Information Systems for Business and Beyond Questions Discussion
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Please review the Chapter 3 & 4 from the above pdf and complete the below homework in your own words
Chapter 3 Homework:
1. Come up with your own definition of software. Explain the key terms in your definition.
2. What are the functions of the operating system?
3. Which of the following are operating systems and which are applications: Microsoft Excel,
Google Chrome, iTunes, Windows, Android, Angry Birds.
4. What is your favorite software application? What tasks does it help you accomplish?
5. What is a “killer” app? What was the killer app for the PC?
6. How would you categorize the software that runs on mobile devices? Break down these apps
into at least three basic categories and give an example of each.
7. Explain what an ERP system does.
8. What is open-source software? How does it differ from closed-source software? Give an
example of each.
9. What does a software license grant?
10. How did the Y2K (year 2000) problem affect the sales of ERP systems?
Chapter 4 Homework:
1. What is the difference between data, information, and knowledge?
2. Explain in your own words how the data component relates to the hardware and software
components of information systems.
3. What is the difference between quantitative data and qualitative data? In what situations could
the number 42 be considered qualitative data?
4. What are the characteristics of a relational database?
5. When would using a personal DBMS make sense?
6. What is the difference between a spreadsheet and a database? List three differences between
them.
7. Describe what the term normalization means.
8. Why is it important to define the data type of a field when designing a relational database?
9. Name a database you interact with frequently. What would some of the field names be?
10. What is metadata?
11. Name three advantages of using a data warehouse.
12. What is data mining?
APA Format
No Plagiarism/Spinbot/Synonymic Words
Minimum of 4 Peer Reviewed References
In-Text Citations as needed
Make sure you mention the question and then answer so that It will avoid confusion
Example: Question 1 and answer, Question 2 and answer, … etc., for both the chapters.
There is no word limit. Answer as per the questions asked. To few of them it can be a one word too.