Ethics and Laws
A law that assigns certain rights to parents regarding their children’s educational records.
What is FERPA?
The use of someone’s personal identification information without his or her permission, often to commit fraud or other crimes.
What is identity theft?
The path comprised of all project activities that, if delayed, would delay the entire project.
A network that uses multiple access points to link a series of devices that speak to each other to form a network connection across a large area.
What is a mesh network?
Cities that make use of data from sensors combined with artificial intelligence to improve infrastructure and efficiently manage traffic lights, power plants, water supplies, networks, energy usage, and other resources.
What is a smart city?
What is agile?
A 32-bit number that identifies a computer on the Internet.
What is an IP address?
A set of data privacy requirements that apply across the European Union and apply as well to organizations that market to or process information of EU end users, customers, or employees.
What is GDPR?
The process of tailoring Web pages to specifically target individual consumers.
What is personalization?
A graphical tool used for planning, monitoring, and coordinating projects; it is essentially a grid drawn on a timescale that lists activities and deadlines.
What is a Gantt Chart?
A measurement of how long it takes for a unit of data to get to its destination and back again.
What is network latency?
The latest generation of mobile communications, featuring high data transfer speeds over high frequencies with minimal latency and requiring low energy.
What is 5G?
The practice of blending the tasks performed by the development and IT operations groups to enable faster and more reliable software releases.
What is DevOps?
A simple way to illustrate what a company is doing well, where it can improve, what opportunities are available, and what environmental factors threaten the future of the organization.
What is a SWOT matrix?
A law that states any website that caters to children must offer comprehensive privacy policies, notify parents or guardians about its data collection practices, and receive parental consent before collecting any personal information from children under 13 years of age.
What is COPPA?
The use of information and communications technology to simplify the sharing of information, speed formerly paper-based processes, and improve the relationship between citizens and government.
What is e-government?
A task that must be completed before a later task can begin.
What is a predecessor task?
A system that maps the name people use to locate a website to the IP address that a computer uses to locate a Web site.
What is the domain name system?
A cloud computing environment is composed of both private and public clouds integrated through networking.
What is a hybrid cloud computing environment?
An assessment of the technical, economic, legal, operational, and schedule feasibility of a project.
What is feasibility analysis?
A computing environment in which a service provider organization owns and manages the infrastructure (including computing, networking, storage devices, and support personnel) with cloud user organizations (called tenants) accessing slices of shared resources via the Internet.
What is a public cloud computing environment?
The control or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on the Internet.
What is internet censorship?
A form of e-commerce in which customers deal directly with an organization and avoid intermediaries.
What is B2C e-commerce?
A definition of which tasks are and which tasks are not included in a project.
What is the project scope?
A standard for wireless communications for mobile phones based on packet switching.
What is LTE?
An information systems model in which users are provided with a computing platform, typically including operating system, programming language execution environment, database services, and Web server.
What is PaaS?
A sequential, multistage system development process that is more fluid than SDLC in which work on the next stage cannot begin until the results of the current stage are reviewed and approved or modified as necessary.
What is waterfall?
A network in which all network devices are connected to a common backbone that serves as a shared communications medium.
What is a bus network?
A law that includes strong privacy provisions for electronic health records (EHRs), including banning the sale of health information, promoting the use of audit trails and encryption, providing rights of access for patients, and mandating that each individual whose health information has been exposed be notified within 60 days after discovery of a data breach.
What is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Title XIII?
A communications protocol or system of rules that ensures privacy between communicating applications and their users on the Internet.
What is TLS?
A diagram outlining the relationships among all of the project’s tasks.
What is a project logic / network diagram?
A collection of communication protocols used to interconnect network devices on packet switching networks such as the Internet.
What is Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)?
The ability of IT systems to manage themselves and adapt to changes in the computing environment, business policies, and operating objectives.
What is autonomic computing?
A cutover strategy that involves stopping the old system and starting the new system on a given date; also called plunge or direct cutover.
What is direct conversion?
A law that regulates the operations of credit-reporting bureaus, including how they collect, store, and use credit information.