COOP 101
IT Basics
KDOL Trivia
US Labor
Peeps
100

Continuity of Operations Plan

What does COOP stand for?

100

The cloud services provider used by the new system

What is Amazon Web Services or AWS

100

This Former Secretary of KDOL is currently Administrator of USDOL's Office of Unemployment Insurance. 

Who is Jim Garner?

100

The 40-hour workweek and the minimum wage became law with the passage of this Act in 1938.

What is the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)?

100

This developer is a beginner Apiarist.

Who is Stephen Waldron ?

200

Transferring the authority & responsibility for essential functions from our primary operating staff and facilities to another designated staff and location.

What is Devolution?

200

The words that make up the acronym ETL

What is Extract, Transfer, Load

200

The year in which the Kansas Department of Human Resources became the Kansas Department of Labor

What is 2004?

200

These words form the acronym UIPL

What is Unemployment Insurance Program Letter?

200

This developer has seen 45 of the lower 48 states by way of travel trailer

Who is Melinda Holman?

300

Severe Weather, Cyber Incidents, Utility outages, workplace threats, inaccessibility.

What are triggers for a COOP Activation?

300

A way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other

What is an API or Application Programming Interface

300

The number of buildings KDOL owns in Topeka.

What is five?

300

Americans first celebrated this day in 1882, and it became a federal holiday in 1894.

What is Labor Day?

300

This coworker was born on a hippie farm

Who is Sherry Chaturvedi?

400

Maintain core infrastructure and cybersecurity during disruptions.

What is an IT Essential Function? 

400

This is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy for analytics users to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources.

What is AWS Glue?

400

This KDOL Division works most closely with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) 

What is Labor Market Information Services (LMIS)?

400

This Act passed in 1933 revitalized the existing U.S. Employment Service and provided placement and recruitment for the unemployed and later helped administer Unemployment Insurance (UI) under the Social Security Act.

What is the Wagner-Peyser Act?

400

This KDOL employee attended high school with Sandy Johnson's daughter and coined the moniker "Buddy Boy" for a previous secretary. 

Who is Cory Mulligan

500

This Kansas House Bill created the Unemployment Compensation Modernization Improvement Council.

What is HB 2196?

500

This former KDOL Secretary served as the mayor of Topeka in 2010

Who is Larry Wohlgast?

500

This US Labor Secretary also served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State

Who is George Shultz?

500

These current Mainframe programmers recently returned to KDOL after working in other agencies.

Who are Ed Lyman and Diana Howe?