Gr 12 3.3 – CRITICAL COMPUTING

Question 1

Distributed computing

Answer 1

Sharing and using the resources of many different
computers at the same time in order to solve a single
problem.

Question 2

DSS

Answer 2

(DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM)
A computer system designed to gather information from a
wide range of sources, analyse it, and present it in summarised or graphical formats that aid in decision-making.

Question 3

Expert system/Knowledge based system

Answer 3

A rule-based form of Artificial Intelligence where human
expertise is coded into a computer system that can take
input and arrive at a decision far more quickly than most
humans can.

Question 4

Fuzzy logic

Answer 4

A type of reasoning that works with probabilities in order to
arrive at a decision.