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| The abilitiy to make and manipulate models |
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| the activity of two or more people working together to achieve a common goal, result, or work product |
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| Hardware - Sofware - Data - Procedures - People |
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| An assembly of hardware, software, data, procedures, and people |
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| Information Techonology (IT) |
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| The products, methods, inventions, and standards that are used for the purpose of producing information |
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| Management Information Systems (MIS) |
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| the development and use of information systems that help businesses achieve their goals and objectives |
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| says that cost of data communication and data storage is essentially zero |
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| a group of components that interact to achieve some purpose |
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| the ability to model the components of the system, to connect the inputs and outputs among those components into a sensible whole that reflects the structure and dynamics of the phenomenon observed. |
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| based on correct and complete data, and has been processed correctly as expected |
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| collections of related tasks that receive inputs and process those inputs to produce outputs |
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| a network of activities, roles, resources, repositories, and data flows that interact to accomplish a business function. |
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| the movement of a data item from one activity to another activity or to a repository |
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| questions that can be answered yes or no |
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| knowledge derived from data, where data is defined as recoreded facts or figures |
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| Just barely sufficient information |
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| sufficient for the purpose for which is generated, no more no less |
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| directly pertains to both the context and to the subject it references |
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| a collection of business records |
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| people, facilities, or computer programs that are assigned to roles |
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| produced in time for its intended use |
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| an alternative of differentiation, cost, industry wide, or focus |
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| a model for determining the potential profitability of an industry |
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| interactions across value |
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| the difference between the value that an activity generates and the cost of the activity |
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| business functions that relate directly to the production of the organization's products or services |
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| business functions that assist and facilitate the primary activities |
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| when organizations can lock in customers by making it difficult or expensive to switch to another product |
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| the amount of money that a customer is willing to pay for a resource, product, or service |
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| a network of value-creating activities |
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| electronic components and related gadgetry that input, process, output, and store data according to instruction |
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| CPU (Central Processing Unit) |
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| the brain of the computer |
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| circuitry for storing data and instructions that are acted upon by the CPU |
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| a program that controls the computer's resources |
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the movement of programs and data into and out of memory
if a computer has insufficient memory for its workload, such swapping will degrade system performance |
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| computers for word processing, spreadsheets, database access, etc. |
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| provide some service for client computers |
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| an application program that must be preinstalled on the client |
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| an application that runs within a browser and need not be preinstalled |
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| a self-describing collection of integrated records |
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| Database Application System |
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an assembly of forms, reports, queries, and application programs that process a database
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| Database Management Systems (DBMS) |
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a program used to create, process, and administer a databaes
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| a collection of forms, reports, queries, and application programs that process a database |
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| Collection of integrated devices that communicate with one another over transmission lines or wirelessly |
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| connects computers that reside in a single geographic location on the premises of the company |
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| connects computers at different geographic locations |
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| a special-purpose computer that receives and transmits wired traffic on the LAN |
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| Network Interface Card (NIC) |
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| a device that connects the computer's or printer's circuitry to the network cables. |
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| Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) Cable |
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| contains sets of wires that are twisted together to improve signal quality |
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| signals with light rays, and are reflected inside the glass core |
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| the component of the LAN device that processes wireless traffic and communicates with the wired switch |
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| Wired LAN Connections (Ethernet) |
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| Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL) |
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operates on the same lines as voice telephones, but their signals do not interfere with voice telephone service
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| DSL used in homes and small businesses because they download more than upload |
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| DSL used by larger businesses because they have the same speed for uploads and downloads |
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| a number that identifies a particular device |
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| identifies a particular devie on the public internet |
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| identifies a particular device on a private network, usually on a LAN |
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| IP address with four decimal dotted notation |
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| used to read, insert, modify, and delete data |
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| presentation of data in a structured, meaingful context |
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| a request of data from a database |
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| making a reasoned analysis of an opportunity, envisioning potetial solutions, evaluating those possibilities, and developing the most promising ones |
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