MIST exam 1 Questions and Answers

Information system - Answer-organized collection of people, info, business process and IT, designed to transform inputs into outputs Information Tech - Answer-tools business use to access, create, find, and store info data - Answer-raw, unorganized facts information - Answer-data that has been organized and is useful to a person knowledge - Answer-created when a person combines experience and judgement with information explicit knowledge - Answer-knowledge that is readily confided in (textbook) tatcit knowledge - Answer-knowledge that is gained form experiences and judgement with information structured desicion - Answer-can be programmed routine or repetitive semi-structured decision - Answer-involves some uncertainty abou the outcome unstructured - Answer-involves a significant amount of uncertainty abou the outcome associated with choice CARROTS - Answer-C-complete A-accurate R-reliable R-relevant O-objective T-timely S-source Database - Answer-organized collection of data database management system - Answer-software application that lets you create and work with a data base data model - Answer-organization scheme for a database, first step in creating a database normalization - Answer-organizing data to reduce redundancy hardware - Answer-parts you see and touch