Exam 14: Enterprise Computing

____________________ is the information gathered in the ongoing operations of an enterprise-sized organization.

Critical Thinking Questions Case 1 You have been hired as a consultant for a firm that advises large companies on the best ways to bring enterprise-wide technologies to bear on their day-to-day operations. Another firm in your portfolio has been using a lot of less advanced technologies for communication among its employees, including mail, faxes, and phone calls. If they are looking in particular to modernize and achieve more efficiencies, which of the following technologies are you likely to recommend?

Organizations implement ____ to assist in the task of knowledge management.

Using standard and accepted technologies requires a company to reengineer solutions to typical problems.

Enterprise-wide systems are necessary because functional units within an enterprise have a significant need to share data among the units.

A(n) ____, sometimes called a partial backup, allows the user to choose specific files to backup, regardless of whether or not the files have changed since the last incremental backup.

Newsprint on the Web is not replacing the newspaper, but enhancing it and reaching different populations.

A(n) ____ consolidates data usually with tools, tables, or graphs, so managers can review it quickly and easily.

In a disaster recovery plan, the backup plan specifies ____.

Figure 14-5 A portal like the one in Figure 14-5 seldom includes search capabilities or a link to a search engine.

In an expert system, the inference rules are the combined subject knowledge and experience of human experts.

Enterprise-wide systems can collect and combine data more quickly and provide executive management access to a more up-to-date and accurate view of what is happening in an organization.

A level 1 RAID configuration reduces storage reliability because, if a drive should fail, a duplicate of the requested data item is unavailable elsewhere within the array of disks.

Critical Thinking Questions Case 1 You have been hired as a consultant for a firm that advises large companies on the best ways to bring enterprise-wide technologies to bear on their day-to-day operations. One of the firms in your consulting portfolio is a unique car rental service that positions cars all around the city, in major metropolitan markets, and allows renters to access the vehicles that are closest to them, contingent on availability. If the car rental service would like to implement a Web site that provides up-to-the-minute availability information about the cars in their fleet, which of the following technologies are you likely to recommend?

In an exception report, out-of-the-ordinary conditions, called nonstandard criteria, define the normal activity or status range.

Financial software manages everyday transactions, such as sales and payments to suppliers.

Unlike the emergency plan, the recovery plan is the same for each type of disaster.

A(n) ____________________ is a collection of every action that users make as they move through a Web site.

____________________ include a relatively new set of software technologies that allows businesses to create products and B2B (business-to-business) interactions over the Internet.

The ____ department makes technology decisions for an enterprise.