Exam 2: Information Management and It Architecture

When employees resist using new software applications because they are difficult to use or cause frustration, the problem is referred to as "user-fierce interfaces".

Service-level agreements SLA) serve as the formal or informal contract or agreement defining the relationships between an organization and a vendor supplier of cloud services).

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

The greatest strategic advantage of cloud computing solutions is that they are typically more secure than traditional software apps.

A Management Information System MIS) is a general purpose IS designed to provide reports to managers for tracking operations, monitoring and control.

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 data silos.

Network virtualization combines the available resources in a network by splitting the network load into manageable parts, each of which can be assigned or reassigned) to a particular server on the network.

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

Hardware, software and networks are all considered parts of an organization's IT infrastructure.

An) _______________________ is a vision of the future IT architecture that evolves in advance of it being achieved.

The overall goal of information management is to design and implement a well-planned out IT architecture, policies, and procedures needed to effectively and efficiently support the information and decision needs of an organization.

Given the huge number of transactions, the data in databases are constantly in use and/or undergoing change. This characteristic of databases, referred to as variability.

Data captured by a Transaction Processing System TPS) are processed and stored in a database, and then is available for use by other systems. Processing of transactions is done in one of two modes. Briefly identify and describe each mode and explain the strengths and weaknesses of each.

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

A company's ____________ architecture describes how an enterprise's data stores are organized and accessed.

A company's _______________ architecture describes the hardware and software infrastructure that supports applications and their interactions.

Jay Garcia is a marketing manager at Fire Mouth, a new hot sauce manufacturer. He is using his company's DSS to determine the best price for a new brand of hot sauce called "Fires of Hell". He inputs figures about his costs, price and desired profit and then checks to see what the application tells him his sales volume would need to be based on those factors. As he works on the problem, he changes his assumptions about the input factors and notes how those changes impact the predicted sales volume. Jay is conducting an):

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

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

A common title for the person in charge of an organization's IT is: