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mast-
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breast
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liqu-
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become fluid, liquid
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HTTP
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HyperText Transfer/Transport Protocol
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FAcilities
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location, size, operations methodology
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Telepresence
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maintaining a worldwide presence through technology.
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knowledge base
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basic data, rules, relationships among data elements, logic
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B2C
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Accept Student Loan Offers
Request Student Loan Application
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Business-to-Consumer (B2C)
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Transactions between businesses and their customers.
ex: a person buys a book from amazon.com
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Web services
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Application software in one organization communicates with other applications
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Modules are
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functionally self contained units allowing for extension of the system in a gradual manner
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Pivot table
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What feature or analysis tool in MS Excel would be used to analyze a \"data cube\" (i.e., a data set with multiple dimensions, such as store sales for region, product, and sales quarter)?
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Information systems
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combinations of hardware, software, and telecommunication networks. That people build and use to create, collect, and distribute useful data, typically in organizational settings.
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supply chain performance drivers (4 things)
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facilities
inventory
transportation
information
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scope creep
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adding functions to an information system after the project has begun
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Replication
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This DBMS feature allows users to interrogate a database easily.
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Bus Topology
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one station transmits signals which travel in both directions along a single transmission agent
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Secondary storage
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Equipment designed to store large volumes of data for long-term storage
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Reduced Redundancy
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which is the duplication of information or storing the same information in multiple places. Inconsistency is one of the primary problems with redundant information
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Measurement of the depth and detail on information that a business can supply to the customer as well as information business collects about the consumer
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richness
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o Gift Economy
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• Everything is free, open software or user generated content
• Like Wikipedia
• Free to everyone
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ERP Characteristics
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ERP takes a cross-functional, process view of the entire organization. ERP applications include a comprehensive set of inherent processes for all organizational activities. Set is like a "process blueprint" and documents each process with diagrams that use standardized symbols. ERP based on formally defined procedures and organizations muct adapt their processing to the ERP blueprint.
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Extensible Markup Language
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A general-purpose specification for creating custom markup languages
Classified as an extensible language because it allows its users to define their own elements
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in the international game technology case, what type of information system was used to integrate its business applications?
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ERP System
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Intangible Costs
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Loss of customer goodwill cause by errors in a new system.
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A business intelligence tool that uses abstractions, such as color and graphical images like instrument gauges, to allow executives to grasp business situations quickly is known as:
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digital dashboard
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Knowledge Map
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Tool for identifying and locating the organization's knowledge resources.
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Tangible
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quantifiable, you know what it is, you can put your hands on it
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Artificial intelligence tools work best with:
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complex, repetitive information-based activities
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MDS hash
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math algorithm converts anything to a 32 character string (original hash)
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software constraints
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1. operating systems
- run only on particular types of hardware
- must conform to instruction set of CPU
- windows works only on Intel instructions set CPUs
2. application programs
- written to use particular operating system
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Individualism/Collectivism
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reflects to the extent to which a society values the position of an individual versus the position of a group.
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an individual who has training or experience in the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of an expert system
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knowledge engineer
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Demand aggregation
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the combining of purchase request from multiple buyers into a single larer order, which justifies a discount from the business
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The line labeled "manages" that is connecting the "division office" to the bank branch could be described using what term?Division office---manages---bank branch---has---ATM
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a relationship
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system security monitor
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programs that monitor the use of computer systems and networks and protect them from unauthorized use, fraud, and destruction
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Buyer decision tool
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a tool that helps buyers choose products that will give them the most benefit.
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Ring topology
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A devices are connected to one another in the shape of a closed loop, so that each device is connected directly yo two other devices; relative expensive and difficult to install but can offer high bandwidth and can span large distances
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computer aided design (CAD)
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information system that automates the creation and revision of designs using sophisticated graphics software
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Define Green IT/Green Computing
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using computer resources in an efficient way to improve economic viability, social responsibility, and environmental impact.
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Which of the following is Hummer using as its generic strategy?
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Focused differentiation
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RAM (random access memory)
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temporary storage that holds the information you're working with, the application software you're using, and the operating system software you're using.
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Rapid application development (RAD) (rapid prototyping) methodology
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emphasizes extensive user involvement in the rapid and evolutionary construction of working prototypes of a system to accelerate the system development process
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Utility software- provides additional functionality to operating systeme.g. uninstaller
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Application Software- used for specific information processing needse.g. Microsoft Excel
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This is a way to reduce power requirements and hardware sprawl- it is also an integrated circuit to which two or more processors have been attached for enhanced performance
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A multicore processor
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Roles of IS
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Who are the people involved and what do they do? People are an integral part of an IS. Ex: product owner, user, trainer, operator, developer, and many more
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one to many relationship
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exists between two tables when each row in the first table matches many rows in the second table and each row in the second table matches at most one row in the first table
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What are hard skills?
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skills in technical areas such as database design, programming, and telecommunications
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Some of the most well-known and popular open-source software names are:
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FireFox
Linux
mySQL
ALL OF THE ABOVE
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This provides a standard for communicating a Web site's privacy policy to Internet users and for comparing that policy to the user's preferences
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The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P)
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In the Proctor and Gamble RFID case discussing the introduction of a new Gillette razor, the use of RFID focused on what type of retailer compliance?
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Promotional product display management
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Network access point (NAP)
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a point on the Internet where several connections converge.
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What does each packet contain
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[To IP Address, From IP Address, number of packets, the sequence number] in the header, [data] in the body
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What is an information system?
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a group of components that interact to produce information
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What is the difference between a database, a DBMS, and a database application?
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A database is a self-describing collection of integrated records; a DBMS is program used to create, process, and administer a database; a database application is a collection of forms, reports, queries, and application programs that process a database
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What is customer premise equipment in PSTN?
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equipment owned by the customer i.e. (at a business site) telephone handsets, wiring, and the PBX
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What is the acronym for the 7 project attributes
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Ugly Tasmanian Devils, Richard Punched Upper Cuts
1. Unique Purpose
2. Temporary
3. developed using progressive elaboration
4. Requires resources, often from various areas
5. Should have a primary customer or sponsor
6. Involves uncertainty
7. Deals with constraints
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which data might you have in data warehouse?
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copy of DB, additional non DB data (notes, legal docs, company history)more comprehensive data than DB
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