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You are talking with another student who is complaining about having to learn about the systems development life cycle.
A company typically has many systems it wants to build, but unfortunately it usually doesn’t have the resources to build all the systems.
What happens after a system is implemented? What can you do to ensure the system continues to meet the knowledge workers’ needs?
Service-oriented architectures (SoAs) do seem to be the future for integrated IT systems within an organization.
What are the three primary groups of people who undertake the systems development process?
How can a service-oriented architecture (SoA) be used to guide the organization of the future?
What are the main differences between a decentralized infrastructure and a centralized infrastructure?
What is artificial intelligence? Name the artificial intelligence systems used widely in business.
What three concepts of evolution are used by the genetic algorithm? What are intelligent agents? What tasks can they perform?
Make a GIS-type map using transparencies. Draw a map of your campus on one plastic transparency sheet.
What are they? How is a car different from other purchases, such as CDs or TV sets or computers?
The owner wants to design a decision support system to predict how many copies she should purchase and what information she will need.
In spite of the need for “clean” information, many organizations have databases with duplicate records for you.
Some people used to believe that data warehouses would quickly replace databases for both online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing.
Is this an instance of when you should be able to override an integrity constraint? What are the downsides to being able to do so?
Business intelligence sounds like a fancy term with a lot of competitive advantage potentially rolled into it.
Which AI systems do you think might be helpful? For which tasks, or situations, might they best be applied?
Consider the differences and similarities among the four AI techniques discussed. Name some problems that might be amenable to more than one type of AI system.
It is providing timely information access? Is it providing everyone with a wide assortment of data-mining tools?
Do they list a specific DBMS package? What’s your take—should you expand your education and learn more about databases and DBMSs?
In what industries were some of the DBA job openings? Read through a couple of the job postings. What was the listed salary range (if any)?
To adjust classes sizes in a university registration environment. To alert people to changes in weather conditions.
If you were the manager of the video rental store, what kinds of queries would you build? What answers are you hoping to find?
Connect to The Happy Hacker Web site and find an article that discusses a database that was hacked.
How are QBE tools and SQL similar? Your answer must be, typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font (size 12), one-inch margins on all sides, APA format.