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| What are some collection techniques of data? |
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- Interviewing and observation
- Active reading
- Note taking
- Active Listening |
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| What are the 5 basic steps in an interview process? |
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1. Selecting the person/people to interview
2. Designing your interview questions
3. Preparing for the interview
4. Conducting the interview
5. Following up after the interview |
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| What are the 3 types of interview question? |
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- Open ended
- Closed ended
- Probing |
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| What does being an active reader help you with? |
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1. Stimulate your thinking
2. Get interested and stay involved in what you read
3. Make reading easier by providing you with a mental outline of the material
4. Increase your recall. |
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| What is the reading speed in words per minute for the reading gear "Low" |
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| What is the reading speed in words per minute for the reading gear "Medium" |
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| What is the reading speed in words per minute for the reading gear "High" |
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| What are a few general tips for note taking? |
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Definition
- Listen/look for keywords/phrases
- Find important points in source materials
- Use short sentences to record your own ideas in a lecture |
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| Raw facts, Eg. Employee number, number of hours worked in a week etc |
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| A collection of facts organised in such a way that they have additional value beyond the value of facts themselves |
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| What is information management? |
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Definition
| The effective definition, storage and retrieval of information |
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| What are the 3 types of information? |
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Definition
1. Primary information
2. Secondary information
3. Tertiary information |
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| What is primary information? |
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Primary sources is first hand information
Eg. Eyewitness acounts, creative accounts etc |
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| What is secondary information? |
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| Information sources that describe other (primary) information, e.g., catalogs, indexes, and abstracts |
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| What is tertiary information? |
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| What are the 4 parts of organizing data/critical thinking? |
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Clarify
Reflect
Analise
Synthesis |
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| The awareness and understanding of a set of information and ways that information can be made useful to support a specific task |
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| What are the 4 types of data? |
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- Alphanumeric
- Image
- Audio
- Video |
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| An organised collection of facts and information |
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| What is a flat file database? |
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Definition
A simple database whose records have no relationship to one another, that is, there is no link between tables within the DB.
Eg. Spread sheets |
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| What is a relational database? |
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Definition
A relational database contains links or relations between the tables within the database.
Eg. Access |
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| What are single user and multiple user databases? |
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Single User - only one person can use the database at one time. Eg Access
Multiple User - more then one person can use the database at one time Eg. Oracle |
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Data base management system
An integrated set of programs used to define, update and control databases. |
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| List 3 main important aspects of a DBMS |
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Definition
1. Data management
2. Query languages
3. User access |
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| List 3 common functions DBMS's share |
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1. Providing a user view
2. Physically storing/retrieving data in a database
3. manipulation of data
4. creating reports |
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