Vocabulary

Question 1

What is EIS?

Answer 1

The system supports senior executives by providing important data in the form of graphs and charts to analyze and identify long-term trends

Question 2

What is TPS?

Answer 2

(Transaction processing systems): This system tracks the flow of daily routine transactions that are necessary to conduct business, such as payroll or order processing. This is used by lower-level managers and front line employees.

Question 3

What is MIS?

Answer 3

(Management Information Systems): This system provides first level managers with reports on current performance and historical records to help keep an organization running smoothly.

Question 4

What is DSS?

Answer 4

(Decision support systems) : This system provides modeling and analytical tools that support middle to senior managers in all aspects of the decision-making process, when problems are unique, unstructured, and not easily specified in advance, to project potential future trends

Question 5

What is ERP?

Answer 5

Enterprise Resource Planning: These systems tightly integrate functional areas, such as accounting, finance, project management, inventory control, purchasing, human resources, customer retention, sales, and marketing into one single, comprehensive system

Question 6

What is CRM?

Answer 6

These systems entail all aspects of interaction that a company has with its customers, including contacts, clients, contract wins and sales leads, and more.

Question 7

What is SCM?

Answer 7

Supply Chain Management: This system is one in which businesses are interconnected and working to create a product or service for the customer.

Question 8

What is ENIAC?

Answer 8

considered the first electronic, digital computer and was called “Great Brain” by the press

Question 9

What is UNIVAC?

Answer 9

was the first general purpose computer for commercial use

Question 10

What is IDE?

Answer 10

(Integrated Development Environment): is a programming environment that provides tools to developers to write code.

Question 11

What is COBOL?

Answer 11

stands for Common Business Oriented Language and was the first computer software language for business applications. Also was the first computer software language for business applications

Question 12

What are Horizontal Applications?

Answer 12

are more popular and general purpose, such as word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation software.

Question 13

What is UNIX?

Answer 13

Primarily used on servers but does not support the range of applications that most users need on a desktop.

Question 14

What is Linux?

Answer 14

This is a free OS and a re-creation of UNIX, but more popular than UNIX for workstations. Millions of programmers participate in its development.

Question 15

What is OS X?

Answer 15

Used on Apple computers and runs on a UNIX engine, but with an easy-to-use graphical interface.

Question 16

What are Analytic applications?

Answer 16

Analytic applications are a type of application, not an operating system; they are used to measure and improve business performance

Question 17

What is AppDynamics?

Answer 17

AppDynamics is an example of the evolution of application technology that includes application intelligence and analysis platforms, which allow companies to mine and monitor data in order to spot trends.

Question 18

What is Data Mining?

Answer 18

is an analytic process in which large amounts of data are searched and analyzed in order to find trends or patterns.

Question 19

What is Mashup?

Answer 19

is a software application that allows users to mix and match software components in order to create a customized application.

Question 20

What is BPM?

Answer 20

(Business performance management): is business process management, a collection of analytics and processes that enable organizations to achieve goals and objectives.

Question 21

What are the 5 MIS components?

Answer 21

hardware, software, database, network, and people

Question 22

What are the 4 DSS components?

Answer 22

Data management, model management, knowledge management, and user interface management.

Question 23

What are the 4 ESS components?

Answer 23

Hardware, software, user interface, and telecommunications.

Question 24

What are the 3 primary components of GDSS

Answer 24

hardware (including networking and display equipment), software (including web-based conferencing applications), and the people who are collaborating in the decision-making process.

Question 25

known as the father of modern computer science?

Answer 25

Alan Turning

Question 26

known as the father of computer engineering?

Answer 26

Blaise Pascal

Question 27

How many types of decision-making processes in decision support systems are there?

Answer 27

Structured, semi-structured, and unstructured

Question 28

Unstructured decisions?

Answer 28

require the decision maker to provide the necessary insight, judgement, and evaluation to reach a decision. Individuals in senior management frequently make unstructured decisions.

Question 29

Semi-structured decisions?

Answer 29

are used when only a portion of the problem can be solved via an established procedure. Middle managers more commonly make semi-structured decisions.

Question 30

Structured decisions?

Answer 30

involve an established procedure, are repetitive and routine, and therefore can be handled in the same manner each time. Line-level managers and non-management employees typically make structured decisions.

Question 31

Synchronous?

Answer 31

happens at the same time

Question 32

Dyschronous?

Answer 32

Ill agreeing, or disagreeing, in time: opposed to synchronous

Question 33

Pseudocode?

Answer 33

Pseudocode is an artificial and informal language that helps programmers develop algorithms.

Question 34

Arbitrator?

Answer 34

an independent person or body officially appointed to settle a dispute

Question 35

Waterfall Approach?

Answer 35

The waterfall methodology is a project management approach that emphasizes a linear progression from beginning to end of a project. This methodology, often used by engineers, is front-loaded to rely on careful planning, detailed documentation, and consecutive execution

Question 36

Component based development?

Answer 36

Component based development is an approach to software development that focuses on the design and development of reusable components. You can break your monolith into components: Using a producer/consumer model. Reusable/shared libraries

Question 37

Joint application design?

Answer 37

a process used to collect business requirements while developing new information systems for a company

Question 38

Scrum?

Answer 38

a framework that helps teams work together. … Often thought of as an agile project management framework, scrum describes a set of meetings, tools, and roles that work in concert to help teams structure and manage their work

Question 39

What are the six stages of SDLC?

Answer 39

requirement analysis, design, development and testing, implementation, documentation, and evaluation.

Question 40

What is Visual Basic (VB)?

Answer 40

a third-generation programming environment from Microsoft. The system works by allowing a programmer to use a graphical user interface (GUI) in order to choose and modify sections of code that have been pre-selected from a basic programming language

Question 41

Agile Development?

Answer 41

Agile is an operational method by which software developers iteratively gather requirements, plan, design, develop, test, and implement software

Question 42

Define Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)?

Answer 42

can be defined as a self-configured and infrastructure-less wireless networks to monitor physical or environmental conditions, such as temperature, sound, vibration, pressure, motion or pollutants and to cooperatively pass their data through the network to a main location or sink

Question 43

Define Internet of Things (IoT)?

Answer 43

network of physical objects—“things”—that are embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the internet.

Question 44

Define Network Bridge?

Answer 44

A network bridge makes network access faster. A network bridge, also known as an Ethernet bridge, connects two segments of a network together. The segments are not independent entities, but are owned and managed by the same organization. The purpose of the bridge is to divide a network into manageable sections.

Question 45

Define Network Repeater?

Answer 45

A Wi-Fi repeater, extender, or booster is a device that forwards wireless signals from the router to cover a larger area, such as multiple floors of a house. The repeater creates a new network based on signals from the originating network, and the clients that connect to the repeater are thus on a separate network.

Question 46

Define Software-Defined Networking (SDN)?

Answer 46

is a network architecture approach that enables the network to be intelligently and centrally controlled, or ‘programmed,’ using software applications. … SDN enables consistent management of the network, which may be made up of complex technology parts.

Question 47

Define Multiplexer?

Answer 47

is a system of multiple inputs and just one output to receive signals coming from multiple acquisition networks. The device transfers all input signals to a microprocessor, which receives and processes the data, transmits it to the output devices, and controls the system as a whole

Question 48

Define Core Routers?

Answer 48

They provide security for the core. By comparison, core routers offer packet forwarding between other core and edge routers and manage traffic to prevent congestion and packet loss.

Question 49

Define Next generation Firewall?

Answer 49

These include intrusion prevention, SSL and SSH inspection, deep-packet inspection, and reputation-based malware detection, as well as application awareness.