Chapter 1: What Is an Information System? Exercises

Chapter 4:

Networking and Communication Study Questions

1. What were the first four locations hooked up to the Internet (ARPANET)?

2. What does the term packet mean?

3. Which came first, the Internet or the World Wide Web?

4. What was revolutionary about Web 2.0?

5. What was the so-called killer app for the Internet?

6. What makes a connection a broadband connection?

7. What does the term VoIP mean?

8. What is an LAN?

9. What is the difference between an intranet and an extranet?

Exercises

1. What is the IP address of your computer? How did you find out? What is the IP address of google.com? How did you find out? Did you get IPv4 or IPv6 addresses?

2. What is the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web? Create at least three statements that identify the differences between the two.

3. Who are the broadband providers in your area? What are the prices and speeds offered?

4. Pretend you are planning a trip to three foreign countries in the next month. Consult your wireless carrier to determine if your mobile phone would work properly in those countries. What would the costs be? What alternatives do you have if it would not work?

Lab 7.

Enterprise Business Systems Study Questions

1. What does the term business process mean?

2. What are three examples of business process from a job you have had or an organization you have observed?

3. What is the value in documenting a business process?

4. What is an ERP system? How does an ERP system enforce best practices for an organization?

5. What is one of the criticisms of ERP systems?

Exercises

1. Think of a business process that you have had to perform in the past. How would you document this process? Would a diagram make more sense than a checklist? Document the process both as a checklist and as a diagram.

2. Review the return policies at your favorite retailer, then answer this question: What information systems do you think would need to be in place to support their return policy.

3. If you were implementing an ERP system, in which cases would you be more inclined to modify the ERP to match your business processes? What are the drawbacks of doing this?

Lab 8: Chapter 8: Blockchain technology Study Questions

1. What is Blockchain?

2. How Does Blockchain Work?

3. What is Bitcoin?

4. What is Mining?

5. Is Blockchain Secure?

Exercises

1. Blockchain Technology is Changing Real Estate, provide a few cases

2. How Health Care Is Moving Toward Blockchain

3. How Blockchain Can Help Failing Economies