Deck 23: Measuring the Success of Strategic Initiatives

Question 1

If you want to support organization change you will focus on building a strong information MIS infrastructure, which identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Hardware is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

If you want to support business operations you will focus on building a strong information MIS infrastructure, which identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

An enterprise architect is a person grounded in technology, fluent in business, and able to provide the important bridge between MIS and the business.

Question 5

Software consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system.

Question 6

A good way to understand the client-server relationship is when someone uses a web browser (this would be the client) to access a website (this would be a server that would respond with the web page being requested by the client).

Question 7

A client is a computer designed to request information from a server.

Question 8

Hardware consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system, where software is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.

Question 9

Software is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.

Question 10

Software is a computer designed to request information from a server.

Question 11

The ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the company information is called a failover.

Question 12

If you want to support the environment you will focus on building a strong sustainable MIS infrastructure, which identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption.

Question 13

MIS infrastructure is a communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standard methodology for communication.

Question 14

There are three primary areas where enterprise architects focus when maintaining a firm's MIS infrastructure including information MIS infrastructure, agile MIS infrastructure, and sustainable MIS infrastructures.

Question 15

A server is a computer designed to request information from a client.

Question 16

A network is a communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standard methodology in which they can communicate.

Question 17

Every company, regardless of size, relies on some form of MIS infrastructure, whether it is a few personal computers networked together or many interconnected around the world.

Question 18

A client is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.

Question 19

A server is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.

Question 20

Hardware is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.

Question 21

A warm site is a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business.

Question 22

Failback is a specific type of fault tolerance that occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data, and if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically directed to the secondary server or backup server.

Question 23

Failback occurs when the primary machine recovers and resumes operations, taking over from the secondary server.

Question 24

Failover occurs when the primary machine recovers and resumes operations, taking over from the secondary server.

Question 25

Emergency preparedness ensures a company is ready to respond to an emergency in an organized, timely, and effective manner.

Question 26

A warm site is a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.

Question 27

Failover backs up an exact copy of a system's information.

Question 28

The three primary areas of support provided by information infrastructure are backup and recovery, disaster recovery plan, and the business continuity plan.

Question 29

A cold site is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.

Question 30

A warm site is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.

Question 31

Failover is a specific type of fault tolerance that occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data, and if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically directed to the secondary server or backup server. This is a high-speed and high-cost method of backup and recovery.

Question 32

Recovery is the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the information backup.

Question 33

A cold site is a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.

Question 34

A business impact analysis identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them.

Question 35

Business impact analysis details how a company recovers and restores critical business operations and systems after a disaster or extended disruption.

Question 36

An emergency is a sudden, unexpected event requiring immediate action due to potential threat to health and safety, the environment, or property.

Question 37

Fault tolerance is an exact copy of a system's information.

Question 38

Disasters such as power outages, fires, floods, hurricanes, and even malicious activities such as hackers and viruses strike companies every day. Disasters can have effects on disrupting communications, damaging physical infrastructures, halting transportation, and blocking utilities.

Question 39

A backup is an exact copy of a system's information.

Question 40

A hot site is a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business.

Question 41

Usability is the degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use.

Question 42

Vulnerability is a system weakness that can be exploited by a threat.

Question 43

A cold site can destroy large amounts of vital data, often causing incidents, unplanned interruption of a service.

Question 44

Maintainability means the system quickly transforms to support environmental changes.

Question 45

Performance measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction.

Question 46

Incident management is the process responsible for managing how incidents are identified and corrected.

Question 47

A business impact analysis occurs when the ability of a company to operate is impaired because of a hardware, software, or data outage.

Question 48

Technology recovery strategies focus specifically on prioritizing the order for restoring hardware, software, and data across the organization that best meets business recovery requirements.

Question 49

A system is called unavailable when it is not operating and cannot be used.

Question 50

An emergency contains all of the details of an incident.

Question 51

High availability occurs when a system is continuously operational at all times.

Question 52

A business continuity planning identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them.

Question 53

Availability refers to the time frames when the system is operational.

Question 54

Scalability describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth. If a company grows faster than anticipated, it might experience a variety of problems, from running out of storage space to taking more time to complete transactions. Anticipating expected, and unexpected, growth is key to building scalable systems that can support that development.

Question 55

Capacity planning determines future environmental infrastructure requirements to ensure high-quality system performance.

Question 56

Portability refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems.

Question 57

Reliability means the system functions correctly and provides accurate information.

Question 58

Top-level MIS employees require administrator access, or unrestricted access to the entire system. Administrator access can perform functions such as resetting passwords, deleting accounts, and shutting down entire systems.

Question 59

Serviceability is how quickly a third-party or vendor can change a system to ensure it meets user needs and the terms of any contracts including agreed levels of reliability, maintainability or availability.

Question 60

Accessibility refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system.

Question 61

Web accessibility means that people with disabilities including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities can use the Web.

Question 62

Maintainability means the system functions correctly and provides accurate information.

Question 63

Web accessibility is the degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use.

Question 64

Maintainability determines future environmental infrastructure requirements to ensure high-quality system performance.

Question 65

Flexibility represents the maximum throughput a system can deliver, for example the flexibility of a hard drive represents the size or volume.

Question 66

Accessibility refers to the time frames when the system is operational.

Question 67

Unavailability occurs when a system is continuously operational at all times.

Question 68

Reliability is a system weakness that can be exploited by a threat.

Question 69

What is an information MIS infrastructure?

A) Identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured
B) Includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization's goals
C) Infrastructure identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption
D) Includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets

Question 70

Scalability measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction.

Question 71

Scalability refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems.

Question 72

Serviceability means the system quickly transforms to support environmental changes.

Question 73

A system is called available when it is not operating and cannot be used.

Question 74

Usability is how quickly a third party or vendor can change a system to ensure it meets user needs and the terms of any contracts including agreed levels of reliability, maintainability or availability.

Question 75

Portability describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth.

Question 76

Availability means that people with disabilities including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities can use the web.

Question 77

The Web accessibility initiative (WAI) brings together people from industry, disability organizations, government, and research labs from around the world to develop guidelines and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities including auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual disabilities.

Question 78

Administrator access initiative brings together people from industry, disability organizations, government, and research labs from around the world to develop guidelines and resources to help make the web accessible to people with disabilities including auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual disabilities.

Question 79

Availability refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system.

Question 80

Capacity represents the maximum throughput a system can deliver, for example the capacity of a hard drive represents the size or volume.