Ch13

Question 1

Data processing (DP)

Answer 1

Business technology in the 1970s included technology that supported an existing business and was primarily used to improve the flow of financial information

Question 2

Database

Answer 2

Electronic storage file for information

Question 3

Information system (IS)

Answer 3

1980s, Technology that helps companies do business includes such tools as automated teller machines (ATM) and voicemails

Question 4

Information technology (IT)

Answer 4

1980s,Technology used to store receive and send information efficiently

Question 5

Business intelligence (BI) or analytics

Answer 5

The use of data analytic tools to analyze an organization’s raw data and derive useful inside from it

Question 6

Data analytics

Answer 6

Process of collecting, organizing, storing and analyzing large sets of data (big data) in order to identify patterns and other information that is most useful to the business now and for making future decisions

Question 7

Intranet

Answer 7

Company wide network, close to public access that uses Internet type technology

Question 8

Extranet

Answer 8

A controlled private network that lets more than one company access the same information or allows people on different servers to collaborate and do so without granting access to the organization’s entire network

Question 9

Virtual private network (VPM)

Answer 9

A private data network that creates a secure connections (or tunnels) over regular Internet networks

Question 10

Broadband technology

Answer 10

It continues connection to the Internet that allows users to send and receive video, voice, and data files quickly

Question 11

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Answer 11

Machines programmed to think, work, and react like humans

Question 12

Internet 2

Answer 12

The private Internet system that links government, supercomputers, centers and a select group of universities, it runs 22k X faster than today’s public infrastructure and supports heavy duty applications

Question 13

Web 2.0

Answer 13

Set of tools that allow people to build social and business connections, share information and collaborate on projects online with user generated sites like blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and other online communities and virtual worlds

Question 14

Web 3.0

Answer 14

Combination of technologies that add intelligence and changes how people interact with the web and vice versa (consists of the Semantic web, mobile web, and immersive Internet)

Question 15

Cloud computing

Answer 15

Delivery of computing services, (including servers, storage, database, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence) over the Internet

Question 16

Virus

Answer 16

A piece of programming code inserted into other programming that usually lies dormant until triggered to cause some unexpected and undesirable event

Question 17

Identify theft

Answer 17

The obtaining of individuals personal information, such as Social Security and credit card number, for legal purposes

Question 18

Cookies

Answer 18

Pieces of information ,such as registration data or user preferences, sent by a web site over to the Internet to a web browser that the browsers software is expected to save and send back to the server whenever the user returns to the website