Exam 2: Information Systems, IT Architecture, Data Governance, and Cloud Computing

Which of the following descriptions about enterprise architecture (EA)is false?

A ___________ is a general purpose IS designed to provide reports to managers for tracking operations,monitoring and control.

The ________ consists of SaaS,PaaS,and IaaS.

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.

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 _________.

Cloud computing solutions are growing in popularity with organizations because they reduce the burden of deploying,provisioning,and updating software apps.

______________ apps are typically accessed over a network using a Web browser (no hardware or software to install)and paid for by a fixed subscription fee or on a per-use basis.

Data management methodologies cannot solve ________ problems;they can only provide a framework in which those problems can be solved.

The component of an Information System which includes an organization's intranet is ____________.

Data Virtualization has led to a new type of facility called the _______,which optimizes the use of resources,balances workloads,and maximizes operational efficiency by dynamically distributing workloads and provisioning networks.

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

Most health care organizations are drowning in data,yet cannot get reliable insights from this data.Information from physician notes and documents often go unused or are difficult for administrators and mangers to access because the information is trapped in_____________.

Which of the following is not one of the 4 components of the enterprise architecture?

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

The business architecture describes __________.

These information systems organize and present data from both internal and external sources in an easy to use dashboard format and are called _________.

___________virtualization is the use of software to emulate hardware or a total computer environment other than the one the software is actually running in.

A SaaS provider licenses an application to customers either on demand,through a subscription,based on usage,or increasingly at no cost when there is opportunity to generate revenue from advertisement or other method.

An Information System (IS)is part of an organizational culture that consists of the IS,business processes,and _________.

EA is needed when IT systems have become unmanageably complex and expensive to maintain.