Managing Information and Technology

Marketing coordinates sales activities & handles customer-relationship management.

To convince consumers that it's safe to buy things over the Internet, businesses must ___.

Career Technology's __ is a private network with Internet technologies that's available only to the company's employees.

__ involves a centeralized database in which data from several databases are consolidated & organized to be analyzed.

A financial transaction is an economic event.

To gather & process data into information & distribute it to people who need it, organizations develop info systems.

A(n) ___ is a software program that controls access to a company's intranet.

So-called __ systems are networks that include a number of client machines and a server.

___ software performs a specific task, such as word processing or spreadsheet creation.

Data mining - searching & analyzing large amounts of data to reveal patterns & trends to predict future behavior.

Stealing information off the Internet is called piracy.

The term ___ refers to the science of developing computer systems that can mimic human behavior.

Companies install firewalls to prevent fires that start in one part of a building from entering another part.

A company selling over the Internet must ____.

___ are electronic collections of related data that can be accessed by various members of an organization.

You can combat destructive computer programs with ___.

Artificial intelligence is the science of developing computer systems that can mimic human behavior.

If you were to replace the word "cloud" with another word it would be __.

Input data are called __, which are events that affect a business.

Caesar's primary data source is internal - generated by the company itself rather than provided by outside sources.

A __ sytem integrates various operations w/functional activities ranging from order taking to final shipment.

A local area network can be connected either by cables or by wireless technology.

Databases are electronic collections of related data that can be accessed by various members of an organization.

Password thieves count on people using different passwords for different online accounts.

With CAD, engineers can test computer models digitally before moving new products into the prototype stage.

A wide area network links computers that are in close proximity - same building or office complex.

All of the following are disadvantages of cloud computing except:

Data and information are the same thing.

Technology makes it easier to create intellectual property, it also makes stealing it, a crime called _____, easier.

___ is just a portion of the Internet

In most large organizations, the information system is operated by a senior mgmt. team, including a(n) _ to oversee all.

Encryption is the process of encoding data so that only individuals armed with a secret code can decode it.

E-commerce is business conducted over the Internet.

A virtual company has no significant physical presence.

A digital camera-surveillance system uses face-recognition technology.