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MIS 3063 - Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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The number of transistors per square inch on an integrated chip doubles every 18 months.” Cost of data processing is closer to zero.

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Moore’s Law. Gordon Moore, 1965

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2
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Abstract Reasoning
Systems Thinking
Collaboration
Ability to Experiment

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4 Critical Skills for Nonroutine Cognitive Skills

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3
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Develop ideas and plans with others. Provide and receive critical feedback.. 2 or more people working together to achieve a common goal, result, or work product.

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Collaboration

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4
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Assembly of hardware, software, data, procedures, and people that produces information. Cannot buy.

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Information System (IS)

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Products, methods, inventions, and standards used for the purpose of producing information. Can buy.

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Information Technology (IT)

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6
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Strong Password

Password Etiquette

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User’s Role in Security

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7
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Strong Passwords have

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12 or more characters
Do not contain username, real name, or company name
Do not contain complete words
Diff from past ones
Upper and lowercase, numbers, characters
First letter of a phrase
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8
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Network of activities, roles, resources, or flows that interact to achieve some business function; sometimes called a business function.

A network of activities that generate value by transforming inputs into outputs.

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Business Process

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9
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Standard set of terms and graphical notations for documenting business processes. International.

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Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

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10
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Measured in effectiveness and efficiency

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Process Quality

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11
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A business process that enables the organization to accomplish its strategy.

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Effective Business process

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12
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The ratio of benefits to costs.

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Efficiency

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13
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Hardware
Software
Data
Procedures
People
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Five Components of an IS

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14
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Instructions for hardware

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Software

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15
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Instructions for people

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Procedures

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16
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Bridge between the computer side on the left and the human side on the right

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Data

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17
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Actors in the Process Quality

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People and hardware

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18
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Moves work from right to left of process quality

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Automation

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19
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5 Characteristics of Good Data

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Accurate
Timely
Relevant to context and subject
Just barely sufficient
Worth its cost
20
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Lowest cost across the industry

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Competitive strategy: cost industry-wide

21
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Lowest cost within an industry segment

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Competitive strategy: cost focus

22
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Better product/service across the industry

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Competitive strategy: differentiation industry-wide

23
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Better product/service within an industry segment

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Competitive strategy: differentiation focus

24
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Model proposed by Michael Porter that assesses industry characteristics and profitability by means of five competitive forces

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Five Forces Model

25
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Name the five forces

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bargaining power of customers
threat of substitutions
bargaining power of suppliers
threat of new entrants
rivalry
26
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Network of value-creating activities of primary activities and support activities

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Value chain

27
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Interactions across value chain activities

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Linkages

reduce inventory costs:
plan production with sales
production plan to determine raw materials need
material needs to schedule purchases
resulting in just-in-time inventory reducing sizes and costs

28
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Business strategy of locking in customers by making it difficult or expensive to change to another product or supplier

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Switching costs

29
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Program for creating, processing, and administering a database. Large and complex, licensed like an operating system. Microsoft Access and Oracle Database

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Database Management System (DBMS)

30
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Collection of forms, reports, queries, and application programs that facilitates users’ processing of a database. A database can be processed by many different database applications.

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Database application

31
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Data entry _____ used to read, insert, modify, and delete database data

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Forms

32
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A presentation of data in a structured, meaningful context.

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Report

33
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A request for data from a database

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Query

34
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Data that describes data; no needs to guess, remember, or even record what is in database.

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Metadata

35
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Hierarchy of Data Elements

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Table/File
Records/Rows
Fields/Columns
Bytes/Characters

36
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One or more columbs in a relation whose values identify a unique row of that relation; also known as key

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Primary key

37
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A column or group of columns used to represent relationships. Values of the _____ key match values of the primary key in a different able

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Foreign keys

38
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An international standard language for processing database data and metadata

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Structured Query Language (SQL)

39
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A term that refers to elastic leasing of pooled computer resources over the internet

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Cloud

40
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In cloud computing, the situation that exists when the amount of resource leased can be dunamically increased or decreased, programmatically, in a short span of time, and organization pay for just the resources that they use. Amazon called it first

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Elastic

*Small local news channel ability to handle web page requests from everyone

41
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The situation in which many different organiations use the same physical hardware through virtualization

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Pooled

42
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Hosting of a bare server computer, data storage, network, and virtualization by a vendor

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Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

43
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Hosting of an operating system, runtime environment, and middleware by a vendor

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Platform as a service (PaaS)

44
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Hosting of a hardware infrastructure and operating system as well as application programs and databases by a vendor

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Software as a service (SaaS)

45
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Variations of Information Systems Scope

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Personal (1)
Workgroup (10-100)
Enterprise (100-1000)
Inter-enterprise (1000s)

46
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The activity of altering existing and designing new business process to take advantage of new information systems technology

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Business Process Reeingineering

47
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A suite of applications called modules, a databse, and a set of inherent processes for consolidating business operations into a single, consistent, computing platform

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) - basically all functions

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