Midterm

Question 1

A group of components that interact to produce information

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Information system

Question 2

Five fundamental components of computer based information systems are

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Hardware, software, data, people, procedures

Question 3

IS combines the … and … they used to make technology work for business

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People and procedures

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MIS

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Management information systems

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The development and the use of information systems to help businesses achieve goals and objectives

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MIS

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Is the system of hardware, software, data, procedures, and people that produce information

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Information systems

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Represent raw technology components of IS

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Information technology

Question 8

True or false? IT alone will not help an organization achieve goals, and it must be embedded into an IS to help accomplish objectives.

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True

Question 9

IS allows what type of firm to respond more rapidly to changes in their environment thus survive and turbulent times

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Digital firm

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A digital firm allows what type of shifting

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Times shifting and space shifting

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According to Moores law, the speed of a computer chip doubles every

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18 months

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What makes the hardware usable?

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Operating system software

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What type of software does something useful?

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Application software

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Microsoft windows as an example of

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Operating system

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Microsoft Excel and Minecraft are examples of

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Applications, software

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You can think of data as a collection of

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Facts

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Software and data are both

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Intangible

Question 18

One of the roles of….. is to take data and turn it into information, and then transform that information into organizational knowledge

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Information systems

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Hardware, software, data, people, and process

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The five parts of IS

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The change we are seeing in the overall structure of how we interact with IT products is also called the change in

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IT infrastructure

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From the late 1950s through the 1960s computers were seen as way to more efficiently do calculations. The primary work was to organize and store large volumes of information that were tedious to manage by hand only large businesses, universities, and government agencies could afford them.

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The mainframe error

Question 22

In 1975 the first micro computer was announced on the cover of popular mechanics. The alter 8800. It’s immediate popularity, sparkly imagination of entrepreneurs everywhere, and there were dozens of companies manufacturing these personal computers.

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The PC revolution

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In the mid-1980s businesses began to see the need to connect their computers as a way to collaborate and share resources

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Client server era

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What’s the last era discussed

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The Internet, World Wide Web and e-commerce

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All software uses, at least one

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Hardware device to operate

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In a computer…. is what makes a computer work

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Hardware

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Can a computer run without software

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Yes

Question 28

What are the two types of software?

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System, software, and application software

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Software is developed as a means to enhance our

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Lives

Question 30

Dumb devices to pass on anything received on one connection to all other connections

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Hubs

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Semi intelligent devices, that learn which devices are on which connection

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Switch

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Essentially small computers that perform a variety of intelligent tasks

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Router

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Out of hub switches, and routers, which can be wireless

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Routers

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Refers to as wired or bounded transmission media. Signals being transmitted, or directed, and confined in a neuropathic by using physical links, features, high-speed secure, use for comparatively shorter distances.

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Guided media

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Twisted peach cable. Coaxial cable. Optical fibre cable.

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Three types of guided media

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Consists of two separately insulated conductor wires wound about each other. Generally several pairs are bundled together in a protective sheet. They are the most widely used transmission media.

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Twisted pair cable

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Has an outer plastic covering containing two parallel conductors, each, having a separate insulated protection, cover, and transmits information into modes. Base band mode and broadband mode.

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Coaxial cable

Question 38

Cable TVs and analogue television networks are widely used with what type of cables

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Coaxial

Question 39

Uses the concept of reflection of light through a chore made up of glass or plastic. The course is surrounded by less than glass or plastic covering called the cladding. It is used for the transmission of large volumes of data.

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Optical fiber, cable

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Data, redundancy, data and consistency, program, data, dependence, lack of flexibility, poor security, lack of data, sharing, and availability

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Problems with the traditional file environment

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Content is related to

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Intellectual property

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Per form of creative endeavour that can be protected through a trademark, patent, copyright, industrial design, or integrated circuit topography

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Intellectual property

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The data, graphics, sound, images, and video that are importance to the organization

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Content

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Creating karma story, and editing the content and organization has captured

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Content management

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Content management includes

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Database management system, and content management system

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Enables integration with multiple applications

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Database management systems

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Used to format the presentation of data to a uniform standard

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Content management systems

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What does DBMS stand for?

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Database management systems

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What does CMS stand for?

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Cost management system

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Process and story with right content. Getting the right content to the right person and in the right format at the right time.

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Content management managerial challenge

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Cheapest typically involving a single important thing

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Spreadsheet

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Keep multiple lists of related things

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Databases

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What is the bottom of the data hierarchy?

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A bit

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A bite is how many bits

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Eight

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The field has many

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Bites

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A record record has some related

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Fields

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A table has many…. Same info.

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Records

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What has many tables and their relations and desert the top of the hierarchy?

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Database

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A bit can represent

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Either a one or a zero

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What is the most common storage unit?

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Bite

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One bite can be translated into a

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Character

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Representation of one fact, that is an attribute of a thing or an event

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A field

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Numeric, character, strings, logical, special

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Types of fields

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Group of logically related fields

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Record

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The two types of records are

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Master and transaction

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A record, representing an event in the business, like a payment made or an inventory reduction

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Transaction record

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Hey record, representing the status of a business entity like a customer account or an inventory item record

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Master record

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(also known as a file) is a set of records about a thing or event

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Table

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They field or set a fields that uniquely identifies records

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Primary key

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Set of tables that are related logically

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Database

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True or false the main difference between data and metadata is that data is simply the content that can provide the description, measurement, or even a report on anything relative to an enterprise data assets. On the other hand, meta-data describes the relevant information on cell datagiving them more context for data users

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True

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Data that describes data. Mixed database is more useful. Makes databases easier to use.

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Meta data

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Collection of forms, reports, queries, and application programs, that process a database, and make database data more accessible and useful

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Database application

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Hey, what is the system that creates processes and administer databases, and is usually licensed from vendors?

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DBMS

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True or false DBMS is used to create fields, relationships, and other structures in the database

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False it’s used to create tables tables ha ha

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Manages access to databases and administrative databases

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DBMS

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Collection of forms, reports, queries, and application programs, that process a database, and make its contents, more accessible and useful

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A database application

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Used to read, insert, modify, and delete data

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Forms

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Show data instructed content. May compute values.

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Reports

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Means of getting answers from database data

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Queries

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The use of the system by multiple users. Sometimes simultaneously.

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Multi user processing

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Process large, organizational and work group databases

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Enterprise, DBMS

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Does Andrew smaller, simpler database applications, and supports fewer users?

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Personal DBMS

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Microsoft access is an example of

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Personal DBMS

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What can you do with content?

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Retrieve, store, modify, delete

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I think her status is relevant to the operation and management of the organization

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And entity

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The change of transaction, in the status of at least one entity

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An event

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Content, axis, logical structure, physical organization

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Managerial data issues