1. What is an information technology? 2. How is this term commonly used? 3. What industries are associated with information technology? 4. How has the Information Technology Association of America defined the information technology? 5. What do the responsibilities of those working in the field include? 6. What is the percentage of the data stored worldwide? 7. What is the worldwide capacity to store information on electronic devices? 8. What do database management systems consist of? 9. What is the characteristic of all databases? 10. What format has become popular for data representation in recent years? 11. What is the difference between the terms "data" and "information"? 12. When did the data warehouses begin to appear and what is the situation with it nowadays? 13. What are the three aspects of transmission of data? 14. What is called data tombs? 15. How does the Association for Computing Machinery define IT? 16. What responsibility do IT specialists assume? 17. What is one of the first and largest applications of computers? 18. What programs and databases are used in business functions? 19. What do computer-controlled robots do? 20. What is the role of information technology in medicine? 21. What can meteorologists do using supercomputers? 22. What can computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing programs improve? 23. What can computerprograms allow engineers do? 24. Can you explain what the Information and communications technology is? What is the difference between it and information technology in general? 25. What new term was invented and is used now? 26. What are the Global Costs of IT now? What is the average budget of IT?
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Exercise 7. Matchwords.
| information technology | |
| the application of computers and telecommunications equipment | |
| to store | |
| retrieve | |
| transmit and manipulate data | |
| computers and computer networks | |
| information distribution technologies | |
| television and telephoning | |
| computer hardware | |
| computer software | |
| telecom equipment | |
| e-commerce and computer services | |
| study, design, development, application, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems | |
| network administration | |
| installation | |
| planning and management of an organization's technology life cycle | , , , , , |
| data storage | |
| analogue and digital storage devices | |
| databases | |
| database management systems | |
| representation and retrieval data | |
| data warehouses | , |
| data transmission | |
| installing, customizing, and maintaining | |
| managing business and financial records | |
| computer-controlled robots | |
| computerized axial tomography (CAT) | - |
| magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) | , , |
