Consolidated Notes for Study CIS 235

CIS Notes 5.17.16

 Mega, Giga, Tera, Peta, Exa, Zetta

 Data – information – knowledge – value
 Information
o Timeliness – how fast can I get it?
o Location – where it is accessed?
o Form – what form it is in?
o Validity – is it valid data?
o *Lack of any of the above can create a garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) decision making
process
 Information system
o People
o Technology
o Information
 Hardware
 Software
 Data
 Procedure
 People
 *Goal is to align all of these to create business
 Moore’s law – “the number of transistors per square inch on an integrated chip doubles every
18 months” (tech speed)
o Cost of processing and data storage is essentially zero
o We need to assess, evaluate, and apply emerging information tech to business
 The use of IS
o Automate process
o Improve communication
o Faster and more accurate business decisions
o Better secures, store, and manipulate big data

CIS Notes 5.19.16

 Main memory
o Takes information and makes it immediately available, volatile
 Ram is volatile, Ram = Main memory
 The more RAM the faster the machine will run
 Secondary storage – off site storage
o Ex: Hard drive
o Non volatile
 ROM
o Read only memory
 o Examines hardware to make sure everything is okay
o Referred to as firmware

CIS Notes 5.20.16

 History of the internet

o Came through military research, called ARPANET
o NSFNET became the internet
o WWW invented by Tim Berners-Lee
 Three functions
o Packet switching – method of slicing digital messages into packets, sending them on
communication paths
 https://www.amazon.com
o Protocol – https
o Platform – www
o Domain name – amazon.com
 WAN – the internet
o MAN – WWW (Modem)
 LAN – WIFI
 PAN – Bluetooth

CIS Notes 5.26.16

 Transaction – the exchange of something that generates data

 Information silo – the date is isolated in separate information systems
 ERP (enterprise resource planning)
o Database
o Software
o Inherent processes
 MRP II – integrates HR into the system
 Customer lifecycle
o Leads/marketing
o Acquire customers
o Retain customers
o Loss/churn

CIS Notes 6.1.16

 SQL Has 3 parts

o DDL – data definition language
 Commands that define database
o DML – data maintaining language
 Commands to maintain query database
o DCL – data control language
 Commands that control a database
 SG NOTES

 Information System – Collects, processes, stores, analyzes, and disseminates information for a
specific purpose.
o Hardware – processor, monitor, keyboard, printer
o Software – a program or collection of programs
o Database – collection of related files
o Procedures -
o People – individuals who use hardware and software
o Data serve as the bridge between human and computer side of IS
 Why were IS created?
 Information technology – relate to any computer based tool that people use to work with
information and support the information needs of an organization
 IS is an umbrella term, IT refers to the technology itself
 The kernel is the connecting piece from the OS to the hardware, kernel panic = Blue screen of
death
 DNS translates 10.X.XXX.XXX into ex: amazon.com or another website