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

Max is V.P.of sales at Ski Warehouse,a chain of snow sports equipment outlets throughout the Rocky Mountain and northwest regions of the U.S.The company was built over time by purchasing successful independent sporting equipment retailers.Max now finds it difficult to evaluate some of his store locations because they report their sales figures on a quarterly basis rather than monthly as do the stores in the rest of the company.This difficulty is an example of which of the following information deficiencies?

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".

Which of the following is not a benefit of virtualization?

__________are metrics that define and measure progress toward organizational goals-and deviations from those goals.

The enterprise architecture (EA)needs to start with ________.

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

Virtualization is a technique that creates a virtualization layer and multiple virtual machines (VM)that run on a single physical machine.

What kinds of reports are created only when something deviates from the norm?

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

One of the federal regulations that require data governance is ______________.

Jared is a sales manager at a large company where employees use several cloud apps such as salesforce.com and Google Apps.The company decided to use these apps instead of purchasing apps that would run from their own servers,reducing the cost and complexity associated with their use.Apps like these are known as:

_________ serve as the formal or informal contract or agreement defining the relationships between an organization and a vendor (supplier of cloud services).

The term "data structures" refers to the speed at which data it is captured,analyzed,and reported.

The type of information system which organizes and presents data from both internal and external sources in an easy to use dashboard format is called _________.

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

Which of the following was not a key characteristic of a DSS?

Which of the following is not a way a SaaS provider licenses applications to customers?

To simplify add-ons,upgrades,sharing,and access to information on their personal devices,users often leverage cloud services such as iTunes,Instagram,Diigo,and Box.

Which of the following is not one of the essential skills of an effective enterprise architect?

In the cloud computing stack,a service provider hosts the application at its data center and customers access it via a standard Web browser.