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_____ refers to the practice of ensuring that an organization's systems operate within required legal constraints, and organizational obligations.

A) Security
B) Compliance
C) Integration
D) Parallelism
E) Immunity

F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

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_____ perform the work that users and firms are directly interested in accomplishing and can be thought of as places where a user's real work is done.

A) Emulators
B) Applications
C) Platforms
D) Embedded systems
E) Operating systems

F) B) and E)
G) None of the above

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Which of the following is not true about potential benefits to firms that create platforms?

Java is not preferred for programming fast-executing, native desktop applications.

The care and feeding of information systems is usually simple and inexpensive.

Managers who understand software are better equipped to harness the possibilities and impact of technology.

ERP systems and enterprise software programs should be ideally configured to use different database systems to avoid the possibility of data redundancy.

_____ refers to a precise set of instructions that tell the computer ware what to do.

A(n) _____ is a software program that makes requests of a server program.

_____ refers to applications that address the needs of multiple users throughout an organization or work group.

_____ are programming hooks or guidelines, published by organizations tell how other programs can get a service to perform a task, such as send or receive data.

Standardizing business processes in software that others can buy means that those functions are difficult for competitors to match.

Java is not optimized to take advantage of interface elements specific to the Mac or Windows operating systems. As a result:

When referring to the 'software layer cake' model, Microsoft Office, Angry Birds, and MySQL are all _____.

_____ is a set of standards for exchanging messages containing formatted data between computer applications.

Most messages sent between Web services are coded in XML.

Java programmers write code with specific commands for different operating systems, such as Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

A firm can mix and match components, linking software the firm has written with modules purchased from different enterprise software vendors.

Which of the following is an example of computer ware?

Communication between people results in time saving, cost reductions, and fewer errors than communication between computers.