Mid Term Assessment

Fall 2022

Set A

Submit your documents as instructed when finished.

1. What is technology and explain what technologies are used to create an information system?
2. Explain ways information system's users might respond/react to information.
3. What communication problems did digital communications technology solve?
4. Explain how productivity is determined and describe what type of data is needed.
5. What are the types of computer-based Information systems and components of a computer-based information system?
6. A document consisting of symbols, words, sentences, and paragraphs can be used to communicate information. For each component (symbols, words, sentences, paragraphs, or documents) which can be considered data and which is considered information? For each component explain your choice.
7. At what level of the organization is external data most important and explain why?
8. In what ways do technology impact organizations, give examples.
9. Explain data constraints and why are they important.
10. If you hear your phone ring tone, would you consider it to be data or information? Explain fully why it is one and/or not the other.
11. What purpose(s) does information serves?
12. Explain the visual characteristics of data and give several examples.
13. What issues do organizations experience due to technology's infusion?
14. Explain forms of communication, which is most effective, and what are some communication barriers?
15. Explain or describe how files are organized on a computer's mass storage device.
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