B.E. 5.01 Vocab

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What word best describes: Online storage that enables users to upload, store, and access their files via the Internet; users’ files are maintained by a third-party at a remote database storage facility?

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cloud storage

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What word best describes: Text files that are put on a website visitor’s hard disk and then later retrieved during subsequent visits to the site in order to track internet behavior. Mechanisms used by websites to track users’ browsing histories.

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cookies

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What word best describes: the process of transferring data between storage types, formats, or computer system

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data migration

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What word best describes: Handling information, especially facts. Converting facts and figures into useful information. Analyzing collected facts and figures and putting them into formats useful to a business.

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data processing

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What word best describes: Facts and figures.

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data

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What word best describes: Computerized storage for information and facts

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database

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What word best describes: The physical components of a computer system (e.g., the central processing unit, hard drive, modem)

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hardware

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What word best describes: set of coordinated network of components, which act together towards producing, distributing and or processing information.

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information system

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What word best describes: integration of computer with telecommunication equipment for storing, retrieving, manipulating and storage of data.

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information technology

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What word best describes: An internal network similar to the Internet that is accessible only by authorized personnel; used to access information and communicate with others within an organization. A computer network that is restricted to the organization it serves; an internal Internet.

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intranet