Exam 2: Data Governance and IT Architecture Support Long-Term Performance

Compared to transactional data,master data are quite________ because they change infrequently.

________ describe key entities such as customers,products and services,vendors,locations,and employees around which business is conducted.

Public clouds are single-tenant environments with stronger security and control for regulated industries and critical data.

Meta data is defined as the consistent and uniform data within an enterprise that describes their key entities such as customers,products and services,vendors,locations,and employees around which business is conducted.

Network virtualization combines the available resources in a network by splitting the network load into manageable parts,each of which can be assigned (or reassigned)to a particular server on the network.

The greatest strategic advantage of cloud computing solutions is that they _______________.

The terms "data","information" and "knowledge" have specific meanings.With regard to a customer satisfaction application used in the automobile industry,which of the following is an example of information?

A legal risk of at-a-service models,such as SaaS and PaaS,is that they can trigger lawsuits.

There is an old adage that says "If you can't measure it,you can't manage it".Managers who want to measure and track their organization's performance will frequently use __________ to evaluate their company's progress toward goals.

Which of the following is not a characteristic or consequence of weak data governance?

____________ virtualization combines the available resources in a network by splitting the network load into manageable parts,each of which can be assigned (or reassigned)to a particular server on the network.

Computer hardware had been designed to run a single operating system and a single app,leaving computers vastly underutilized.One solution to optimizing the use of computing resources is to use one physical machine and specialized software to create multiple ______.

Decision support systems are interactive applications that support highly structured decision making scenarios.

Managers use software apps that support decisions that would otherwise take a lot of time to figure out.For instance,these tools can help figure out if a customer qualifies for an auto loan or should receive additional credit.These interactive apps are called _________.

A data governance program should be an IT project because data crosses boundaries and is used by people throughout the enterprise.

The NSA's data center in Bluffdale,Utah is its largest spy data center where information from Google,Facebook,and Apple are stored.

Which of the following is not a method for measuring the success of IT architecture?

Success of EA is measured in financial terms of profitability and ROI.In contrast,the success of data governance is measured in nonfinancial terms of improved customer satisfaction,faster speed to market,and lower employee turnover.

Service arrangements all require that managers understand the benefits and trade-offs-and how to negotiate effective contracts or ________.

Imagine that a national chain of grocery stores regularly administers customer satisfaction surveys and analyzes the results to evaluate the performance of individual store locations.Briefly give an example or description of the data,information,and knowledge that would result from these surveys.