systems exam (https://clep.collegeboard.org/clep-exams/information-systems, read 2026-10-09): office and technology applications 20%; Internet and World Wide Web 15%; security 10%–15%; hardware and systems technology 15%; software development 10%; data management and programming concepts 15%; social and ethical implications and issues 10%–15%. The bank holds 20, 15, 13, 15, 10, 15 and 12 questions. Each fact was read on 2026-10-09 in the public page named under its question: the open textbook Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019) by David Bourgeois (opentextbook.site), the glossary of the NIST Computer Security Resource Center, and the ransomware page of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Three questions on logic, arithmetic and binary numbers are worked out from what the question prints, and each was worked out a second time. Licence: Questions, choices and explanations are original work of this site.

How it works

This free CLEP Information Systems practice test has 100 questions of our own, spread like the College Board's outline, each naming its public source. It is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the College Board.

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Seven content areas

The College Board's outline, read October 9, 2026, lists office and technology applications (20%), Internet and World Wide Web (15%), security (10%–15%), hardware and systems technology (15%), software development (10%), data management and programming concepts (15%), and social and ethical implications (10%–15%). This bank holds 20, 15, 13, 15, 10, 15 and 12 questions.

Full length

The real exam has about 100 questions to answer in 90 minutes, and some are pretest questions that are not scored. Exam mode gives you all 100 here and the same 90 minutes.

Concepts, not products

The College Board says no question needs knowledge of a specific product, and the exam does not stress hardware design or one programming language. The questions here ask about ideas, not products.

  • CLEP fixes the systems development process at five phases: planning, analysis, design, implementation, maintenance. Your textbook may number them differently.
  • The outline assumes first-year high school algebra, so expect a little arithmetic and logic.

Questions and answers

Is this information systems CLEP practice test the real exam?

No. All 100 questions are our own, written from the College Board's published outline, with each fact checked in the public source named under it. Nothing here is taken or reworded from a real exam or from the College Board's sample questions.

What is on the CLEP Information Systems exam?

The material of an introductory college course in business information systems: terms, basic concepts and their application. Office and technology applications is the largest area, about a fifth of the questions.

What score do you need on the CLEP Information Systems exam?

It depends on your college. The American Council on Education recommends granting 3 semester hours for a scaled score of 50, on a scale of 20 to 80, and colleges may set a different mark.

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