Study Guide for MI375 Chapter 1
1. What is Moore’ Law?
2. Because of Moore’s Law, data ______and data ______is essentially zero .
3. To help you attain and keep a job, you need for nonroutine cognitive skills that include the following. Briefly define each:
a. ______Reasoning- Able to understand a process and mentally recreate it using a model.
b. ______Thinking- Able to see entire connections in the model from beginning to end. To connect the inputs and the ______within the model.
c. ______– Able to work with two or more people to achieve a common goal, result, or work product.
- The single most important skill for effective collaboration is: ______
d. ______– is analyzing an opportunity, envisioning potential solutions, evaluating those solutions and selecting the most promising one(s) consistent with available resources.
4. ______(MIS) is defined as the development and use of information systems that help businesses achieve their goals and objectives.
5. A ______is a group of components that interact to achieve some purpose. An ______is a group of components that interact to produce information.
6. The five component framework of every information system includes the following. Briefly describe each: (Leave room for notes. We will answer in class. Also, see figure on page 10.)
Hardware / Software / Data / Procedures / PeopleHardware
Software
Data
Procedures
People
Information
7. As future business managers and IT users, you will need to take an active role in developing systems which includes:
a. Specifying the system requirements
b. Helping to manage the development project.
8. Why is it important that users take an active role in the development process?
9. Information systems exist to help business achieve their ______and ______.
10. Some questions that a company should ask before developing a Facebook page or any system include:
a. What is the ______of our (Facebook) page?
b. What is it going to ______?
c. Is (Facebook) the ______?
d. What should we do about ______customer reviews?
e. Are the ______of maintaining the page sufficiently offset by the ______?
11. Briefly explain the statement, “The most important component of an information system is you.”
12. What do the following statements mean?
a. Good information is ______meaning that it is based on correct and complete data and has been processed correctly as expected.
b. Good information is ______or produced in time for its intended use.
c. Information should be ______both to the context and subject meaning that the appropriate information is provided in an understandable manner to the correct person.
d. Information needs to be just barely ______meaning that you have an appropriate amount of the information that you need to make a decision but are not overwhelmed with too much.
e. Worth its ______meaning that the value it provides is worth the amount spent to acquire the information.
13. ______refers to the products, methods, inventions, and standards that are used for the purpose of producing information. (i.e.: Hardware, software, standards, inventions, methods and data components.)
While an information ______refers to the hardware, software, data components, procedures, and ______that produce the information.
14. You cannot buy an ______because it includes the people who execute the specified procedures and employ the IT.
15. For any new system, you will always have:
a. Training ______
b. The need to overcome employees’ ______
c. The need to manage the employees as ______
16. In general, computers-in-a-product canconnect and share data with other devices.
17. Microsoft defines a strong password as having the following characteristics:
a. Has ______or more characters
b. Does not contain your ______
c. Does not contain a complete ______
d. Is different from previous ______you have used
e. Contains both upper- and lowercase ______, ______, and special ______