Itm Exam 1

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Information Systems

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Hardware, software, networks, telecommunications, and data.

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Businesses

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MIS is all about using IT to make __________ successful.

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Social

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Information systems is a ______________ system.

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Information

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Organized data that has value.

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Processes

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Business functions and activities, ways of doing business.

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Systems

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A integration of various components.

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Moore's Law

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Every 18 months a new generation is born to technology.

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Emerging technologies

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Must be applied to businesses rapidly to remain competitive.

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Non-routine skills

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Everyone must have in the 21st century.

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System thinking

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Seeing things as systems instead of focusing on one thing.

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Collaboration

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Using global based collaboration software.

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Abstract reasoning

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Solving problems and seeing problems apart from physical realities. Ability to work with models.

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Experimentation

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Carefully testing good ideas.

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Porter's Five Force Model for Industry Attractiveness

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This model is a framework for industry analysis and business strategy development.

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Threat of substitute products

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A way of understanding the industries you compete with. Ex. offering a lower price of tuition.

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Threat of new entrants

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Ex. Online schools for profit.

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Bargaining power of customers

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Ex. High SAT scores, high GPAs will result in more scholarships and grants.

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Bargaining power of suppliers

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Ex. someone donates money to UT to not make a football team.

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Competitive rivalry within an industry

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Ex. USF, Saint Leo, FSU.

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Cost leadership

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Keeping costs low. Ex. Samsung

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Differentiation

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Different, but better, usually expensive. Ex. Apple

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Cost Focus

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Targeting only one population. Ex. Garmin.

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Differentiation focus

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Targeting only one population, but it is an unusual product. Ex. Any healthcare or medical device.

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Firm Infrastructure

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Buildings, AC, computers, roads plumbing.

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Human Resource Management

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Hiring, staffing, training, firing.

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Technology Development

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Innovative research, innovation, experimentation.

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Procurement

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Buying stuff.

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Support activities

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Resources and materials

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Inbound logistics

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Shipping

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Operations

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Daily activities in making the product

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Outbound logistics

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Shipping to customers

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Marketing and Sales

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Advertising and promotion

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Service

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After sale support.

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Business process

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A sequence of events to accomplish a function.

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Effectiveness and efficiency

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Organizations standardize processes to improve ______________ and _____________.

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Efficiency

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Doing things well with little waste.

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Effectiveness

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Doing things correctly.

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Technology

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________ has become integrated into the business.

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Data

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Raw facts, values, letters, unformatted, not valuable, on its own perceived, notice using senses.

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Information

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Data in a meaningful context, formatted, can be valuable, conception in your mind, required prior knowledge.

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Knowledge

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Business smarts, awareness of information, trends, gained by education and experience, wisdom.

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Accurate

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Error free, correct

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Timely

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Not late, not dated, relevant

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Granularity

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Level of detail

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Easy to use

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Easy to find, understand

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Factors that drive info. quality

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Accuracy, timely, granularity, easy to use.

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Knowledge

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Since humans conceive info, awareness is based on knowledge.

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Criteria

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Used to interpret data, can add to quality. Is like sorting, filtering, grouping, and summarizing. Ex. Can filter classes to search for MW classes.

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Structures process

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Defined, standardized, controlled, monitored, often a day to day routine.

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Dynamic process

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Not defined, more adaptive, innovation is required, less routine.

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Central Processing Unit

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The actual hardware that interprets and executes the program instructions and coordinates how all other hardware devices work together.

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Protocol

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A set of rules and data structures for organizing network communications

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TCP

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A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another; it uses a retransmission strategy to insure that data will not be lost in transmission.

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HTML

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The most common language for defining the structure and layout of web pages.

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Modem

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DSL, satellite, and cable communications all require the use of this computer hardware device.

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Input device

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Equipment used to capture information and commands for a computer such as a scanner, UPC reader or microphone.

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Open source

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Free to modify, the logic, and computer code is open ex. Linux

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Operating System

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Examples of this type of software include Linux and UNIX.

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VPN

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Uses the internet to create the appearance of secured, point-to-point connections.

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Android

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A linux-based phone OS from Google with gaining market share.

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Horizontal Market Application

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Software provides capabilities common across all organizations and industries.

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Thick-client application

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Software that must be pre-installed. Ex. Microsoft Office

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SOHO (small office, home office) LAN

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Local area networks with fewer than 12 or so computers and printers.

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Petabyte

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1,024 TB

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Gigahertz

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The number of billions of CPU cycles per second.

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Switch/router

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A special purpose computer residing on a network that receives and transmits wired traffic.

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Three-tier architecture

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A computer hardware configuration that supports web applications consists of three levels including: user computers, web server computers, and the DBMS Computer.

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Memory swapping

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The transferring of data back and forth between active RAM memory and a disk.

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Volatility

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RAM's complete loss of stored information if power is interrupted.

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Database

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A comprehensive collection of related data organized for convenient access and management.

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Database Management System

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Once data becomes to big, and there are limited ways of searching or pulling subsets of data out for review, it is a good idea to transfer the data to a database supported by a __________________.

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Relational Database

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The most prevalent architectural approach to databases today.

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Conway's Law

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The design of computer systems mirrors the social communication structure of organization systems.

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Normalization

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The general goal is to construct tables such that every table has a single topic or logical theme.

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Primary

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A key in a relational database that is unique for each record.

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Foreign

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In a database that is a key from another table that refers to or targets a specific key.