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CHAP 01 WHAT IS INFORMATION SYSTEMS Flashcards

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DESCRIBE DIDITAL LITERACY

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Digital literacy involves having a current knowledge and understanding of computers, mobile devices, the web, and related technologies

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Technology Uses

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  1. EDUCATION
  2. FINANACE
  3. HEALTHCARE
  4. ENTERTAINMENT \
  5. SCIENCE
  6. EDUCATION
  7. TRAVEL
  8. ROBOTS
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Technology Users

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  1. HOME USER
  2. OFFICE
  3. ENTERPRISE
  4. POWER USER
  5. MOBILE USER
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DEFINITION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS

COSCI

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collect, organize, store and communication of information.

and organizations use to collect, filter, process, create and distribute data.

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NAME THE composition OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Technology ___________

software______________

peaople_______________

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• Technology  Hardware

 Software  Data

• People • Process

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A ___________ is an electronic device, operating under the control of instructions stored in its own memory

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COMUPTER

ACCEPTS DATA ——–> PROCESSSING ———-> PRODUCES INFORMATION (OUTPUT)

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NAME DIFFRENT TYPES OFCOMPUTERS

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ALL IN ONES

SMART WATCHES

SERVER

MOBILE/GAMING DEVICES

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Components of Information Systems

TECHNOLOGY

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 Hardware,

is part of IS that you can touch

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RE: nformation Systems

explain DATA

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Data, identified as symbols, raw facts or figures that represent people, events, and things.

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in today’s world it is extremely rare that a computer does not connect to another computer why?

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Networking Communication,

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Communications and Networks

DESCRIBE TYPES OF COMMUNICATION technology

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  1. NEWS GROUPS
  2. FTP
  3. INTERNET
  4. VOICE MAIL
  5. CHAT ROOMS
  6. RSS
  7. VIDEOCONFRENCING
    8.
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DESCRIBE COMMUNICATION DEVICE

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A communications device is hardware capable of transferring items from computers and devices to transmission media and vice versa

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Examples of wireless communications technologies:

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Wi-Fi
 Bluetooth
 Cellular radio

WIDEBAND

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WHAT DOES PROCESS MEAN?

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Process, series of steps undertaken to achieve a desired outcome or goal.

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NAME AN essential ELEMENT

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PEOPLE

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WHATS A MAINFRAME COMPUTER

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VAUMUM TUBE AND TRANSISTOR BASED ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINE

Data processing, scientific calculations and accounting functions performed on collected data.

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IBM BIG BLUE BECAME A dominant _________ AND DID WHAT FOR LARGE BUSINESS

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1960

IBM

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NAME SOME ASPECTS OF THE PC revolution

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PC revolution in 1975 the first microcomputer,

Altair 8800 started the “personal computer” era with the most prominent of PC maker, Apply Computers. In 1981 IBM and Microsoft

APPLE COMPUTER LISA

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DESCRIBE LAN (local area network) purpose?

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computers (s) as clients that connect to a powerful computer known as server

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what made computer change from a regular computer to a host?

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companies began sending LAN-based emails, witch involed into today email.

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CERN LABORATORIES VIEWED THE WORLD WIDE WEB AS a collection files organized as_________ ?

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as a collection of files organized as a giant hypertext,

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WHEN WAS THE FRIST WEBSITE ACTIVATED

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First website was activated in 1991. In 1993, Web would be free to anyone.

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NAME SOME REALTED WEB TERMS AND technologies protocols ETC?

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web servers, domain names browsers, home pages, web pages, URL HTTP

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DESCRIBE ECOMMERCE

WHAT YEAR WAS IT ESTABLISHED?

WHAT COMPAINES?

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E-Commerce, financial transactions conducted over a computer network/Internet; 1994, the year Amazon and eBay.com were established, the use of the new digital marketplace.

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WHAT ARE COMPUTER VIRUSES

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 Computer viruses ( a program that attaches itself to a file,

reproduces itself and spreads to other files) and worms

need to be attached to a document to reproduce),

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Digital Safety and Security

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27
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Digital Safety and Security

WHAT IS GREEN COMPUTING ?

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nvolves reducing the electricity consumed and environmental waste generated when using a computer

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GREEN COPMUTING STRATEGIES ?

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 Using energy efficient hardware and energy saving features
 Regulating manufacturing processes
 Extending the life of computers
 Immediately donating or properly disposing of replaced computers

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WHAT IS WEB 1.0 ?

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almost a stricly information based not ecomerce besides a few players no one wanted to give there credit card info out..

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WHAT IS ROLE OF Web 2.0,

ROLES OF IS

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user generated content allowing users to interact and collaborate with each other by social networking, blogging, etc.

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DESCRIBE A POST PC WORLD

ROLE OF IS

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Post-PC world, PC continues to play a key role, but not the primary way to interact. Tablets and smartphones sales are taking off and the processing power of these devices is bring offset by moving to“cloud” computing for storage, sharing, and backup of information on massive scale.

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EXPLIAN INTERNET

THE WEB

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The Internet is a worldwide collection of computer networks

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DESCIBE THE WEB

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The World Wide Web (or web, for short) is a global library of information available to anyone connected to the Internet

The web consists of a worldwide collection of electronic documents, each of which is called a webpage

A website is a collection of related webpages

A web server is a computer that delivers requested webpages to your computer

A browser is software that enables users with an Internet connection to access and view webpages on a computer or mobile device

A search engine is software that finds websites, webpages, images, videos, news, maps, and other information related to a specific topic

An online social network encourages members to share their interests, ideas, stories, photos, music, and videos with other registered users

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Reasons to use a Network

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  • Share data and information • Share software
  • Facilitate communication
  • Share hardware
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A local area network

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is a network that connects computers and devices in a limited geographical area

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wireless LAN (WLAN)

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is a LAN that uses no physical wires

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MAN NETWORK

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connects LANs in a metropolitan area

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personal area network (PAN)

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a network that connects computers and devices in an individual’s workspace

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network architecture EXAMPLE

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CAN BE Client-server network Peer-to-peer network

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Communications software

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Manage the transmission of data, stablish a connection to another DEVICE, interface for users to communicate with one another

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Ethernet

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is a network standard that specifies no central computer or device on the network

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token ring

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pecifies that computers and devices on the network share or pass a special signal (token)

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TCP/IP

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s a network protocol that defines how messages (data) are routed from one end of a network to another

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Bluetooth

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is a network protocol that defines how two Bluetooth devices use short-range radio waves to transmit data

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LTE

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is a network standard that defines how high-speed cellular transmissions use broadcast radio to transmit data for mobile communications

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communications device

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any type of hardware capable of transmitting data, instructions, and information between a sending devic

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ROUTER

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Is a networking device that is forwards data packets between computer networks.

49
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Bridge

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is connects a LAN to another local area

network.

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Transmission media

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carries one or more communications signals, the waves are guided along a physical path

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