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Introduction to IT (69 cards)

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What is used to create, maintain, and make information available?

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IT

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What supports communication between elements of IT?

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Networks

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What is a collection of elements that interact with each other to achieve a common goal?

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Systems

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What is a variety of different systems often need to work together?

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Information System

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Whats implements various algorithms that transform data, perform calculations, and manipulate files or complete tasks?

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Software Development

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What kind of analyst improves and optimizes operations to advance the business?

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Business Analyst

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What web development is made available to the public?

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Internet

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What web development is made available to specific users?

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Intranet

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What web development is made available to organizations and specific users?

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Extranet

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Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, and Information Systems

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Five Computer Disciplines

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What happened in 1948?

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Invention of Manchester Mark 1 by the University of Manchester

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What happened in 1950?

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IBM sold 450 mass-produced computers and the invention of SAGE

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What happened in 1960?

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The invention of the Nova Minicomputer

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What happened in 1970?

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Apple-1 was created and the Microprocessor was introduced

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What happened during 1980-90?

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Introduction of Google, USB, iPads, and the advancement of Apple devices and Microsoft

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What Administrator is responsible for providing technical support for hardware and software issues?

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System Administrator

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What Administrator is responsible for planning, designing, setting up, and maintaining an organization’s network?

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Network Administrator

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What Administrator is responsible for installing and configuring databases?

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Database Administrator

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What Administrator is responsible for installing, administering, and troubleshooting network security?

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Security Administrator

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What Administrator is responsible for troubleshooting error messages, tracking, compiling, and analyzing web usage data?

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Web Administrator

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What Architect is responsible for overseeing a company’s cloud computer system?

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Cloud Architect

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What Architect is responsible for designing networks, monitoring traffic, installing routers/modems/upgrading hardware, and essentials to the network?

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Network Architect

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What Architect is responsible for modernizing business processes’ reasons/rationales?

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Automation Architect

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What Architect is responsible for designing, building, testing, and implementing security systems?

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Cybersecurity Architect

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What Engineer is responsible for allowing organizations to take full control of their data?
Machine Learning Engineer
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What Engineer is responsible for designing and developing software that makes systems work together?
Software Engineering
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What Engineer is responsible for setting up, configuring, maintaining, and upgrading systems while ensuring the security of data, and appropriate information, and that companies have procedures/processes?
Network Engineer
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What Engineer is responsible for using technical and analytical skills to help identify opportunities for migrating infrastructure to the cloud?
Cloud Engineer
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Who is responsible for supporting, monitoring, maintaining workplace technology, and responding to user's requests?
Technical Support
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What Analyst is responsible for investigating business problems and creating information systems to provide solutions?
System Analyst
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What Analyst is responsible for gathering data from customers to gain insight and find statistical opportunities to improve the business?
Data Analyst
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What Analyst is responsible for monitoring an organization's network for security breaches?
Security Analyst
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Who is responsible for keeping information systems secure, ensuring integrity, confidentiality, and availability of data?
Cybersecurity Specialist
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Who is responsible for providing technical expertise by developing and implementing IT systems?
Technical Consultant
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Who is responsible for organizing people, time, and other resources to make projects meet requirements, time, and within budget?
Project Managers
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Who is responsible for building and maintaining websites and infrastructure while needing to understand client-side, server-side, and database?
Web Developer
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Who is responsible for creating, documenting, and executing manually created test plans and procedures?
Software Tester
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Who is responsible for identifying and helping clients adopt IT services?
Technical Sales
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What is the order of the Data Pyramid from highest to lowest?
Data, Knowledge, Information, and Data
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What is the term for knowing the right thing to do?
Wisdom
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What is the term for a dynamic combination of experience, values, contextual information, and expert insight?
Knowledge
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What is the term for a collection of processed data?
Information
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What is the term for raw facts and observations?
Data
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What is the term for a path-connected understanding "when interpreting data"?
Connectedness Wisdom
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What is the term for code in a way that makes it easy to convert into a form usable for analysis?
Structured Data
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What is the term for data that is more complex and not easily decoded?
Unstructured Data
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What is the term for data amassing quickly?
Big Data
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What is a collection of data and information used to support decision-making?
Information System
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What is the infrastructure used to manage data is referred to as a data architecture; data resides either in-house or in the cloud.
Data Management
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What provides access to a virtualized environment and is composed of virtualized hardware? If the Client is responsible for licensing the operating system and back-end storage.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
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What provides access to a virtualized environment and is composed of virtualized hardware? If Cloud Service Provider is responsible for licensing the operating systems and back-end storage
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
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What software is licensed to customers with subscriptions and central hosting?
Software as a Service (SaaS)
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What are the three Data Sources?
Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Records, Finance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Customer Applications
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What is the process of ensuring the cleanliness of data?
Data Hygiene
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What is the process of amending or removing data that is incorrect?
Data Scrubbing
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What is the Duplicate data, Conflicting data, Incomplete data, Invalid data, and Unsynchronized data called?
Bad Data
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What includes Input-Process-Out (IPO) and Input-Process-Output-Storage (IPOS)? Takes raw data to transform and provide results.
Functions of a Computer System
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What are the three categories that the System divides?
The requirement from the environment (input), Computation based on the requirement (Process), and Provision from the environment (Output)
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What do People consider for Computers?
An important element of computers
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What are the Components of a Computer System?
Hardware, Software, and Middleware components
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What is Hardware?
Tangible, electronic, and mechanical parts of the computer
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What is Software?
Programs that run on your computer and provide instructions
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What is Middleware?
Components that share software and data between elements of a system
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What is the systems of hardware and software that connect multiple devices for sharing data and information called?
Networks
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What are the two common types of Networks?
Local Area Networks (LANs) and Wide Area Networks (WANs)
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What are the two types of Network Design?
Client-to-Client and Peer-to-Peer
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What is identifying how data flows called?
Physical Topology
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What are the networks that may implement various topologies called?
Logical Topology
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What are the Languages that support data exchange between computers like TCP/IP called?
Protocol

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