[BTE 210] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (41 pages long!)
6 Feb 2017
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It: refers to any computer based tool that people use to work with information and to support the information & information processing needs of an organization. Accounting ex: anything that charges a rms account. Support for organization employees: clerical workers: support all managers, bookkeeping, secretary, lower level managers: handle day-to-day operations such as placing purchase orders, middle managers: tactical decisions such as short term planning, knowledge workers: professional employees such as. Ex: navigation system: dashboards are special form of is that support all managers of the organization, provide rapid to timely information. It helps people with disabilities: speech / vision recognition, cant type -> voice operated key boards, robotic page turner. Data entered through input system/ stored/ registered: 2. Data travels in the chip via electrical pathways (buses: 3. Control unit directs ow of data: 4. Alu receives data and makes computation: 5. Data are sent to storage registers aka hard drive.
