CIS 105 REVIEW EXAM PREP QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔what lies at the center of competitive advantage - ✔✔data leverage
✔✔When does data become information? - ✔✔Data becomes information when it's
presented in a context so that it can answer a question or support decision making
✔✔Database - ✔✔a collection of organized data that allows access, retrieval, and use
of data
✔✔Structured Query Language (SQL) - ✔✔A language used to create and manipulate
databases.
✔✔data warehouse - ✔✔a place where databases are stored so that they are available
when needed
✔✔data mart - ✔✔a data collection, smaller than the data warehouse, that addresses
the needs of a particular department or functional area of the business
✔✔Worms - ✔✔Independent computer programs that copy themselves from one
computer to other computers over a network
✔✔software - ✔✔the programs and other operating information used by a computer.
✔✔Which method of sharing data is dynamic? - ✔✔object linking
✔✔What part of a computer is responsible for reading and writing data? - ✔✔operating
system
✔✔What kind of software requires no human interaction? - ✔✔software system
, ✔✔What is it called when a row and column intersect in a spreadsheet? - ✔✔cell
✔✔In a DBMS, what is a column called? - ✔✔field
✔✔What is a clickable navigation element? - ✔✔hyperlink
✔✔Software as a Service (SaaS) - ✔✔Software that is owned, delivered, and managed
remotely and delivered over the Internet to contracted customers on a pay-for-use basis
or as a subscription based on use metrics.
✔✔Quantum computing - ✔✔A field of computer design using the principles of quantum
mechanics in which a single bit of information can be not just a 0 or a 1 but in both
states at the same time.
✔✔ebay has a - ✔✔two sided platform market
✔✔Trojan Horse - ✔✔a program that appears desirable but actually contains something
harmful
✔✔SQL Injection - ✔✔An attacker issues a SQL command to a web server as part of
the URL or as input to a form on a company's website; web server might pass the
command onto the database which then allows potentially anything to be done to the
database
✔✔Social Engineering - ✔✔hackers use their social skills to trick people into revealing
access credentials or other valuable information
✔✔Public Key Encryption - ✔✔A method of paired key encryption in which the key used
to encrypt data is made available to anybody and its corresponding decryption key is
kept secret.
✔✔blended threat - ✔✔is a security threat that combines the characteristics of computer
viruses, worms, and other malicious codes with vulnerabilities found on public and
private networks.
✔✔Keylogger - ✔✔using spyware to record a user's keystrokes
✔✔botnets or zombie networks - ✔✔Hordes of surreptitiously infiltrated computers,
linked and controlled remotely. This technique is used to perpetrate click fraud, as well
as a variety of other computer security crimes.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔what lies at the center of competitive advantage - ✔✔data leverage
✔✔When does data become information? - ✔✔Data becomes information when it's
presented in a context so that it can answer a question or support decision making
✔✔Database - ✔✔a collection of organized data that allows access, retrieval, and use
of data
✔✔Structured Query Language (SQL) - ✔✔A language used to create and manipulate
databases.
✔✔data warehouse - ✔✔a place where databases are stored so that they are available
when needed
✔✔data mart - ✔✔a data collection, smaller than the data warehouse, that addresses
the needs of a particular department or functional area of the business
✔✔Worms - ✔✔Independent computer programs that copy themselves from one
computer to other computers over a network
✔✔software - ✔✔the programs and other operating information used by a computer.
✔✔Which method of sharing data is dynamic? - ✔✔object linking
✔✔What part of a computer is responsible for reading and writing data? - ✔✔operating
system
✔✔What kind of software requires no human interaction? - ✔✔software system
, ✔✔What is it called when a row and column intersect in a spreadsheet? - ✔✔cell
✔✔In a DBMS, what is a column called? - ✔✔field
✔✔What is a clickable navigation element? - ✔✔hyperlink
✔✔Software as a Service (SaaS) - ✔✔Software that is owned, delivered, and managed
remotely and delivered over the Internet to contracted customers on a pay-for-use basis
or as a subscription based on use metrics.
✔✔Quantum computing - ✔✔A field of computer design using the principles of quantum
mechanics in which a single bit of information can be not just a 0 or a 1 but in both
states at the same time.
✔✔ebay has a - ✔✔two sided platform market
✔✔Trojan Horse - ✔✔a program that appears desirable but actually contains something
harmful
✔✔SQL Injection - ✔✔An attacker issues a SQL command to a web server as part of
the URL or as input to a form on a company's website; web server might pass the
command onto the database which then allows potentially anything to be done to the
database
✔✔Social Engineering - ✔✔hackers use their social skills to trick people into revealing
access credentials or other valuable information
✔✔Public Key Encryption - ✔✔A method of paired key encryption in which the key used
to encrypt data is made available to anybody and its corresponding decryption key is
kept secret.
✔✔blended threat - ✔✔is a security threat that combines the characteristics of computer
viruses, worms, and other malicious codes with vulnerabilities found on public and
private networks.
✔✔Keylogger - ✔✔using spyware to record a user's keystrokes
✔✔botnets or zombie networks - ✔✔Hordes of surreptitiously infiltrated computers,
linked and controlled remotely. This technique is used to perpetrate click fraud, as well
as a variety of other computer security crimes.
