CHAPTER 2: Information Technology and AISs

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Across
  1. 3. Intangible part of computer. It is a computer instructions or data
  2. 5. An abbreviation of a primary memory that contains operating system instructions, application program instructions and user data.
  3. 9. A computer processor contained on an integrated-circuit chip
  4. 10. _____ Language of detailed instruction that computers can understand and execute
  5. 12. An abbreviation that provides several users access to common hardware, software, and computer files
  6. 14. _____ system is a set of software programs that helps a computer, file server, or network run itself and also the application programs designed for it
  7. 16. Printers that employ tiny wires in a print head to strike an inked ribbon and create tiny dots on a print page
  8. 17. Physical part of computer system
  9. 19. Acronym of a word that closely resembles a CD-ROM in that too is a 5-inch plastic disk that uses a laser to encode microscopic pits in its substrate surface
  10. 20. An acronym for “modulator-demodulator”
Down
  1. 1. Biometric scanner system that recognize fingerprints, irises, retinas, faces even ears.
  2. 2. Create printed output in much the same way as duplicating machines.
  3. 4. Biometric scanner system that recognize signatures, voices, or keystroke dynamics
  4. 6. Printers that create characters by distributing tiny dots of ink onto printer pages
  5. 7. Collection of facts or data
  6. 8. _____Documents that are the starting point for collecting accounting data in most AISs (time cards, packaging slips, survey forms)
  7. 11. Combines video, text, graphics, animation, and sound to produce multidimensional output
  8. 13. An abbreviation for the software that enables business and government agencies to transmit and manipulate financial data on organizational-wide basis and usually used by large organizations.
  9. 15. A device that accepts text and graphic output from a computer and transfers the information to paper
  10. 18. An abbreviation that has the ability to transmit voice grade signals or digital data over wireless communication channels