Your answers should be essay format.
1. What is relational DBMS? What are entities, attributes, primary key, and foreign key? What is database management system (DBMS)? Describe them.
2. What is entity-relationship diagram? Describe the relationship between SUPPLIER and PART entities in detail.
3. What is the Non-relational DBMS? What are the advantages of the non-rational DBMS? What is the Cloud database? Provide examples of the cloud database.
4. What makes data mining an important business tool? What types of information does data mining produce? In what type of circumstance would you advise a company to use data mining?
5. Describe the ways in which database technologies could be used by an office stationery supply company to achieve low-cost leadership.
6. Describe the functions of the following computer software. Also provide three examples of each.
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1) Operating system software
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2) Application software
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3) Data management software
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4) Open source software
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7. List and describe the five moral dimensions that are involved in political, social, and ethical issues. Which do you think will be the most difficult for society to deal with? Support your opinion.
8. Discuss at least three key technology trends that raise ethical issues. Give an example of an ethical or moral impact connected to each one.
9. List and define the six ethical principles discussed in your text.
10. Define the basic concepts of responsibility, accountability, and liability as applied to ethical decisions. How are these concepts related?
11. What do you consider to be the primary ethical, social, and political issues regarding the quality of a software product?
12. Describe the five major categories of IT infrastructure and provide an example of each.
13. List and describe the major trends in computer hardware. Which of these do you think will create the biggest changes in business information systems, and why?
14. Identify and describe some of the current trends in contemporary software platforms.
15. You are starting an Internet marketing and data mining company. What types of software can you anticipate needing, and what will these types of software be used for?