Week 3 Assignment

Posted on January 22, 2025
Week 3 Assignment

Information Systems for Business and Beyond Questions:

  • Chapter 3 – study questions 1-8,

1.     Develop your own definition of software being certain to explain the key terms.

2.     What are the primary functions of an operating system?

3.     Which of the following are operating systems and which are applications: Microsoft Excel, Google Chrome, iTunes, Windows, Android, Angry Birds.

4.     What is your favorite software application? What tasks does it help you accomplish?

5.     How would you categorize the software that runs on mobile devices? Break down these apps into at least three basic categories and give an example of each.

6.     What does an ERP system do?

7.     What is open-source software? How does it differ from closed-source software? Give an example of each.

8.     What does a software license grant to the purchaser of the software?

 

  • Exercise 2, 4 & 5

 

2. If you were running a small business with limited funds for information technology, would you consider using cloud computing? Find some web-based resources that support your decision.

 

4.     Go to sourceforge.net and review their most downloaded software applications. Report on the variety of applications you find. Then pick one that interests you and report back on what it does, the kind of technical support offered, and the user reviews.

 

5.     List three examples of programming languages? What features in each language makes it useful to developers?

 

Information Technology and Organizational Learning Assignment:

Chapter 3 – Complete the two essay assignments noted below: 

  • Review the strategic integration section. Explain what strategic integration is and how it ties to the implementation of technology within an organization.
  • Review the information technology roles and responsibilities section. Discuss how IT is divided based on operations and why this is important to understand within an organization.

 

The above submission should be one -page in length and adhere to APA formatting standards.

**Remember the APA cover page and the references (if required) do not count towards the page length**

Note: the first assignment should be in one section and the second section should have the information from the Information Technology and Organizational Learning assignment. The paper requirements for the two pages apply to the second part of the assignment directly related to the  Information Technology and Organizational Learning assignment.

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Solution

S oftware can be described as a set of instructions that instructs a computer what to do ( Shaghaghi et al., 2020 ) . These instructions can be initiated through a code or a software program. A code is a series of instructions that directs the computer on what to execute. On the other hand , a software program is a series of code s that is written to implement a particular task.

O pen-source software is software whose access is publicly available to anyone for use or modification, such as the Android operating system while closed-source software is software whose access to the source code is not to the public, therefore, cannot be used or modified by an intruder, an example is the iOS operating system ( Dhir , 2017 ) .

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