Exam 15: Managing Information and Technology: Finding New Ways to Learn and Link

Which of the following are files of related records organized according to logical systems and stored on computer-accessible media?

What are the two broad categories of software?

Documents stored on the World Wide Web are written and linked together using which of the following?

Businesses develop intranets so valued customers have access to internal information that is not available to the general public.

Discuss the four advantages businesses enjoy by using e-marketplaces.

Why does B2B e-commerce generally require a very different approach than B2C e-commerce?

Which of the following is a very large, organization-wide database providing a centralized location for storing data gathered from sources both internal and external to the organization?

One of the main advantages of expert systems is that they are easy and inexpensive to develop.

Describe three challenges that have been created or made more serious due to the development of Internet-based technologies.

Describe three ways companies and individuals can protect themselves from adware, spyware, and viruses.

An advantage of an expert system is that it is capable of solving a wide variety of problems, including those that are quite different from the problems it was originally designed to solve.

Tariq works for TV Technologies as a repair technician and is very good at his job. But many of the employees work at remote locations, requiring him to travel long distances. He's discovered that many repair problems are fairly simple and could be handled by the employees themselves if they were correctly diagnosed and the appropriate instructions and advice were provided. As a result, Tariq is working with some programmers to build which of the following, which asks employees a series of questions about their problems and provides appropriate suggestions based on their responses?

Software that is created and distributed with malicious intent is called malware.

PracticeAdmin Practice Management Software™ is an on-demand, full-featured medical practice management/medical billing software designed by a physician. Which of the following describes this type of specialized application that is used in a particular industry?

Which of these markets have greater numbers of customers but with fewer dollars to spend?

Provide three examples of what the cloud offers its users the ability to do.

Due to the need for much higher bandwidth to transmit high-definition audio and video files, in 1996 some leading research universities and corporations formed a coalition to create a new generation of Internet technology. What was it called?

Which of the following gives managers access to large amounts of data with the processing power to convert that data into high-quality information?

Data are facts and figures that have been organized in a way that makes them immediately useful to decision makers.

Which of the following refers to the sending of official-looking (but fake) e-mail messages designed to get users to disclose personal information in an attempt to steal identities?