1. IS 465 Midterm Prep A Review

2. Midterm Format 10 Multiple Choice Questions …covers week 1 to week 6 4 short answer questions covering items that we discussed during class 2 medium essay questions covering items that we discussed during class 1 long essay questions covering items that we discussed during class

3. Some Specifics Multiple Choice (3 points each total of 30 points or 30% of the midterm) Short question (5 points each total of 20 points or 20%) Essay questions (10 points each total of 20 points or 20%) Long Essay Questions (20 points or 20% of the mid term)

4. Some Specifics: Week1 Information System/Computer Science/Information Technology Definition of IS Historical change of IS

5. Some Specifics: week 2 Human information processing Human Information Processing System Various different categories of human info processing system overlearning, “chunking” Definition of Problem Human Problem-solving Problem solving and information system design

6. Week 3 Read: HBP-6 Web: Web 2.0, RSS Web: RDF and Semantic Web Excel: Import Data From Text Files and Other Sources Excel: Using Database Functions Excel: Usage of PivotTables and PivotCharts

7. Week 4 HBP-8 Relational Design Schema Web-based IS design – architecture JDBC

8. Week 5 Decision Support and OLAP OLAP vs. OLTP Properties of Data warehouse Data marts, cube Architecture of DW DW schema Operations of DW