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WHAT ARE THE ELEMENTS OF AN INFORMATION SYSTEM? - ✔✔
People
Process
Data
Technology
People do what in an information system? - ✔✔they use the informations systems, and maintain it
Who can break the rules of the information system? - ✔✔People
What are the processes of the information system? - ✔✔the steps/rules and relationships of how
software operates and how people use the system
What is data? - ✔✔The raw Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis that makeup
the information system
What is technology? - ✔✔The hardware and software of the information system, and the
telecommunication equipment used to capture, process , store and distribute information
What is the order of steps for hardware and software? - ✔✔
1.User
2.application
3.operating system
4.hardware
Vice versa
, What are the sub-sets of information systems? - ✔✔
Socio sub-set
Technical sub-set
define the socio sub-set system - ✔✔Includes the people and structure component of the informations
system
define the technical sub-set system - ✔✔includes the technology and process component
What is the difference between analog information systems and digital information systems? -
✔✔Analog uses a measurable factor to represent specific data .
Digital converts all of the analog data into digital "bits"
What are the elements of Information Technology ? - ✔✔Hardware
Software
Telecommunications system
What is telecommunications system? - ✔✔the networking equipment enabling users and devices to
communicate.
(i.e. telephone network)
What is data integrity? - ✔✔measures the accuracy , completeness and currency of data , when it is
stored in the information system to see if it can be trusted.
What is data redundancy? - ✔✔a condition created within a database or data storage technology in
which the same piece of data is held in 2 separate places.
(questions how many times can data be stored ?)