Section A
1a) “Information systems are combinations of hardware, software, and telecommunications networks that people build and use to collect, create, and distribute useful data, typically in organizational settings.” Eg) Customer relationship systems are a type of information system that allows customers to communicate with companies for product evaluation or resolutions.
Information technology uses computer hardware and software which aid organizations in constructing different information systems. Eg) Telecommunications equipment, word processing software (Excel, MS Word)
1b) Data are the raw pieces of facts and statistics with no context while information is data that has been given context. Eg) data without context= 25, 20, 19, 18.
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Eg) “A new data analysis technology called “Non-obvious relationship awareness (NORA). NORA technology can take information about people from disparate sources and find obscure, non-obvious relationships. It might discover, for example, that an applicant for a job at a casino shares a telephone number with a known criminal and issue an alert to the hiring manager.”
2b) Bioinformatics is the "research and development of computational tools and approaches to aid maximum biological, behavioural or health, including those tools that allow us to acquire, store, organize, archive, analyze, or visualize such data.” Eg) “The European initiative called Wisdom (Wide In Silico Docking On Malaria) is dedicated to finding a new malaria drug using Grid Computing.”
2c) Information Assurance describes the “methods, capabilities and business processes needed for effective information operations, management and exploitation. This provides trusted, risk managed social-technical infrastructures which are safe, resilient, dependable and