6. Software Management Flashcards
3 major categories of software
Productivity; Collaboration; Business
5 types of productivity software
word processing, spread sheets, presentation (powerpoint), web browsers, visual diagramming software (Visio, Lucid Chart, etc)
2 main types of collaboration software
email clients (MS Outlook) - asynchronous and conferencing (Zoom, Teams) - synchronous
3 types of business software
Project management, database and accounting
3 Web browser settings to modify
cache, history, cookies
Using private/incognito mode, the browser
won’t save visited website info in your history or cache
deactivating client-side scripting will
stop websites from running scripts - JavaScript code (small programs) on your computer
proxy servers ______
request web pages on behalf of users and maintain their own cache, which is shared between users (improves performance). The user must enter the IP address of the proxy server
3 different application delivery methods (where applications may be installed)
locally installed; local network (server on LAN), the cloud (SaaS)
Application architecture models describe
how many servers are involved in delivering an application to end users (number of tiers)
1 tier
the entire application exists on a local computer (presentation, processing power, storage of data)
2 tier
client/server (web applications)
3 tier
client/application/data
Cross platform
works on multiple OS
Single platform
works only on one OS
