Defining Moments
Hard Facts
Soft Serve
Internal Workings
Anything Goes
100

Raw facts with little meaning apart from processing in an information system.

What is data?

100
The enclosure containing a computer's main components.
What is the CPU case (or computer chassis or tower)?
100
A set of programs for controlling and managing computer hardware and software. It provides an interface between a computer and the user and increases computer efficiency by helping users share computer resources and by performing repetitive tasks for users.
What is an operating system?
100
This performs arithmetic operations (+, ?, *, /) as well as comparison or relational operations (<, >, =); the latter are used to compare numbers.
What is the arithmetic logic unit (ALU)?
100

This provides historical, current, and predictive views of business operations and environments and gives organizations a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

What is Business Intelligence (BI)?

200

This is a collection of relevant data organized in a series of integrated files.

What is a database?

200
A peripheral device for recording, storing, and retrieving information.
What is disk drive?
200
This generates the most useful type of information for decision making, including transaction-processing reports and models for decision analysis.
What is process?
200
This is a link between devices connected to the computer. It can be parallel or serial, internal (local) or external. On a different note, it can be ridden.
What is a bus?
200
An organized integration of hardware and software technologies, data, processes, and human elements designed to produce timely, integrated, relevant, accurate, and useful information for decision-making purposes.
What is a Management Information System (MIS)?
300
Facts that have been analyzed by the process component of an information system that can be useful in decision making.
What is information?
300
Device capable of sending data and information to the computer.
What is an input device (such as a keyboard or mouse)?
300
Can be commercial software or software developed in house and is used to perform a variety of tasks on a personal computer.
What is application software?
300
This is the heart of a computer. It is divided into two components: the arithmetic logic unit (ALU) and the control unit.
What is the central processing unit (CPU)?
300
The first generation of computer languages, consists of a series of 0s and 1s representing data or instructions. It is dependent on the machine, so code written for one type of computer does not work on another type of computer.
What is machine language?
400
Skill in using productivity software, such as word processors, spreadsheets, database management systems, and presentation software, as well as having a basic knowledge of hardware and software, the Internet, and collaboration tools and technologies.
What is Computer Literacy?
400
The main circuit board containing connectors for attaching additional boards. It usually contains the CPU, Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), memory, storage, interfaces, serial and parallel ports, expansion slots, and all the controllers for standard peripheral devices, such as the display monitor, disk drive, and keyboard.
What is the motherboard?
400
The second generation of computer languages, is a higher-level language than machine language but is also machine dependent. It uses a series of short codes, or mnemonics, to represent data or instructions.
What is Assembly language?
400
This is volatile memory, in which data can be read from and written to.
What is random access memory (RAM) or "read-write" memory?
400
This is understanding the role of information in generating and using business intelligence.
What is Information literacy?
500
Analyzes an organization, its position in the marketplace, and how information systems could be used to make it more competitive including buyer power, supplier power, threat of substitute products or services, threat of new entrants, and rivalry among existing competitors.
What is the Five Forces Model?
500
Made of Mylar or metal, is used for random-access processing. In other words, data can be accessed in any order, regardless of its order on the surface.
What is a magnetic disk?
500
This uses some of the artificial intelligence technologies, such as knowledge-based systems, natural language processing (NLP), visual programming, and a graphical approach to programming.
What is Fifth-generation languages (5GLs)?
500
This stores data and information and is usually volatile; its contents are lost when electrical power is turned off. It plays a major role in a computer's performance.
What is Main memory?
500

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