Exam 7: Enterprise Infrastructure, Metrics, and Business Continuity Planning

According to the SOA philosophy, what is the most important organizational resource?

Around 2004, Adidas Canada's management decided to outsources the complicated process of maintaining current data backups. What was the name of the company that they outsourced to?

Which of the following focuses on the development, use, and reuse of small self-contained blocks of code to meet all the application software needs of an organization?

_____ refers to the number of visits to your Web site, many of which may be by the same visitor.

A(n) _____ is a set of conditions used to measure how well a product or system functions.

A(n) _____ is a software architecture perspective that focuses on the development, use, and reuse of small self-contained blocks of code to meet many or even all the application software needs of an organization.

A collocation facility provides rented offsite data storage and recovery solution to IT companies.

What type of technology would allow a customer in a SOA environment to connect to any communications channel (e.g., fax or Web) in an organization?

A(n) _____ specifies a process for recovering information or an IT system following a disaster.

Flexibility is how well your system can adapt to increased demands.

The primary advantage of the _____ infrastructure is it "off-loads" applications and information from the server.

According to the authors, what vendor now offers ERP solutions - Dynamics - to small and medium-sized companies?

Which type of infrastructure has one or more computers that provide services to other computers?

A disaster recovery plan should consider the location of the backup information.

The ERP market has been growing at a rate of at least 30% per year. Why?

A 3-tier infrastructure is the most common approach for Web applications.

The current generation of ERP often includes CRM and SCM.

The IT architecture is the blueprint for translating a business strategy into a plan.

What is the last phase of the business continuity planning process?

An infrastructure-centric metric is typically a measure of the efficiency, speed, and/or capacity of technology.