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Test 3 MIS 9-12 Alice 9 And 11 Flashcards

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The global trend toward global customers and products means _______ has also become an important factor in purchasing and the supply chain

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Globalization

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T/F mobile apps play a major role in globalization by offering basic social services and commerce such as banking, payment and agricultural information for developing nations

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True

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A ______ can be defined along two dimensions; control and coordination.

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GIS (geographic information system)

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Control consists of using what to ensure adherence to the organizations goal?

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Managerial power

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Coordination is the process of managing the ____ among activities in different specialized parts of an organization

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Interaction

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Restricts what type of data can be transmitted in foreign countries.

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TDF (Transborder Data Flow)

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A company where production, sales, and marketing are decentralized and financial management remains the parents responsibility

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Multinational structure

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Where an organization uses an outsourcing firm in another country to provide needed services or products

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Offshore outsourcing

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Known as the waterfall model is a series of well defined phases performed in sequence that serves as a framework for developing a system or project

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Systems development life cycle (SDLC)

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During this phase the systems designer must define the problem the organization faces, taking care not to define symptoms rather than the underlying problem

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Planning phase

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A collective activity involving users, top management, and IT professionals. It centers on a structured workshop.

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Joint application designed (JAD)

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The measure of how beneficial or practical an information system will be in an organization

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Feasibility

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________ can happen for several reasons including missed deadlines, users needs that are not met, dissatisfied customers and exceeding the budget.

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System failure

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Are employees who will use the system regularly and they can offer important feedback on the systems strength and weaknesses

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Internal users

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Are not employees but do use the system

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External users

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Assesses a systems cost and benefits

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Economic feasibility

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Is concerned with the technology to be used in the system. The team needs to assess whether the technology to support the new system is available

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Technical feasibility

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Is the measure of how well the proposed solution will work in the organization and how internal and external customers will react to it

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Operational feasibility

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Is concerned with whether the new system can be completed on time

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Scheduling feasibility

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Concerned with legal issues including political repercussions and meeting the requirements of the information privacy act.

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Legal feasibility

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Analysts define the problem and generate alternatives for solving it

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requirements gathering and analysis phase

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Analysts choose the solution that is the most realistic and offers the highest payoff for the organization

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Design phase

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A small scale version of the system is developed but one that is large enough to illustrate the systems benefits and allow users to offer feedback

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Prototyping

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The solution is transferred from paper to action and the team configured the system and procures components for it.

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Implementation phase.

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The old and new systems run simultaneously for a short time to ensure the new system works correctly.
Parallel conversion
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As each module of the new system is converted the corresponding part of the old system is retired.
Phased in phased out conversion
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The old system is stopped and the new system is implemented
Plunge conversion
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The analyst introduced the system in only a limited area of the organization such as a division or department.
Pilot conversion
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Includes activities required to plan, manage and control the creation and delivery of an information system.
IT project management
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A written document with detailed specifications that is used to request bids for equipment supplies or services from vendors.
Request for proposal (RFP)
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An organization hires an external vendor or consultant who specializing in providing development services.
Outsourcing
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The information system is operating enhancements and modifications to the system has been developed and tested and software components have been added or replaced.
Maintenance phase
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Is a method for developing software applications and information system projects in which the project is divided into smaller functions and developers cannot go on to the next phase until the current phase is finished.
Extreme programming (XP)
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Is similar to XP in focusing on an incremental development process and timely delivery of working software. Less emphasis on team coding and more emphasis on limiting projects scope.
Agile methodology
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A process that creates a physical object from a three dimensional digital mode by laying down many successive layers of material.
3D printing
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A search for specific information or patterns using input from multiple business partners and data sources. Identifies groups of people based on common interests.
Collaborative filtering (CF)
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Used to coordinate supply chain members through point of sale data sharing and joint planning
Collaborative planning forecasting and replenishment. (CPFR)
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Consists of the process a company uses to track and organize its contacts with customers.
Customer relationship management. (CRM)
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Allows customers to modify the standard offering such as selecting a different home page to be displayed each time the browser is opened.
Customization
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Enables business partners to send and receive information on business transactions
Electronic data interchange. (EDI)
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An integrated system that collects and processes data and manages and coordinates resources, information and functions throughout an organization.
Enterprise resource planning
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Draws on concepts of organizational learning and best practices to convert tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge.
Knowledge management
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The process of satisfying customers needs building customer relationships and increasing profits by designing goods and services that meet customers preferences better.
Personalization
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The process of working with suppliers and other partners in the supply chain to improve procedures for delivering products and services.
Supply chain management
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A third party exchange that provides a platform for buyers and sellers to interact with each other and trade more efficiently.
E marketplace
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Brings traditional auctions to customers around the globe
Online auction
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Invites sellers to submit bids for products and services
Reverse auction
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An integrated network consisting of an organization, it’s suppliers, transportation companies, and brokers used to deliver goods and services to customers
Supply chain
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Enables decision makers in different locations to participate in a group decision making process.
Electronic meeting systems
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Interactive information systems that give executives easy access to internal and external data for examining and analyzing information.
Executive information systems (EIS)
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Include a structured aspect that benefits from information retrieval, analytical models, and information systems technology
Semistructured decisions
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Can be automated because a well defined standard for operating procedure exist for these types of decisions
Structured decisions
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Typically one time decisions with no standard or operating procedure pertaining to them.
Unstructured decisions
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An interactive information system consisting of hardware, software? Data, and models designed to assist decision makers in an organization.
Decision support system (DSS)
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The objective is to define criteria for the decision generate alternatives for meeting the criteria and define associations between the criteria and the alternatives
Design phase
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Integrated information from multiple sources and presents it in a unified understandable format. Often as charts and graphs.
Digital dashboard
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Captures, stores, processes, and displays geographic information or information in a geographic context
Geographic information system (GIS)
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Assist decision makers working in groups these systems use computer and communication technologies to formulate process and implement decision making tasks and can be considered a kind of intervention technology.
Group support systems (GSS)
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Assists groups in communicating collaborating and coordinating their activities
Groupware
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The organization devised a plan for carrying out the alternative selected in the choice phase and obtains the resources to implement the plan.
Implementation phase.
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A decision maker examines the organizations environment for conditions that need decisions.
Intelligence phase
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The different types of information systems that have been developed to support certain aspects and types of decisions
Management support systems
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Defines the management issues in designing and using a DSS.
Managerial designer
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Includes mathematical and statistical models that along with the database enable a DSS to analyze information.
Model base component
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The liaison between users and designers. He or she is responsible for supplying information on what the model does.
Model builder
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Focuses on how the DSS is implemented usually addresses questions about data storage, file structure, user access, response time, and security measures
Technical designer
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When a procedure is in need of information supplied at runtime
Parameter
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Tells Alice the kind of student that can be sent to the parameter when the procedure is called
Parameters data type
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A named storage location in your computers memory where a data item of a specific type may be stored.
Variable
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Repeats execution of a code block a counted number of times.
Count control structure
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Determines the number of repetitions
Loop control value
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Is a number having a decimal point and digits before and after the decimal point
DecimalNumber
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A number that does not have a decimal point
WholeNumber
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Has only two possible values true or false
Boolean
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A sequence of alphabetic letters digits and special symbols enclosed in quotes
textString
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Decimal number may be converted to a whole number using
toRoundedInteger
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An interactive program expects the user to perform some _____ that may affect the sequence
Action
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Integral to programming for interactivity is decision making which is often implemented using ____ control structures and conditional expressions.
If-else
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An if else structure depends on the current condition of an object as the program is ______
Running
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An event listener is a ___ a process that runs at the same time as the programs main process
Thread
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Games have goals that the player must achieve to _____ in the game
Progress
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A game often begins with a ______ screen that displays instructions to the player
UI
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A mouse click screen touch or key press is known as what? “Something that happens”
Event
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An ordered set of items of a particular data type
Array
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T/F In gaming terminology a follow camera follows behind a character
True
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When a listener detects the action it listens for it signals or ______
Fires
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Each Alice class has built in ____
Functions

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