Ch. 4 SIM Flashcards
What is machine generation language?
What is assembly generation language?
machine language is 1st generation - symbolic code with binary digits
assembly language is 2nd generation- microprocessors and other programmable devices
What is required for SEC reporting?
XBRL
What is 4th generation language?
- has many routine procedures preprogrammed
- often related to a Database Management System (DMS)
- allow programmers to create database structures and manipulate data quickly and relatively easily.
What does HTML stand for?
What does it insert into text files?
- HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
- inserts symbols or tags into text
- it’s a hidden code that helps communicate with others on the World Wide Web
What generation is object-oriented language?
3rd generation
uses a modular approach, focused on OBJECTS involved in accomplishing task (not on the procedure/action/code)
What does XML stand for?
What is XML?
eXtensible Markup Language
- settings file format
- formats information for use on the Web
- identifies the nature of the information
What involves the concurrent execution of multiple jobs by the same computer, improving the utilization of system resources and enhancing system throughput?
Multiprogramming
What allows the execution of two or more programs at the same time, requiring the utilization of multiple central processing units (CPU) which share a single memory?
Multiprocessing
What is a category of business-management software—typically a suite of integrated applications—that integrates core business processes such as customer order taking, scheduling, manufacturing, marketing, distribution, and financial reporting and analysis?
Enterprise resource planning
What is the term?
A computerized database of financial information that is organized, programmed, and constantly updated to produce periodic reports used for operational, tactical, and strategic decision-making within a given organization.
Management information system
What is a flexible database approach supporting the information needs of multiple users from a common set of integrated database tables or files. Each file contains common data on a particular group (for instance, a master customer file)?
Relational database
What involves a dedicated channel for the duration of the transmission?
Circuit switching
The sender signals that it will send a message; the receiver acknowledges the signal. The sender then sends the entire message. Voice and data may use the same line with no special data protocols. The two communicating devices must be compatible.
What divides a message into pieces which may be transmitted separately through different paths, reassembling the pieces of the original message at the destination?
Packet switching
Lines are used on demand as opposed to being committed to a single transmission.
What is all of the bits of a byte are transmitted at once along parallel lines, with one bit on each line, such as on a bus to or from the CPU?
Parallel transmission
Generally, it is practical only for short distances.
What is data transmission in which data bits travel over a single wire in one direction,
coordinated by start and stop bits preceding and following each eight-bit character;
each bit is transmitted one at a time (single file)?
Serial transmission
What is the process of creating prevention and recovery policies procedures to address business risks?
prevention and recovery
SIM #2 Business Continuity Planning
Business Continuity Planning
What are the 3 categories of controls used to ensure information system availability?
SIM #2 Business Continuity Planning
- Minimizing system downtime
- Disaster recovery plan
- Data and program file backups
Disaster recovery plan should be consistently reviewed and improved upon to ensure the plan reflects what?
SIM #2 Business Continuity Planning
- Current computer application changes
- Equipment configuration
- New personnel assignments
What is used to smoothly and quickly restore data processing capacity when there is a disaster?
SIM #2 Business Continuity Planning
disaster recovery plan
What is an organization’s formal process called of defining its future course or direction?
SIM #2 Business Continuity Planning
Strategic planning
What integrates aspects of a company’s operations with its information system?
Tip: ___ ___ planning system
SIM #2 Business Continuity Planning
Enterprise resource planning systems
