Information Technology On Screen

Author : Narayan Changder
Publisher : CHANGDER OUTLINE
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Total Pages : 1445 pages
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Whether you're a student or an IT enthusiast, this guide is your key to unraveling the secrets of Information Technology and understanding the complexities of the digital landscape with precision and expertise. 1 Information Systems Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.1 What Is an Information System? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 What Are Information Systems? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1.3 Information Technology in Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 2 Computer Hardware & Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 2.1 Computer System Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 2.2 Computer Memory and Processing Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 2.3 How Do Computers Store Data? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 2.4 Binary Language of Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 2.5 Computer Input Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 2.6 Computer Output Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 2.7 External and Internal Storage Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 2.8 Data Storage Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 2.9 What is Data Storage? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 2.10 History of Data Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 2.11 OS Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 2.12 Computer Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 2.13 What is Computer Software? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 2.14 What is a Mobile Operating System? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334 2.15 Application Software for Personal, Enterprise & Workgroup Objectives . . 340 2.16 What is Shareware? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 3 Database Systems Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375 3.1 What is Database Management? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375 3.2 What is a Relational Database? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405 3.3 Structured Query Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412 3.4 Data Warehousing and Data Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416 3.5 What is Business Intelligence? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436 3.6 Business Intelligence (BI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461 3.7 Basics of Big Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462 3.8 Using Big Data Analytics to Drive Business Decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486 4 Networks & the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491 4.1 What is a Computer Network? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491 4.2 What Is a Client-Server Network? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553 4.3 Types of Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559 4.4 What is the Internet? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575 4.5 World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630 4.6 The Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646 4.7 What is Online Data Storage? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667 4.8 What is Web 2.0? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671 4.9 OSI Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691 4.10 What is Network Security? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743 4.11 Types of Network Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808 4.12 Types of Attacks in Network Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815 4.13 How to Test Network Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872 4.14 Future Trends in Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882 5 Mobile & Electronic Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889 5.1 e-commerce & m-commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889 5.2 What is Business-to-Business E-Commerce? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914 5.3 What is Business-to-Consumer E-Commerce? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915 5.4 Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) e-Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915 5.5 Internet and Global Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932 5.6 E-Commerce Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 936 6 Information Support Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937 6.1 What Are Specialized Information Systems? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937 6.2 E-Business Enhanced and E-Business Enabled Organizations . . . . . . . . . . 939 6.3 Management Information Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940 6.4 Enterprise Resource Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 944 6.5 Information Technology Used for Supply Chain Management . . . . . . . . . . 951 6.6 Geographic Information System (GIS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 960 6.7 Human Resource Information Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999 7 Knowledge Management & Artificial Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003 7.1 What is Knowledge Management? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003 7.2 Knowledge Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1023 7.3 Types of Artificial Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1026 7.4 What is LISP in Artificial Intelligence? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053 7.5 Ethics of Artificial Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1054 7.6 Machine Learning vs. Artificial Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1056 8 Software Development & Project Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1073 8.1 Systems Development Methods and Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1073 8.2 Systems Development Life Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1077 8.3 What is a Software Development Life Cycle? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1092 8.4 What is Agile Software Development? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1094 8.5 Agile vs. SDLC Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1122 8.6 Mobile App . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1132 8.7 What is Project Management? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155 8.8 The Benefits of Project Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1217 8.9 Project Management Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1230 8.10 What Is Programming? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1236 8.11 5 Basic Elements Of Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1268 8.12 Using Validation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1272 8.13 What is Software Prototyping? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1273 8.14 Object-Oriented Programming vs. Procedural Programming . . . . . . . . . 1273 8.15 Object-Oriented Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1275 9 Impact of Information Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1307 9.1 Information Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1307 9.2 Business Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1387 9.3 Impact of Technology on Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1411 9.4 Impact of e-Commerce and m-Commerce on Consumer Privacy and Fraud 1421 10 Computer & Internet Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1425 10.1 What is Internet Security? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1425 10.2 Types of Internet Security Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1432 10.3 What is Spyware? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1433 10.4 What is Malware? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1436 10.5 What is Cybercrime? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1466 10.6 What is Adware? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1483 10.7 What is a Botnet Attack? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1483 10.8 Computer Security & Threat Prevention for Individuals & Organizations 1486 10.9 Protecting Consumer Privacy Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1503 10.10 What is a Privacy Policy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1506 10.11 Using Privacy Settings in Social Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1508 11 Information Systems & Technology Careers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1515 11.1 Ergonomics, Telecommuting, Virtual Teams & Job Design . . . . . . . . . . . 1515 11.2 Globalization, Outsourcing & Insourcing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1551