To self-evaluate the potential for receiving transfer credit for CIS 2010, Please fill out this spreadsheet indicating which objectives you achieved in the course you wish to transfer as credit for CIS 2010. If you score less than 70%, transfer credit for CIS 2010 is extremely unlikely. If you score 70% or better, please submit your course syllabus and related materials for transfer credit evaluation. Enter a 1 if your course enabled you to do the objective. Thanks! Sample Learning Outcomes Upon completion of the materials, each student will be able to explain and apply knowledge of: Management Information Systems for the Information Age Chapter 1 - The Information Age in Which You Live a. Describe the Information age and the role of knowledge workers within it. b. Define management information systems (MIS). c. Describe key factors shaping today’s economic environment. d. Validate information as a key resource and describe both personal and organizational dimensions of information e. Define how people are the most important organizational resource, their information and technology literacy challenges, and their responsibilities. f. Describe the important characteristics of information technology (IT) as a key organizational resource. g. List and describe the six roles and goals of information technology on any organization Chapter 2 - Strategic and Competitive Opportunities a. Illustrate how the creative use of information technology can give an organization a competitive advantage. b. Describe how to develop business strategies for the Internet Age and use tools to help. c. Describe how e-commerce technologies up the stakes and give organizations even more opportunities. d. Summarize how one specific industry has consistently used information technology for competitive advantage. e. Summarize how to use information technology for competitive advantage in an organization. Chapter 3 - Databases and Data Warehouses a. Describe business intelligence and its role in an organization. b. Differentiate between databases and data warehouses with respect to their focus on online transaction processing and online analytical processing. c. List and describe the key characteristics of a relational database. d. Define the five software components of a database management system. e. List and describe the key characteristics of a data warehouse. f. Define the four major types of data mining tools in a data warehouse environment. g. List key considerations in managing the information resources in an organization. Chapter 4 - Decision Support and Artificial Intelligence a. Define decision support system, list its components, and identify the type of applications it’s suited to. b. Define collaboration systems along with their features and uses. c. Define geographical information systems and state how they differ from other decision support tools. d. Define artificial intelligence and list the different types that are used in business. e. Define expert systems and describe the types of problems to which they are applicable. f. Define neural networks, their uses, and a major strength and weakness of these AI systems. g. Define genetic algorithms and list the concepts on which they are based, and the types of problems they solve. h. Define intelligent agents, list the four types, and identify the types of problems they solve. Chapter 5 - Electronic Commerce a. Describe the four main perspectives of e-commerce, its current status, and the global growth expected in the next few years. b. Identify the advantages of business to consumer (B2C) commerce. c. Describe the techniques that lead to success in B2C e-commerce ventures. d. Describe the variety of ways that business to business (B2B) e-commerce technologies are being used, and describe next generation models, which may widen the adoption of global B2B e-commerce. e. Identify the unique aspects of e-government applications. f. Describe the status and options for e-commerce payment systems. Chapter 6 - System Development a. List the seven steps in the system development life cycle and an associated activity for each step. b. List four reasons why your participation during the systems development life cycle is critical. c. Describe three of the five reasons why projects fail. d. List two of the three advantages of selfsourcing. e. Describe prototyping and profile an example of a prototype. f. Describe two of the five advantages of prototyping. Chapter 7 - IT Infrastructures a. Explain the relationship between organization’s roles and goals and the IT infrastructure. b. List and describe four of the seven factors that help increase employee productivity. c. Explain system integration and how it enhances decision-making. d. List and describe two different types of workflow systems. e. List and describe two IT infrastructure components that create business partnerships and alliances. f. List and describe two of the four IT infrastructure components that enable global reach. Chapter 8 - Protecting People and Information a. Define ethics and describe the two factors that affect how you make a decision concerning an ethical issue. b. Define and describe intellectual property, copyright, Fair Use Doctrine, and pirated and counterfeit software. c. Define privacy and describe the ways in which it can be threatened. d. Describe the two ways that information is valuable to business. e. Describe the ways in which information on our computer or network is vulnerable. f. Define risk management and risk assessment and describe the seven security measures that companies can take to protect their information.
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Chapter 9 - Emerging Trends and Technologies a. Describe why information filtering is becoming important and list and define the two trends that will support information filtering. b. Describe the movement toward intellectual computing including automatic speech understanding and the role of people in decision-making. c. Define biometrics, automatic speech recognition, virtual reality, and CAVs as they relate to changes in physiological interaction. d. Describe the various technology innovations and trends that will increase portability and mobility. e. Discuss the challenges of and technological innovations for the coming digital frontier. f. Describe the broadening of e-government and the coming C2C explosion as they relate to the re-birth of e-commerce. XML A - Computer Hardware and Software a. Define Information Technology (IT) and its two basic categories: Hardware and Software. b. Describe categories of computers by size. c. Compare the roles of personal productivity, vertical market and horizontal market software. d. Describe the roles of operating systems and utility software as components of system software. e. Define the purpose of the six major categories of hardware. XML B - The WWW and the Internet a. Define the relationship among web site, web site address, domain name, web page and uniform resource locator (URL). b. Explain how to interpret the parts of the address on the web. c. Identify the major components and features of web browser software. d. Describe the differences between directory and true search engines. e. Describe the various technologies that make up the Internet. f. Identify key considerations in choosing an Internet service provider (ISP). g. Describe the communications software and telecommunications software you need to connect to the Internet.
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Database Concepts Chapter 1 - Getting Started a. Survey the why, what and how of database processing. b. Understand the reasons for using a database (why). c. Learn the functions and components of database systems (what). d. Know the three major steps in creating a database (how). Chapter 2 - The Relational Model a. Learn the conceptual foundation of the relational model. b. Understand how relations differ from nonrelational tables. c. Learn basic relational terminology. d. Learn the meaning and importance of keys, foreign keys and related terminology. e. Understand how foreign keys represent relationships. f. Learn the purpose and use of surrogate keys. g. Learn the meaning of functioning dependencies. h. Understand the two basic relational design principles. Chapter 3 - Structured Query Language a. Learn basic SQL statements for crating database constructs. b. Learn basic SQL SELECT statements and options for processing a single table. c. Learn basic SQL SELECT statements for processing multiple tables with subqueries. d. Learn basic SQL SELECT statements for processing multiple tables with joins. e. Learn SQL Statements to add, modify and delete data. Chapter 4 - Data Modeling and the Entity-Relationship Model a. Learn the basic stage of a database development project. b. Understand the purpose and role of a data model. c. Know the principal components if the E-R data model. d. Understand how to interpret both traditional and UML-style E-R diagrams. e. Learn to construct traditional E-R diagrams. f. Learn how to represent 1:1, 1:N, N: M, and binary relationships with the E-R model. g. Know how to represent recursive relationships with the E-R model. h. Understand the two types of weak entities and know how to use them. i. Learn how to create an E-R diagram from source documents. Chapter 5 - Database Design a. Learn how to transform E-R data models into relational designs. b. Understand the nature and the background of normalization theory. c. Know how to use normalization criteria to evaluate relational designs. d. Understand the need for denormalization. e. Learn how to represent 1:1, 1:N, and N:M binary relationships. f. Learn how to represent 1:1, 1:N, and N:M recursive relationships. g. Learn SQL statements for creating joins over binary and recursive relationships. Total points Score To be considered for transfer credit for 2010, you must score 75% or better on achieving the objectives. A syllabus evaluation will still be necessary. Thanks!
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