WGU D075 OA FINAL STUDY SHEET 2026
SOLVED QUESTIONS FULLY CORRECT
⫸ Application Software Answer: Software that is designed for the user
to carry out a specific task.
⫸ Best Practice Answer: A management process, technique, or method
that is most effective at arriving at a desired outcome or a better outcome
than any other process, technique, or method.
⫸ Big Data Answer: Data that is collected from all over the internet,
including smartphone metadata, internet usage records, social media
activity, computer usage records, and countless other data sources.
⫸ Bus Topology Answer: A network topology sometimes called a
linear bus, where each of a network's nodes is connected to a common
linear backbone that has two endpoints.
⫸ Business Analytics Answer: Attempts to make connections between
data so organizations can try to predict future trends that may give them
a competitive advantage.
⫸ Business Intelligence (BI Answer: Strategies and technologies used
by enterprises for the data analysis of business information.
,⫸ Cache Answer: A hardware or software component that stores data so
that future requests for that data can be served faster.
⫸ Campus Area Network (CAN) Answer: A computer network that
connects two or more LANs that are located on a campus.
⫸ Chief Information Officer (CIO) Answer: A job title for the board-
level head of an information technology department within a business
organization. The CIO's job is to make sure IT assets are in place to
ensure a smooth transition.
⫸ Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Answer: The CISO is
generally focused on the security of an organization's data and
information, making sure it is backed up, deciding who gets to see it and
who does not, and so on.
⫸ Chief Security Officer (CSO) Answer: A CSO is in charge of such
things as the physical security and safety of employees, facilities, and
corporate assets and may have a law enforcement background.
⫸ Chief Technology Officers (CTO) Answer: The CTO runs the
organization's IT engineering group and serves as the company's top
technology architect.
⫸ Click Fraud Answer: An internet fraud scheme that automatically
passes a user to an advertiser, whether they had any intention of visiting
or not, in order to collect a per-click fee.
,⫸ Clients Answer: An end user's computer in a computer network.
⫸ Computer Network Answer: Two or more computers connected
together to communicate and share resources.
⫸ Cybersecurity Answer: The convergence of technologies, sound
practice, and processes designed to protect networks and their devices,
programs, and data from attack or unauthorized access.
⫸ Data Analysis Answer: The application of statistics and logic
techniques to define, illustrate, and evaluate data.
⫸ Data Management (DM) Answer: The practices, architectural
techniques, and tools for achieving consistent access to and delivery of
data across the spectrum of data subject areas and data structure types in
the enterprise.
⫸ Data Management Processes Answer: The process of acquiring data,
making sure the data are valid, and then storing and processing the data
into usable information for a business.
⫸ Data Mapping Answer: Extra notes about the definition of a field, its
data, and its use
, ⫸ Data Mining Answer: The examination of huge sets of data to find
patterns and connections and identify outliers and hidden relationships.
⫸ Databases Answer: Well-thought-out collections of computer files,
the most important of which are called tables.
⫸ Database Administrators (DBAs) Answer: DBAs categorize data
requirements and create the database entities and models that ensure
accurate and smooth-flowing information throughout a business.
⫸ Database Management System Software (DBMS) Answer: An
application software that is used to create a collection of related files that
consist of records of data separated by fields that can be queried to
produce populations of information.
⫸ Default-allow Firewall Rule Answer: A rule that all traffic is allowed
unless it has been specifically blocked.
⫸ Default-deny Firewall Rule Answer: The only network connections
that are permitted are the ones that have been explicitly allowed.
⫸ Denial-of-service Answer: An attempt to make a computer or any of
its resources unavailable to its intended users.
⫸ Disk Storage Answer: Nonvolatile, secondary storage on a physical
device like a hard drive or optical disk with a read/write apparatus.
SOLVED QUESTIONS FULLY CORRECT
⫸ Application Software Answer: Software that is designed for the user
to carry out a specific task.
⫸ Best Practice Answer: A management process, technique, or method
that is most effective at arriving at a desired outcome or a better outcome
than any other process, technique, or method.
⫸ Big Data Answer: Data that is collected from all over the internet,
including smartphone metadata, internet usage records, social media
activity, computer usage records, and countless other data sources.
⫸ Bus Topology Answer: A network topology sometimes called a
linear bus, where each of a network's nodes is connected to a common
linear backbone that has two endpoints.
⫸ Business Analytics Answer: Attempts to make connections between
data so organizations can try to predict future trends that may give them
a competitive advantage.
⫸ Business Intelligence (BI Answer: Strategies and technologies used
by enterprises for the data analysis of business information.
,⫸ Cache Answer: A hardware or software component that stores data so
that future requests for that data can be served faster.
⫸ Campus Area Network (CAN) Answer: A computer network that
connects two or more LANs that are located on a campus.
⫸ Chief Information Officer (CIO) Answer: A job title for the board-
level head of an information technology department within a business
organization. The CIO's job is to make sure IT assets are in place to
ensure a smooth transition.
⫸ Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Answer: The CISO is
generally focused on the security of an organization's data and
information, making sure it is backed up, deciding who gets to see it and
who does not, and so on.
⫸ Chief Security Officer (CSO) Answer: A CSO is in charge of such
things as the physical security and safety of employees, facilities, and
corporate assets and may have a law enforcement background.
⫸ Chief Technology Officers (CTO) Answer: The CTO runs the
organization's IT engineering group and serves as the company's top
technology architect.
⫸ Click Fraud Answer: An internet fraud scheme that automatically
passes a user to an advertiser, whether they had any intention of visiting
or not, in order to collect a per-click fee.
,⫸ Clients Answer: An end user's computer in a computer network.
⫸ Computer Network Answer: Two or more computers connected
together to communicate and share resources.
⫸ Cybersecurity Answer: The convergence of technologies, sound
practice, and processes designed to protect networks and their devices,
programs, and data from attack or unauthorized access.
⫸ Data Analysis Answer: The application of statistics and logic
techniques to define, illustrate, and evaluate data.
⫸ Data Management (DM) Answer: The practices, architectural
techniques, and tools for achieving consistent access to and delivery of
data across the spectrum of data subject areas and data structure types in
the enterprise.
⫸ Data Management Processes Answer: The process of acquiring data,
making sure the data are valid, and then storing and processing the data
into usable information for a business.
⫸ Data Mapping Answer: Extra notes about the definition of a field, its
data, and its use
, ⫸ Data Mining Answer: The examination of huge sets of data to find
patterns and connections and identify outliers and hidden relationships.
⫸ Databases Answer: Well-thought-out collections of computer files,
the most important of which are called tables.
⫸ Database Administrators (DBAs) Answer: DBAs categorize data
requirements and create the database entities and models that ensure
accurate and smooth-flowing information throughout a business.
⫸ Database Management System Software (DBMS) Answer: An
application software that is used to create a collection of related files that
consist of records of data separated by fields that can be queried to
produce populations of information.
⫸ Default-allow Firewall Rule Answer: A rule that all traffic is allowed
unless it has been specifically blocked.
⫸ Default-deny Firewall Rule Answer: The only network connections
that are permitted are the ones that have been explicitly allowed.
⫸ Denial-of-service Answer: An attempt to make a computer or any of
its resources unavailable to its intended users.
⫸ Disk Storage Answer: Nonvolatile, secondary storage on a physical
device like a hard drive or optical disk with a read/write apparatus.
