MIS 180 SDSU J Oregon Exam 1
Examples of viruses - ✔️✔️backdoor program, worm, polymorphic virus, trojan horse
virus, denial of service
Competitive advantage - ✔️✔️A product or service that an organization's customers
place a greater value on than similar offerings from a competitor
primary storage - ✔️✔️The computer's main memory, which consists of the random
access memory (RAM), cache memory, and the read-only memory (ROM) that is
directly accessible to the CPU
Secondary Memory - ✔️✔️equipment designed to store large volumes of data for long
term storage (CD, DVD, memory stick)
input devices - ✔️✔️equipment used to capture information and commands
output devices - ✔️✔️equipment used to see, hear, or otherwise accept the results of
information processing requests (monitor, printer, microphone)
communication device - ✔️✔️equipment used to send information and receive it from
one location to another
first-mover advantage - ✔️✔️Occurs when an organization can significantly impact its
market share by being first to market with a competitive advantage
SWOT analysis - ✔️✔️strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats
Porter's Five Forces - ✔️✔️1. The threat of new entrants
2. The bargaining power of buyers
3. The bargaining power of suppliers
4. The threat of substitute products and services
5. The intensity of rivalry among competitors in an industry
Porter's 3 Generic Strategies - ✔️✔️broad cost leadership, broad differentiation,
narrow focused strategy
CPU - ✔️✔️Central Processing Unit; the brain of the computer. The actual hardware
that interprets and executes the program (software) instructions and coordinates how all
the other hardware devices work together
RAM - ✔️✔️Integrated circuit, works with the CPU
, ROM - ✔️✔️the portion of a computer's primary storage that does not lost its content
once one switches off the power
System software - ✔️✔️controls how various tools work together along with application
software
Application Software - ✔️✔️performs specific information processing needs
MIS - ✔️✔️Management Information Systems- a business function, like accounting and
human resources, which moves info about people, products, and processes across the
company to facilitate decision making and problem solving
CIO - ✔️✔️Chief Information Officer: oversees all uses of IT and ensures the strategic
alignment of IT with business goals and objectives
CKO - ✔️✔️Chief Knowledge Officer- responsible for collecting, maintaining, and
distributing the organization's knowledge
CPO - ✔️✔️chief privacy officer - responsible for ensuring the ethical and legal use of
information
CSO - ✔️✔️Chief Security Officer
- Responsible for ensuring the security of IT systems
CTO - ✔️✔️Chief Technology Officer-responsible for ensuring the throughput, speed,
accuracy, availability, and reliability of IT.
Gigabyte - ✔️✔️(GB): 1 billion bytes
Terabyte - ✔️✔️1 trillion bytes
Managerial decision-making challenges - ✔️✔️1. Analyze large amounts of information
2. Apply sophisticated analysis techniques
3. Make decisions quickly
The decision making process - ✔️✔️1. problem identification
2. data collection
3. solution generation
4. solution test
5. solution selection
6. solution implementation
Examples of viruses - ✔️✔️backdoor program, worm, polymorphic virus, trojan horse
virus, denial of service
Competitive advantage - ✔️✔️A product or service that an organization's customers
place a greater value on than similar offerings from a competitor
primary storage - ✔️✔️The computer's main memory, which consists of the random
access memory (RAM), cache memory, and the read-only memory (ROM) that is
directly accessible to the CPU
Secondary Memory - ✔️✔️equipment designed to store large volumes of data for long
term storage (CD, DVD, memory stick)
input devices - ✔️✔️equipment used to capture information and commands
output devices - ✔️✔️equipment used to see, hear, or otherwise accept the results of
information processing requests (monitor, printer, microphone)
communication device - ✔️✔️equipment used to send information and receive it from
one location to another
first-mover advantage - ✔️✔️Occurs when an organization can significantly impact its
market share by being first to market with a competitive advantage
SWOT analysis - ✔️✔️strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats
Porter's Five Forces - ✔️✔️1. The threat of new entrants
2. The bargaining power of buyers
3. The bargaining power of suppliers
4. The threat of substitute products and services
5. The intensity of rivalry among competitors in an industry
Porter's 3 Generic Strategies - ✔️✔️broad cost leadership, broad differentiation,
narrow focused strategy
CPU - ✔️✔️Central Processing Unit; the brain of the computer. The actual hardware
that interprets and executes the program (software) instructions and coordinates how all
the other hardware devices work together
RAM - ✔️✔️Integrated circuit, works with the CPU
, ROM - ✔️✔️the portion of a computer's primary storage that does not lost its content
once one switches off the power
System software - ✔️✔️controls how various tools work together along with application
software
Application Software - ✔️✔️performs specific information processing needs
MIS - ✔️✔️Management Information Systems- a business function, like accounting and
human resources, which moves info about people, products, and processes across the
company to facilitate decision making and problem solving
CIO - ✔️✔️Chief Information Officer: oversees all uses of IT and ensures the strategic
alignment of IT with business goals and objectives
CKO - ✔️✔️Chief Knowledge Officer- responsible for collecting, maintaining, and
distributing the organization's knowledge
CPO - ✔️✔️chief privacy officer - responsible for ensuring the ethical and legal use of
information
CSO - ✔️✔️Chief Security Officer
- Responsible for ensuring the security of IT systems
CTO - ✔️✔️Chief Technology Officer-responsible for ensuring the throughput, speed,
accuracy, availability, and reliability of IT.
Gigabyte - ✔️✔️(GB): 1 billion bytes
Terabyte - ✔️✔️1 trillion bytes
Managerial decision-making challenges - ✔️✔️1. Analyze large amounts of information
2. Apply sophisticated analysis techniques
3. Make decisions quickly
The decision making process - ✔️✔️1. problem identification
2. data collection
3. solution generation
4. solution test
5. solution selection
6. solution implementation
