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Midterm Flashcards

1
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A group of components that interact to produce information

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Information system

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Five fundamental components of computer based information systems are

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Hardware, software, data, people, procedures

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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

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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

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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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12
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What makes the hardware usable?

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Operating system software

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13
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What type of software does something useful?

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Application software

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14
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Microsoft windows as an example of

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Operating system

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15
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Microsoft Excel and Minecraft are examples of

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Applications, software

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16
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You can think of data as a collection of

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Facts

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17
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Software and data are both

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Intangible

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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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20
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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

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22
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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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24
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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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25
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All software uses, at least one

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Hardware device to operate

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26
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In a computer…. is what makes a computer work

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Hardware

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27
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Can a computer run without software

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Yes

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28
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What are the two types of software?

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System, software, and application software

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29
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Software is developed as a means to enhance our

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Lives

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30
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Dumb devices to pass on anything received on one connection to all other connections

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Hubs

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31
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Semi intelligent devices, that learn which devices are on which connection

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Switch

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32
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Essentially small computers that perform a variety of intelligent tasks

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Router

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33
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Out of hub switches, and routers, which can be wireless

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Routers

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34
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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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35
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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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36
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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

37
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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

38
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Cable TVs and analogue television networks are widely used with what type of cables

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Coaxial

39
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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

40
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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

41
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Content is related to

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Intellectual property

42
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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

43
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The data, graphics, sound, images, and video that are importance to the organization

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Content

44
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Creating karma story, and editing the content and organization has captured

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Content management

45
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Content management includes

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Database management system, and content management system

46
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Enables integration with multiple applications

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Database management systems

47
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Used to format the presentation of data to a uniform standard

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Content management systems

48
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What does DBMS stand for?

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Database management systems

49
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What does CMS stand for?

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Cost management system

50
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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

51
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Cheapest typically involving a single important thing

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Spreadsheet

52
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Keep multiple lists of related things

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Databases

53
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What is the bottom of the data hierarchy?

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A bit

54
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A bite is how many bits

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Eight

55
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The field has many

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Bites

56
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A record record has some related

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Fields

57
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A table has many…. Same info.

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Records

58
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What has many tables and their relations and desert the top of the hierarchy?

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Database

59
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A bit can represent

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Either a one or a zero

60
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What is the most common storage unit?

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Bite

61
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One bite can be translated into a

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Character

62
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Representation of one fact, that is an attribute of a thing or an event

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A field

63
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Numeric, character, strings, logical, special

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Types of fields

64
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Group of logically related fields

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Record

65
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The two types of records are

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Master and transaction

66
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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

67
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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

68
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(also known as a file) is a set of records about a thing or event

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Table

69
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They field or set a fields that uniquely identifies records

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Primary key

70
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Set of tables that are related logically

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Database

71
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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

72
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Data that describes data. Mixed database is more useful. Makes databases easier to use.

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Meta data

73
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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

74
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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

75
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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

76
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Manages access to databases and administrative databases

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DBMS

77
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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

78
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Used to read, insert, modify, and delete data

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Forms

79
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Show data instructed content. May compute values.

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Reports

80
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Means of getting answers from database data

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Queries

81
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The use of the system by multiple users. Sometimes simultaneously.

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Multi user processing

82
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Process large, organizational and work group databases

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Enterprise, DBMS

83
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Does Andrew smaller, simpler database applications, and supports fewer users?

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Personal DBMS

84
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Microsoft access is an example of

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Personal DBMS

85
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What can you do with content?

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Retrieve, store, modify, delete

86
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I think her status is relevant to the operation and management of the organization

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And entity

87
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The change of transaction, in the status of at least one entity

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An event

88
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Content, axis, logical structure, physical organization

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Managerial data issues

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