[ADMS 2511] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (53 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 2511
• Professor: Peter Rumyee

Document Summary

Manipulates the data and controls the tasks performed by other components. Temporarily stores data and program instructions during processing. Stores data and programs for future use. Accept data and instructions and convert them to a form that the computer can understand. Present data and information in a form that people can understand. Provide for the flow of data from external computer networks to the cpu, and from cpu to computer networks. Strategic hardware issues: exploiting hardware is essential to achieving competitive advantage. Exploitation comes from thoughtful consideration of following questions. How will org keep up with rapid price/performance advancements. How should org. determine need for new hardware infrastructures. Portablecomputers and advanced communications technologies enable employee to work from anywhere, will these benefit. Computer hierarchy employees and org: supercomputer indicates fastest computers available at any given time. Used by large organizations to execute computationally demanding tasks involving large data sets. Supercomputers typically run military and scientific applications.