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Introduction to IT Focused > Acronyms and Definitions > Flashcards

Acronyms and Definitions Flashcards

1
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Define System

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A collection of elements that interact to achieve a common goal

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Define Internet

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Resources available for the public

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Define Intranet

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Resources available only for users or systems of a specific organization.

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Define Computing

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Any activity that uses a computer to manage, process, or share information

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Define Computer Science?

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Addresses the design and implementation of software with an emphasis on developing effective ways to solve computing problems and creating new ways to use computers.

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Define Extranet

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Makes resources available within the organization but it also makes that information available to other specific organizations or users such as third-party consultants.

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Define computing

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Any activity that uses a computer to manage, process, or share information.

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Define Software Engineering

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Large software systems are constructed across enterprises to meet business requirements and support business-critical activities

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Define Information systems

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Integrates solutions meant to meet organizational and business goals

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Define Information Technology

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Focuses more on the technology supporting systems in an organization rather than the information residing on them or being communicated with them.

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Define Information

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A collection of processed data from a variety of sources

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Define Data

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Raw facts and information

No Context

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Define Knowledge

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A dynamic combination of experience, values, contextual information, expert insight, and grounded intuition that provides an environment and framework for evaluating and incorporating new experiences and information.

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Define wisdom?

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Knowing the right thing to do.

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What are big data and data science?

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Take us from seeing and learning about the past and present to looking at the future and making predictions.

With data science we discover connections that we might not have imagined existed.

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What is structured data?

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Structured data is coded in a way that makes it easy to convert into a form usable for analysis

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What is unstructured data

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Refers to data that is more complex and possibly stored in a format that is not as easily decoded and structured data. It takes more time to parse through to retrieve essential information

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What are information systems

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Collections of data and information used to support decision making in organizations.

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IaaS

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Infrastructure as a Service

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PaaS

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Platform as a Service

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Saas

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Software as a Service

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CRM

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Customer Relationship Management (System)

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IPO

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Input-Process-Output

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IPOS

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Input-Process-Output-Storage

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Define input?

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A requirement from the environment

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Processing

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A computation based on the requirement (input)

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Output

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A provision for the environment

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What is liveware?

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People. The users of computers.

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What is hardware?

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The electronic and mechanical parts of a computer system.

Components you can physically touch.

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What is software?

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Components of a computer system that share software and data between hardware and software elements of a computer

Allows the hardware and software to communicate with one another, enabling data to move between computer system components.

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What is a network?

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Systems of hardware and software components that connect two or more devices for the purpose of sharing data and information.

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LAN

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Local Area Network

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WAN

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Wide Area Networks

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PAN

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Personal Area Network

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ENIAC

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Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator

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EDVAC

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Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer

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37
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UNIVAC

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Universal Automatic Computer

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FORTRAN

A

FORmula TRANslation

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39
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COBOL

A

COmmon Buisness-Oriented Language

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ULSI

A

Ultra-Large-Scale Integration

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USB

A

Universal Serial Bus

42
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SRAM

A

Static Random Access Memory

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DRAM

A

Dynamic Random Access Memory

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BIOS

A

Basic Input Output System

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UEFI

A

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

46
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PCIE

A

Peripheral Component Interconnect Express

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ISA

A

Industry Standard Architecture

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EISA

A

Extended Industry Standard Architecture

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ALU

A

Arithmetic Logic Unit

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MAR

A

Memory Address Register

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MDR

A

Memory Data Register

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AC

A

Accumulator

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PC

NOT personal computer

A

Program Counter

54
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CIR

A

Current Instruction Register

55
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Define Ephemeral

A

data is lost when the computer is powered off.

56
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ROM

A

Read Only Memory

57
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What is the Data bus?

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Carries data between the processor, the memory unit, and the input/output devices

58
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What is the control bus?

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Carries control signals (commands) from the CPU (and status signals from devices); controls and coordinates all activities within the computer system.

59
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What is the tower of chassis?

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The system unit

60
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PB

A

Petabyte

61
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What is a workstation

A

a single-user computer designed for technical or scientific applications.

62
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What is a microcomputer?

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commonly known as a personal computer. general-purpose computer for individual use.

63
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OEM

A

Original Equipment Manufacturers

64
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CLI

A

Command Line Interface

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DOS

A

Disk Operating System

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GUI

A

Graphical user interface

67
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HCI

A

Human computer interaction

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GECOS

A

General electric comprehensive operating system

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NAS

A

Network attached storage device

70
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What is paging?

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A memory management technique of rotating programs and data between primary and secondary memory

71
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Middleware

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Another name for device drivers

72
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EULA

A

End user license agreements

73
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Php

A

Hypertext processor

Previously personal home page

74
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DBMS

A

Database management system

75
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IoT

A

Internet of things

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SQL

A

Structured Query Language

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OO

A

Object oriented (database)

78
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NoSQL

A

Not only SQL

79
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DBA

A

Database administrator

80
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BI

A

Buisness intelligence

81
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BYOD

A

BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE

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CIO

A

Chief information officer

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CISO

A

Chief information security officer

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WBS

A

Work breakdown structure

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SDLC

A

Software development life cycle

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CASE

A

Computer aided software engineering

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IDE

A

Integrated development environments

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ISO

A

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION

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ACM

A

Association for computing machinery

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IEEE

A

Institute of electrical and electronics engineers

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COTS

A

Commercial off the shelf

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SRS

A

System requirement specification

93
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UX

A

User experience

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DRP

A

DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN

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UID

A

Unique identifiers

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EPSRC

A

ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

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AHRC

A

Arts and humanities research Council

98
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Asa

A

American statistical association

99
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AITP

A

Association of information technology professionals

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AUP

A

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

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CIA

A

Confidentiality integrity availability

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RFP

A

Request for proposals

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