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30 Cards in this Set
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reliability
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The trustworthiness to do what the system is expected or designed to do
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integrity
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he assurance that information can only be accessed or modified by those authorized to do so."
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security
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The ability (or inability) to access certain parts of a programme or network.
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privacy and anonymity
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Privacy is the the state of being free from intrusion or disturbance in one's private life or affairs.
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authenticity
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Authenticity has to do with verifying your information. The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness
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intellectual property
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a legal field that protects the creations of authors, such as musical, literature, symbols, images and designed used by the public.[
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equality of access
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the concept that all persons should have equal rights of access to anything they desire.
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control
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The authority or command over IT
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globalization and cultural diversity
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Globalization is the growing interconnectivity of all aspects of the world, especially the world economy,[1] through IT resources.Cultural Diversity is ethnic, gender, racial, and socioeconomic variety. Globalization has had a profound effect on cultural diversity around the world.
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policies and standards
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rules and protocols that govern the use of technology. Policies are rules enforced in order to ensure that computers and software are used properly and to prevent abuses. Standards are codes and protocols that are agreed on to make the implementation and usage of technology consistent between different parties.
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people and machines
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a concept that includes all of the issues that relate to how people interact with machines. The main issues include, User Interface Design, and usability.
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data
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Information; A collection of numbers, images, or characters to convert physical quantities into symbols
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information
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knowledge gained by experience or instruction
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input devices
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Any piece of computer hardware equipment used to provide data and control signals to an information processing system
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output devices
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Any piece of computer hardware equipment used to communicate the results of data processing carried out by an information processing system to the outside world.
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processing
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Describes the act of taking something through an established and usually routine set of procedures to convert it from one form to another, as a manufacturing procedure, such as processing milk into cheese.
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storage
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Storage is the amount of space available for holding data on a disk.
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memory
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a computer's capacity for doing work.
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MHz
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1.0 x 10^6 aches = 1.0 Megahurts.
The frequency of a sound wave is measured in waves per second. This unit per second is called Hertz (Hz). MHz is the abbreviation for Megahertz in the metric system. |
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dpi
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DPI stands for Dots per inch. It is a measure of printing quality, where the amount of individual ink dots are measured over one linear inch of the printed material.
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bit
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a single instance of information, and the simplest possible denomination in a computer. A bit holds either a 1 or a 0 value, depending on whether the corresponding transistor is on or off.
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KB
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A kilobyte(kB) is a measurement of data storage. It is equal to 1,024 bytes or 2^10.
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MB
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A magabyte(MB) is a measurement of data storage. It is equal to 1,048,576 bytes or 2^20.
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GB
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A gigabyte(GB) is a form of data storage. It is equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes or 2^30.
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TB
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A terabyte(TB) is a measurement of data storage. It is equal to 1,099,511,627,776 bytes or 2^40.
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ASCII
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American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)is a code for representing English characters as numbers, with each letter assigned a number from 0 to 127.The standard ASCII character set uses just 7 bits for each character.
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Compatibility
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when you have an item, program, that is inter-operable with two different Operating Systems.
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OCR
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Optical character recognition (OCR) - A Handwritten Paper transformed into "machine-editable text"
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OMR
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A machine that reads Marks on specific areas of a paper.
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Bar Code
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A series of vertical bars of varying widths, in which each of the digits zero through nine are represented by a different pattern of bars that can be read by a laser scanner. The bars are commonly found on consumer products and are used especially for inventory control.
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