Exam 13: Using Technology to Manage Information

Data warehouses may contain many _____, subsets of a data warehouse that each deal with a single area of data.

One of the important decisions managers have to make is whether to buy and commit to upgrading its computer equipment every couple of years.One way of avoiding having to buy costly upgrades, which can quickly become obsolete, is to use:

John Sgromolo works for the 20th-largest accounting firm in the United States, but he's not an accountant.He works with hard drives and various other types of computer equipment strewn across several desks.Sgromolo, spends his days culling together bits and pieces of data people think they have erased from existence months, even years, before.His findings have been used in cyber-crime cases and murder investigations.Sgromolo engages in:

According to the text, "Networks include clients and servers." What are clients and servers?

A _____ is a computer program that copies itself into other software and can spread to other computer systems.

Knowledge management is much easier than information management.

A good technology plan provides employees with the tools they need to perform their jobs at the highest levels of efficiency.The first step in developing a good technology plan is:

A _____ connects computers at different sites via telecommunications media such as phone lines, satellites, and microwaves.

A LAN is a:

The three major categories of applications supplied by application service providers are:

A(n) _____ is an internal Web site that provides proprietary corporate information to a defined user group.

Data marts are special subsets of a data warehouse that deals with a single area of data, which are organized for quick analysis

A(n) _____ is the collective term that describes the methods and the equipment used to provide information about all aspects of a firm's operation.

Which of the following is NOT an example of a basic question that departmental managers and IT specialists should ask when planning technology purchases?

Cerner Corporation has created a(n) ______ that helps emergency room physicians make decisions about what kind of treatment to give their patients.The system contains the medical records of more than 400,000 people who received treatment at more than 200 different emergency rooms.By comparing inputted information about a patient with information stored in the system, doctors can get a diagnosis and suggestions as to possible treatments.

The governor of New York that he has directed the state's Division of Criminal Justice Services to gather DNA from the broadest range of convicted criminals permitted under current law.This will result in the collection of as many as 40,000 DNA profiles.The additional DNA profiles may be obtained as a condition of release on parole or probation, as a condition of participation in the Department of Correctional Services' temporary release programs, and as a condition of a plea bargain.A computer _____ would allow investigating officers from other states to access the New York profiles and to provide information about their state's criminals to New York's law officers.

To keep pace with changing technology, officers of the Honolulu Police Department (HPD) needed a better means to perform such tasks as running a license plate number while simultaneously sending back field reports to precinct headquarters.Through the use of a _____, officers were able to use the Internet to connect with the information stored in state databases and to connect with their superiors.

_____ offer companies a more cost-effective way to link computers than linking terminals to a mainframe computer.

_____ allows people with PCs or other types of machines connected to the Internet to donate processor cycles to the search for extraterrestrial life.This process involves sifting through the static of deep space on billions of radio channels looking for stray signals that are generated by alien civilizations.

An alphabetic listing of the names and GPAs of everyone in your class is an example of data.