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Answers to Study Questions
Chapter 1
1. What are the five components that make up an information system?
2. What are three examples of information system hardware?
3. Microsoft Windows is an example of which component of information
systems?
4. What is application software?
5. What roles do people play in information systems? 6. What is the definition of a process?
7. What was invented first, the personal computer or the Internet (ARPANET)? 8. In what year were restrictions on commercial use of the Internet first lifted?
When were eBay and Amazon founded?

9. What does it mean to say we are in a “post-PC world”?
10. What is Carr’s main argument about information technology?
Chapter 2
1. Write your own description of what the term information systems
hardware means.
2. What is the impact of Moore’s Law on the various hardware components
described in this chapter?
3. Write a summary of one of the items linked to in the “Integrated Computing”
section.
4. Explain why the personal computer is now considered a commodity.