Introduction to Information Systems
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Introduction to Information Systems provides students with a foundational understanding of how information systems are used in organizations to support operations, decision-making, and strategic initiatives. The course explores key concepts such as hardware and software components, data management, networking, and security, as well as the role of information systems in enhancing business processes and competitiveness. Students will also examine the ethical and societal implications of information technology and gain practical insights through case studies and real-world applications. This course equips students with the knowledge to critically assess and utilize information systems in a variety of business contexts.
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Systems Architecture 7th Edition by Stephen D. Burd
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Chapter 1: Computer Technology: Your Need To Know
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Q1) When actual hardware, network, and system software components are acquired and installed, they make up a(n) ____ for one or more information systems.
A) information assurance
B) information services
C) data services
D) technology architecture
Answer: D
Q2) High quality and ____________________ information is the product of intensive research and something for which you should expect to pay.
Answer: unbiased
Q3) In the UP, installing and configuring hardware and software components are activities of the ____________________ discipline.
Answer: deployment
Q4) By far, the most important of activity to keep your knowledge current is taking training courses from hardware and software vendors.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Introduction to Systems Architecture
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Q1) The phrase ____________________ is the concept that the per-unit cost of producing goods or services decreases as the size of the producing or delivering organization increases..
Answer: economies of scale
Q2) Any matter that stores data in multiple simultaneous quantum states is called a
A) qubit
B) bit
C) Limit
D) quantum
Answer: A
Q3) A ____ consists of hardware, software, and transmission media that enable computer systems to share information, software, and hardware resources.
A) computer system
B) computer network
C) computer environment
D) computer platform
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Data Representation
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Q1) In ASCII, NAK is sent to acknowledge correct receipt of data, and ERR is sent to indicate that an error has been detected.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) To represent a specific integer value in excess notation, you must know how many ____________________ are to be used.
Answer: storage bits
Q3) Intel microprocessors have been used in PCs since 1961.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) A ____ data format combines two adjacent fixed-length data items to hold a single value.
A) single-precision
B) standard-precision
C) scientific
D) double-precision
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Processor Technology and Architecture
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Q1) ____________________ is a method of organizing CPU circuitry so that multiple instructions can be in different stages of execution at the same time.
Q2) ____ instructions represent combinations of primitive processing operations.
A) Standard
B) Complex
C) High-order
D) System
Q3) Traditional bus interfaces are too slow and power hungry to provide sufficient data transfer capacity between many processors or between processors and primary storage.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The register that holds bit values (flags) that describe comparison operation results, control conditional BRANCH execution, or indicate actual or potential error conditions
A) load register
B) instruction register
C) program status word
D) control register
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Chapter 5: Data Storage Technology
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Q1) ____ in the CPU are storage locations for instructions and data.
A) ALUs
B) Shifters
C) Registers
D) Controllers
Q2) Most optical storage media can retain data for decades because they aren't subject to magnetic decay and leakage.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe phase-change optical discs.
Q4) Magnetic disk media are flat, circular ____________________ with metallic coatings that are rotated beneath read/write heads.
Q5) The surface area allocated to store on a bit is called the ____.
A) bit density
B) surface density
C) areal density
D) object density
Q6) Explain the two ways that storage device portability is typically implemented.
Q7) List important characteristics among which storage devices and technologies vary.
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Chapter 6: System Integration and Performance
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Q1) The ____ states that when multiple resources are required to produce something useful, adding more of a single resource produces fewer benefits.
A) law of regression
B) law of diminishing returns
C) law of diminished value
D) law of diversity
Q2) When the CPU is the focus of all computer activity, all other devices are ____.
A) bus masters
B) bus primates
C) bus limiters
D) bus slaves
Q3) A buffer for an I/O device is typically implemented on the sending computer.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A full-featured 64-bit CPU, even one with multiple ALUs and pipelined processing, typically requires fewer than 50 million transistors.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain lossy compression and provide an example.
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Chapter 7: Input/Output Technology
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Q1) A(n) ____ detects specific patterns of bars or boxes.
A) bar-code scanner
B) image scanner
C) dimensional scanner
D) linear scanner
Q2) ____________________ is a series of phonemes interspersed with periods of silence.
Q3) ____________________ touchscreen input interprets a sequence of touch information as a single command
Q4) Point size refers to characters' width.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The number of distinct colors or gray shades that can be displayed is sometimes called the ____.
A) resolution
B) palette
C) range
D) chromatic depth
Q6) Describe the components of a sound card.
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Q7) Direct3D and ____________________ are widely-used video controller IDLs.
Chapter 8: Data and Network Communication Technology
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Q1) In ____________________ transmission, messages are sent on an as-needed basis.
Q2) ____ are used by devices such as general-purpose servers that can initiate and respond to data transfer requests.
A) FBAs
B) HCAs
C) HBAs
D) FCAs
Q3) Circuit switching makes efficient use of channel capacity in most data transmission situations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ____ cable can be constructed of glass or plastic.
A) coaxial
B) twisted-pair cable
C) single mode fiber optic
D) multimode fiber optic
Q5) A parallel channel's transmits individual bits over separate wires, fibers, or frequencies.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Computer Networks
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Q1) The term ____ describes transmission situations involving multiple senders and receivers.
A) unicasting
B) broadcasting
C) multicasting
D) netcasting
Q2) ____________________ embeds all or part of a datagram in a physical network's message format.
Q3) Ethernet is a LAN technology, developed by Xerox in the early 1970s, that's closely related to the IEEE 802.3 standard.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ____ is a family of technologies and standards for carrying voice messages and data over a single packet-switched network.
A) Multicasting
B) Voice over Data
C) Hybrid Audio/Video
D) Voice over IP
Q5) Describe the network interface layer in the TCP/IP model.
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Chapter 10: Application Development
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Q1) A(n) ____ is a collection of automated support tools to speed development and testing.
A) integrated development environment
B) linker
C) graphical development environment
D) system development environment
Q2) Source and object code files are compiled and linked as a whole.
A)True
B)False
Q3) ____ linking is performed during program loading or execution.
A) Dynamic
B) Static
C) Early
D) Objective
Q4) The process of designing and constructing software translates users' information-processing needs into CPU instructions that, when executed, address these needs.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why were fourth-generation languages developed?
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Chapter 11: Operating Systems
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Q1) In Windows thread scheduling, a thread's current priority level is called its "local priority."
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the role of the operating system.
Q3) In an Intel CPU, a page table entry includes the page's physical memory address if it's loaded into memory.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the difference between big endian and little endian?
Q5) Through the ____ layer, a user or system administrator can run application and OS utility programs and manage system resources, such as files, folders, and I/O devices.
A) service
B) kernel
C) hypervisor
D) command
Q6) A computer's physical devices and associated system software are called
Q7) List the three states of an active thread.
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Chapter 12: File and Secondary Storage Management
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Q1) ____ is a fault-tolerance technique in which all disk write operations are made simultaneously or concurrently to two storage devices.
A) Disk partitioning
B) Disk planning
C) Disk locking
D) Disk mirroring
Q2) Low blocking factors, with larger logical records, require fewer buffers to achieve substantial performance improvements.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A(n) ____________________ backup is a variation on an incremental backup in which backup times aren't reset as files are copied.
Q4) The term ____ describes any architecture with a dedicated storage server attached to a general-purpose network to handle storage access requests from other servers.
A) storage area network
B) direct attached storage
C) network-local storage
D) network-attached storage
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Chapter 13: Internet and Distributed Application Services
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Q1) In large networks, responsibility for maintaining directory content and answering queries is centralized to a few individuals who manage the network.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When a named pipe is created, a(n) ____________________ is also created in the local file system.
Q3) There is a standard objectclass or attribute name for all entities and resources common to most directories, such as people and shared printers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Every IP packet carries the destination node's IP address.
A)True
B)False
Q5) An LDAP ____________________ stores information about LDAP objects.
Q6) A web browser can pass parameters to a script on a Web server using the RPC protocol.
A)True
B)False
Q7) LDAP objects are organized in a(n) ____________________ directory structure.
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Chapter 14: System Administration
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Q1) A(n) ____ is a formal document sent to vendors that states requirements and solicits proposals to meet these requirements.
A) invitation to negotiate
B) request for quotation
C) request for bid
D) request for proposal
Q2) In all cases, strategic plans must address the basic question "____?"
A) How did we get here
B) Where should we go
C) How do we get there from here
D) What brought us here
Q3) A(n) ____ tracks the progress of complex client/server interactions.
A) application firewall
B) stateful firewall
C) packet-filtering firewall
D) proxy
Q4) ____________________ authentication methods are sometimes used instead of password-based authentication.
Q5) Discuss why disaster planning is important and what measures are normally taken.
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Q6) List three common capabilities of antivirus software.
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