Exam 2: Infrastructure and Support Systems

Business intelligence (BI)increases the flexibility of IT assets,allowing companies to consolidate IT infrastructure,reduce maintenance and administration costs,and prepare for strategic IT initiatives.

Sony's managers notice a significant change in demand for the company's eReaders.They request that reports be generated so they can learn more about this situation.What is this type of report?

Which of the following is a major cloud computing vendor?

Decision support systems are critical systems because transactions that do not get captured can result in lost sales,dissatisfied customers,and many other types of data errors.

A __________ consists of stored data organized for access,search,retrieval,and update.

Processing improves _________,which is important because reports and decisions are only as good as the data they are based upon.

Cloud computing evolved from __________,which is an approach based on IT consolidation that enables more flexible IT infrastructures and lower IT costs.

__________ is the science concerned with managing material and information flows to optimize supply chain operations.

Business software applications are hardware devices that support a specific task or business process.

Large companies and government agencies with multiple locations may set up __________ on servers that they own if data confidentiality is a key requirement.

IT infrastructure is the collection of:

__________ is the term used to refer to the Internet.

In order for __________ or real-time processing to occur,the input device or Web site must be directly linked via a network to the TPS.

Transaction data that are captured by a TPS are always processed in real-time,stored in a database,and then are available for use by other information systems.

A transaction processing system (TPS):

Data is the raw material from which information is produced;and the quality,reliability and integrity of the data must be maintained for the information to be useful.

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

Payroll processing is typically done in batch mode;while e-commerce transactions are processed in real-time.

The __________,which is the term used to refer to the Internet,has greatly expanded the options for enterprise IT infrastructures.

A company's __________ determines the workload that its ISs,apps,and mobile computing devices can handle and their speed.