What is the relationship between a database and an information system and what impact does this relationship have on database design? Respond to one or both of the following statements:

a. It is impossible to produce good information from poor data.
b. No matter how sophisticated the application programs are, it is impossible to use good application programs to overcome the effects of bad database design.

After you present a proposal, the committee starts asking you questions, some beyond the strict focus of your proposal. they ask questions about implications in other fields and knowledge about other fields. you are asked to redo your proposal. what is most likely missing? breadth of material depth of material clarity of material details of material

When making changes to optimize part of a processor, it is often the case that speeding up one type of instruction comes at the cost of slowing down something else. for example, if we put in a complicated fast floating-point unit, that takes space, and something might have to be moved farther away from the middle to accommodate it, adding an extra cycle in delay to reach that unit. the basic amdahl's law equation does not take into account this trade-off. a. if the new fast floating-point unit speeds up floating-point operations by, on average, 2ă—, and floating-point operations take 20% of the original program's execution time, what is the overall speedup (ignoring the penalty to any other instructions)? b. now assume that speeding up the floating-point unit slowed down data cache accesses, resulting in a 1.5ă— slowdown (or 2/3 speedup). data cache accesses consume 10% of the execution time. what is the overall speedup now? c. after implementing the new floating-point operations, what percentage of execution time is spent on floating-point operations? what percentage is spent on data cache accesses?

What is the purpose of a computer network needs assessment? to analyze which workers need more training to improve their performance to compare worker productivity to determine what steps employees can take to increase company revenue to evaluate how to move from the current status to the desired goal