QUESTION: First users were the engineers who built and programmed computers, then
employees who had received specialized training were users, and now today, anyone and
everyone can be a user. - ANSWER-Evolution of Users
QUESTION: Sends files over the network at the request of clients. Responds over LAN, within
one location/site. Support both application software and data files. - ANSWER-FILE SERVER
QUESTION: Turns a user-friendly domain name, like Google.com, into an Internet Protocol (IP)
address like ((( 70.42.251.42 ))) that computers use to identify each other on the network. -
ANSWER-Domain Name Server (DNS)
QUESTION: Uses TWO KEYS a public and private key for performing encryption and decryption -
ANSWER-Public Key Encryption
QUESTION: PROVING you are who you say you are which can be done by: what you know, what
you have! - ANSWER-Authentication
QUESTION: TIER WHERE THE USER interface for the system is developed; SHIELDS THE USER
from the underlying logic of the systems as well as the underlying data structures - ANSWER-
Presentation Tier
QUESTION: SYSTEMS DEPLOYMENT Steps 1. System Conversion 2. Final Documentation 3. End
User Training - ANSWER-System Deployment
QUESTION: CONNECTS MULTIPLES networks together; can be used to directly connect
computers to a network; will relay messages to computers with APPROPRIATE IP ADDRESS -
ANSWER-ROUTER
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QUESTION: Requires that data is KEPT secure so that they are not accidentally provided or
obtained by unauthorized users - ANSWER-Confidentiality
QUESTION: Protecting EVERY LAYER that SURROUNDS ((( DATA ))) - ANSWER-Defense in Depth
QUESTION: Can take on DIFFERENT FORMS depending on the complexity of the application; in
certain instances, it is AN ACTUAL OBJECT that is an ACTUAL IMPLEMENTATION of the
application - ANSWER-THE MODEL
QUESTION: Creates a subset of the data by reducing the data from multiple dimensions to one
dimension - ANSWER-Slicing Data
QUESTION: The technology used in creating, maintaining, and making information accessible. -
ANSWER-Information Technology
QUESTION: In charge of all aspects of the COMPUTER NETWORKS - ANSWER-Network
Administrator
QUESTION: Focuses on the design, development, and support of DATABASE MANAGEMENT
systems (DBMSs). - ANSWER-Database Administrator
QUESTION: Installs, configures, maintains, secures, and troubleshoots web severs - ANSWER-
Web Administrator
QUESTION: Processed data. - ANSWER-Information
QUESTION: INFORMATION THAT HAS BEEN PUT TO USE information placed into a context.
Refined information such that the user of the knowledge is able to call forth only relevant
portions of information when needed. - ANSWER-Knowledge in DIKW
QUESTION: Provides a social setting to knowledge; AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE ((( WHY ))) Can
only come by having BOTH KNOWLEDGE and EXPERIENCE - ANSWER-WISDOM
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QUESTION: The INPUT Processing, OUTPUT, STORAGE Cycle - ANSWER-I.P.O.S.
QUESTION: Raw data is organized or structured for usefulness. - ANSWER-PROCESSED DATA
QUESTION: Information is output so user can see results. - ANSWER-OUTPUT DATA
QUESTION: Processed information is stored for permanent record. - ANSWER-STORAGE
QUESTION: A collection of components that work together to meet the needs of the user;
typically : CATEGORIZED AS EITHER HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, NETWORKS AND USERS -
ANSWER-COMPUTER SYSTEM
QUESTION: Physical components of a computer system which include the system unit and its
components and peripheral devices; TANGIBLE ASPECTS OF THE COMPUTER - ANSWER-
HARDWARE
QUESTION: A collection of computers and resources CONNECTED by various media so that they
can COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER. - ANSWER-NETWORK
QUESTION: Systems Software and Applications Software - ANSWER-SOFTWARE CATEGORIES
QUESTION: RULES provided by WHICH NETWORKS communicate with each other - ANSWER-IP
PROTOCOL
QUESTION: STORES the programs BEING EXECUTED and the data they are using. - ANSWER-
COMPUTER MEMORY
QUESTION: Controls THE SPEED at which instructions are processed. - ANSWER-SYSTEM CLOCK
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QUESTION: Stands for Random Access Memory. It temporarily stores data before it is processed
and sent to your screen or printer. IT IS VOLATILE (means data or information stored disappears
when the computer is turned off or loses power). - ANSWER-RAM
QUESTION: Transistor components, magnetic core memory, smaller size, easier to program,
disk drives and drums, called mainframe computers - ANSWER-2nd Generation of Computers
QUESTION: Silicon chips (known as ICs - integrated circuits), reduced cost, called mini
computers, networks introduced via dumb terminals - ANSWER-3rd Generation of Computers
QUESTION: Written for a specific machine by the engineers who built and ran the computers;
no need for OS since only one program could run at a time - ANSWER-Low-level Language
QUESTION: Easier than machine but still required detailed, precise LOW LEVEL instructions -
ANSWER-Assembly Language
QUESTION: Function is to TRANSLATE ONE LANGUAGE TO ANOTHER; take source code and
convert it to another form; source code by itself cannot be read by a computer - ANSWER-
Language Translator Programs
QUESTION: Programmer is limited to high level control constructs such as while loops, for
loops, and if/else statements and not allowed to use primitive GOTO statements - ANSWER-
Structured Programming
QUESTION: A type of programming language for which most of its implementations EXECUTES
INSTRUCTIONS DIRECTLY AND FREELY, without previously compiling a program into machine-
language instructions. - ANSWER-Interpreted Language (Code)
QUESTION: Small programs that place Linux commands or DOS batch files into a file - ANSWER-
Shell Scripting
QUESTION: The computer that the user is using; physically present with - ANSWER-Local
Computer
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