ITEC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Management Information System, Telecommunications Network, Data Manipulation Language
30 Jan 2016
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Business depends on information technology to get their work done. Information technology provides the means to rethink conventional business process. Work process is being transformed to increase productivity. Information- collection of facts(data) organized in some way to be meaningful to a user. Street name, number, postal code, city provides us an address. Knowledge- consists of information that has been processed and organized to carry understanding and experience, awareness and understanding of information and ways how to make the information useful for a particular task. Information system- is collects, processes, stores, analyzes and disseminates information for a specific purpose. Computer-based information system- is an information system that uses computer and often telecommunications technology to perform some or all of its intended tasks. Basic components of a computer-based information system are: Hardware- the physical equipment used for the input, processing, output and storage activities of a computer system (cpu, memory, input, output) Procedures- rules, methods and policies for using cbis.
