MSIS 2203 Lecture 1: Msis Exam Final Review
6 Sep 2018
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Chapter 1 (4%: advertising is one of the primary methods of making money on the internet, google maps is a program that uses global positioning system (gps, www. gps. gov/ ) and is called a geographical information system (gis) Chapter 2 (4%: data is a fact. Information is a fact put into context: the key element of knowledge is the internalization of a skill, facts and information are explicit knowledge; explicit knowledge can be written down and obtained through reading. Skills are tacit knowledge; tacit knowledge is an internalized skill: data that a business stores in its information system is stored in a manner that the computer can read. The language of the computer is binary, 0 and 1, which is called a bit: a byte is 8 bits. We measure the size of data in bytes: computers consist of both hardware and software. Hardware consists of input devices, computing devices (chips), and output devices.
