Morehead State University

CIS - Computer Information Systems

BIS - Business Information Systems

MATH - Computing

EET - Electrical Engineering/ Electronics Technology

www.morehead-st.edu

CIS-311-002 Management Information Systems

Fall 2001 - Dr. Kelley

3-4:15 pm Combs CB-312

Term: Aug 21 - Dec 5 2001

Final Exam: Friday Dec 14 3-5 pm

Syllabus - Schedule

 

FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE


Briefly explain (in 2-3 lines each) what each of the following terms means and why it is important.

 

Item

Term

Meaning Of Term/Significance

 

 

 

1

IDE/SCSI

 

2

SAN/Fibre Channel

 

3

T1/T3

 

4

CMOS/POST/BIOS

 

5

DVD

 

6

CD-R/CD-RW

 

7

VPN

 

8

ISP/ASP

 

9

CPU/ L1/L2

 

10

ATM/MPLS

 

11

SIMM/DIMM RAM

 

12

ISA/EISA/PCI

 

13

printer driver

 

14

video driver

 

15

NIC driver

 

16

TDMA/CDMA

 

17

802.11.a-b-g

 

18

CRT/LCD

 

19

IEEE-1394/i.Link/Firewire

 

20

USB/IEEE-1384

 

21

CATV/HDTV

 

22

Knowledge Base

 

23

UPC/surge protector

 

24

HTTP/HTTPS

 

25

SSL/RSA

 

26

telnet /ping

 

27

ESD

 

28

Mandrake/RedHat/Linux

 

29

FAT/FAT32/NTFS

 

30

interrupt

 

31

hub/switch/router

 

32

latency/jitter

 

33

bandwidth/throughput

 

34

ASCII/Unicode

 

35

xDSL/ISDN

 

36

4mm/DLT Tapes

 

37

UTP/Cat5 Cabling

 

38

Kbps/baud

 

39

MIDI/AU/MP3

 

40

encryption/compression

 

41

cd .. / cd subdir

 

42

ren file1 file 2

mv file1 file2

 

43

copy file1 file2

cp file1 file2

 

44

dir *.*/ ls -al

 

45

attrib +r / chmod 777

 

46

inductance/Henry/H

H = (V/A) * seconds [example: 5 H inductor]

47

current/Ampere/A

A = Q/seconds [example: 0.1 mA DC circuit draw]

48

resistance/Ohm/W

W = V/A [example 1kW op-amp feedback resistor]

49

charge/Coulomb/C

Q = A * seconds [example 1 electron = 6.19 * 10^-19 C]

50

voltage/Volt/V

V =  J/C [5 V 555 timer pin 8 input voltage]

51

capacitance/Farad/F

F = V/C [10 pF low pass filter feedback capacitor]

52

energy/Joule/J

J = N * meters [example 1200 Joule surge suppressor)]

53

power/Watt/W

W=J/seconds [example: 50 nW (per bit for cell phones)]

54

force/Newton/N

N = mass * acceleration = (kg * meters)/(second)^2

55

MOSFET transistor/BJT transistor

http://www.plcs.net/chapters/transout28.htm

56

bit / threshold voltage

 

57

diode/rectifier

 

58

semiconductor

http://library.thinkquest.org/C006224/introsemihtml.htm

59

white noise

 

60

millisecond/microsecond/ nanosecond/ picosecond/ femtosecond

http://www.translume.com/1tech/techfemto.htm

61

infrared/microwave

 

62

DHCP/DNS

 

63

trouble ticket /closing the loop

 

64

systems documentation

 

http://www.onclick.com/cis350/2001/fall/howtodocument.pdf

65

RFP/RFQ

http://www.internetraining.com/6art2.htm