Database
Networking
MIS Infrastructure
Local
Data Analysis
100

Contains a subset of data warehouse information

What is a data mart?

100

A standard that specifies the format of data as well as the rules to be followed during transmission.

What is a protocol?

100

Describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth.

What is scalability?

100

Data graphical analysis tool created by FreightWaves.

What is SONAR?

100

Term for the representation of multidimensional information.

What is a cube?

200

Process that extracts information, transforms it, and loads it into or out of a data warehouse.

What is ETL?

200

The technology associated with the transmission of information as light impulses along a glass wire or fiber.

What is fiber-optic?

200

Refers to the time frames when the system is operational.

What is availability?

200

Website and data program used by the flooring industry to make ordering carpet faster and easier.

What is Tricycle?

200

Using data about people's behaviors to understand intent and predict future actions.

What are Behavioral Analytics?

300

A field that uniquely identifies a given entity in a table. An exampel would be your student ID number.

What is a primary key?

300

The geometric arrangement of the actual physical organization of the computers in a network.

What is the topology?

300

The ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the information back up.

What is recovery?

300

Used by Erlanger and Hamilton Health to store and display patient data.

What is EPIC?

300

A data value that is numerically distant from most of the other data points in a set of data.

What is an outlier?

400

A logical collection of information - gathered from many different operational databases - that supports business analysis activities and decision-making tasks.

What is data warehouse?

400

The most common protocol it provides the technical foundation for the public Internet as well as for large numbers of private networks.

What is TCP/IP?
400

A detailed process for recovering information or a system in the event of a catastrophic disaster.

What is a disaster recovery plan?

400

Offers free meetings about regional technology to DSC students and includes $1000 scholarships.

What is Chatech?

400

Technique used to divide and information set into mutually exclusive groups such that the members of each group are close together as possible and different groups are as far apart as possible.

What is cluster analysis?

500

A storage repository that holds a vast amount of raw data in its native format until it is needed.

What is a data lake?

500

It is a physical and data layer technology for LAN networking and is the most widely used LAN access method.

What is Ethernet?

500

Includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use and share its data, processes, and MIS assets.

What is the MIS Infrastructure?

500

Fasted Internet access in the region.

What is Chattanooga EPB Fiberoptics?

500
The process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone.

What is data mining