Unit 2 Flashcards

What is ICT?

What is a system?

What are input,processes and outputs?

What is an ICT system?

What are the 6 components of an ICT system?

What is data?

What are some types of data?

What format does a computer store and process data in?

Why do we encode data?

Why do we code data?

What is processing?

What is information?

What factors increase the value of information?

What characteristics of users need to be considered when designing a system?

What key factors need to considered when designing a system?

What is included in a GUI?

What is a menu-driven interface?

What is a command line interface?

What types of help and support can be provided to users?

What are some essential skills required for an ICT professional?

What are the characteristics of an effective ICT team?

What is an ICT network?

What is a WAN and a LAN and an example of each?

What is an intranet?

What an extranet?

What is a hub?

What is a peer-to-peer network?

What is a client-server network?

What is a router?

What is a network switch?

A client-server network

Wireless peer-to-peer network

What is internet?

What is the World Wide Web?

Which protocol is used to access files through a web browser?

What language are web pages written in?

What is a de facto standard?

What is a de jure standard?

What are protocols?

What is a Transmission Control Protocol? (TCP)

What is Internet Protocol (IP)?

What does a protocol do?

What are 4 threats to ICT systems?

What is malpractice and give an example?

What is crime and given an ICT related example?

What is a virus and give some forms of a virus?

What is spyware?

What are 4 reasons for security breaches?

Two types of threat

What are some ways to control a threat?

How are ICT systems protected?

What hardware measures could be put in place?

What software measures could be put in place?

What procedures could be put in place?

What is the Data Protection Act 1998?

What are the rights of data subjects?

What is the role of the Data Protection Commissioner?

What are the 3 offences identified in the Computer Misuse Act 1990?

What can happen to individual for each of these offences?

How could an organisation deal with computer misuse?

What is a firewall?

A firewall

What is the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988?

What are the three types of licenses available for computer software?

What questions need to be considered when thinking about backup?

What are some causes of data loss?

What is a full backup?

What is a differential backup?

What is an incremental backup?

What 6 things can ICT provide?

Why aren't ICT systems always appropriate to use?

What are the three types of processing?

What is batch processing?

What is interactive processing?

What is transaction processing?

What factors may influence the use of ICT systems?

What is data security?

What is data privacy?