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Primary Storage
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RAM
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functional organization
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departmentalization around specialized activities such as production, marketing, and human resources.
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- Accordingly
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a software-industry standards organization called the Object Management Group (OMG) created a standard set of terms and graphical notations for documenting business processes. That standard, called Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), is documented at www.bpmn.org.
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JAVA
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Object oriented programing language. That is revolutionizing applications for the world wide web.
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DRAM chips
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Used as ordinary RAM
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Programmers
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write software instructions for comuters
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Knowledge about information technology, focusing on understanding how computer-based technologies work.
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computer literacy
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Mintzberg's classification for managerial roles where managers act as figureheads and leaders for the organization.
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interpersonal roles
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Interrelated components working together to collect, process, store, and disseminate information to support decision making, coordination, control, analysis,and visualization in an organization.
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information system
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integration
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the degree to which differentiated work units work together and coordinate their efforts.
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Data Dictionary
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Database management catalog or directory containing metadata, that is, data about data.
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Data
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Facts or observations about physical phenomena or business transactions. More specifically, data are objective measurements of the attributes (characteristics) of entities such as people, places, things, and events.
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Switching Costs
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Costs accociated with switching information technologies betch.
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CASE tools
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Computer Aided Software Engineering... Support Tools
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Intranet
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the network inside an organization that uses internet technologies (such as web browsers, servers, TCP/IP, network proocols, html, hypermedia document publishing, and databases,) to provide an internet like environment within the enterprise for information sharing, collaboration, and the support of business processes
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_____________ are created by default
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Grand Totals
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software that provides additional functionality to your operating system.
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Utility software
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Form of business organization characterized by heavy centralization of corporate activities in the home country of origin.
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domestic exporter
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Form of business organization that concentrated financial management and control out of a central home base while decentralizing production, sales, and marketing operations to units in other countries
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multinational
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Representatives of departments outside the information systems group for whom applications are developed
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end users
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matrix organization
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an organization composed of dual reporting relationships in which some managers report to two superiors--a functional manager and a divisional manager.
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S corporation
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A unique government creation that looks like a corporation but is taxed like sole proprietorships and partnerships.
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centralized organization
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an organization in which high-level executives make most decisions and pass them down to lower levels for implementation.
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- Over time
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information systems developers studied best-of-practice techniques and from these developed a design philosophy known as service-oriented architecture (SOA).SOA was originally used to design interacting computer programs. More recently, systems designers have applied SOA principles to business process activities, whether those activities are manual, partly automated, or fully automated
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Software Resources
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All sets of information processes instructions. This generic concept of software includes not only the sets of operating instructions called programs, which direct and control computer hardware, but also the sets of information processing instructions called procedures that people need
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Computer Terminal
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Any input/output device connected by telecommunications links to a computer.
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System Software
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System software consist of programs that manage and support a computer system and its information processing activities.
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Wireless LAN
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Using radio or infrared transmissions to link devices in a local area network.
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Each is an access data type except
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data
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Deleting records from a record set also deletes that record from its data source?
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true
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the POST
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checks computers hardware against the CMOS chip
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Digital Divide
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The difference between people with access to a computer with an internet connection and those without is called
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the term used to describe electronic commerce conducted over a wireless device such as a cell phone or personal digital assistant.
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M-commerce
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develops the goals and strategies outlined by strategic management.
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Tactical management
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People, such as engineers or architect, who design products or services and create knowledge for the organization.
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knowledge workers
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Organization using networks to link people, assets, and ideas to create and distribute products and services without being limited to traditional organizational boundaries or physical locations.
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virtual organization
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Physical equipment used for input, processing and output activities in an information system.
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computer hardware
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Physical devices and software that link various computer harware components and transfer data from one physical location to another.
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communications technology
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merger
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the result of two firms forming one company.
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franchise agreement
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an arragnement whereby someone with a good idea for a business sells the rights to use the business name and sell a product or service to others in a given territory.
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Implementing Business/ IT Change
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Evaluating proposals for new business/ IT applications within a company
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Online Analytical Processing
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A capability of some management, decision support, and executive information systems that supports interactive examination and manipulation of large amounts of data from many perspectives.
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Computer-Based Information System
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An information system that uses computer hardware and software to perform its information processing activities.
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Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
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Restructuring and transforming a business process by a fundamental rethinking and redesign to achieve dramatic improvements in cost, quality, speed, and so on.
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Web Services
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Software components that are based on a framework and web and object-oriented standards and technologies for using the web to electronically link the application s of different users and different computing platforms
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pages per min
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A printers speed is measured in
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A document should have no more than ___ fonts
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3
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Head Crash
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the read/write head touches the metal surface of the hard disk platter
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when adding the value fields to a pivot table, you should drag and drop the first value to the data field, but drop the rest in the value and row fields?
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false
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marked by the electronic movement of all types of information, not limited to numbers, words, graphs, and photos but including physiological information such as voice recognition and synthesization, biometrics (your retina scan and breath for example), a
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Digital economy
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the linking of two or more computers to share data or resources, such as a printer.
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network
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Deciding how to carry out specific tasks specified by upper and middle management, and establishing criteria for completion and resource allocation.
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operational control
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The capture or collection of raw data from within the organization or its external environment for processing in an information system.
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input
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span of control
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the number of subordinates who report directly to an executive or supervisor.
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Decision Support System (DSS)
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An information system that utilizes decision models, a database, and a decision maker's own insights in an ad hoc, interactive analytical modeling process to reach a specific decision by a specific decision maker.
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- primary activities: marketing and sales
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in-bound logistics, operations, out-bound logistics, and service.
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Competitive Forces
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A firm must confront (1) rivalry of competitors within its industry, (2) threats of new entrants, (3) threats of substitutes, (4) the bargaining power of customers, and (5) the bargaining power of suppliers
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Graphical User Interface
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A software interface that relies on icons, bars, buttons, boxes, and other images to initiate computer-based tasks for users.
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A computer with a 32-bit word size can send ____bytes through the machine cycle at one time
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4
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will allow you to scroll the worksheet below the freeze but not above
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Freezing Panes
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a system that processes transactions that occur within an organization.
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Transaction processing system (TPS)
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Computerized systems that perform and record the daily routine transactions necessary to conduct the business; they serve the organization's operational level.
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transaction processing systems (TPS)
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People who actually produce the products or services of the organization.
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production or service workers
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coordination by mutual adjustment
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units interact with one another to make accommodations in order to achieve flexible coordination.
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* Information needs to be sufficient for the purpose for which it is generated
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but just barely so.
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Enterprise Collaboration Systems
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The use of groupware tools and the Internet, intranets, extranets, and other computer networks to support and enhance communication, coordination, collaboration, and resource sharing among teams and workgroups in an internetworked enterprise.
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Desktop Publishing
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DTP can be used to produce and publish an organization's materials. So that they look professionally published
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Which one of the following is the address book created when you format a magnetic disk
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FAT or NTFS
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a tool you use to see, hear, or otherwise accept the results of your information-processing requests.
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Output device
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Activity at which a firm excels as a world-class leader.
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core competency
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master limited partnership (MLP)
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a partnership that looks much like a corporation in that it acts like a corporation and is traded on a stock exchange but is taxed like a partnership and thus avoids the corporate income tax.
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* Biometric authentication uses personal physical characteristics such as fingerprints
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facial features, and retinal scans to authenticate users
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* Human safeguards involve the people and procedure components of information systems. Human safeguards include position definitions
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hiring and screening, dissemination and enforcement, and termination.
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A slice of pie, the top of a column, and a symbol on a line chart are all
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Data Markers
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Systems that help the firm identify customers for the firm's products or services, develop products and services to meet customers' needs, promote these products and services, sell the products and services, and provide ongoing customer support.
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sales and marketing information systems
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- five forces model- According to this model
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five competitive forces determine industry profitability: bargaining power of customers, threat of substitutions, bargaining power of suppliers, threat of new entrants, and rivalry among existing firms. The intensity of each of the five forces determines the characteristics of the industry, how profitable it is, and how sustainable that profitability will be.
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in the access function IIFF when you see >
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it represents the logical test
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* For information to be worth its cost
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An appropriate relationship must exist between the cost of information and its value.
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* Spoofing is another term for someone pretending to be someone else. If you pretend to be your professor
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you are spoofing your professor. IP spoofing occurs when an intruder uses another siteĀs IP address as if it were that other site. Email spoofing is a synonym for phishing.
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An advantage of a CRT monitor over an LCD monitor is
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images are viewable from more angles
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The total rows in the query design grids are added by ____________
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clicking the total on the Query Design tag ribbon
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