Business Essentials Chp.13 Questions

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Information Technology

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The Various appliances and devices for creating, storing, exchanging, and using information in diverse modes, including visual images, voice multimedia, and business data

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E-Commerce

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The use of the Internet and other electronic means for retailing and business-to-business transactions

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Mass-Customization

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Although companies produce in large volumes, each unit features the unique options the customer prefers

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Internet

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A gigantic system of interconnected computers-more than 100 million computers in over 100 countries

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World Wide Web

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A standardized code for accessing information and transmitting data over the Internet; the common language that allows information sharing on the Internet

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Intranet

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An organization's private network of internally linked Web sites accessible only to employees

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Extranet

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A system that allows outsider limited access to a firm's internal information network

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Electronic Confrencing

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IT that allows groups of people to communicate simultaneously from various locations via e-mail, phone or video

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VSAT Satellite Communications

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A network of geographically dispersed transmitter-receivers (transceivers) that send signals from a satellite, exchanging voice, video, and data transmissions

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Computer Network

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A group of two or more computers linked together by some form of cabling or by wireless technology to share data or resources, such as a printer

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Client-Server Network

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A common business network in which clients make requests for information or resources and servers provide the services

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Wide Area Network (WAN)

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Computers that are linked over long distances through telephone lines, microwave signals, or satellite communications

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Local Area Network (LAN)

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Computers that are linked in a small area, such as all of a firm's computers within a single building

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Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN)

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A network that uses airborne electronic signals instead of wires to link computers and electronic devices over long distances

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Wi-Fi

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Short for wireless fidelity; a wireless local area network

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Wireless Local Area Network

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A local area network with wireless access points for PC users

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Hardware

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The physical components of a computer network, such as keyboards, monitors, system units, and printers

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Software

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Programs that tell the computer's hardware what resources to use and how

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Information System (IS)

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A system that uses IT resources to convert data into information and to collect, process, and transmit that information for use in decision making

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Data

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Raw facts and figures that, by themselves, may not have much meaning

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Information

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The meaningful, useful interpretation of data

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Information Systems Managers

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Managers who operate the systems used for gathering, organizing, and distributing information

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Data Warehousing

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The collection, storage, and retrieval of data in electronic files

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Data Mining

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The application of electronic technologies for searching, sifting, and reorganizing pools of data to uncover useful information

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Knowledge Information System

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Information system that supports knowledge workers by providing resources to create, store, use, and transmit new knowledge for useful applications

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Computer-Aided Design (CAD)

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IS with software that helps knowledge workers design products by simulating them and displaying them in three dimensional graphics

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Management Information System (MIS)

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Computer system that supports managers by providing information--reports, schedules, plans and budgets--that can be used for making decisions

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Decision Support System (DSS)

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Interactive system that creates virtual business models for a particular kind of decision and tests them with different data to see how they respond

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Hacker

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Cybercriminal who gains unauthorized access to a computer or network, either to steal information, money, or property or to tamper with data

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Identity Theft

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unauthorized stealing of personal information (such as social security number and address) to get loans, credit cards, or other monetary benefits by impersonating the victim

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Intellectual Property

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A product of the mind--something produced by the intellect, with great expenditure of human effort--that has commercial value

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Spyware

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Program unknowingly downloaded by users that monitors their computer activities, gathering e-mail addresses, credit card numbers, and other information that it transmits to someone outside the host system

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SPAM

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Junk e-mail sent to a mailing list or a newsgroup

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Firewall

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Security system with special software or hardware devices designed to keep computers safe from hackers

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Anti-Virus Software

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Product that protects systems by searching incoming e-mails and data files for "signatures" of known viruses and virus-like characteristics

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Encryption System

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Software that assigns an e-mail message to a unique code number (digital fingerprint) for each computer so only that computer, not others, can open and read the message