Exam 2: Information Management and It Architecture

Examples of _____________________ include data storage and computing hardware that are accessed via the Internet instead of being company-owned and on-site in a data center.

When transactions are typically processed as each transaction occurs, it is called __________________.

IT managers need to be forward thinking when it comes to planning for the organizations IT needs in the future. The future IT architecture that evolves in advance of it being achieved is referred to as the ____________________.

Organizations strive to maintain high data quality by validating data - detecting and eliminating obvious errors and omissions, because the more efficiently and thoroughly an organization gathers, stores, processes, retrieves and uses its data, the more productive it is.

_________________ virtualization is the pooling of physical storage from multiple network storage devices into what appears to be a single storage device that is managed from a central console.

When making decisions about how to acquire any of the components of the IT infrastructure, certain characteristics must be considered. One characteristic is dependability, which means:

A company's business architecture describes the processes a business uses to meet its goals.

CIOs must ensure data security and compliance with continually evolving regulatory requirements, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA).

The software applications that convert a single physical machine into multiple virtual machines is referred to as _______________________.

The greatest strategic advantage of cloud computing solutions is that they increase an organization's _______________ and ability to quickly implement IT for competitive advantage.

Trillings College invested over $450,000 in a customized learning management system so that professors could put courses online and use the Internet to deliver course content and communications to students. After the first year of use, only 20% of the faculty were using the system. Administrators were frustrated to learn that most faculty found the system difficult to use, they did not understand how to post student grades and assignments to the new platform and that students also had difficulty understanding how to find information on the system. This case is an example of which of the following information deficiency causes cited in your text?

According to your text, an Information System IS) is part of an organizational culture that consists of the IS, company policies, and legal regulations.

Applications that collect and combine data

When conducting a ________________, the decision maker has a specific outcome in mind and needs to figure out how that outcome can be achieved and whether achieving the outcome is feasible.

____________________are ISs that do not have the capability to exchange data with other ISs making timely coordination and communication across functions or departments difficult.

The company 1-800-Contacts transformed and disrupted the way people buy contact lenses. Call center managers and sales representatives require real-time information about product availability, sales person performance, customer satisfaction, and so on. To accomplish this, the company IT department created ______________ reporting tools to deliver information to managers and sales reps. quickly.

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

The central feature of a ___________________ is a model or formula that enables sensitivity analysis, what-if analysis, goal seeking and/or risk analysis.

The overall goal of information management is to reduce costs and maintain high standards of information security by setting strict guidelines for access.

Data or information) silos are ISs that do not have the capability to exchange data with other ISs making timely coordination and communication across functions or departments difficult.