Deck 7: Managing Enterprise Architecture

Question 1

Maintainability means the system quickly transforms to support environmental changes.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Unsustainable,or green,MIS describes the production,management,use and disposal of technology in a way that maximises damage to the environment.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

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

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Gordon Moore,co-founder of Intel,observed in 1965 that continued advances in technological innovation made it possible to reduce the size of a computer chip while doubling its capacity every two years.

Question 5

Usability means the system functions correctly and provides accurate information.

Question 6

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

Question 7

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 8

Sustainable MIS disposal refers to the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle.

Question 9

A sustainable enterprise architecture identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption.

Question 10

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

Question 11

e-Waste is discarded electronics and is growing with the growth of innovation,for example,a personal computer has a life expectancy of only three to five years and a mobile phone is less than two years.

Question 12

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 backup.

Question 13

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

Question 14

Dynamic scaling means the enterprise architecture can be automatically scaled up or down based on needed requirements.

Question 15

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

Question 16

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

Question 17

Cloud computing could change not only the way businesses operate,but also the way people interact with technology.Google,for example,is probably the most popular cloud computing service today.

Question 18

Who is a person who is grounded in technology,fluent in business,and able to provide the important bridge between IT and the business?

A) IT infrastructure manager
B) IT specialist
C) Enterprise architect
D) Enterprise manager

Question 19

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

Question 20

A smart grid delivers electricity using two-way digital technology and is meant to solve the problem of outdated electrical grids.

Question 21

What does a business continuity plan (BCP)typically include?

A) How frequently the system backup is performed
B) Which systems and business processes are critical and the maximum amount of time the company can continue to operate without functioning systems
C) How quickly the system recovery needs to be performed
D) Where a hot site is located

Question 22

Sean works at the local electrical company in Brisbane,which provides electricity to the entire city.This area is prone to floods.As the lead enterprise architect on the night shift,he has been asked to suggest ways the company can protect its MIS infrastructure.Sean notices that the company does not have the ability for its systems to respond to unexpected failures or crashes and there is not a backup system that can automatically take over without a loss of serve to Brisbane residents.What should he recommend his company implement?

A) Accessibility
B) Moore's law
C) Antivirus software
D) Fault tolerance

Question 23

What does reliability ensure?

A) The system has the ability to operate in many different operating systems
B) The system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use
C) The system is functioning correctly and providing accurate information
D) The time frames when the system is operational

Question 24

What is usability?

A) The system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use
B) The system functions correctly and provides accurate information
C) The system allows varying levels of access
D) The system quickly transforms to support environmental changes

Question 25

Which characteristics support an information architecture?

A) Accessibility,availability,maintainability,portability,reliability,scalability,usability
B) Backup,recovery,disaster recovery plan,business continuity plan
C) Grid computing,cloud computing,and virtualisation
D) All the answers are correct

Question 26

Which of the following describes how well a system can scale up,or adapt to the increased demands or growth?

A) Flexibility
B) Scalability
C) Reliability
D) Affordability

Question 27

Which of the following agile enterprise architecture infrastructure characteristics refers to how quickly a system can transform to support environmental changes?

A) Maintainability
B) Scalability
C) Capacity planning
D) Portability

Question 28

Which of the following describes the difference between a backup plan and a recovery plan?

A) Recovery is an exact copy of a system's information,where backup is the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure
B) Backup is mandatory,where recovery is optional
C) Backup is an exact copy of a system's information,where recovery is the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure
D) Recovery is mandatory,where backup is optional

Question 29

Which of the following is a benefit of a solid enterprise architecture?

A) Reduces costs
B) Improves productivity
C) Optimises business operations
D) All the answers are correct

Question 30

What are the seven characteristics of an agile infrastructure architecture?

A) Accessibility,availability,maintainability,portability,reliability,scalability and usability
B) Accessibility,affordability,mobility,portability,reliability,scalability and usability
C) Accessibility,availability,mobility,penetrability,responsibility,sensibility and usability
D) Accessibility,affordability,functionality,changeability,constancy,sources and understanding

Question 31

When building a scalable system that can support new company developments,what are the key factors to consider?

A) Anticipating expected and unexpected growth
B) Organising and deploying additional resources
C) Understanding competitor products and services
D) Analysing the accessibility and availability of competitor systems

Question 32

What are the three business functions that enterprise architecture supports?

A) Supports operations,change and sustainability (the environment)
B) Supports operations,customers and e-waste
C) Supports operations,clients and servers
D) Supports information,change and business continuity planning

Question 33

What has the ability to recover information or systems in the event of catastrophic disasters?

A) Recovery
B) Disaster recovery
C) Backup
D) Failback

Question 34

What is the primary reason a company has a failover system?

A) To use different systems continuously at the same time
B) To allow employees to work virtually
C) To take down the primary system for maintenance,while the secondary system activates to ensure continuous operations
D) All the answers are correct

Question 35

What determines future environmental infrastructure requirements that ensure high-quality system performance?

A) Capacity system
B) Capacity planning
C) Capacity function
D) Performance indicators

Question 36

Enterprise architecture is __________ and ___________.

A) Dynamic and static
B) Dynamic and continually changing
C) A client and a server
D) Hardware and software

Question 37

What 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 a secondary server?

A) Failover
B) Disaster recovery cost curve
C) Reliability
D) Maintainability

Question 38

Grid computing,cloud computing,and virtualisation are all elements of a ________ enterprise architecture.

A) Agile
B) Sustainable
C) Information
D) Virtualised

Question 39

Each year businesses lose time and money because of system crashes and failures.Which of the following offers the best way to protect a system from crashes and failures?

A) Backup and recovery plans
B) Fault tolerance
C) Failover
D) All the answers are correct

Question 40

Which characteristics support a sustainable enterprise architecture?

A) Accessibility,availability,maintainability,portability,reliability,scalability,usability
B) Backup and recovery plan,disaster recovery plan,business continuity plan
C) Grid computing,cloud computing and virtualisation
D) All the answers are correct

Question 41

What offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity?

A) Grid computing
B) Smart phones
C) Utility computing
D) Computing services

Question 42

The increased demand in technology devices has caused an increase in discarded devices,a phenomenon known as _______.

A) e-Waste
B) Grid computing
C) Ergonomic code
D) Electronic sustainability

Question 43

Which of the following sustainable enterprise architecture components is a collection of computers,often geographically dispersed,that are coordinated to solve a common problem?

A) Cloud computing
B) Grid computing
C) Virtualised computing
D) Database computing

Question 44

The three areas where enterprise architects focus when maintaining a company's enterprise architecture include,supporting operations,supporting change and supporting the ________.

Question 45

What are the three cloud computing service delivery models?

A) Independent as a Service,Supportive as a Service,Partnering as a Service
B) Infrastructure as a Service,Software as a Service,Platform as a Service
C) Innovation as a Service,Server as a Service,Platform as a Service
D) Intuit as a Service,Storage as a Service,Programming as a Service

Question 46

Cloud computing allows users to connect via a web browser and stores all of their software documents 'in the cloud',which means there is no more need for users to have ___________.

A) Hard drives
B) Physical servers
C) Software or processing power
D) All the answers are correct

Question 47

What is a facility used to house management information systems and associated components,such as telecommunications and storage systems?

A) Call centre
B) Data centre
C) Delivery base
D) Central centre

Question 48

The most popular IaaS operation today is Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).The benefit when using Amazon as an IaaS includes ___________.

A) Customers can load and run their own applications
B) Customers can control their own operating environment
C) Customers can create,run and stop services as needed
D) All the answers are correct

Question 49

What might change the way businesses operate,as well as the way people interact with technology?

A) Agile computing
B) Grid computing
C) Cloud computing
D) Smart grid computing

Question 50

Which of the below is not contributing to e-waste?

A) VCR
B) Automobile
C) Microwave
D) Computer

Question 51

What is cloud computing services changing?

A) The way people access information
B) The way people deliver information
C) The way people use information
D) All the answers are correct

Question 52

One way a business can minimise the damage of a system crash is to have a _________ and recovery strategy in place.

Question 53

What are the three pressures driving sustainable MIS infrastructures?

A) Decreases in electronic waste,energy waste and carbon emissions
B) Increases in e-waste,energy waste and dynamic scaling
C) Increases in electronic waste,energy waste and carbon emissions
D) Decreases in e-waste,energy waste and carbon footprints

Question 54

Which cloud computing model offers applications on a pay-per-use basis?

A) Infrastructure as a Service
B) Platform as a Service
C) Software as a Service
D) All the answers are correct

Question 55

Grid computing takes advantage of the available 75 per cent of unused processing power of a computer and links thousands of individual computers around the world creating a _______ that can process intensive tasks.

A) Personal computer
B) Employee client
C) Company server
D) Virtual supercomputer

Question 56

What is the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle called?

A) Sustainable MIS disposal
B) Sustainable device disposal
C) Sustainable software disposal
D) Sustainable enterprise disposal

Question 57

With grid computing,a problem is broken into pieces and distributed to many machines,allowing _________ processing than could occur with a single system.

A) Moderate
B) Slower
C) Faster
D) Cleaner

Question 58

What is a Platform as a Service (PaaS)?

A) Set up and storage systems including servers and database management model
B) Innovation and new develops new programs for business on an ongoing basis
C) Salesforce.com is an example of PaaS
D) Supports the deployment of entire systems including hardware,networking and applications using pay-per-use revenue model

Question 59

What service delivers hardware networking capabilities,including the use of servers,networking and storage over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model?

A) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
B) Dynamic scaling
C) Software as a Service (SaaS)
D) Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Question 60

What are the ramifications of improper electronic recycling,when analysing the example of a single desktop computer?

A) One computer contains more than 700 chemicals that can be toxic to the environment
B) Computers in landfills can leak these toxic chemicals into our land,water and air
C) Computers contain high levels of mercury,lead and cadmium-harmful toxins
D) All the answers are correct

Question 61

__________ computing are applications hosted remotely and the service is changing the way everyone can access,deliver and use information.

Question 62

One of the effects of a ___________ on a company's business operations is the halting of transportation where there is a disruption to major highways,bridges and railroads that can slow supply deliveries and stop the shipment of products.

Question 63

A _______ site of the support disaster recovery system separates facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.

Question 64

A disaster recovery _________ curve charts the cost to the company of the unavailability of information and technology and the cost to the company of recovering from a disaster over time.

Question 65

Explain enterprise architecture and its three primary types.

Question 66

Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

Question 67

Describe the characteristics of an agile enterprise architecture.

Question 68

The three pressures driving sustainable MIS infrastructures are (1)increased electronic waste; (2)increased ________ consumption; and (3)increased carbon emissions.

Question 69

The ______________ infrastructure business continuity planning,creates a way for a company to recover and restore partially or completely interrupted critical functions within a predetermined time after a disaster or extended disruption.

Question 70

Explain the three components of a sustainable enterprise architecture,along with their business benefits.

Question 71

A specific type of fault tolerance,________,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 72

Identify the three primary areas associated with an information architecture.

Question 73

The three components of a sustainable enterprise architecture include grid computing,__________ computing and virtualised computing.