Part 1: Answer the Module Review Questions listed below. These questions were chosen to demonstrate your understanding and help you assess your progress.
• How can information technology support a company’s business processes and decision making and give it a competitive advantage? Give examples to illustrate your answer.
Information technology are a very big part of any business operation in today’s world. It is what will help a business run smother and faster. IT gives the competitive advantage over business that are still operating in ways that don’t involve computer systems and more technology. There are three fundamental roles of information systems that must be placed for the business to be successful. …show more content…
This is why a manager should know every aspect of his department IS. They are responsible in teaching the workers they supervise exactly how to maintain that IS from every angle. Which means the manager should be well versed on all the technical aspects that pertain to his department. Which means when the IS goes through an update or complete re-vamp, they should be the first ones to get properly trained to be able to pass good information to their …show more content…
. . ?” While business managers focus on solving business problems and determining what their information systems should do, disaster recovery consultants ask what would happen if things go wrong. With careful advanced planning, disaster recovery specialists help their clients prevent calamity. While this topic covers a wide variety of software issues, installation configuration issues, and security threats, examining common end-user mistakes may also prove enlightening. Common end-user mistakes include:
a. Failure to save work in progress frequently. b. Failure to make a backup copy. c. Storing original and backup copies in the same location. For each of the common end-user mistakes listed above, answer the following questions.
a. How might this mistake result in data loss?
1. When a work in progress is not frequently saved there is a great risk of data loss due to a simple loss of power or a computer crash. All data that was imputed would be loss.
2. If a backup copy is not performed from a computer that has gone through an un-reversible crash can mean a loss of all information on that drive.
3. If backup copies are stored in the same location a data loss can happened if that location burns down or suffers some kind of disaster that could potentially destroy those data