MGMT 301 Chapter 17

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Which of the following is the prediction that about every two years, computer processing power would double and its cost would drop by 50%?

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Moore's law

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Which of the following terms refers to facts and figures that are useless unless they have meaning? Variable, Knowledge, Raw data, Census data

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Raw data

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Identify a difference between raw data and information.

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Unlike raw data, information has context.

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In the context of the costs of useful information, Kamara Jobs has incurred a(n) _____ when it pays $200,000 to obtain the proven technology required to launch its global online application.

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acquisition cost

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Allied Corp., a multinational corporation, has spent $500 million on a new data center that allows the firm to rapidly transform raw data into useful information. This enables the smooth functioning of the firm's operations. In this case, Allied Corp. has incurred a(n) ______.

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processing cost

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Storage cost is the cost of ______.

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physically or electronically archiving information for later use

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In the scenario where Soundwave Communication Services had to spend a large sum of money to regain access to the information due to a technical fault in its servers, the cost borne by them is a(n) ______.

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retrieval cost

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Which of the following detects events or changes and actively transmits that information to other electronic devices? Bar code reader, Sensor, Autonomous recording unit, Perceptual filter

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Sensor

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Which of the following can be used to convert digitized documents into ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) text that can be searched, read, and edited with standard word processing, email, desktop publishing, database management, and spreadsheet software? Proximity cards, Radio frequency analog software, Optical character recognition software, Neural machine translation technology

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Optical character recognition software

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Which of the following is a strategy that automatically discovers patterns and relationships in large amounts of data? Phishing, Data encryption, Authorization, Data mining

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Data mining