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DECA Questions and Answers 100% Pass Explain the nature of information management ✔✔Information management involves handling information in a way that is useful to a company. This includes orga... nizing, understanding, and collecting important data. Information which is important to a company may include financial information, knowledge of various processes, incident reports, customer and employee information, as well as results of customer surveys, insurance quotes, value of inventory, etc. Explain the scope of the internet ✔✔the internet is the worldwide, publicly accessible system of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard IP. it consists of millions of smaller business, academic, domestic and government networks, which together carry various informations and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, and interlinked Web pages and other documents of the WWW. internet is one of the uses of communication. through the internet, society has access to global information and instant communication. Discuss principles of computer systems ✔✔A system of interconnected computers that share a central storage system and various peripheral devices such as a printers, scanners, or routers. Each computer connected to the system can operate independently, but has the ability to communicate with other external devices and computers What are information systems ✔✔You should always be able to access your information system from anywhere so that you can get the knowledge that you need. A combination of hardware, software, infrastructure and trained personnel organized to facilitate planning, control, coordination, and decision making in an organization. Personal info management and productivity applications ✔✔Productivity software (sometimes called personal productivity software or office productivity software) is application software dedicated to producing information, such as documents, presentations, worksheets, databases, charts, graphs, digital paintings, electronic music and digital video. EX GOOGLE DRIVE DROPBOX Personal info management involves the practice of managing keeping and organizing documents emails etc. Apply info to accomplish a task ✔✔Get insight to what the task is and what you have to do. Find the facts you have to know about the task so you can finish strong. Store information for future use ✔✔Save to your computer in a folder, load to hard drive, USB. Use basic operating system ✔✔An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs. The operating system is a component of the system software in a computer system. Application programs usually require an operating system to function. Database ✔✔A database is a collection of information that is organized so that it can easily be accessed, managed, and updated. In one view, databases can be classified according to types of content: bibliographic, full-text, numeric, and images. Relational databases are still the most commonly used ones. There main uses are storing data and making it easily accessible. Examples of databases for business include IBM DB2 and Oracle which are both relational databases. Basic email functions ✔✔Ability to send information with attachments. Carbon copy and blind carbon copy. Written communication quick and efficient for sharing data. Uses a certain domain. Creating basic webpage ✔✔If you have basic html knowledge than you can design your own website through that. However there are other easy ways to create a webpage without needing html. For example weebly and Google Sites Groupware. ✔✔A computer application that allows its users to collaborate with each other. Example would be google drive which allows its users to share documents and presentations with others so that can work on it at the same time. Business software application packages ✔✔This means that each person will be able to access the same information without having to transfer information in different forms. By having a business software application package, Process Efficiency can increase Across Your Organization Data mining ✔✔Data Mining is an analytic process designed to explore data (usually large amounts of data - typically business or market related - also known as "big data") in search of consistent patterns and/or systematic relationships between variables, and then to validate the findings by applying the detected patterns to new subsets of data. The ultimate goal of data mining is prediction - and predictive data mining is the most common type of data mining and one that has the most direct business applications. The process of data mining consists of three stages: (1) the initial exploration, (2) model building or pattern identification with validation/verification, and (3) deployment (i.e., the application of the model to new data in order to generate predictions). [Show More]

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