Read the text choosing the correct word in bold type.
Automation alternatives can affect/create many aspects of an information system. For instance, point-of-sale system with low level of automation employs/requires the checkout clerk to enter credit cards numbers. And a credit card number can be stored/ hold using only a few bytes. At a higher level of automation, a magnetic strip reader speeds up/ automates the process of entering a credit card number. At a further level of automation a pressure-sensitive digitizing pad and stylus are used to collect/to read customer signatures. The entire transaction record becomes automatic/electronic and storing a digitized signature might require a special type of database software.
Give the Russian equivalents.
1) application specifications; 2) pros and cons; 3) digitized signature; 4) to obtain; 5) approval; 6) point-of-sale system; 7) strip reader; 8) pressure-sensitive pad
Find the answers to the questions.
1. What is system design? 2. What affects hardware solutions for a new information system? 3. How does a level of automation differ? 4. What processing methodologies are used? 5. Why does every information system require a network?