Chapter 1

Question 1

What are business practices?

Answer 1

setting practices that should be implemented throughout the work day. (Code of conducts , dress code, etc)

Question 2

most important part of an information system

Answer 2

people

Question 3

Information Technology

Answer 3

the study, design, development, implementation, support, and management of computer based information systems particularly software and hardware

Question 4

Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002

Answer 4

attempts to protect investors from accounting and reporting fraud

Question 5

Moores Law

Answer 5

computing power doubles every 18 months

Question 6

Leaders

Answer 6

aka first adopters are the businesses that are the first to buy new tech

Question 7

Followers

Answer 7

businesses that do not buy new tech and wait for the leaders to see if there is any advantage

Question 8

Computer hardware

Answer 8

the tangible or physical part of a computer like circuit boards, chipsets, and keyboards

Question 9

Mainframe computers

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are massive room sized computers that process and store enormous amounts of bulk data and information, typically used by very large organizations like credit card processors who use them for transaction processing and vital applications, they require a huge amount of physical space and have special requirements like specialized ac units and fire protections systems

Question 10

Midrange computers

Answer 10

(sometimes called minicomputers) are less powerful and smaller in physical size than mainframe computers but do many of the same things but on a smaller scale. small to medium sized businesses who cant afford mainframes can use these in the same way

Question 11

Micro computers

Answer 11

smaller than mainframes and midrange computers and are so common that they are commonly referred to simply as computers or boxes, they are the least powerful computers in terms of processing and come in 4 typical configurations: desktop, laptop, tablet, and handheld

Question 12

Desktop/laptop computers

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desktops are made to reside on a desk and is not portable, while laptops have the same basic component and are designed specifically for portability

Question 13

Handheld computers

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often referred to as personal digital assistants or PDA’s are compact but far less powerful than desktops or laptops, they contain embedded operating systems and are well suited for a business environment as they are typically used to organize information

Question 14

Software

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is a collection of computer programs that accomplish a specific task

Question 15

Application software

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this software does not work without system software or operating software

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Operating system

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called a platform, is a collection of computer programs that work together to manage hardware and software to ensure that they are working properly. it is the groundwork for all system software and performs jobs like allocating memory, administering input and output, and file management, the part of the computer that coordinates memory

Question 17

Platforms (operating systems)

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the most popular platforms in todays market are Microsoft Windows, Mac IOS, Linux, and UNIX.

Question 18

File management

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one of the most important jobs of an operating system, and it is a way to store and organize files to the memory of a computer, operating systems are made up of a hierarchy of directories called folders

Question 19

Computer folders

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are the modern counterparts of printed documents that in the past were typically stored in a file cabinet

Question 20

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

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is how information is represented on a monitor…….this is Microsoft windows file management system, this is the inner workings of a physical filing cabinet that contains file folders that house paper files.

Question 21

File manager

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is part of an operating system that a computer uses to display the filing system

Question 22

Multitasking

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where a computer runs more than one process at a time

Question 23

Process

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is any task a computer performs

Question 24

Memory Management

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operating systems coordinate a computers memory which includes cache, random access memory (RAM), registers, and virtual memory

Question 25

Computers memory

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holds data and information in an assortment of way

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RAM (Random Access Memory)

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is known as the primary storage, it is a type of memory that allows data to be accessed in any order without physical movement of the silicone media

Question 27

Virtual Memory

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seemingly endless supply of memory the operating system provides by coordinating, tracking, and efficiently allocating the use of the CPU cache, registers, RAM, and disk storage

Question 28

Disk Management

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an OS is responsible for reading and writing data and information to a disk typically a hard drive

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Disk Storage

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a non volatile secondary storage on a physical device like a hard drive or optical disk with a read/write apparatus

Question 30

File Allocation Table (FAT)

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directs the read/write arm of the hard drive to where data exists and accesses it upon the users request and is the table of content of a hard drive

Question 31

Application software

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designed to serve the user and carry out whatever task such as creating a document or spreadsheet, and executes when the user chooses to run it

Question 32

system software

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requires very little user intervention and computers turns it on when it gets electricity

Question 33

Business computing software

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4 basic applications: spreadsheets, word processors, databases, presentation software. often sold as a software suite sometimes called an application suite or productivity suite

Question 34

Software suites

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a collection of business computer application programs of associated functionality that share a common graphical user interface (GUI), and have the capacity to smoothly exchange data across the programs

Question 35

Productivity Suite

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most important characteristic is its capability to share data and information between business application software, offer 3 ways of sharing data copy and paste, object linking, and embedding (OLE),

Question 36

Object linking

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similar to object embedding but is dynamic, when the source file is linked into the destination file both files stay up to date and are editable

Question 37

Object embedding

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is static and only takes a snapshot and when files are reopened it can be edited but the source file embedded in it cannot and is only as current as the last time it was embedded