WGU D075 OA 2025 WITH 70 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS (100% CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS) D487 SECURE SOFTWARE DESIGN
OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT 2025
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?
*Peripheral computer
*Microcomputer
*Minicomputer
*Handheld computer - ANSWER-Handheld computer
What is the title of the person within an IT department whose responsibility is to set policies for
passwords, create rules for backup and recovery, and facilitate the protection of the data center and
computers with the data and information?
*Chief operating officer
*Chief cybersecurity officer
*Chief information security officer
*Chief technology officer - ANSWER-Chief information security officer
When using extract, transform, and load (ETL), what is done during the "transform" step?
*The data are normalized and structured.
*The data are given context and relevance.
*The database is queried for relevant data.
*The database schema is designed and created. - ANSWER-The data are normalized and
structured.
What is the key characteristic that differentiates a datamart from a data warehouse?
*A datamart uses centralized data storage while a data warehouse is decentralized.
*A datamart is a cloud-based service while a data warehouse requires a dedicated server.
, *A datamart is smaller and more specialized in its focus than a data warehouse.
*A datamart allows a broader set of data structures than a data warehouse. - ANSWER-A datamart
is smaller and more specialized in its focus than a data warehouse.
A marketing employee is tasked with mailing discount coupons to the company's top 100 customers
by sales volume. The marketing employee only has lists of customers' names, customers' addresses,
and the sales generated by each customer. Which process should this employee use to ensure
coupons are mailed to the correct customers?
*Data structuring
*Data warehousing
*Data mining
*Data intelligence - ANSWER-Data mining
What is the velocity of big data?
*The processing speed of the database servers
*The rate at which the data in a data set become decayed
*The speed of data produced in a given time
*The frequency with which the data set must be updated - ANSWER-The speed of data produced
in a given time
What is it called when an organization implements security procedures to protect the hardware,
network, and software from intrusion?
*System-level security
*Access-level security
*Data-level security
*User-level security - ANSWER-System-level security
Which term is used to refer to data that come from many different sources in various structures?
*Unstructured data
*Disparate data
*Semistructured data
*Source data - ANSWER-Disparate data
CORRECT ANSWERS (100% CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS) D487 SECURE SOFTWARE DESIGN
OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT 2025
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?
*Peripheral computer
*Microcomputer
*Minicomputer
*Handheld computer - ANSWER-Handheld computer
What is the title of the person within an IT department whose responsibility is to set policies for
passwords, create rules for backup and recovery, and facilitate the protection of the data center and
computers with the data and information?
*Chief operating officer
*Chief cybersecurity officer
*Chief information security officer
*Chief technology officer - ANSWER-Chief information security officer
When using extract, transform, and load (ETL), what is done during the "transform" step?
*The data are normalized and structured.
*The data are given context and relevance.
*The database is queried for relevant data.
*The database schema is designed and created. - ANSWER-The data are normalized and
structured.
What is the key characteristic that differentiates a datamart from a data warehouse?
*A datamart uses centralized data storage while a data warehouse is decentralized.
*A datamart is a cloud-based service while a data warehouse requires a dedicated server.
, *A datamart is smaller and more specialized in its focus than a data warehouse.
*A datamart allows a broader set of data structures than a data warehouse. - ANSWER-A datamart
is smaller and more specialized in its focus than a data warehouse.
A marketing employee is tasked with mailing discount coupons to the company's top 100 customers
by sales volume. The marketing employee only has lists of customers' names, customers' addresses,
and the sales generated by each customer. Which process should this employee use to ensure
coupons are mailed to the correct customers?
*Data structuring
*Data warehousing
*Data mining
*Data intelligence - ANSWER-Data mining
What is the velocity of big data?
*The processing speed of the database servers
*The rate at which the data in a data set become decayed
*The speed of data produced in a given time
*The frequency with which the data set must be updated - ANSWER-The speed of data produced
in a given time
What is it called when an organization implements security procedures to protect the hardware,
network, and software from intrusion?
*System-level security
*Access-level security
*Data-level security
*User-level security - ANSWER-System-level security
Which term is used to refer to data that come from many different sources in various structures?
*Unstructured data
*Disparate data
*Semistructured data
*Source data - ANSWER-Disparate data
