Unit 5

Question 1

Private network that allows access to partners, vendors and suppliers, such as Goodyear and Chevrolet.

Answer 1

What is extranet?

Question 2

Private computer network for sharing internal information.

Answer 2

What is intranet?

Question 3

Law passed by Congress as the result of a highly publicized scandal involving fraudulent financial reporting by corporations Enron, Tyco international and WorldCom.

Answer 3

Sarbabes-oxley (Sox) Act of 2002,

Question 4

Three forms of R&D as specified by National Science Foundation (NSF)

Answer 4

What are basic research, applied research and development research?

Question 5

exploring new ideas and possibilities including but not limited to analyzing data on people’s likes and dislikes to build a case for additional development by a corporation.

Answer 5

What is basic research as identified by NSF?

Question 6

Development focused research that heavily used IT to determine possibilities. I,e,m using a CAD system or making simulations of things.

Answer 6

What is applied research as determined by NSF?

Question 7

The information gathered from basic and applied researching used in production. IT is used to create prototypes, production samples and quality tests.

Answer 7

What is development research as identified by the National Science Foundation?

Question 8

The acronym for paid advertisements you see after googling.

Answer 8

What are SERPs (Search Engine Results Page?

Question 9

the system receiving data obtained by spanning a UPC symbol.

Answer 9

What is a transaction processing system (TPS)?

Question 10

Interactive software that can present data in a more digestible form that can help backup decision makings.

Answer 10

What is a decision support system?

Question 11

Which type of reporting will provide Jack and William with the right information for making strategic decisions?

Answer 11

Predictive analytics and forecasting reports reveal trends that can aid with decision-making.

Question 12

Jack and William want to hire a person to write code to access their database in order to build management reports.

What type of language should they be looking for on applicants resumes?

Answer 12

Structured Query Language (SQL) is the primary language used to write database queries that can retrieve data for reports.

Question 13

A large company uses a system that provides information to its suppliers to maintain the supply chain process.

Which type of system is this company using?

Answer 13

extranet

Question 14

Which technology necessitated the development and implementation of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)?

Answer 14

the Internet of Things (IoT); an influx of millions of devices connected to the internet required a new addressing scheme

Question 15

What do Internet of Things (IoT) devices need to be able to communicate to other devices and the network?

Answer 15

Unique identifier on the Internet which individualizes each device.

Question 16

A transaction processing system (TPS) enables the entry and recording of sale-related data such as items are purchased, price, and date and time of sale.

Which kind of decisions does management use these data for?

Answer 16

Tactical strategies since the operational data created from the sale of individual items are used to make operational and short-term decisions.

Question 17

Which technology is a critical component of customer relationship management (CRM) systems?

Answer 17

Databasing!