Exam 2: Infrastructure and Support Systems

With __________,instead of buying and installing expensive packaged enterprise applications,users can access software apps over a network,with an Internet browser being the only absolute necessity.

A __________ is a visual presentation of critical data,such as the results of a report or analysis,to more quickly understand data.

When employees log into the company network or e-mail accounts,or access data or documents to perform their jobs,two critical factors impacting their productivity are:

__________ is data that has been processed,organized,or put into context so that it has meaning and value to the person receiving it.

Processing of transactions is done in one of two modes:

The U.S.Department of Defense implemented __________ to service many military agencies in order to reduce IT infrastructure costs while protecting its sensitive data.

Multiple business apps form a system that supports a functional area--marketing,finance,human resources,production,operations,accounting,and IT.

The general name for Internet-based infrastructures is __________.

Define data,information,and knowledge.Give an example of each.

Managing a product recall in a way that minimizes negative impacts on sales of other products and profits is an example of:

Which of the following statements about virtualization is false?

Which of the following is an advantage of batch processing over online transaction processing?

__________ is the collection of hardware,software,processes,networks,and users.

Which of the following best describes RFID implementation?

Knowing how to manage a vehicle recall to minimize negative impacts on new vehicle sales is an example of information.

All of the following are characteristics of software-as-a-service (SaaS)except:

When making decisions about how to acquire IT infrastructure components,what are two IT infrastructure characteristics that need to be considered? Explain each characteristic.

Decision support systems are __________ that support unstructured and semi-structured decision making.

Because Wal-Mart has thousands of suppliers to manage and is constantly looking for new ones worldwide,they invested in a new __________ strategy.

What are the three defining characteristics of DSSs?