Final Exam Part 2

Question 1

What is virtualization?

Answer 1

The process of hosting a virtual machine.

Question 2

What is the lost update problem?

Answer 2

When two people edit a document in a multi-user processing system at the same time, the system will only save one version at a time. So the last one submitted is the one that stays.

Question 3

What does SQL stand for?

Answer 3

Structured Query Language

Question 4

What is 10/100/1000?

Answer 4

This refers to Ethernet and is listing of the three different connection speeds in mbps.

Question 5

What is an access point?

Answer 5

It’s the part of an LAN device that processes wireless traffic and communicates with the switch.

Question 6

What do HTML and HTTP stand for?

Answer 6

Hypertext Markup Language & Hypertext Transport Protocol

Question 7

What is an attribute?

Answer 7

Something to do with HTML code

Question 8

What is broadband?

Answer 8

This refers to the network connection speed. As opposed to narrowband, which is slower, broadband can go more than 256 kbps.

Question 9

What is a commerce server?

Answer 9

It’s an application that runs on a server-tier computer. It’s typical function is to facilitate the check-out process.

Question 10

What is a database tier?

Answer 10

It consists of computers that run a DBMS that processes requests to receive and store data.

Question 11

What is DSL?

Answer 11

A Digital Subscriber Line uses phone lines for internet, but operates at a different frequency so as not to interfere with phone calls.

Question 12

What is a Domain name?

Answer 12

It is a unique, worldwide name affilitated with a specific IP address.

Question 13

What does elastic refer to?

Answer 13

It’s very easy to change the amount of cloud storage you’re using.

Question 14

What is Ethernet?

Answer 14

It’s a protocol that specifies hardware characteristics and sends information to the appropriate place.

Question 15

What is ICANN?

Answer 15

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

Question 16

What is IaaS?

Answer 16

Infrastructure as a Service. Cloud computing.

Question 17

IPv4 vs IPv6?

Answer 17

These are the two formats that IP addresses come in. IPv6 is longer, so it has more combinations.

Question 18

What is an optical fiber cable?

Answer 18

Provides cable TV and internet.

Question 19

What is PaaS?

Answer 19

Platform as a Service. It’s cloud computing where a user will add their own applications to the platform.

Question 20

What does pooled refer to?

Answer 20

In cloud computing, many organizations will use the same hardware.

Question 21

What is the TCP/IP protocol architecture?

Answer 21

A series of protocols organized into five layers. From top to bottom, they are: application, transport, internet, datalink, physical.

Question 22

What is three-tier architecture?

Answer 22

Used in e-commerce. The tree tiers are: user tier, server tier, database tier.

Question 23

What is a web farm?

Answer 23

A server farm that supports a website.

Question 24

What is business process re-engineering?

Answer 24

Changing business processes to take advantage of a new information system.

Question 25

What is a data integrity problem?

Answer 25

It is an issue caused by information silos. Like when information gets changed in one silo and not another.

Question 26

What is EAI?

Answer 26

Enterprise Application Integration. Unlike ERP, which replaces existing systems, EAI connects existing systems together.

Question 27

What is a functional information system?

Answer 27

It is another name for a work-group information system.

Question 28

What is content data

Answer 28

User generated social media content.

Question 29

What does "hive"refer to?

Answer 29

A group of people related by a common interest on social media.

Question 30

What is hyper-social organization theory?

Answer 30

There are two types of communities that are important to e-commerce: defenders of belief and seekers of truth.

Question 31

How do we determine the value of social capital?

Answer 31

By the number of relationships, the strength of those relationships, and the resources controlled by those related.

Question 32

What is a SM application provider?

Answer 32

Facebook and Twitter would be examples.

Question 33

What is a viral hook?

Answer 33

This is when some incentive (like a prize or something) is used to get people to pass along information.

Question 34

What is a BI system?

Answer 34

Information systems that process operational data to analyze past performance and make predictions.

Question 35

What is BigData?

Answer 35

Data that is characterized by huge volumes, rapid velocity, and great variety.

Question 36

What is Mapreduce?

Answer 36

A technique where thousands of computers cordinate by breaking down the work load into little pieces and each doing a little bit.

Question 37

What is Hadoop?

Answer 37

An open source program that implements mapreduce. It could potentially be used to run Google.

Question 38

What do data warehouses do?

Answer 38

- Obtain data - cleanse data - organize and relate data - catalog data

Question 39

What is a dynamic report?

Answer 39

It is a business intelligence report that is updated at the time of the request (unlike static reports, which are not).

Question 40

What is an exception report?

Answer 40

A report that is produced when something occurs outside a set of predefined boundaries.