EXAM STUDY MATERIALS July 30, 2024 11:26 AM WGU Information Technology Management - C954 UCertify Exam Questions With Correct Answers. Fact - answer✔✔The confirmation or validation of an event or object information age - answer✔✔A time when infinite quantities of facts are widely available to anyone who can use a computer internet of things (IoT) - answer✔✔A world where interconnected Internet -enabled devices or "things" have the ability to collect and share data without human intervention machine -to-machine (M2M) - answer✔✔refers to devices that connect directly to there devices data aggregation - answer✔✔The collection of data from various sources for the purpose of data processing structured data - answer✔✔data that has defined length, type and format and includes numbers, dates, or strings such as Customer Address ambient digital experience - answer✔✔a blend of the physical, virtual, and electronic environments creating a real -time ambient environment that changes as the user moves form one place to another Internet of Everything (IoE) - answer✔✔a concept that extends the Internet of Things (IoT) emphasis on machine -to-machine communications to describe a more complex system that al so encompasses people and processes autonomous agent - answer✔✔software that carries out some set of operations on behalf of a user or another program with some degree of independence or autonomy, and employ some knowledge or representation of the user's g oals or desires autonomic computing - answer✔✔a self -managing computing model named after, and patterned on, the human body's autonomic nervous system transformation process - answer✔✔the technical core, especially in manufacturing organizations; the actua l conversion of inputs to outputs value -added - answer✔✔the term used to describe the difference between the cost of inputs and the value of price of outputs EXAM STUDY MATERIALS July 30, 2024 11:26 AM strategic business units (SBUs) - answer✔✔consists of several stand alone businesses materials req uirement planning (MRP) system - answer✔✔sales forecasts to make sure that needed parts and materials are available at the right time and place in a specific company tactical planning - answer✔✔focuses on producing goods and services as efficiently as poss ible within the strategic plan operational planning and control (OP&C) - answer✔✔deals with the day to day procedures for performing work, including scheduling, inventory, and process management International Organization for Standardization (ISO) - answer✔✔a non -governmental organization established in 1947 to promote the development of world standards to facilitate the international exchange of goods and services process quality - answer✔✔main goal is to produce defect free products six sigma quality - answer✔✔the goal is to detect potential problems to prevent their occurrence and achieve no more than 3.4 defects per million opportunities malcolm baldric national quality awards - answer✔✔1987 U.S. standard awarding quality awards in seven key areas: leade rship, strategic planning, customer/market focus, information and analysis, human resources focus, process management, and business results ISO 900 - answer✔✔international organization for standardization (1947) requiring a company to determine customer ne eds, including regulatory and legal requirements including communication arrangements. Other standards involve process control, product testing, storage and delivery. ISO 14000 - answer✔✔collection of best practices for managing an organizations impact on the environment CMMI - answer✔✔capability maturity integration is a framework for best practices. Does not describe the processes themselves; it describes the characteristics of good processes, thus providing efficient guidelines. inputs - answer✔✔land, la bor, capital, information transformation - answer✔✔conversion process outputs - answer✔✔goods & services storage virtualization - answer✔✔combines multiple network storage devices so that they appear to be a single storage device network virtualization - answer✔✔combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that an be assigned in real time to a specific device EXAM STUDY MATERIALS July 30, 2024 11:26 AM server virtualization - answer✔✔combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating system s, from the applications system virtualization - answer✔✔the ability to present the resources of a single computer as if it is a collation of separate computers (virtual machines) multi -tenancy - answer✔✔a single instance of a system serves multiple custom ers cloud fabric controller - answer✔✔an individual who monitors and provisions cloud resources similar to a server administrator at an individual company cloud fabric - answer✔✔the software that makes the benefits of cloud computing possible hybrid cloud - answer✔✔includes two or more private, public, or community clouds, but each cloud remains separate and is only linked by technology that enables data and application portability cloud bursting - answer✔✔when a company uses its own computing infrastructure for normal usage and accesses the cloud when it needs to sale for high/peak load requirements, ensuring a sudden spike in usage does not result in poor performance or system crashes utility computing - answer✔✔offers a pay -per-use revenue mo del similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - answer✔✔delivers hardware networking capabilities, including use of servers, networking, and storage, over the cloud using a pay -per-use revenue model Disaster Recovery as a Device (DRaaS) - answer✔✔Offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data form disruption caused by disaster Data as a Service (DaaS) - answer✔✔facilitates the accessibility of business -critical data in a timely, secure, and affordable manner Moore's Law - answer✔✔refers to the computer chip performance per dollar doubling every 18 months upcycle - answer✔✔reuses or refurbishes waste and creates new product governance - answer✔✔method or system of government fo r management or control information systems audit and control association (USACA) - answer✔✔a set of guidelines and supporting tools for IT governance that is accepted worldwide and generally used by auditors and companies as a way to integrate technology to implement controls and meet specific business objectives EXAM STUDY MATERIALS July 30, 2024 11:26 AM internet technology infrastructure library (ITIL) - answer✔✔a framework provided by the government of the UK that offers eight sets of management procedures committee of sponsoring organizations ( COSO) - answer✔✔key for evaluating internal controls such as human resources, logistics, IT, risk, legal, marketing and sales, operations, financial functions, procurement, and reporting capability maturity model integration (CMMI) method - answer✔✔a proce ss improvement approach that contains 22 process areas enterprise architecture - answer✔✔a process for how an organization will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets deperimeterization - answer✔✔occurs when an organization moves employees outside its firewall, a growing movement to change the way corporations address technology security transborder data flows (TDF) - answer✔✔when business data flows across international boundaries over the telecommunications networks of global in formation systems carbon emission - answer✔✔includes the carbon dioxide & carbon monoxide in the atmosphere produced by processes and systems grid computing - answer✔✔a collection of computers coordinated to solve a common problem smart grid - answer✔✔delivers electricity using two -way digital technology virtualization - answer✔✔the creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of computing resources, such as an operating system, a server, a storage device, or other network resources data center - answ er✔✔a facility used to house management information systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems public cloud - answer✔✔promotes massive, global, industrywide applications offered to the general public private cloud - answer✔✔serves only one customer or organization and can be located on the customer's premises or off premises community cloud - answer✔✔serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations big data a s a service (BDaaS) - answer✔✔offers cloud -based big data service to help organizations analyze massive amounts of data to solve business dilemmas child online protection act (COPA) - answer✔✔a law that protects minors from accessing inappropriate material on the internet