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Operational excellence. New products, services, and business models. Customer and supplier intimacy. Improved decision-making. Competitive advantage.

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Strategic business objectives

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Industry Canada defines IT as the

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Information and communications, technology, a.k.a. ICT sector

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True or false the amount of economic activity and GDP related to the ICT industry has been growing from 2013 to 2019

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True

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Think about what when you consider the problems and opportunities that confront your department or organization

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IT and IS

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What is an example of an industry that IT/IS has changed

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The taxi industry for example, Uber

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What allows the firm to response more rapidly to changes in their environment and the survives and turbulent times

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IS

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7
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IS allows time shifting, and what shifting

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Space

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8
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Recorded facts or figures

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Data

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9
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What is data with a meaning?

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Information

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10
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What is the central focus of IS

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Information

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Data presented in a meaningful context, processed data, data, processed by summon, ordering, averaging, grouping, comparing or other similar operations. A difference that makes a difference.

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Information

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Accurate, timely, relevant, just barely sufficient, worth its cost

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Good information

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13
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Hardware and people are both

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Actors

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14
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Software is instructions for hardware, and procedures are instructions for

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People

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What is the bridge between the computer side on the left and the human side on the right

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Data

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16
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Management. Organization. Technology.

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The three dimensions of IS

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What decisions concern, day-to-day activities

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Operational decisions

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18
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Transaction processing systems or TPS is used for what type of decisions

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Operational decisions

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What decisions concern the allocation and utilization of resources

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Managerial decisions

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Management information systems, or MIS is used for what type of decisions

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Managerial decisions

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What decisions concern, broader, scope, organizational issues

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Strategic decisions

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Executive information systems, or EIS is used for what type of decisions

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Strategic

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23
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Records the routine transactions that take place in every day operations

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TPS

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Used by managers throughout the organization to help them in directing, planning, coordinating, communicating, and decision-making periodic information

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MIS

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What uses internal data, but also combines it with external data to help analyze various decisions management must make

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A DSS

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They are used at the very top of management. At the strategic level, the typical decision is very unstructured. Often there is no specific question, but rather a series of undefined situations executives may face.

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Executive support systems

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True or false executive support systems must be easy to use in the information must be very difficult to be manipulated

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The information must be easily manipulated

28
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Senior executives often access information through the use of a

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Portal

29
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A……. There is one for which there is an understood, and accepted method for making the decision.

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Structured decision

30
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A……. Process is one for which there is no agreed on decision-making method.

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Unstructured decision

31
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Accept input raw data. Processed data. Process output information.

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At the most basic level computers, do three things

32
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True or false small form factor competing devices work the same as large PCs. All components are integrated into one.

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True

33
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Middle range computer is also known as

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Mini computer

34
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These powerful machines cost much less than main frames, and make decentralization possible. They can be customized to the specific needs of individual departments or business units rather than timeshare on a single huge mainframe.

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Mini computer

35
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What does LAN stand for?

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Local area network

36
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What does IP stand for?

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Internet protocol

37
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In network made of hundreds of thousands or some estimates 1 million, cheap servers, each not more powerful than the PCs we have in our homes

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Googles cloud

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What does WAN stand for?

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Wide area network

39
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Linking many personal computers, together, or shared access to data, printers, and other peripheral devices

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Examples of LANs

40
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The Internet, email, Web browsing

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Examples of WAN’s

41
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Consists of electronic components, used to input, process, output, and store data

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Hardware

42
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Binary digits are also also known as

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Bits

43
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Bits grouped in eight bit chunks are called

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Bytes

44
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All components/hardware must be connected to the

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Motherboard

45
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What does CPU stand for?

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Central processing unit

46
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Transfers, program or data from disk to main memory. Moves instruction from main memory via data channel or bus.

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CPU

47
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What does RAM stand for?

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Random access memory

48
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What does OS stand for?

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Operating system

49
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What does ROM stand for?

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Read only memory

50
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What is used to boot up the machine and stays when power is off?

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ROM

51
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Flash memory is a type of

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Secondary storage

52
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Very small storage device that plugs into a USB port

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Flash memory device

53
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Hi, capacity storage card that is inserted into a reader which intern plugs into a USB port

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Flash memory card

54
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Fixed disk drives is another form of

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Secondary storage

55
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What does SSD stand for?

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Solid-state, hard drives

56
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What type of computers used to review and process information?

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Client computers

57
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What type of computers provide access to information and application and serve the clients

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Servers

58
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The what is the term assigned to servers accessible anywhere and anytime over the Internet

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The cloud

59
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What does BIOS stand for?

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Basic input/output system

60
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Operating system and application programs

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Two types of computer software types

61
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Provides capabilities, common across all organizations and industries. Typically general purpose, software like word, Excel, PowerPoint, acrobat, Photoshop, paint shop pearl.

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Horizontal market, application, software

62
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Serves in need of specific industry. Usually can be altered or customized. Examples are dental billing system, restaurant, ordering processing system.

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Vertical market, application, software

63
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Designed for specific need like quick tax software

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One of a kind application software

64
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Computer program that replicates itself. Consumes computer resources.

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Virus

65
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Attached to various types of documents. When document opened, virus placed in startup files of the application. After, virus infects every file, the application creates or processes.

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Macro viruses

66
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Virus that propagates using Internet or network. Spread faster than other viruses. Specifically programmed to spread. Actively use the network to spread. Choke networks making them unusable.

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Worm

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