Pre-Assessment Questions Flashcards
A large heating and air conditioning company provides each employee with a small computing device that the employees use to track work and accept payments.
Which term refers specifically to this type of device?
Handheld computer
What is the major function of a computer operating system?
Computer resource management
What are the basic components, in addition to computers, that are required for a local network to function?
Ethernet cards, a common protocol, ethernet cables, and a hub
Which topology implements a network where if the central hub fails, all nodes attached to the hub will also fail?
A star topology
Many websites keep track of a user’s actions and information. They store much of this information on the user’s computer in a private folder on the hard drive.
What are these very small files called?
Tracking cookies
Which category of software includes programs such as word processors and PDF document readers?
Application software
What is the defining characteristic of a part of a system that is considered a point of failure?
It causes everything to stop if it fails
Which term is used to refer to data that come from many different sources in various structures?
Disparate data
What are scrubbed data?
Data that have been validated for accuracy
One perpetual issue with corporate data is ensuring the data are accurate and valid. Procedures that apply to end users, managers, and IT personnel are often put in place to ensure good data.
What is the term that describes this effort?
Data governance
Where does IoT data collection begin?
The edge
Which level of management gets the most detailed reports directly from the transaction processing system?
Supervisors
What is a key capability of a decision support system?
It compiles data from many systems to assist in decision-making
Endothon Company buys cabinet hardware from one manufacturer. Due to limited storage space for inventory, Endothon has partnered with the manufacturer to ship hardware just when it is needed.
Which component of the IT supply chain could the company set up to efficiently communicate what it needs each week?
An extranet that provides the manufacturer access to data at Endothon
A small online retailer has grown rapidly over the past year, and now during times of high activity, the retailer’s web server is nearly at capacity. The retailer anticipates continued rapid growth but is concerned that this growth may stall if the economy goes into recession.
What is an appropriate strategic planning decision for this retailer to make in order to ensure adequate server capacity?
Use a cloud web hosting service
An analyst publishes a paper on cybersecurity. In that paper, he includes several pages of a report written by another author, but he does not attribute those pages to the other author.
Which type of law prohibits this kind of unethical behavior?
Copyright
How does the healthcare industry use Internet of Things (IoT) devices?
To monitor patients’ heart rate and oxygen levels
A large automobile maker has added sensors to its assembly line equipment to alert managers to manufacturing anomalies via a mobile application (app) on their smartphones. This Internet of Things (IoT) system connects proprietary manufacturing components.
What is the greatest risk created by incorporating this IoT system?
Increased security risk
What is the main reason marketing return on investment (ROI) is easier to measure with social media marketing than with traditional marketing?
User behavior can be tracked in social media.
