Chapters 1 to 3
The component that is the input to the information system. (numbers, mouse, keyboard, data)
What is data?
In data communication, this is based on "line of sight". (terrestrial microwave, satellite base, radio transmitter, fiber optics)
What is a terrestrial microwave?
This type of web journal is updated frequently and intended to be read by the general public.
What is a blog?
Of these three types of structures (multinational, global and transnational) this type relies in headquarters for all process and control decisions and is sometimes called a "franchiser".
What is a global structure?
This world is a simulated environment designed for users to interact with avatars.
What is a virtual world?
Record keeping is this type of task. (structured, unstructured, semi-structures)
What is structured?
This type of privacy security requires a key to be entered manually into the access point and the client computers. (SSID, WEP, WAN)
What is WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)?
This type of media includes embedded references to audio, text, images, video and other documents.
What is hypermedia?
An example of this mode of payment involves paying for something (like Tim's coffee) with a card that you recharge regularly. (e-cash, e-wallet, e-payment)
What is e-cash?
This type of glove is the most commonly used device to enable users to navigate the VR environment.
What is a data glove?
This input device is used to grade multiple choice tests. (optical reader, magnetic character sensor, optical mark recognition system)
What is an optical mark recognition system.
This type of geometry is a biometric security comparison of the length of each finger, the translucence of fingertips and the webbing between fingers. (finger, palm, hand, comparison)
What is hand geometry?
This type of computer code is used to define the layout and appearance of a web page.
What is HTML?
This type of auction is cost effective for selling excessive inventory.
What is an online auction?
This tag is a small electronic device consisting of a microchip and an antenna.
What is a radio frequency identification tag?
This type of computing includes applications that know users, their devices and their locations and service as intelligent assistants. (cloud, context aware, pervasive response)
What is context aware computing?
This policy specifies a set of rules regarding the legal and ethical use of a system. (accountability, nonrepudiation, acceptable use)
What is an acceptable use policy?
An example of this type of e-government application is tax filing and payments. (Government to ?)
What is government to citizen.
This vendor offers comprehensive solutions for supply chain management. (ASP, PSA, SAP)
What is SAP?
This is a programming language used for controlling robots. (Extensible Markup or Variable Assembly)
What is Variable Assembly Language?
This type of web site acts as an interface to a database, retrieving data for users and allowing users to enter data. (static, flat, database driven, data driven)
What is a data-driven website.
Name one of the two types of intellectual property are categorized as industrial property.
What are logos or trademarks?
This term refers to the number of viewers who view one ad.
What is ad impression?
Offshore outsourcing was initially used mostly to same money on this.
What is the cost of labour?
These agents are a type of software that is capable of reasoning and following rule-based processes.
What are intelligent agents?