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30 Cards in this Set
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What is a CBIS?
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Computer-based information system
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Who was John Von Neumann
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Polymath (1903-1957); worked on the Manhattan project, Quantum Mechanics, and Computer Science. His contribution to computer science involved generating pseudorandom numbers.
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What was the foundation of US privacy laws
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Fair Information Practices Act of 1973
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What was the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999?
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Protects the privacy rights of consumers of financial services.
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Web bugs and cookies are...
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methods of surveillance.
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What is an Information System?
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Collects, processes, stores and disseminates information to support
managerial decision making, coordination, analysis, control and future planning in a company. |
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CBIS
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Computer-based Information System
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PBIS
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Paper-based Information System
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IT Infrastructure
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Computer hardware, software, storage devices, communications and
network technologies that are shared throughout an organization |
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Purpose of Management Information Systems (MIS)
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Combines the technical and behavioral
approaches of information systems to focus on their use in management and business while developing practical solutions that are faced in managing, implementing and using these technologies. |
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What is Information Management?
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The process of collecting raw data, converting it to useful
information, disseminating it to the relevant managers at the correct time, deleting it when appropriate and replacing it with more current and relevant information. |
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What are the 4 Basic Elements of Information?
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Relevancy, accuracy, timeliness, completeness.
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Knowledge Management
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Management of a company's information resources.
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Purpose of the Chief Information Officer (CIO)?
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Person in charge of a company's information resources
and services. |
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What was The Remington Rand UNIVAC I?
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First widely marketed computer, set up in the US
Census Bureau in 1951. |
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Who was the industry leader in the 50s and 60s?
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IBM
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FORTRAN
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Formula Translator. In 1952 an IBM team led by John Backus, allowed
programming by a person without having to rewire the computer (required a compiler) |
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Who created C programming language? When? What was the significance?
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Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kerningham in 1972. Allowed
source code to be reused after being recompiled. |
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What is Word Size?
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A measure of the number of bits that are moved after one cycle of the processor.
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Who was Moore and what is Moore's Law?
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Moore was the founder of Intel. His law states that the power of a computer doubles every 18 months.
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What is RAM?
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Volatile/Unstable - Used to temporarily store program requests
and data used to execute those requests. |
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What is ROM
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Stable - CD-ROM, Tape Disks, Magnetic Disks etc. -
Retain data even when the computer is switched off. |
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What is Batch Processing?
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Stored and then executed
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What is Online Processing?
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Executed instantly once data is entered.
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What is Distributed Processing?
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Processing work is divided between PC's, mainframes, and other computers.
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What is Source Code?
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Programming instructions written in a high-level programming language such as C or COBOL that must be converted into machine language by a compiler or interpreter in order for the computer to understand and execute the program.
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Fourth generation languages
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(Visual/WYSIWYG) Usable programming aids/tools
such as FrontPage, Dreamweaver etc. |
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Can JAVA run on any Operating System?
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Yes
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Continuous Waveform
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Analog
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Discrete Waveform
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Digital
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