Information Processing Review

Information

Processing

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What is data?

It can be in the form of:

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DATA BY ITSELF HAS NO MEANING.

Letters

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Numbers

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Multiple Choice

Information is...

• Information is processed data

• Information is data process turned into facts.

• Information is information

Data Capture means collecting data for input. It is the first stage of the data processing cycle. There are two main ways of inputting data; manual and automatic.

Data Capture

Source Document

- a document on which data is first recorded before it is entered into the computer. For example using an optical scanner, the document being scanned is considered a source document.

Turnaround Document

- a document one which is produced as output at one stage of the data processing cycle, has more data added to it and is re-input for further processing.

Multiple Choice

Source Documents are documents on which data is first recorded.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Turnaround and source documents are the same

• True

• False

​Means to check that data entered into the system is identical to the data on the original source document,

Data Verification

Multiple Select

Methods of Data Verification are...

• Visual Checks

• Check Digit Check

• Data-Type Check

• Dual Input

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What are Visual Checks?

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What is Dual Input?

Next class we'll do data validation and it's methods!

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