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AI Technologies
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Can be used to decrease the cost of surveillance
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ALU
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part of a CPU
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analysis
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phase in SDLC
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anaylsis
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phase of the SDLC gathers business requirements
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anaylsis phase of SDLC
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Involves analyzing end-user business requirements and refining project goals into defined functions and operations of the intended system
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Antivirus software
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the most common type of defense within detection and response technologies
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API
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a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications
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Application Software
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Used for specific information processing needs, including payroll, customer relationship management, project management, training, and many others
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Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)
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Performs all arithmetic operations (for example, addition and subtraction) and all logic operations (such as sorting and comparing numbers)
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Assumes users can specify all business requirements in advance
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an issue related to the waterfall methodology
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Authentication
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A method for confirming users' identities
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Bandwidth
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a measure of how much information can be carried over communication media
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boomerangs
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types of social networks organizations can implement
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Botnets
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Some are controlled by foreign intelligence agencies
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Brick-and-Mortar Business
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A business that operates in a physical store without an Internet presence
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BUS
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a network topology
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Bus Width
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The size of the internal electrical pathway along which signals are sent from one part of the computer to another
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Business Process
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A standardized set of activities that accomplish as specific task, such as processing a customer's order
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Central Processing Unit (CPU) (Microprocessor)
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The actual hardware that interprets and executes the program (software) instructions and coordinates how all the other hardware devices work together
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Click-and-Mortar Business
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A business that operates in a physical store and on the Internet
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client
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A computer that is designed to request information from a server
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Communication protocol
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a standard (or agreement) to communicate in a specific way
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Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) Chip
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A type of CPU that can recognize as many as 100 or more instructions, enough to carry out most computations directly
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compliance
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the act of conforming, acquiescing or yeilding
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computer memory
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usually divided into primary and secondary
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Content Providers
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Companies that use the Internet to distribute copyrighted content, including news, music, games, books, movies, and many other types of information
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control unit
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part of a CPU
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Data Management
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Provides the tools for data retrieval, modification, deletion, and insertion
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data mining
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process of analyzing data to extract info not offered by the raw data alone
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data warehouse
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a logical colletion of info-gathered from many different operational databases- that supports business analysis activities and decision making task
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Decision-Making Information Systems
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Build models out of organizational information to lend insight into important business issues and opportunities
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design
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phase in SDLC
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design phase in SDLC
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Involves describing the desired features and operations of the system
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Digital Dashboard
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Integrates information from multiple components and tailors the information to individual preferences
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Disk Optimization
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Organizes information on a hard disk in the most efficient way
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Drill-Down Capability
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Enables users to get details, and details of details, of information
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early computers
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were made with vacuum tubes that failed often
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elecronic tagging
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a technique for identifying and tracking assets and individuals via technologies such as radio frequency identification and smart cards
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Encryption
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Scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt the information
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enforcement of copyright
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harder in peer-to-peer
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Entity
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person, place, thing, transaction, or eventabout which infromation is stored in the relational database model
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Expert Systems
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The most commonly used form of AI in the business arena
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feasability study
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Determines if the proposed solution is feasible and achievable from a financial, technical, and organizational standpoint
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fiber opticals
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a type of communication media
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Files Stored on a Internet Web Site
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Do not have the same legal protection as files stored on your home computer
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Firewalls
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Examines each message that wants entrance to the network
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Firewalls
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Blocks messages without the correct markings from entering the network
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Firewalls
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Detects computers communicating with the Internet without approval
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Flaws in accurately defining and articulating the business problem
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an issue related to the waterfall methodology
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foriegn key
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a primary key of one table that appears as an attribute in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship amoung 2 tables
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Fourth Amendment
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Protects privacy rights
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Genetic Algorithm
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An artificial intelligence system that mimics the evolutionary, survival-of-the-fittest process to generate increasingly better solutions to a problem
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Goal of AI
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The ability to build a system that can mimic human intelligence
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Goal-Seeking Analysis
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A quantitative model typically used by a DSS
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Hardware
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Consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system
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Hypertext Transport Protocol
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The Internet standard that supports the exchange of information on the WWW
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implementationi phase in SDLC
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Involves placing the system into production so users can begin to perform actual business operations with the system
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In a Gantt chart Tasks are listed in a Gantt chart
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vertically
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increased revenues
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a business-related consequence of successful software
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input
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data
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Input Device
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Equipment used to capture information and commands
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Intelligent Agent
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A special-purpose knowledge-based information system that accomplishes specific tasks on behalf of its users
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Intermediaries
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Agents, software, or businesses that bring buyers and sellers together that provide a trading infrastructure to enhance E-business
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Internet
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A global public network of computer networks that pass information from one to another using common computer protocols
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Internet Service Provider (ISP)
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A company that provides individuals and other companies access to the Internet along with additional related services, such as website building
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IT
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the most common function outsourced
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LinkedIn
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the name of the largest social networking site for business professional recruiters
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lower level languages
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closer to what the computer can actually understand than higer level langauges.
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Magnetic Tape
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An older secondary storage medium that uses a strip of thin plastic coated with a magnetically sensitive recording medium
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Malicious Code
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Includes a variety of threats such as viruses, worms, and Trojan horses
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Managing costs, resources, and time constraints
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an issue related to the waterfall methodology
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Market Makers
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Intermediaries that aggregate three services for market participants (1) a place to trade, (2) rules to govern trading, and (3) an infrastructure to support trading
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marketing networks
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types of social networks organizations can implement
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Megabyte (MB) (M) (Meg)
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Roughly 1 million bytes
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Megahertz (MHz)
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The number of millions of CPU cycles per second
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Modem
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used to change a digital signal to an analog signal and back again
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Multiply by number of switches by 2; Square Answer
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To find how many switches could represnt patterns of 0s and 1s
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network
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a communications, data exchange, and resource-sharing system created by linking 2 or more computers and establishing standards. or protocols, so that they can work together
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network database
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database structure that offers a flexible way of representing objects and their relationships
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Neural Network
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A category of AI that attempts to emulate the way the human brain works
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Online Brokers
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Acts as an intermediary between buyers and sellers of goods and services
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Optical-Mark Recognition
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Detects the presence or absence of a mark in a predetermined place
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outsourcing
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a arrangement by which one organization provides a service for another organization that chooses not to perform them in house
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ownership
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can classify networks
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parallel implementation
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Using both the old and new systems until it is evident that the new system performs correctly
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passive search
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type of social network organizations can implement
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peer-to-peer network
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Any network without a central file server and in which all computers in the network have access to the public files located on all other workstations
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phased implementation
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Implementing the new system in phases until it is evident that the new system performs correctly and then implementing the remaining phases of the new system
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Phishing
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The criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as user-names, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication
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Place Firewalls
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Between the server and the Internet
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primary changes and challenges organizations are focusing on in the 21st century
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include innovation, social entrepreneurship, social networks, and virtual worlds
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primary key
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a field or group of fields that uniquely indentifies a given entity in a table
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Project's timeframe is listed in a Gantt chart
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horizontally
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Protocol
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The standards that specify the format of data as well as the rules to be followed during transmission
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protocol
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A standard that specifies the format of data as well as the rules to be followed during transmission
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prototype
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a smaller-scale representation or working model of the users' requirements or a proposed design for an information system.
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Pure-Play Business
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A business that operates on the Internet only without a physical store
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Pure-Play Business
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Business type describes Amazon.com
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raw facts
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data
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Reintermediation
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Refers to using the Internet to reassemble buyers, sellers, and other partners in a traditional supply chain in new ways
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repeater
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and example of a communication device
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Replace characters with other characters
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Can be completed by encryption
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router
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An intelligent connecting device that examines each packet of data it receives and then decides which way to send it onward toward its destination
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Sensitivity Analysis
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A quantitative model typically used by a DSS
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Shopping Bot
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One of the simplest examples of an intelligent agent
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size
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can classify networks
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Slice-and-Dice Capability
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The ability to look at information from different perspectives
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Sniffer
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a program or device that can monitor data trveling over a network
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Social Engineering
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Using one's social skills to trick people into revealing access credentials or other information valuable to the attacker
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Software
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The set of instructions that the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks
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Something that is part of the user such as a fingerprint or voice signature
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The most secure type of authentication
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Something the user has such as a smart card or token
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The most secure type of authentication
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Something the user knows such as a user ID and password
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The most secure type of authentication
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Spoofing
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The forging of the return address on an email so that the email message appears to come from someone other than the actual sender
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Switch the order of characters
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Can be completed by encryption
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system
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a collection of elements organized to perform some task or achieve a goal.
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System Software
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Controls how the various technology tools work together along with the application software
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systems development life cycle
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The overall process for developing information systems from planning and analysis through implementation and maintenance
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testsing
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phase in SDLC
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to create logical relationships
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relational databases use primary keys and foriegn keys
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topology
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can classify networks
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Touch Pad
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A form of a stationary mouse on which the movement of a finger causes the pointer on the screen to move
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twisted pair
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a type of communication media
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Use a mathematical formula to convert the information into some sort of code
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Can be completed by encryption
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Utility Software
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Provides additional functionality to the operating system
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Viral Marketing
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A technique that induces websites or users to pass on a marketing message to other websites or users
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Virtual private network
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a way to use the public telecommunication structure to provide secure access to an organization's network
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Virtualization
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A protected memory space created by the CPU allowing the computer to create virtual machines
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VoIP
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uses TCP/IP technology to transmit voice calls over long distance telephone lines
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VoIP routes
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calls through the same paths used by network and Internet traffic, therefore it has the same vulnerabilities and is subject to the same Internet threats.
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What-If Analysis
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A quantitative model typically used by a DSS
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wide area network
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spans a large geographic area, such as a state, province, or country
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WiFi
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a type of communication media
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Word Length
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The number of bits (0s and 1s) that can be processed by the CPU at any one time
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Workstation
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Similar to a desktop but has more powerful mathematical and graphics processing capabilities and can perform more complicated tasks in less time
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World Wide Web
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A global hypertext system that uses the Internet as its transport mechanism
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