Exam 1 Study

Question 1

Porter’s Five Forces

Answer 1

supplier power, buyer power, competitive rivalry, threat of substitution, threat of new entry

Question 2

digitization vs. digitalization vs. digital transformation

Answer 2

Digitization: a business shifts from manual and paper-based ways of processing data and information to computerized approaches.

Digitalization: an organization shifts from isolated islands of digital technologies to networked and integrated technology systems

Digital transformation: an organization uses technology to critically change the way it competes as well as its internal capabilities and internal digital assets. Digital transformation leverages digital technology to radically improve, restructure, or entirely create new value to their customers.

Question 3

What is DARSIL for and what are each of the steps?

Answer 3

to understand why they need digital transformation, what they need to improve, and how they will integrate tech

Question 4

Functional requirements

Answer 4

what must it have to complete this task. Includes hardware & software requirements

Question 5

Business requirements:

Answer 5

why

Question 6

Design requirements:

Answer 6

how will a functional requirement be made to work

Question 7

how are the types of requirements related

Answer 7

Business –> functional –> design

Question 8

Functional vs non-functional requirements

Answer 8

functional: what it does, nonfunctional: easy/difficult/available/compatibility

Question 9

strategic activities

Answer 9

Activities that are carried out for the future, e.g. decisions about events to happen 3 to 5 years in the future by senior- and upper-level managers

Question 10

tactical activities

Answer 10

Activities that are carried out periodically, e.g. monthly, quarterly by employees and lower- and mid-level managers.

Question 11

transactional activities

Answer 11

Activities that are carried out daily or weekly by employees and front-line staff

Question 12

performance measures for output hardware

Answer 12

size, speed, quality (accuracy [resolution], brightness, sharpness)

Question 13

Types of primary storage

Answer 13

RAM (volatile)

Question 14

table fridge metaphor

Answer 14

table is RAM, fridge is long-term storage

Question 15

Size of RAM determines:

Answer 15

type of OS that can run on the computer (software have minimum RAM reqs)

type of software that can run on a computer

number of software that can be concurrently opened on a laptop

Question 16

Types of secondary storage

Answer 16

Magnetic hard drive (HDD hard disk drive), SSD solid state drive

Question 17

Secondary storage

Answer 17

Magnetic Hard drive - devices and storage discs that hold instructions, data, software, permanently as magnetic information. Nonvolatile. Sensitive to magnetic energy

Question 18

Advantages of solid state drives

Answer 18

no moving parts, quiet; slower write/faster read; consumes less energy, faster data access speeds, insensitivity to magnetic forces

Question 19

ALU

Answer 19

Arithmetic & logical unit: manages the math & logic tasks

Question 20

CU

Answer 20

control unit: manages the other tasks and softwares

Question 21

Impacts of moore’s law

Answer 21

> faster processing of transactions
larger numbers could be processed
larger size of primary storage could be used by the CPU
multiple software applications could be run concurrently on a PC
improvement in performance/cost ratio for customers
relatively cheaper to build large computers
energy efficiency of CPUs is improved

Question 22

challenges of moore’s law:

Answer 22

> packing pathways tightly together creates problems associated with size, heat, power (chip starts to melt when processor gets smaller)
chips can’t get smaller forever (get too small > quantum tunneling)

Question 23

CPU vs GPU

Answer 23

gpu is graphics

Question 24

Apps vs Application:

Answer 24

application: functional tasks- (like desktop(excel/word), functional(sales/accounting), enterprise)

apps: gaming apps, learning apps- single purpose/single function or very few functions

Question 25

Features of MASs:

Answer 25

landing pages w CTAs, ads, social media, campaigns, lead management, web pages content designs, marketing analytics, email automation

Question 26

For data to be valuable it must be

Answer 26

fompass flexible organized manipulatable protected accurate searchable scalable

Question 27

structured vs semistructured vs unstructured

Answer 27

structured: can be organized into tables semistructured: has some structured data and some unstructured data, like an email unstructured: like images, web pages/documents

Question 28

4 operations that DBMS use to process DB:

Answer 28

read insert modify delete rimd

Question 29

SQL databases are…

Answer 29

relational

Question 30

distributed database

Answer 30

stored on multiple server computers at different locations, but that present themselves as a single database to users

Question 31

centralized database

Answer 31

atabase that is stored on a single machine at a single location

Question 32

cloud database

Answer 32

group of databases stored on servers across different data centers and different locations

Question 33

Problems With the Traditional Approach for Storing Data:

Answer 33

• High data redundancy • Rigid program-data dependence • Lack of data integrity • High storage costs • High data inaccuracy issues • Lack of data integration

Question 34

MAS enables orgs to support workflows for

Answer 34

interacting, nurturing, managing, and transforming raw leads into qualified potential customers

Question 35

2 differences between SQL databases and No SQL databases

Answer 35

SQL is structured data, nosql is unstructured. Sql data is organized in tables