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MISC 311
MISC Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| application program interface that allows applications to make use of the operating system | API (application program interface) |
| characteristic of an entity | attribute |
| website that people can create and use to write about their observations, experiences, and opinions on a wide range of topics | blog |
| using a giant cluster of computers to serve as a host to run applications that require high performance computing. | cloud computing |
| downloading audio programs or music from the internet to play on computers or music players | podcast |
| the simultaneous execution of the same task on multiple processor sin order to obtain results faster | parallel processing |
| a subset of a data warehouse | data mart |
| information analysis tool that involves the automated discovery of patterns and relationships in a data warehouse. Objective to extract patterns, trends, and rules | data mining |
| a diagram fo data entities and their relationships | data model |
| a database that collects business information from many sources in the enterprise, covering all aspects of the company's processes, products and customers. | data warehouse |
| a report developed to give certain information at someone's request | demand report |
| the person or group who has the expertise or knowledge the expert system is trying to capture | domain expert |
| using information systems and the internet to performa all business related tasks and functions | e-business |
| any business transaction executed electronically between companies | e-commerce |
| data models that use basic graphical symbols to show the organization of and relationships between data. | entity relationship |
| hardware and software that stores knowledge and makes inferences, similar to a human expert. | expert system |
| a network based on web technologies that links selected resources of a company's intranet with its customers suppliers or other business partners | extranet |
| typically a name, number or combination of characters that describes an aspect of a business object or activity | field |
| a collection of related records | file |
| an approach to solving large, complex problems in which a number of related operations or models change and evolve until the best one emerges | genetic algorithm |
| software application that consists of most elements in a DSS, plus software to provide effective support in a group decision making | group support system |
| an interface that uses icons and menus displayed on screen to send commands to the computer system. | graphical user interface (GUI) |
| commonly accepted guidelines or procedures that usually find a good solution | heuristics |
| relates the sense of touch and other physical sensations to the virtual world, is the least developed and perhaps the most challenging to create | haptic interface |
| microprocessor that combines two or more independent processors into a single computer so they can share the workload and deliver a big boost in processing capacity | multicore processor |
| codes that let the web browser know how to format text and whether images, sound, and other elements should be inserted | HTML |
| par tof the expert system that seeks information and relationships from the knowledge base and provides answers, predictions, and suggestions similar to the way a human expert would | inference engine |
| an internal network based on web technologies that allows people w/in an organization to exchange information and work on projects | intranet |
| a philosophy of inventory management in which inventory and materials are delivered just before they are used in manufacturing a product. | just in time inventory |
| a summary of the previous day's critical activities; typically available at the beginning of each workday | key indicator report |
| a combination of software and hardware that allows teh computer to change how it functions for reacts to situations based on feedback it receives. | learning systems |
| flat displays that use liquid crystals | LCD screen |
| a field or set of fields that uniquely identifies the record | primary key |
| viruses and wormsl, which are software programs that, when loaded into a computer system, will destroy, interrupt, or cause errors in processing | malware |
| the identification of specific markets to target them with advertising messages | market segmentation |
| part of a DSS that provides decision makers access to a variety of models and assists them in decision making | model base |
| processing that allows the computer to understand and react to statements and commands made in a nautral language | natural language processing |
| a computer system that can simulate the functioning of a human brain | neural network |
| software that allows users to explore data from a number of perspectives | OLAP (online analytical processing) |
| a small program hidden in a network or a computer system that records identification umbers and passwords | passwords sniffer |
| help provide additional features to standard web sties | plug ins |
| the web as a computing platform that supports software applications and the sharing of information between users | web 2.0 |
| method of storing data that generates extra bits of data from existing data, allowing the system to create a reconstruction ma so that if a hard drive fails, the system can rebuild lost data | RAID (redundant array of independent/inexpensive discs) |
| a collection of related data fields | record |
| based on research by Eastman Kodak Company and is appearing on the market in small electronic devices. LCD screens contain a flurorescent backlight, these directly emit light | OLED (organic light emitting diodes) |
| device that forwards data packets to parts of a computer network | router |
| a model that will find a good - but not necessarily the best - problem solution | satisficing |
| description of the database | schema |
| standardized data manipulation language developed by IBM...the standard query language for databases | SQL |
| an organized collection of people, procedures, software, databases, and devices used to record completed business transaction | TPS |
| an organized collection of people, procedures, software, databases, and devices used to support problem specific decision making | DSS |
| specialized DSS that includes all hardware, software, data, procedures, and people used to assist senior-level executives within the organization | ESS |
| an organized collection of people, procedures, software, databases and devices that provides routine information to managers and decision makers. | MIS |
| a malicious program that disguises itself as a useful application or game and purposeful does something the user does not expect | trojan horse |
| the process by which VPNs transfer information by encapsulating traffic in IP packets over the internet | tunneling |
| an assigned address on the internet for each computer | URL |
| a computer program file capable of attaching to disks or other files and replicating itself repeatedly, typically without the user's knowledge or permission | virus |
| a parasitic computer program that can create copies of itself on the infected computer or send copies to other computers via a network | worm |
| performs mathematical caculations and makes logical comparisons | Arithmetic logic unit (ALU) |
| ancestor of internet. project started by dept. of defense 1969 | arpanet |
| markup language that defines the visual appearance of content on a web page | cascading style sheet (CSS) |
| criminal hacker | cracker |
| person with knowledge and skill in computers. now is a negative thing. | hacker |
| the purpose is to seek information and relationships from the knowledge base and to provide answers, predictions, suggestions like a human expert | inference engine |
| User interface; allows decision makers to easily access and manipulate the DSS and to use common business terms and phrases | diaglogue manager |
| collection of instructions and commands used to define and describe data and relationships in a specific database | data definition language (DDL) |
| a group of programs that manipulate the database and provide an interface between the database and the user of the application programs | database management system (DBMS) |
| allowable values for data attributes | domain |
| a set of integrated programs that manages the vital business operations for an entire multisite, global organization. Replaces many applications with one unified set of programs | (ERP) Enterprise resource planning |
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