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ISYS 321 Test 2
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the components of information systems infrastructure? | software, services, hardware, Human resources, communication, collaboration, facilities, Data, Knowledge. |
| What is a server farm? | facilities housing a vast number of servers to support the information processing needs of a large organization. |
| what is Linux? | free, open-source operating system that can be used on multiple platforms, easy to hack. |
| Difference between shrink wrap license and enterprise license? | Shrink wrap is for consumers, enterprise is for businesses and is a negotiated for contract. |
| What is protocol? | procedures computers follow when transmitting and receiving data. |
| What is VOIP? | The use of internet in placing telephone calls. |
| Difference between data warehouse and data mart? | data warehouse contains all company info, data mart uses several smaller databases, one for each business aspect. |
| How are knowledge assets used? | Enable an organization to improve its efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability. |
| Difference between explicit and tacit? | explicit can be documented and tacit is in a persons head. |
| What does "best practices" refer to? | widely accepted as being among the most effective and or efficient procedures. |
| what are the elements of a disaster recovery plan? | Staffing, hardware, how to restart/recover, anticipate problems, cover your bases. |
| Diff between hot and cold backup site? | Hot site is duplicate of the original site of the organization with full computer systems as well as near-complete backups of user data. Just need to start up. Cold site - empty warehouse with all necessary connections for power and communication, b |
| What is a mirrored computer? | everything stored synchronously on two independent systems. |
| What is an information systems audit? | Assessment of the state of an organization's information systems controls to determine necessary changes and help ensure the information system's availability, confidentiality, and integrity. |
| What brought about Sarbanes-Oxley? | Accounting scandals at Enron and World com. |
| how is outsourcing used? | To reduce or control costs to free up internal resources to access world class capabilities to increase revenue potential to reduce time to market to increase process efficiencies to eliminate non-core activities to compensate for lack of specific |
| What is DBMS? | Database Management Systems A software application used to create, store, organize and retrieve data from one or many databases. |
| Relationship between Entity and Attribute. | Attributes are the individual pieces of information about an entity in a database |
| What does a DBA do? | A Database Administrator, Develops and Manages an organization's databases. |
| who was SQL designed for? | end-Users |
| What is an ERD? | Entity relationship diagram, used when designing databases especially when showing associations between entities. |
| What is a foreign key | non-primary key on one table that is a primary key on another table |
| What is a Primary key? | a field included in a database that gives a unique reference for a unique row on a database. |
| What is a combination key? | primary key with more than one attribute |
| What does the term normalization mean? | Technique for converting complex databases into ones that are simple and clear. |
| what is a data dictionary? | Document prepared by database designers to describe the characteristics of all items in a database. |
| What are business rules | rules included in data dictionaries to prevent illegal or illogical entries from entering the database. |
| what does B2B, B2C, C2C, G2B, G2C, AND B2E mean? | business to business business to consumer consumer to consumer government to business government to consumer business to employee |
| Diff between Brick and mortar and Click and mortar? | Click and mortar is traditional + website, brick is just traditional. |
| What is EDI? | electronic Data Interchange. The digital, or electronic transmission of business documents and related data between organizations via telecommunications networks that enable the online exchange and sale of goods and services between firms. Goal is to eli |
| Difference between Internet, Intranet, and extranet? | Internet - worldwide Intranet - Within company employees extranet - within customer and supplier network for a company |
| Rules for attracting and retaining online customers? | 1. offer unique 2. aesthetically pleasing 3. fast and easy 4. motivate users to stay and return 5. advertise presence on web 6. learn from site. |
| What is a search engine? | website used to find other websites, Google, Alta vista, etc |
| What is blogging? | creation of online text diaries usually organized chronologically that can focus on anything the user desires. |
| give an example of M-commerce? | buying ringtones on your cell phone provider's network. |
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