Info systems FInal

Volatile Memory

Storage that is wiped clean when power is cut off from a device

Computer Hardware

The physical components of information technology

Software

The precise set of instructions that orchestrates the functioning of the computer

Bottom-to-top order of a computer system

Hardware, Operating System, Application, User

Packet Switching

An efficient way of transmitting data that also makes the network more reliable

The hypertext transfer protocol (http)

Defines the communication between web browsers and web servers

Protocol

The set of rules that enables communication by defining the format of data and rules for exchange

What is the relationship between the internet and the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is something you can do on the internet

Operating system software

Software that directly manages the resources of the computer

Moore’s Law

Chip performance per dollar doubles every eighteen months

Cost of goods sold

Not part of the total cost of ownership for an information system

Market basket analysis

Data mining to find which products that consumers buy together

Data mining can be a powerful analytics tool because

Computer programs can be designed to process thousands of sales transactions per second

Transaction processing

Not a type of business analytics

Net neutrality

the principal that all internet traffic should be treated equally

Cloud computing

replacing computing resources with services provided over the internet

Open source

software that is free and available for anyone to look at and potentially modify the code

Scalability

The ability of a system to handle increased workloads or be easily expanded to handle workload increases

Encryption

Scrambling data using a code or formula such that the data are hidden from those who do not have the key to unlock the data

Client-server computing

a form of distributed computing where two computers work together to get the job done

variance

Not one of the big Vs of big data

Machine learning

business applications of AI typically use this

Social engineering

tactic used in phishing attacks where attackers manipulate individuals into revealing sensitive information or performing actions that compromise security

Cybersquatting

acquiring a domain name to extort a form, individual, product, or trademark holder

HTML

used to create and format web pages

DDOS attack

overloading a popular social networking site with inbound messages in order to shut down access to the site

The invention of graphical web browsing

a factor that accelerated the development of the internet during the 90s

open-source is fueled on the contributions of loners tooling away for the glory of contributing to better code

An outdated notion regarding open source software that has been shown to be inaccurate

True

Applications software refers to programs that perform the work that users and firms are directly interested in accomplishing

False

With the advent of cloud computing and SaaS, smaller firms no longer have access to the kinds of sophisticated computing power they had access to in the past

True

Virtualization can make one computer function and appear to users like several different computers

False

www.fordham.edu is an example of an IP address

True

A URL is used to identify files and other resources on the internet

XML

A flexible tagging language used to share data between applications

Web services

small pieces of code enabling business-related tasks between systems

Bits per second (BPS)

basic unit of telecom capacity

HTML

language used to compose web pages

TCP/IP

Protocols for communication on the internet