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

Phishing is a scam where official-looking e-mails are sent to individuals in an attempt to get them to divulge private information such as passwords, usernames, and account numbers.

When comparing seatbelt prices for his firm's auto assembly plant, which of the following technologies would purchasing manager Ernie Wong find most convenient to access?

Transforming data into useful information for decision makers is the vital function of which of the following?

Describe how businesses might use radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Provide a specific example.

What is the term for the buying, selling, and servicing of products over a network, usually the Internet?

Application software is the software that helps users perform desired tasks.

Windows 10 comes installed on many computers. While it has many "bells and whistles," its fundamental purpose is to perform all of the basic tasks needed to operate the computer at its most basic level and to provide an interface that allows the user to interact with the computer. What is Windows 10 an example of?

Expert systems help their users solve a problem or accomplish a task by asking the user a series of questions, basing each new question on the response to previous questions. The program continues to ask questions until it has enough information to reach a decision and make a recommendation.

Abel Webb works for the Greater Garrisonville Power Company. His job involves creating confidential reports and other documents that he posts to an internal server. While employees can view and even download these confidential materials using a Web browser, people outside the company have no access to them. This suggests that Garrisonville Power is using an intranet.

Which of the following is essentially the world's largest computer network, linking hundreds of thousands of smaller networks and operating under a common set of rules for communication?

A data warehouse is a physical storage facility used by management to store and file all hard copies of important documents generated by the business.

Data mining is most effective at locating relationships among data stored on small, highly specialized databases, such as the database for a single department or division within a company.

Firewalls, antivirus software, spam blockers, and antispyware are all examples of which supplements to operating system software that increase the security or capabilities of the computer system?

Utility programs are applications software packages, such as word processor and spreadsheet programs, that help users perform a desired task.

The Internet is a network of networks, consisting of hundreds of thousands of smaller networks, operating under a common set of rules so each can communicate with the others.

Which of the following is a characteristic of high-quality information?

Horizontal market software consists of highly specialized applications used in a particular industry such as medicine, law, or accounting.

When does data become information?

Beginning 1996, several leading research universities, corporations, and other organizations formed a coalition to create a new generation of Internet technology based on fibre-optic cable.

Explain the roles that hardware and software play in a computer system. How does system software differ from applications software?