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| Define Enterprise Architecture |
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| includes plans for how an organization will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and IT assets |
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| a person grounded in technology, fluent in business, a patient diplomat, and provides the important bridge between IT and the business |
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| Define Information Architecture: |
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Identifies where and how important information, like customer records, is maintained and secured
Backup and recovery, disaster recovery, information security |
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| Define Infrastructure architecture: |
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hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment provides the underlying foundation to support the organization.
Flexibility, Scalability, Reliability, Availability, Performance |
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| Define Application Architecture: |
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Determines how applications relate to each other
Web service, open systems |
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| an exact copy of a system's information |
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| the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure and includes restoring the information backup |
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| a computer system designed to immediately take the place of a component failure with no loss of service |
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| A backup operational mode in which computer components (processor, server, network, database)become the component and take over the primary |
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| Define Disaster recovery plan: |
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| A detailed process for recovering information in the event that a catastrophic disaster occurred |
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| Define Disaster recovery cost curve: |
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The cost to organization of unavailable information and technology
The cost to an organization from a disaster over time. |
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| A separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business |
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| A separate facility that does NOT have any computer equipment, but is a place where employees can move after a disaster. |
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| Define continuity planning: |
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| A plan for how an organization will recover and restore partially/completely interrupted critical functions, within a predetermined time after a disaster |
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| What do good information architectures include? |
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1. A strong information security plan
2. Managing user access
3. Up-to-date antivirus software and patches. |
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| What are the characteristics of an adaptable system? |
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| Flexibility, scalability, reliability, availability, performance |
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| Systems must be flexible enough to meet all types of business changes |
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| How well a system can adapt to increased demands |
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| Define Capacity planning: |
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| Determines the future IT infrastructure requirements for new equipment and additional network capacity |
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| all systems are functioning correctly and providing accurate information |
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| addresses when systems can be accessed by users |
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| Define High availability: |
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| measures how quickly a system performs a CERTAIN process or transaction |
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| using shared protocols and standards permitting different applications to share data and services |
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| two or more computer systems to share data and resources, even though they are made by different manufacturers |
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| detect threats and opportunities and alert those who can act on the information |
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| are more like software products, but must be reusable |
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| a broad, general term for IT hardware and software |
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| any program whose source code is made available for use and modification |
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| Define Service oriented architecture: |
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| a business-driven IT architectural approach that supports integrating a business as linked, repeatable tasks or services |
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What does XML stand for?
What doe it mean? |
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Extensible Markup Language
markup language for documents containing structured information |
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| the capability of services being joined together on demand to create composite services, and also disassembled just as easily |
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| framework of dividing the resources of a computer into multiple execution environments |
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| Define System virtualization |
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| The ability to present the resources of a single computer as if it is a collection of seperate computers. |
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| an aggregation of geographically dispersed computer |
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