Section 2 Flashcards
Introduction to IT
What is used to create, maintain, and make information available?
IT
What supports communication between elements of IT?
Networks
What is a collection of elements that interact with each other to achieve a common goal?
Systems
What is a variety of different systems often need to work together?
Information System
Whats implements various algorithms that transform data, perform calculations, and manipulate files or complete tasks?
Software Development
What kind of analyst improves and optimizes operations to advance the business?
Business Analyst
What web development is made available to the public?
Internet
What web development is made available to specific users?
Intranet
What web development is made available to organizations and specific users?
Extranet
Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, and Information Systems
Five Computer Disciplines
What happened in 1948?
Invention of Manchester Mark 1 by the University of Manchester
What happened in 1950?
IBM sold 450 mass-produced computers and the invention of SAGE
What happened in 1960?
The invention of the Nova Minicomputer
What happened in 1970?
Apple-1 was created and the Microprocessor was introduced
What happened during 1980-90?
Introduction of Google, USB, iPads, and the advancement of Apple devices and Microsoft
What Administrator is responsible for providing technical support for hardware and software issues?
System Administrator
What Administrator is responsible for planning, designing, setting up, and maintaining an organization’s network?
Network Administrator
What Administrator is responsible for installing and configuring databases?
Database Administrator
What Administrator is responsible for installing, administering, and troubleshooting network security?
Security Administrator
What Administrator is responsible for troubleshooting error messages, tracking, compiling, and analyzing web usage data?
Web Administrator
What Architect is responsible for overseeing a company’s cloud computer system?
Cloud Architect
What Architect is responsible for designing networks, monitoring traffic, installing routers/modems/upgrading hardware, and essentials to the network?
Network Architect
What Architect is responsible for modernizing business processes’ reasons/rationales?
Automation Architect
What Architect is responsible for designing, building, testing, and implementing security systems?
Cybersecurity Architect
What Engineer is responsible for allowing organizations to take full control of their data?
Machine Learning Engineer
What Engineer is responsible for designing and developing software that makes systems work together?
Software Engineering
What Engineer is responsible for setting up, configuring, maintaining, and upgrading systems while ensuring the security of data, and appropriate information, and that companies have procedures/processes?
Network Engineer
What Engineer is responsible for using technical and analytical skills to help identify opportunities for migrating infrastructure to the cloud?
Cloud Engineer
Who is responsible for supporting, monitoring, maintaining workplace technology, and responding to user’s requests?
Technical Support
What Analyst is responsible for investigating business problems and creating information systems to provide solutions?
System Analyst
What Analyst is responsible for gathering data from customers to gain insight and find statistical opportunities to improve the business?
Data Analyst
What Analyst is responsible for monitoring an organization’s network for security breaches?
Security Analyst
Who is responsible for keeping information systems secure, ensuring integrity, confidentiality, and availability of data?
Cybersecurity Specialist
Who is responsible for providing technical expertise by developing and implementing IT systems?
Technical Consultant
Who is responsible for organizing people, time, and other resources to make projects meet requirements, time, and within budget?
Project Managers
Who is responsible for building and maintaining websites and infrastructure while needing to understand client-side, server-side, and database?
Web Developer
Who is responsible for creating, documenting, and executing manually created test plans and procedures?
Software Tester
Who is responsible for identifying and helping clients adopt IT services?
Technical Sales
What is the order of the Data Pyramid from highest to lowest?
Data, Knowledge, Information, and Data
What is the term for knowing the right thing to do?
Wisdom
What is the term for a dynamic combination of experience, values, contextual information, and expert insight?
Knowledge
What is the term for a collection of processed data?
Information
What is the term for raw facts and observations?
Data
What is the term for a path-connected understanding “when interpreting data”?
Connectedness Wisdom
What is the term for code in a way that makes it easy to convert into a form usable for analysis?
Structured Data
What is the term for data that is more complex and not easily decoded?
Unstructured Data
What is the term for data amassing quickly?
Big Data
What is a collection of data and information used to support decision-making?
Information System
What is the infrastructure used to manage data is referred to as a data architecture; data resides either in-house or in the cloud.
Data Management
What provides access to a virtualized environment and is composed of virtualized hardware? If the Client is responsible for licensing the operating system and back-end storage.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
What provides access to a virtualized environment and is composed of virtualized hardware? If Cloud Service Provider is responsible for licensing the operating systems and back-end storage
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
What software is licensed to customers with subscriptions and central hosting?
Software as a Service (SaaS)
What are the three Data Sources?
Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Records, Finance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Customer Applications
What is the process of ensuring the cleanliness of data?
Data Hygiene
What is the process of amending or removing data that is incorrect?
Data Scrubbing
What is the Duplicate data, Conflicting data, Incomplete data, Invalid data, and Unsynchronized data called?
Bad Data
What includes Input-Process-Out (IPO) and Input-Process-Output-Storage (IPOS)? Takes raw data to transform and provide results.
Functions of a Computer System
What are the three categories that the System divides?
The requirement from the environment (input), Computation based on the requirement (Process), and Provision from the environment (Output)
What do People consider for Computers?
An important element of computers
What are the Components of a Computer System?
Hardware, Software, and Middleware components
What is Hardware?
Tangible, electronic, and mechanical parts of the computer
What is Software?
Programs that run on your computer and provide instructions
What is Middleware?
Components that share software and data between elements of a system
What is the systems of hardware and software that connect multiple devices for sharing data and information called?
Networks
What are the two common types of Networks?
Local Area Networks (LANs) and Wide Area Networks (WANs)
What are the two types of Network Design?
Client-to-Client and Peer-to-Peer
What is identifying how data flows called?
Physical Topology
What are the networks that may implement various topologies called?
Logical Topology
What are the Languages that support data exchange between computers like TCP/IP called?
Protocol
