Exam 3
The functions & organization of the IS department
What is a plan use of IS to accomplish organizational goals & strategy; manage outsourcing relationships; protect information assets; develop, operate maintain computing infrastructure; develop, operate, maintain applications?
The ability to model the components of a system and to connect the inputs and outputs among those components into a sensible whole that reflects the structure and dynamics of the phenomenon observed.
What is systems thinking?
Predict purchasing patterns, entertainment, medical reporting.
What are typical BI applications?
The traditional process for developing information systems
What is the systems development life cycle (SDLC)?
BPMN
What is business process modeling notation?
A person that manages security for all organization's assets: physical plant and equipment, employees, intellectual property, and digital.
What is a Chief Security Officer (CSO)?
This collects, processes, stores, analyzes, and disseminates information for a specific purpose.
What is an information system?
This means to take a site to extraordinary measures to reduce a system's vulnerability.
What is hardening?
A person or an organization that seeks to obtain or alter data or other IS assets illegally, without the owner's permission and often without the owner's knowledge.
Who is a threat?
SDLC
What is systems development life cycle?
Data acquisition, business intelligence analysis, publish results.
What are the three primary activities in the BI process?
This describes the ability to use computing resources from the cloud that dynamically meet a customer's demand.
What is elastic?
This identifies a protocol that is used to encrypt data with https
What is SSL?
A person hired by a large consulting firm to advise clients on business process management and business strategies
Who is a business analyst?
States that adding more people to a late project makes it later.
What is Brook's Law?
To create value from intellectual capital and sharing that knowledge with employees, managers, suppliers, customers, and others who need that capital.
What is the role of knowledge management systems?
A collection of computing devices that transmit data to, and receive it from, each other over transmission lines or wirelessly.
What is a network?
Many information system programs produce this
What are activity logs?
A critical security function that should be addressed by the senior management of an organization.
What is establishing a security policy for the organization?
An IS professional who understand both business and information technology.
Who is a systems analyst?
To help complete project management, problem solving, deciding and informing in a collaborative way.
How do organizations use business intelligence (BI) systems?
A CPU is like the computer's "brain" what is a RAM like?
What is a short term memory?
The process of transforming clear text into coded, unintelligible text for secure storage or communication
What is encryption?
An abstract model of a database's table structure.
What is an ERD (Entity-Relationship Diagram)
Information systems that support the management and delivery of documents including reports, Web pages, and other expressions of employee knowledge.
What are content management systems (CMS)?