ISYS
A set of interrelated components that work together to collect, process, store, and disseminate information, with a feedback mechanism for monitoring and control
What is an information system?
A plan that identifies technologies, vendors, competencies, people, systems, and projects in which an organization will invest
What is a strategic plan?
Someone who violates computer or internet security maliciously or for illegal personal gain
Who is a lone wolf attacker?
A large-scale system that an enterprise can build to replace several sets of organizational systems, resulting in one common database for all business units
What is an ERP?
A special-purpose programming language for accessing and manipulating data stored in a relational database
What is SQL?
A statistical relationship often mistaken for an indicator of causation
An information system that improves the productivity of individual users in performing stand-alone tasks
What is a personal information system?
Something gained through cost leadership, differentiation, or focus
What is a competitive advantage?
A person who hacks computers or websites in an attempt to promote a political ideology
Who is a hacktivist?
A collection of computers, often owned by many people or different organizations, to work in a coordinated manner to solve a common problem
What is grid computing?
A characteristic in a record that uniquely identifies the record
What is a primary key?
An approach used to explore large amounts of data to search for hidden patterns that might help predict future trends
What is data mining?
The IS solutions built or deployed by departments other than the IT department
What is shadow IT?
A model that states an organization’s ISs operate within the context of people, technology infrastructure, processes, and structure
What is Leavitt’s Diamond?
An attack that instructs zombie computers to send simple access requests to target computers
What is a DDoS?
A service that allows businesses to subscribe to Web-delivered business application software by paying a monthly fee
What is SaaS?
The shape used to represent entities in an ERD
What is a square?
the accuracy, completeness, and currency of data
What is data veracity?
The ability of a computer to learn without a programmer needing to change the software for every scenario
What is machine learning?
The aspect of Leavitt’s Diamond related to ensuring an IS help desk is available during working hours
What is people?
A virus that replicates itself
What is a worm?
A type of software that has the advantage of being inexpensive to purchase because the development costs are spread over many customers
What is off-the-shelf software?
The part of speech represented by an arrow in an ERD, indicating relationships between entities
What is a verb?
What is volume?
Machines and systems that simulate human intelligence processes
What is AI?
A series (or chain) of activities that an organization performs to transform inputs into outputs in such a way that the value of the input is increased
What is a value chain?
A hacker that causes damage
What is a cracker?
A system that can use case-based solution processes to develop a solution by finding cases stored in a knowledge base that are similar to the problem at hand and then modify that solution to fit the current problem
What is an expert system?
The high-risk system for large organizations that requires a huge upfront investment of resources
What is an ERP?
The characteristics of big data that relates to multiple formats including documents, images, numerical data, and videos