Exam 2: Information Management and It Architecture

The mass migration of users from PCs to mobile devices has expanded ISs beyond the organization and made location practically irrelevant.

There is an old adage that says "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it". Managers who want to measure and track their organization's performance will frequently use ____________ to evaluate their company's progress toward goals.

Despite the growth of social data, images and web documents, modern IT professionals must continue to place primary emphasis on management of structured, high quality data.

A common title for the person in charge of an organization's IT is IT Project Director.

When employees resist using new software applications because they are difficult to use or cause frustration, the problem is referred to as ___________________.

The overall goal of information management is _______________________

Application architecture and business architecture are considered key components of IT architecture.

A key benefit of virtualization is a reduction in the total cost of ownership - a VM costs 75% less to operate than a physical server over a 3 year period.

The plan for managing the change from baseline IT architecture to target IT architecture is typically called a sequencing plan.

Your textbook differentiates the terms "data", "information" and "knowledge". ___________ is data that has been processed, organized, or put into context so that it has meaning and value to the person receiving it.

Cloud computing solutions typically require increased bandwidth and place greater emphasis on maintaining the organization's network or wide area network WAN).

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

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

The collection of computing systems used by an organization is called ______________.

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

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

What is a data or information) silo? What are the primary causes of data silos and why are they an impediment to effective organizational operations?

Your textbook differentiates the terms "data", "information" and "knowledge". Knowledge consists of data and/or information that have been processed, organized, and put into context to be meaningful, and to convey understanding, experience, accumulated learning, and expertise as they apply to a current problem or activity.

According to your text, an Information System IS) is part of an organizational culture that consists of the IS, market demands, technology.

Explain how an organization's baseline architecture, sequencing plan, and target architecture related? In your answer, be sure to define each.) Why should the organization's target architecture never be achieved?