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

Because a _____ infrastructure connects all of its information systems, it can share information and applications.

With regards to hardware, what does an SOA approach require?

A(n) _____ supplies software applications over the Internet that would otherwise reside on customers' computers.

An n-tier infrastructure starts with the 2-tier basic model adding applications as needed.

What type of metric does supply chain management seek to optimize?

What type of analysis evaluates IT assets, their importance to the organization, and their susceptibility to threats?

SAP, Oracle, Infor, and Microsoft are the dominating ERP software suppliers.

Business continuity plan is a step-by-step guideline defining how an organization will recover from a disaster or extended disruption of its business processes.

What type of IT infrastructure evolved from users or departments developing their own systems or applications without any central control?

_____ is a financial metrics that measures the number of years to recoup the cost of an initiative based on projected annual net cash flow.

If you were performing an impact analysis, threat analysis, and impact scenario analysis, you would be in the _____ phase of business continuity planning.

The IT infrastructure includes hardware but not software.

Which of the following statement is true regarding an SOA philosophy about the end user of IT?

Benchmarking is used to improve an IT system performance.

Which category of business application satisfies the SOA philosophy for the end user?

_____ in business continuity planning involves executing simulated scenarios of disasters and having employees execute on the disaster recovery plan to ensure that the solution satisfies your organization's recovery requirements.

If you were investigating the importance of your resources, processes, and systems so that you could react appropriately in a disaster, you would be in the ____ phase of business continuity planning.

Which type of infrastructure must determine the location of specific applications and information before it can respond to requests from end users or applications?

The primary advantage of a client/server infrastructure is that it offloads the application programs and information from the server.

In what type of tiered infrastructure do all the computing resources sit on one computer?