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45 Cards in this Set
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Facts about people, other subjects, and events. |
Data |
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The product of processing data so they can be used in a context by human beings. |
Information |
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A system that interfaces and interacts with other systems. |
Open System |
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The attainment of output, when two or more factors work together, that is greater or better that the sum of their products when they work separately. |
Synergy |
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A business event |
Transaction |
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An IT professional who analyses business problems and recommends technological solutions. |
System Analyst |
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The individual in charge of building and maintaining organizational databases. |
Database administrator |
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A position in which one denominates a market; also called competitive advantage. |
Strategic Advantage |
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Expenses that are incurred when a customer stops buying a product or service from one business and starts buying it from another. - Explicit: charge customer for switching -Implicit: indirect costs over period of time |
High Switching costs |
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Reengineering |
The process by which an organization takes a fresh look at a business process and reorganizes it to attain efficiency. -Involves new machinery and elimination of of management layers -Achieves huge efficiency improvements |
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An organization that adopts a technology or method after competitors have adopted it. |
Late Mover |
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The measure of how well a job is performed |
Effectiveness |
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The ratio output to input |
Efficiency |
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The time between generating an idea for a product and completing a prototype that can be mass-manufactured |
Time To Market |
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A technology that allows a special electronic device to read data printed with magnetic ink. |
Magnetic-Ink character recognition |
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Records are organized as a list that follows logical order, such as ascending order of ID numbers. To retrieve a record, the application must start the search at the first record and retrieve every record, until the desired record is encountered |
Sequential Storage |
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The manner in which a record is retrieved from a storage device, without the need to seek it sequentially |
Direct Access |
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A set of magnetic disks pack maintained for backup purposes. Sometimes they are used for storing large databases. |
RAID |
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Set of Instructions that control the operations of a computer |
Software |
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Binary programming language that is specific to a computer. The only language a computer understands. |
Machine Language |
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The process of finding and correcting errors in software. |
Debugging |
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A small software application , usually written in Java or another programming language for the web |
Applet |
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An application's code written in the original high-level programming language |
Source Code |
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Program Code in a machine language, immediately processable by the computer |
Object Code |
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The software that enables an operating system to a control a device, such as and optical disc drive joystick. |
Driver |
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Software owned by an individual or organizational |
Proprietary Software |
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Free Software that belongs to no one. |
Open Source Software |
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A telecommunication system that allows to who are in different locations to meet via transmitted imaged speech. |
Videoconferencing |
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The capacity of the communication channel, practically its speed |
Bandwidth |
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High Speed digital communication, sometimes defined as at least 200Kbps, T1 cable modem and DSL provide broadband. |
Broadband |
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A Device connected to a least one other device on a network |
Node |
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A computer network confined to a building or a group of adjacent buildings. |
Local area network (LANs) |
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A network of computers and other communications devices that extends over a large are, possibly comprising national territories |
Wide Area Network (WANs) |
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A telecommunication network owned and managed by a vendor that charges clients periodic fees for network management services. |
Value Added Network (VANs) |
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An individual or organization that provides internet connection |
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) |
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A network of devices typically within a small radius that enables a user to use two or more devices wirelessly, such as wireless keyboard and mouse. |
Personal Area Network (PANs) |
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A computer that contains files and other resources that can be accessed by "clients" computers link to it via a network. |
Host |
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A standard set of rules that governs telecommunications between two communications devices or in a network |
Protocol |
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A packet-switching protocol that is actually a set of related protocols that can guarantee packets are delivered in the correct order and can handle differences in transmission and reception rates |
TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol) |
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An internet protocol number permanently associated with a device |
Static IP number |
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The IP address assigned to a computer that is connected to the Internet intermittently for the duration of the computer's connection |
Dynamic IP number |
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A personal wireless network protocol. It enables wireless communication between input devices and computers and among other devices with 10 meters. |
Bluetooth |
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The movement of data bits from another computer to your computer via the Internet. |
Downstream |
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The movement of data from your computer to another computer via a network usually the Internet. |
Upstream |
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Technologies that enable voice communication by utilizing the Internet instead of the telephone network. |
Voice over Internet Protocol |
