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Final Exam Flashcards

1
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the process of converting business activity from the old system to the new

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System Conversion

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a BPMN symbol that documents the movements of data among activities and repositories in a business process

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Data Flow

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an assessment of the cost of an information system development project that compares estimated costs to the available budget

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Cost Feasibility

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whether an information system can be developed within the time available

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Schedule Feasibility

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whether existing information technology will be able to meet requirements of a new information system

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Technical Feasibility

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someone who is well versed in Porter’s models, organizational strategy, and systems alignment theory

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Business Analyst

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the process by which project managers compress a schedule by moving resources, typically people, from noncritical path tasks to critical path tasks

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Critical Path Analysis

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the assumption that one phase of the SDLC can be completed in its entirety and the project can progress, without any backtracking, to the next phase of the SDLC

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Waterfall Method

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9
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a network of activities, repositories, roles, resources, and flows that interact to achieve some business function

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Business Process

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10
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type of system conversion in which the organization implements the entire system on a limited portion of the business

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Pilot installation

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the simulation in which two computer programmers share the same computer and develop a computer program together

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Paired Programming

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second phase in SDLC, in which developers conduct user interviews; evaluate existing systems; new forms/reports/queries; new features and functions, then create the data model

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Requirements Analysis

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13
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Hiring another organization to preform a service

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Outsourcing

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IS professionals who understand both business AND technology. They are active throughout the systems development process and play a key role in moving the project from conception and ultimately, maintenance

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Systems Analyst

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15
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in market-basket terminology the probability that two items will be purchased together

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support

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16
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an open source program supported by the Apache foundation that manages thousands of computers and that implements MapReduce

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Hadoop

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Information exchange that occurs when all members of a work team meet at the same time

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Synchronous Communication

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18
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an information system that supports collaboration

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Collaboration Information System

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The processing of operational data, social data, purchased data, and employee knowledge to expose solutions, patterns, relationships, and trends of importance to the organization

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Business Intelligence

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whether an information system fits within an organization’s customer, culture, and legal requirements

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Organizational Feasibility

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in scrum, the total number of points of work that a team can accomplish in each scrum period

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Velocity

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Decisions that concern the day to day activities of an organization

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Operational Decisions

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to fix the system to do what it is supposed to do in the first place (change in requirements)

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Maintenance

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a cyclical process from systematically creating, and altering business processes

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Business Process Management (BPM)

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set of standard practices, created by the information systems Audit and Control Association, that are used in the assessment stage of the BPM cycle to determine how well an information system complies with an organizations strategy

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COBIT (Control Objectives for Information & Related)

26
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the ability of a machine to simulate human abilities such as vision, communication, recognition, learning or decision making

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Artificial Intelligence

27
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User requests for particular business intelligence results on a stated schedule or in response to particular events

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Subscriptions

28
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Data that is used to manage a project

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Project Metadata

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Data that is part of a collaborations work project

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Project Data

30
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a type of supervised data mining that estimates the values of parameters in a linear equation used to determine the relative influence of variables on an outcome and also to predict future values off that outcome

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Regression Analysis

31
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in business intelligence system the mode whereby the BI system delivers business intelligence to users without any request from the users, according to a schedule, or as a result of an event or particular condition

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Push Publishing

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the process of obtaining, cleaning, organizing, relating, and cataloging source data

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Data Acquisition

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In business intelligence systems, the mode whereby users must request BI results

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Pull Publishing

34
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The process that occurs when the collaboration tool limits and sometimes even directs user activity

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Version Control

35
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the sale of related products to customers based on salesperson knowledge, market-basket analysis, or both

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Cross-selling

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a popular supervised data mining techniques used to predict values and make classifications, such as “good prospect” or “poor prospects”

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Neutral Networks

37
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ConfidenceIn market basket terminology, the probability estimates that 2 items will be purchased together

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Confidence

38
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a dynamic type of reporting system that provides the ability to sum, count, average, and perform other simple arithmetic operations on groups of data

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Online Analytical Processing

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the application of social media and related applications for the management and delivery of organizational knowledge resources

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Hyper-social Knowledge management

40
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a group of señor managers from a company’s major business functions that works with the CIO to set the IS priorities and decide among major IS projects and alternatives

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Steering Committee

41
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A timeline graphical chart that shows task, dates, dependancies, and possibly resources

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Gantt Chart

42
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a principle that states as development teams become larger, the average contribution per worker decreases

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Diseconomies of Scale

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the classical process used to develop information systems: system definition, requirements anaylsis, component design, implementation, and system maintenance

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Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

44
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a technique readily implemented with basic reporting operations to analyze and rank customers according to their purchase patterns

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RFM Analysis

45
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principal manager of the IS department

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Chief Information Officer (CIO)

46
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the title of the head of the technology group, filters new ideas and products to identify those that are the most relevant to the organization

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Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

47
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person who manages security for all of the organizations assets; physical plant and equipment, employees, intellectual property, and digital

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Chief Security Officer (CSO)

48
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person who manages security for the organizations information systems and information

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Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

49
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whether an information system fits within an organization’s customer, culture, and legal requirements

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organizational feasibility

50
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a software industry standards organization that created a standard set of terms and graphical notations for documenting business processes

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Object Mangement Group (OMG)

51
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standard set of terms and graphical notations fror documenting business processes

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Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

52
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in the context of the systems development life cycle, the phase following the design phase consisting og tasks to build, test, and convert users to the new system

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Implementation

53
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a form of data mining whereby the analysts do not create a model ot hypothesis before running the analysis, instead they apply the date mining technique to the data and observe the results

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Unsupervised Data Mining

54
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the application of statistical techniques to find patterns and relationships among data for classification and prediction

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data mining

55
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a business intelligence application that inputs data from one or more sources and applies reporting operations to that data to produce business intelligence

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Reporting Application

56
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the data item of interest on an OLAP report. It is the item that is to be summed, averaged, or otherwise processed in the OLAP cube

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Measure

57
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some authors define business intelligence (BI) systems as supporting decision making only, in which case they use this older term as a synonym for decision-making BI systems

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Decision Support Systems

58
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information systems that support the management and delivery of documentation including reports

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Content Management Systems (CMS)

59
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the process of delivering business intelligence to the knowledge workers who need it

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Publiush Results

60
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a facility for managing an organizations BI data

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Data Warehouse

61
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a type of decision for which there is no agreed-on decision-making method

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Unstructed Decisions

62
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decisions that concern broad-scope, organizational issues

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Strategic Decisions

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