CHAPTER 2: Information Technology and AISs

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Across
  1. 2. An acronym for “modulator-demodulator”
  2. 4. Combines video, text, graphics, animation, and sound to produce multidimensional output
  3. 9. _____Documents that are the starting point for collecting accounting data in most AISs (time cards, packaging slips, survey forms)
  4. 10. Printers that employ tiny wires in a print head to strike an inked ribbon and create tiny dots on a print page
  5. 12. Physical part of computer system
  6. 14. Biometric scanner system that recognize fingerprints, irises, retinas, faces even ears.
  7. 15. A device that accepts text and graphic output from a computer and transfers the information to paper
  8. 16. An abbreviation that has the ability to transmit voice grade signals or digital data over wireless communication channels
  9. 17. 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.
  10. 18. An abbreviation of a primary memory that contains operating system instructions, application program instructions and user data.
  11. 19. Create printed output in much the same way as duplicating machines.
Down
  1. 1. 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
  2. 3. _____ 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
  3. 5. Printers that create characters by distributing tiny dots of ink onto printer pages
  4. 6. Collection of facts or data
  5. 7. _____ Language of detailed instruction that computers can understand and execute
  6. 8. A computer processor contained on an integrated-circuit chip
  7. 9. Intangible part of computer. It is a computer instructions or data
  8. 11. An abbreviation that provides several users access to common hardware, software, and computer files
  9. 13. Biometric scanner system that recognize signatures, voices, or keystroke dynamics