WGU Information Technology Management - C954 UCertify Flashcards

fact - answer-The confirmation or validation of an event or object information age - answer-A time when infinite quantities of facts are widely available to anyone who can use a computer internet of things (IoT) - answer-A world where interconnected Internet-enabled devices or "things" have the ability to collect and share data without human intervention machine-to-machine (M2M) - answer-refers to devices that connect directly to there devices data aggregation - answer-The collection of data from various sources for the purpose of data processing structured data - answer-data that has defined length, type and format and includes numbers, dates, or strings such as Customer Address ambient digital experience - answer-a blend of the physical, virtual, and electronic environments creating a real-time ambient environment that changes as the user moves form one place to another Internet of Everything (IoE) - answer-a concept that extends the Internet of Things (IoT) emphasis on machine-to-machine communications to describe a more complex system that also encompasses people and processes autonomous agent - answer-software that carries out some set of operations on behalf of a user or another program with some degree of independence or autonomy, and employ some knowledge or representation of the user's goals or desires autonomic computing - answer-a self-managing computing model named after, and patterned on, the human body's autonomic nervous system transformation process - answer-the technical core, especially in manufacturing organizations; the actual conversion of inputs to outputs value-added - answer-the term used to describe the difference between the cost of inputs and the value of price of outputs strategic business units (SBUs) - answer-consists of several stand alone businesses materials requirement planning (MRP) system - answer-sales forecasts to make sure that needed parts and materials are available at the right time and place in a specific company tactical planning - answer-focuses on producing goods and services as efficiently as possible within the strategic plan operational planning and control (OP&C) - answer-deals with the day to day procedures for performing work, including scheduling, inventory, and process management International Organization for Standardization (ISO) - answer-a non-governmental organization established in 1947 to promote the development of world standards to facilitate the international exchange of goods and services process quality - answer-main goal is to produce defect free products six sigma quality - answer-the goal is to detect potential problems to prevent their occurrence and achieve no more than 3.4 defects per million opportunities malcolm baldric national quality awards - answer-1987 U.S. standard awarding quality awards in seven key areas: leadership, strategic planning, customer/market focus, information and analysis, human resources focus, process management, and business results ISO 900 - answer-international organization for standardization (1947) requiring a company to determine customer needs, including regulatory and legal requirements including communication arrangements. Other standards involve process control, product testing, storage and delivery. ISO 14000 - answer-collection of best practices for managing an organizations impact on the environment CMMI - answer-capability maturity integration is a framework for best practices. Does not describe the processes themselves; it describes the characteristics of good processes, thus providing efficient guidelines. inputs - answer-land, labor, capital, information transformation - answer-conversion process outputs - answer-goods & services storage virtualization - answer-combines multiple network storage devices so that they appear to be a single storage device network virtualization - answer-combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that an be assigned in real time to a specific device server virtualization - answer-combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications system virtualization - answer-the ability to present the resources of a single computer as if it is a collation of separate computers (virtual machines) multi-tenancy - answer-a single instance of a system serves multiple customers cloud fabric controller - answer-an individual who monitors and provisions cloud resources similar to a server administrator at an individual company cloud fabric - answer-the software that makes the benefits of cloud computing possible hybrid cloud - answer-includes two or more private, public, or community clouds, but each cloud remains separate and is only linked by technology that enables data and application portability cloud bursting - answer-when a company uses its own computing infrastructure for normal usage and accesses the cloud when it needs to sale for high/peak load requirements, ensuring a sudden spike in usage does not result in poor performance or system crashes