ISQS 5331- Exam 1 vocab Questions
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Business Functions:
✓ ~~~ Specialized tasks performed in a business organization, including manufacturing
and production, sales and marketing, finance and accounting, and human resources.
Business Model:
✓ ~~~ An abstraction of what an enterprise is and how the enterprise delivers a product or
service, showing how the enterprise creates wealth.
Business Processes:
✓ ~~~ An abstraction of what an enterprise is and how the enterprise delivers a product or
service, showing how the enterprise creates wealth.
Complementary Assets:
✓ ~~~ Additional assets required to derive value from a primary investment.
Computer Hardware:
✓ ~~~ Physical equipment used for input, processing, and output activities in an
information system.
Computer Literacy:
✓ ~~~ Knowledge about information technology, focusing on understanding of how
computer-based technologies work.
Computer Software:
✓ ~~~ Knowledge about information technology, focusing on understanding of how
computer-based technologies work.
,Culture:
✓ ~~~ The set of fundamental assumptions about what products the organization should
produce, how and where it should produce them, and for whom they should be produced.
Data:
✓ ~~~ Streams of raw facts representing events occurring in organizations or the physical
environment before they have been organized and arranged into a form that people can
understand and use.
Data Management Technology:
✓ ~~~ Software governing the organization of data on physical storage media.
Data Workers:
✓ ~~~ People such as secretaries or bookkeepers who process the organization's
paperwork.
Digital Firm:
✓ ~~~ People such as secretaries or bookkeepers who process the organization's
paperwork.
Extranets:
✓ ~~~ Private intranet that is accessible to authorized outsiders.
Feedback:
✓ ~~~ Output that is returned to the appropriate members of the organization to help them
evaluate or correct input.
Information:
, ✓ ~~~ Data that have been shaped into a form that is meaningful and useful to human
beings.
Information Systems:
✓ ~~~ Interrelated components working together to collect, process, store, and
disseminate information to support decision making, coordination, control, analysis, and
visualization in an organization.
Information Systems Literacy:
✓ ~~~ Broad-based understanding of information systems that includes behavioral
knowledge about organizations and individuals using information systems as well as
technical knowledge about computers.
Information Technology:
✓ ~~~ All the hardware and software technologies a firm needs to achieve its business
objectives.
IT Infrastructure:
✓ ~~~ Computer hardware, software, data, storage technology, and networks providing a
portfolio of shared IT resources for the organization.
Input:
✓ ~~~ The capture or collection of raw data from within the organization or from its external
environment for processing in an information system.
Internet:
✓ ~~~ Global network of networks using universal standards to connect millions of different
networks.
Intranets:
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