CHAPTER 1 Flashcards
What is a system?
A group of components that interact to achieve some purpose.
What is an information system?
A group of components that interact to produce information.
Five-Component framework
Computer hardware, Software, Data, Procedures and People
What is a software?
Programs or Applications
What is Hardware?
Electronic component. Associated gadgetry that constitute a computer system.
What is Data?
Facts and Observations
What is Procedures?
Instructions and processes
What is MIS?
Management Information System - The use of information systems that help organizations achieve goals and objectives.
3 Key Elements of MIS?
1- Development and Use
2- Information systems
3- Goals and objectives
What is IT?
Information Technology.
Methods, inventions, standards and products. IT refers to Raw technology, concerns only with hardware, software and data components.
What is the difference between IT and IS?
IT by itself will not help and organization achieve its goals. Only when it is intergrated in IS.
What is the ICT sector?
Information and Communication Technology sector.
Provides products and services that other industries rely on to get their work done. (Banks, insurance, retail)
What is Moores Law?
The density of circuits on an integrated chip was doubling approx. every 2 years.
