Prelim IPT yearly Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers
Info skills and info systems introduction
The environment - Answer all that is influenced and influences the information system
The purpose - Answer a statement naming who the information system is for (includes
individuals and organisations) what it must achieve
The information system - Answer a collection of information processes involving
participants, data/information and information technology constructed to meet a
purpose
Information processes - Solution Computer based and non-computer based activities
Information technology - Solution hardware and software used in information processes
Data - Solution the raw material used by information processes
information - Solution the output displayed by an information system
User - Solution A person who views or uses the information output from an information
system
Participant - A unique class of user who performs the information process within an
information system
Information processes - COASPTD
, Collecting - Response The process through which data is entered into or captured by
the computer system, including:
- determination of what data is needed
- how it is sourced
- how it is encoded for entry into the system
Organising - Answer The process of putting data into a form suitable for the other
information processes. It includes the format of representation, e.g. the type of font that
will be used to display the data.
Analysing - Answer The process of turning data into information by interpreting it
Storing and retrieving - Answer The process through which data and information is
stored and then accessed later
Processing - Process by which data and information is manipulated, changed and edited
Transmitting and receiving - The process that sends and receives the data and
information within and beyond information systems
Displaying - The process that controls the format of information presented to the
participant or user
The Nature of Data and Information -
Data - the input to an information system
Data representation - Answer - images
- audio
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