Potpourri -1
A set of communication rules to make sure that everyone speaks the same language.
What is a protocol?
Enables the transmission of data over public or private networks.
What is a telecommunications system?
A collection of related data elements?
What is a Record?
Includes coaxial, twisted-pair, and fiber-optic.
What is Media?
A temporary activity undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.
What is a project?
Intended for human reading and not machine reading.
What is pseudocode?
TCP/IP’s own messaging system for email?
What is Simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP)?
A kind of attribute that can be calculated using the value of another attribute?
What is a Derived attribute?
Connects the plans, methods and tools aimed at integrating separate enterprise systems.
What is enterprise application integration (EAI)?
Defines the how, what, when, and who regarding the flow of project information to stakeholders and is key for managing expectations.
What is a communication plan?
McDonald's performs this when it asks customers if they would like to super-size their meals?
What is up-selling?
Allows Web browsers and servers to send and receive Web pages?
What is Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)?
Occurs between two entities in which an instance of one entity can be related to many instances of a related entity?
What is a One-to-Many relationship?
The primary users of ERP systems?
What are accounting, finance, logistics and production?
Any measurable, tangible, verifiable outcome, result, or item that is produced to complete a project or part of a project.
What is a project deliverable?
A distorted product-demand information ripples from one partner to the next throughout the supply chain.
What is the bullwhip effect?
Refers to a type of cable composed of four (or more) copper wires twisted around each other within a plastic sheath?
What is Twisted-pair cable?
Exists to represent the relationship between two other entities?
What is a Composite entity?
Finds the optimum value for a target variable by repeatedly changing other variables.
What is operational analytics?
A measure of the practicality of a technical solution and the availability of technical resources and expertise.
What is technical feasibility?
Involves describing the desired features and operations of the system.
What is the design phase of SDLC?
Represents the TCP/IP four-layer reference model?
What is Application, transport, Internet, network interfaces?
Expresses the specific number of instances in an entity?
What is Cardinality
A self-managing computing model named after, and patterned on, the human body’s autonomic nervous system?
What is Autonomic computing?
The individuals and organizations actively involved in the project or whose interests might be affected as a result of project execution or project completion.
What are project stakeholders?