Exam 12: Information Systems and System Development

The systems that record the data generated from order transactions and help staff members manage them are called ____________________.

____ is the process of gathering, storing, accessing, and analyzing data about a company in order to make better business decisions.

-The GIS in the accompanying figure shows the locations of crime incidents based on the selected crime type, location, and date range.

A paperless office has been achieved through a variety of technologies and processing techniques.

Once a system has been designed and the required types of software and hardware have been specified, the ____________________ must decide where to obtain the necessary components.

Artificial intelligence systems that attempt to imitate the way a human brain works are called ____.

The ____________________ approach to system development allows the system to be developed incrementally, with a series of development steps being repeated until the system is finalized.

____ carry on written "conversations" with people in a natural language.

A ____ is responsible for maintaining a large, multiuser system.

A(n) ____ is a collection of elements (people, hardware, software, and data) and procedures that interact to generate information needed by the users in an organization.

A(n) ____ is responsible for setting up and managing large databases within an organization.

Managers are usually classified into three categories: executive, ____, and operational.

____ managers include supervisors, office managers, foremen, and other managers who supervise nonmanagement workers.

TPS transactions are typically processed using batch processing.

A computer operations manager designs and builds the end-user interfaces and tools used with cloud services.

The ____________________ chess program that defeated world champion Vladimir Kramnik in 2006.

In 1950, Alan Turing-one of the first AI researchers-argued that if a machine could successfully appear to be human to a knowledgeable observer, then it should be considered intelligent.

When the data in a decision table is expressed in a tree format, it is called a(n) ____________________.

When a proposal for a new system or system modification is submitted, one of the first steps is to conduct a ____.

A(n) ______________________________ system performs actions that are characteristic of human intelligence.