Uworld - IT

Question 1

EDI

Answer 1

Computer to computer exchange of documents in a std electronic format between business partners.

Question 2

File Import

Answer 2

Data stored in different databases or applications can be shared between them by extracting (exporting/RELEVANCE) the data from one location, then importing them into another.

Question 3

Machine Learning

Answer 3

A type of artifical intelligence in which computer systems learn and adapt without receiving explicit instructions, but instead by using algorithms and statistical models to analyze and draw inferences from patterns in data.

Question 4

Data Description

Answer 4

METADATA that defines the data within the dataset or data repository. The description allows users to understand the nature of the data, the purpose of the data, what determines membership (whether a data point is included or excluded) and the limitations of the data. To be sure that a description is useful and accurate, it should meet certain criteria as defined by the Assurance Services Executive Committee of the AICPA in criteria for describing a set of data and evaluating its integrity, 2020.

Question 5

RPA (Robotic Process Automation)

Answer 5

Software tech may also be used to build, deploy and manage software robots that automate manual tasks.

Question 6

Sensors

Answer 6

Can track data points that relate to weather, temperature, humidity, pressure, weight, water, gas or chemical levels.

Question 7

Swipe/chip/NFC Cards

Answer 7

Web and Screen scrapers - Web scraping means using a tool to extract content and data from a website, It refers to harvesting information shown on a digital display for reuse.

Question 8

primary data sources - Accounting data, customer data, employee data, Marketing data, Supplier data and shipping data

Answer 8

External data or secondary data - Industry data, Govt Data, Census Data, Social Media

Question 9

Boolean - Binary values - TRUE or FALSE

Answer 9

BLOB - Binary large objects (e.g. videos, audio files, images)

Question 10

Semistructured - Partial structure but are not as defined as structured data. It may contain meta data, tags which make it easier to organize than unstructured data. E.g. email, web server logs and HTML. XML, IOT, Internet of things, sensor data, CSV files.w

Answer 10

Bit - 1 on,
0, off

Byte - 8 bits representing a character

Field - element

Question 11

EXTRACT - Retrieve relevant, quality data required for analysis

Transform - Consistently format the extracted data for analysis

Load - Insert trans