Mis Test

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Facts about people, other subjects, and events.

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Data

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The product of processing data so that they can be used in a context by human beings.

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Information:

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The attainment of output when two or more factors work together, that is greater or better than the sum or their products when they work separately.

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Synergy

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A business event

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Transaction

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A position in which one dominates a market also called competitive advantage

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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

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Switching Cost

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The process by which an organization takes a fresh look at a business process and reorganizes it to attain efficiency

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Reengineering

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An organization that adopts a technology or method after competitors have adopted it.

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Late Mover

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Measure of how well a job is performed

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Effective

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That ratio of output to input

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Efficiency

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The time between generating an idea for a product/service and completing a prototype that can be mass-manufactured

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Time to Market

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A technology that allows a special electronic device to read data printed with magnetic ink.

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Magnetic-ink character recognition (MICR)

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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.

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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.

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Direct Access

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A set of magnetic disk packs maintained for backup purposes. Sometimes they are used for storing large databases.

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RAID

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Set of instructions that control the operations of a computer.

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Software

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Binary programming language that is specific to a computer. The only language a computer understands.

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Machine Language

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The process of finding and correcting errors in software.

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Debugging

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A small software application, usually written in Java or another programming language for the web.

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Applet

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An applications code written in the original high-level programming language.

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Source Code

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Program code in the machine language, immediately processable by the computer.

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Object Code

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The software that enables an operating system to control a device, such as an optical disk drive or joystick

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Driver

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Software owned by an individual or organization

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Proprietary software

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A telecommunication system that allows people who are in different locations to meet via transmitted images and speech.

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Videoconferencing

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The capacity of the communications channel, practically its speed.

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Bandwidth

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A device connected to at least one other device on a network.

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Node

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A computer network confined to a building or a group of adjacent buildings.

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Local area network (LAN)

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High speed digital communication, sometimes defined as at least 200 Kbps. T1, Cable modem, and DSL provide broadband.

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Broadband

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A network of computers and other communications devices that extends over a large area, possibly comprising national territories.

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Wide area network (WAN)

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A telecommunications network owned and managed by a vendor that charges clients periodic fees for network management services.

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Value-added networks (VANs)

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An individual or organization that provides Internet connection.

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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.

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Personal area network (PAN)

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A standard set of rules that governs telecommunication between two communications devices or in a network.

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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.

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TCP/IP

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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.

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Host

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An Internet Protocol number permanently associated with a device.

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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.

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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 within 10 meters.

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Bluetooth

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The movement of data bits from another computer to your computer via the internet.

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Downstream

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The movement of data from your computer to another computer via a network, usually the Internet.

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Upstream

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Technologies that enable voice communication by utilizing the Internet instead of the telephone network.

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Voice over Internet Protocol