Exam 13: Using Technology to Manage Information

Victoria Secret maintains a large data warehouse in which it keeps track of inventory, buying patterns, and regional differences.An examination of information from a data warehouse subset that contained data from its Miami, Florida, stores showed that for every one black bra purchased ten ivory bras were purchased.This subset is referred to as a(n):

_____ are workers who or use knowledge, contributing to and benefiting from information used in performing, planning, acquiring, searching, analyzing, organizing, storing, programming, producing, distributing, marketing, or selling functions.

Copying of software programs by people who haven't paid for them is called:

A(n) _____ system is a management support system that uses artificial intelligent to enable computers to reason and learn to solve problems in much the same way as humans do.

A network that connects computers at one site is called a(n):

When compared to a wired LAN, the wireless LAN is:

Many companies use _____ to connect two or more private networks over a public network, such as the Internet.

A local area network (LAN) connects computers at one site and enables their users to exchange data and share hardware and software from a variety of computer manufacturers.

A(n) _____ is an organization's management support system that combines many databases to improve management decision making.

How does spam pose a security threat for organizations?

According to the text, the three IT trends that are having the greatest impact on the IT environment are:

A network that connects computers at different sites via telecommunications media is called a(n):

Software piracy relates to transferring programs and information from hard disks to floppy disks.

Ground water is a vital water resource in the Choushui River area of Taiwan.A significantly increased demand for water, resulting from rapid economic development, has led to large scale ground water extraction.Overdraft of ground water has considerably lowered the ground water level, and caused seawater intrusion, land subsidence, and other environmental damage.Sound ground water management thus is essential.Chinese government officials have set up a(n) _____ system that allows it to make water management decisions using interactive computer models based on real-world processes.

The primary use for an expert system is to answer "what if" questions.

Maysteel, which makes components for electric utilities, has created a(n) _____ that allows its six plant managers in Wisconsin and Ireland to access customized information about the costs and sales at the other plants.The only people who can access this information are its managers.

The Internet is essentially a worldwide wide area network (WAN).

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(n) _____ will be used to store, maintain, and acquire data from these records.

_____ is a sophisticated database application that looks for hidden patterns in a group of data to help track and predict future behavior.

_____ contribute to and benefit from information that use in performing, acquiring, searching, analyzing, organizing, storing, programming, producing, distributing, marketing, or selling functions.