ISTM FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Information technology - Answers -is everywhere and in every aspect of business
What does information technology do? - Answers -Enhance business
"Know the business" - Answers -Common axiom for IT professionals
Value Added - Answers -refers to the added value of a product or service over the cost
of products and services used to produce it from the previous stage of production
Service and IT consulting - Answers -There are typically two types of IT professionals
within an information technology department; ____________ and ____________.
What is IT commonly referred to in terms of holding an organization together - Answers
-the "glue"
Chief Information Officer (CIO) or Chief Technology officer (CTO) - Answers -is a job
title for the board-level head of an information technology department within a business
organization.
Importance of the CIO has - Answers -increased
Typically a CIO will have a - Answers -Masters in Business (MBA)
Head Applications Developers - Answers -in charge of software application
development teams that develop, design, program, and test software applications.
Unified Modeling Language (UML) - Answers -said to be the blueprint for developing
applications
Application Architects - Answers -design parts of applications like screen interfaces,
middleware, and programming infrastructure
Middleware - Answers -is the computer programming and software that connects the
components an applications architect designs, with the programming infrastructure
Programming infrastructure - Answers -includes the actual programming language
components that help an application work as designed
Database Administrators - Answers -categorize data requirements and create the
database entities and models that ensure accurate and smooth-flowing information
throughout a business.
, Network Administrators - Answers -directly responsible for the smooth operations and
maintenance of the business' networks and networking technology that includes its
hardware and software
Senior Web Developers - Answers -prepare, plan, and implement web-based software
applications.
Business Intelligence Analysts - Answers -make sense out of an organization's data
and information, and present their findings to senior staff for the purpose of making
tactical and strategic decisions
What is the biggest advantage of a database? - Answers -The ability to query
information
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software - Answers -is a business-wide computer
system used to administer and organize all the computer resources and information for
functional departments of a business from shared data stores to a centralized database
residing on a local area network.
Data integrity - Answers -Term that means data is whole or complete and accurate
ERPs can sometimes be referred to as the _______ in terms of overall business
solutions - Answers -Holy grail
Unified Modeling Language (UML) - Answers -is a standardized visual modeling
language for developing computer software. includes a set of graphical notation tools
and techniques to create what basically amounts to a blueprint for constructing a
computer application.
Use Case Scenarios - Answers -An explanation of a computer system's behavior as it
receives and responds to requests that start off from outside that system
Object Oriented analysis - Answers -A type of analysis in which programmers first
identify all the categories of inputs that are part of the problem the program is meant to
solve.
Object Oriented design - Answers -takes the OOA diagrams and information and
expands it to make implementation specifications.
Sequence Diagrams - Answers -illustrations that show how computer processes relate
and interact with each other and in what order.
Tables - Answers -The most important parts of database software are _____________.
Tables - Answers -Are where a database holds data
Information technology - Answers -is everywhere and in every aspect of business
What does information technology do? - Answers -Enhance business
"Know the business" - Answers -Common axiom for IT professionals
Value Added - Answers -refers to the added value of a product or service over the cost
of products and services used to produce it from the previous stage of production
Service and IT consulting - Answers -There are typically two types of IT professionals
within an information technology department; ____________ and ____________.
What is IT commonly referred to in terms of holding an organization together - Answers
-the "glue"
Chief Information Officer (CIO) or Chief Technology officer (CTO) - Answers -is a job
title for the board-level head of an information technology department within a business
organization.
Importance of the CIO has - Answers -increased
Typically a CIO will have a - Answers -Masters in Business (MBA)
Head Applications Developers - Answers -in charge of software application
development teams that develop, design, program, and test software applications.
Unified Modeling Language (UML) - Answers -said to be the blueprint for developing
applications
Application Architects - Answers -design parts of applications like screen interfaces,
middleware, and programming infrastructure
Middleware - Answers -is the computer programming and software that connects the
components an applications architect designs, with the programming infrastructure
Programming infrastructure - Answers -includes the actual programming language
components that help an application work as designed
Database Administrators - Answers -categorize data requirements and create the
database entities and models that ensure accurate and smooth-flowing information
throughout a business.
, Network Administrators - Answers -directly responsible for the smooth operations and
maintenance of the business' networks and networking technology that includes its
hardware and software
Senior Web Developers - Answers -prepare, plan, and implement web-based software
applications.
Business Intelligence Analysts - Answers -make sense out of an organization's data
and information, and present their findings to senior staff for the purpose of making
tactical and strategic decisions
What is the biggest advantage of a database? - Answers -The ability to query
information
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software - Answers -is a business-wide computer
system used to administer and organize all the computer resources and information for
functional departments of a business from shared data stores to a centralized database
residing on a local area network.
Data integrity - Answers -Term that means data is whole or complete and accurate
ERPs can sometimes be referred to as the _______ in terms of overall business
solutions - Answers -Holy grail
Unified Modeling Language (UML) - Answers -is a standardized visual modeling
language for developing computer software. includes a set of graphical notation tools
and techniques to create what basically amounts to a blueprint for constructing a
computer application.
Use Case Scenarios - Answers -An explanation of a computer system's behavior as it
receives and responds to requests that start off from outside that system
Object Oriented analysis - Answers -A type of analysis in which programmers first
identify all the categories of inputs that are part of the problem the program is meant to
solve.
Object Oriented design - Answers -takes the OOA diagrams and information and
expands it to make implementation specifications.
Sequence Diagrams - Answers -illustrations that show how computer processes relate
and interact with each other and in what order.
Tables - Answers -The most important parts of database software are _____________.
Tables - Answers -Are where a database holds data
