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When referring to the 'software layer cake' model, Android, Windows, and iOS are all _____.

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What is the most common function performed by electronic data interchanges?

A) Housing and serving business logic for use and reuse by multiple electronic applications
B) App store downloads and the serving of other types of rich media.
C) Providing electronic reporting and analysis for organizational decision making
D) Integrating various electronic functions of a business, such as accounting, finance, inventory management, and human resources
E) Sending electronic equivalents of structured documents between different organizations

F) B) and C)
G) A) and C)

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Communication between people results in time saving, cost reductions, and fewer errors than communication between computers.

Which of the following is not true about potential benefits to firms that create platforms?

This process of converting a code into machine-readable form is known as:

Specialty devices like iPods, video game consoles, and television set-top boxes typically do not need an operating system.

_____ provide the standards, syntax, statements, and instructions for writing computer software.

When referring to the 'software layer cake' model, Microsoft Office, Angry Birds, and MySQL are all _____.

A company does not have to install all of the modules of an ERP suite, but it might add functions over time.

Some programming languages are extended by _______________. These are libraries, templates, and extensions that simplify and standardize common tasks, speeding software development, reducing errors, and prompting reuse. Examples of popular frameworks used to develop websites include Rails (for Ruby), Django (for Python), AngularJS (for JavaScript), and ASP.NET (pronounced "ay-ess-pee dot net").

The care and feeding of information systems is usually simple and inexpensive.

Programming tools that execute within an application are called _____.

Microsoft's Xbox operating system provides Xbox programmers with a set of common standards to use to access controllers, the Kinect motion sensor, play sounds, draw graphics, save files, and more. Without this, games would:

Most messages sent between Web services are coded in XML.

Which of the following is an example of application software?

A(n) _____ is a software program that makes requests of a server program.

Which of the following is an example of computer hardware?

Achieving success in a project rarely lies in the strength of technology alone.

Most firms spend 70 to 80 percent of their information systems (IS) budgets just to keep their systems running.

Which of the following is true of the difference between operating systems and application software?