Transaction Processing Systems Study Guide Rated A+

Management Information System {Ans: They provide information for the organisation's managers in order to present facts about the performance of the organisation}Data structured as read only. {Ans: The data is being stored in the warehouse and act as a storage device for old data. It is historical and reflects what has happened. It is not active and is not being altered or added to. So it set up to be viewed only}report file {Ans: contains data that has been formatted for presentation to a user.}Transaction {Ans: an instance of buying or selling something.}Duplex {Ans: Allows two devices to transmit and receive data across the same physical link}Batch transaction processing {Ans: collects the transaction data as a group, or batch, and processes it later.}