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13 December 2015
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1 Advantages and disadvantages of remote working
Remote working involves using computer technology that is advanced when working outside a workplace that is nowadays practiced by young people. Some of the benefits of remote work include: the comfort of work, it can be combined with other duties; saves time in that one does not have to travel to the workplace. The benefit of indirect supervision and one can adjust time disadvantages are the lack of effective time management, inability to set a border between the job and family and lack of control of the work.
2) Compare client/server and peer-to-peer network
Lack of central server for peer to peer network while the client server has a very separate dedicated servers and clients and peer to peer networks are cheap while a client-server network is expensive.
3) Main improvement of web 2.0 as compared to web 1.0
In web2.0 is that information displayed is dynamic and it’s updated very fast and an introduction to the web application.
4) Main advantage/purpose of Network and its principal risk
It has been used to its competitive advantage and have played a great role in banking.'
5) Artificial intelligence, what are the two building blocks of expert systems and their role.
Knowledge base that organizes and formalizes knowledge and heuristic representation that is the judgmental and experiential performance knowledge
6) Examples of consumer-to-consumer (C2C) E-commerce model, B2C model
An example of a consumer to consumer model is based and eBay while examples of B2C business model are LMN department store and William Ward.
7) Examples of patterns recognition: Examples of high-level languages.
Examples of patterns recognition are classification, regression, and sequence labeling. Examples of high level languages are: C/C++, Basic and Java
8) Information systems
Information systems: it's a very organized system for organization, storage, communication and collection of information.
9) Systems development life cycle: Internet, Extranet, Intranet
System development life cycle is the processes of designing, defining, implementing and testing a software application. Extranets are the secure use of a network and its technologies intranets its resources are: net server work, HTML publishing software, network management and security programs and database management systems. The internet is the network itself.
10) Blocks of an information system: Input, processing, Output, Storage, control.
Input is what one embeds in a system to be used. Output: is the results we get from the input data. Processing is that act of converting input data into usable form. Storage involves data saving on a computer.
11) Value chain model: primary activities versus secondary activities
Value chains are the activities a company does to deliver goods and services that are valuable. Primary activities include sales and marketing inbound and outbound logistics and operations. Secondary activities include: infrastructure, management of human resources and procurement
12) Structured decisions, unstructured decisions, semi-structured decisions
Structured decisions: this is where the procedure is required and normally specified in advance. Unstructured relates to the decisions for long term in a firm and semi- structured decisions is when there is pre – specification of some decision procedures though not enough to lead t...