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

Virtual machines (VM)are specialized apps for designing and testing 3 Dimensional products such as trucks,cars,and mechanical devices.

Jay Garcia is a marketing manager at Fire Mouth,a new hot sauce manufacturer.He is using his company's DSS to determine the best price for a new brand of hot sauce called "Fires of Hell".He inputs figures about his costs,price and desired profit and then checks to see what the app tells him his sales volume would need to be based on those factors.As he works on the problem,he changes his assumptions about the input factors and notes how those changes impact the predicted sales volume.Jay is doing ________ analysis.

The greatest strategic advantage of cloud solutions is that they increase an organization's __________,or ability to quickly implement IT for competitive advantage.

Transactions are typically processed either [A] all together for a defined time window (e.g.end of a day or week)or [B] processed as each transaction occurs.The first method [A] is called ________ processing.

List four service factors to consider when evaluating cloud vendors or service providers.For each service factor,give an example of a question to be addressed with the vendor or service provider.

Companies or government agencies that need greater security and data confidentiality set up their own clouds on servers that they own.These are called __________.

Most business initiatives succeed or fail based on the quality of the underlying data.

The success of any data-driven initiative,such as marketing campaigns,depends on ________.

Which of the following is a potential disadvantage to using cloud services?

As companies move toward implementing cloud computing on a wide scale,managers need to consider all of the following strategic questions except ____________.

What is a data (or information)silo? What are the primary causes of data silos and why do they interfere with effective organizational operations?

Apps that combine data from multiple internal and public sources and publish the results to enterprise portals,dashboards,or the cloud are commonly referred to as "complex mashups".

The blueprints that guide and govern software add-ons,upgrades,hardware,systems,networks,cloud services,and other IT are known as cloud services.

A TPS in OLTP mode collects all transaction for a day,shift,or other time period,and then processes the data and updates the databases.

Storage virtualization is the pooling of physical storage from multiple network storage devices into what appears to be a single storage device that is managed from a central console.

Which of the following is not one of the reasons for information deficiencies?

Given the huge number of transactions,the data in databases are constantly in use and/or undergoing change.This characteristic of databases,referred to as ___________,makes it impossible to use them for complex decision making and problem-solving tasks.