SIT CH 1 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS { GRADED A+}
fact - ✔✔the confirmation or validation of an event or object
Information Age - ✔✔when infinite quantities of facts are widely available to
anyone who can use a computer
Internet of Things (IoT) - ✔✔a world where interconnected, Internet-enabled
devices or "things" can collect and share data without human intervention
Machine to Machine (M2M) - ✔✔refers to devices that connect directly to other
devices
data entry - ✔✔process of gathering data from business documents and entering it
into a computer.... problematic bc ppl can make mistakes.... bad data leads to bad
decisions
Core drivers of the information age - ✔✔data, information, business intelligence,
knowledge
, Data - ✔✔raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event or object
structured data - ✔✔a defined length, type, and format and includes numbers,
dates, or strings such as Customer Address... stored in traditional system and
accounts for 20% of data that surrounds us
sources of structured data - ✔✔Machine-generated data
Human-generated data
Machine-generated data - ✔✔created by a machine without human intervention.
Machine-generated structured data includes sensor data, point-of-sale data, and
web log (blog) data.
Human-generated data - ✔✔is data that humans, in interaction with computers,
generate. Human-generated structured data includes input data, click-stream data,
or gaming data.
unstructured data - ✔✔is not defined, does not follow a specified format, and is
typically free-form text such as emails, Twitter tweets, and text messages
(Unstructured data accounts for about 80 percent of the data that surrounds us)
ANSWERS { GRADED A+}
fact - ✔✔the confirmation or validation of an event or object
Information Age - ✔✔when infinite quantities of facts are widely available to
anyone who can use a computer
Internet of Things (IoT) - ✔✔a world where interconnected, Internet-enabled
devices or "things" can collect and share data without human intervention
Machine to Machine (M2M) - ✔✔refers to devices that connect directly to other
devices
data entry - ✔✔process of gathering data from business documents and entering it
into a computer.... problematic bc ppl can make mistakes.... bad data leads to bad
decisions
Core drivers of the information age - ✔✔data, information, business intelligence,
knowledge
, Data - ✔✔raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event or object
structured data - ✔✔a defined length, type, and format and includes numbers,
dates, or strings such as Customer Address... stored in traditional system and
accounts for 20% of data that surrounds us
sources of structured data - ✔✔Machine-generated data
Human-generated data
Machine-generated data - ✔✔created by a machine without human intervention.
Machine-generated structured data includes sensor data, point-of-sale data, and
web log (blog) data.
Human-generated data - ✔✔is data that humans, in interaction with computers,
generate. Human-generated structured data includes input data, click-stream data,
or gaming data.
unstructured data - ✔✔is not defined, does not follow a specified format, and is
typically free-form text such as emails, Twitter tweets, and text messages
(Unstructured data accounts for about 80 percent of the data that surrounds us)
