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WGU C954 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT ACTUAL EXAM
BANK NEWEST 2026/2027 COMPLETE 1145 EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED
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(2 EXAM SETS)
WGU Information Technology Management - C954 UCertify (SET 1) when business data flows across international boundaries over the telecommunications networks of global information systems - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- transborder data flows (TDF) includes the carbon dioxide & carbon monoxide in the atmosphere produced by processes and systems - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- carbon emission a collection of computers coordinated to solve a common problem - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- grid computing delivers electricity using two-way digital technology - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- smart grid the creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of computing resources, such as an operating system, a server, a storage device, or other network resources - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- virtualization
a facility used to house management information systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- data center promotes massive, global, industrywide applications offered to the general public
- CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- public cloud serves only one customer or organization and can be located on the customer's premises or off premises - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- private cloud serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- community cloud offers cloud-based big data service to help organizations analyze massive amounts of data to solve business dilemmas - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- big data as a service (BDaaS) a law that protects minors from accessing inappropriate material on the internet - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- child online protection act (COPA) an act or object that poses a danger to assets - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- threat a computer crime where a competitor or disgruntled employee increases a company's search advertising costs by repeatedlyclickingon the advertiser's link - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- competitive click-fraud
computer that is dedicated to providing information in response to external requests - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- server person grounded in technology, fluent in business, a patient diplomat, ad provides the important bridge between IT and the business - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- enterprise architect (EA) identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- information mis infrastructure includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization's goals
- CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- agile mis infrastructure identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on the hardware and energy consumption - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- sustainable mis infrastructure the ability for a system to respond to unexpected failures or system crashes as the backup system immediately and automatically takes over with no loss of service - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- fault tolerance occurs when redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real time data, and if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically directed to the secondary server or backup server - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- failover occurs when the privy machine recovers and resumes operations, taking over from the secondary server - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- failback
a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- hot site a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment, but is a place where employees can move after a disaster - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- cold site a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- warm site charts the cost to the organization of the unavailability of information and technology AND the cost of recovering from a disaster over time - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- disaster recovery cost curve details how a company reverse and restores critical business operations and systems after a disaster or external disruption - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- business continuity planning (BCP) unrestricted access to the entire system - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- administrator access brings together people form industry, disability orgs, government, and research labs to develop accessibility guidelines worldwide - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- web accessibility initiative (WAI) people with visual, auditory, speech, cognitive, ad neurological disabilities, can use the web - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- web accessibility
details how an org will implement the information security policies - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- information security plan identifies the rules required to maintain information security - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- information security policy A time when infinite quantities of facts are widely available to anyone who can use a computer - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- information age A world where interconnected Internet-enabled devices or "things" have the ability to collect and share data without human intervention - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- internet of things (IoT) refers to devices that connect directly to there devices - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- machine-to-machine (M2M) The collection of data from various sources for the purpose of data processing - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- data aggregation data that has defined length, type and format and includes numbers, dates, or strings such as Customer Address - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- structured data 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 - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- ambient digital experience
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 - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- Internet of Everything (IoE) 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 - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- autonomous agent a self-managing computing model named after, and patterned on, the human body's autonomic nervous system - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- autonomic computing the technical core, especially in manufacturing organizations; the actual conversion of inputs to outputs - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- transformation process the term used to describe the difference between the cost of inputs and the value of price of outputs - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- value-added consists of several stand alone businesses - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- strategic business units (SBUs) sales forecasts to make sure that needed parts and materials are available at the right time and place in a specific company - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- materials requirement planning (MRP) system
collection of best practices for managing an organizations impact on the environment - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- ISO 14000 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. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- CMMI land, labor, capital, information - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- inputs conversion process - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- transformation goods & services - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- outputs combines multiple network storage devices so that they appear to be a single storage device - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- storage virtualization combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that an be assigned in real time to a specific device - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- network virtualization combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- server virtualization
the ability to present the resources of a single computer as if it is a collation of separate computers (virtual machines) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- system virtualization a single instance of a system serves multiple customers - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- multi-tenancy an individual who monitors and provisions cloud resources similar to a server administrator at an individual company - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- cloud fabric controller the software that makes the benefits of cloud computing possible - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- cloud fabric 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 - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- hybrid cloud 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 - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- cloud bursting offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- utility computing
a framework provided by the government of the UK that offers eight sets of management procedures - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- internet technology infrastructure library (ITIL) key for evaluating internal controls such as human resources, logistics, IT, risk, legal, marketing and sales, operations, financial functions, procurement, and reporting - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- committee of sponsoring organizations (COSO) a process improvement approach that contains 22 process areas - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- capability maturity model integration (CMMI) method a process for how an organization will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- enterprise architecture occurs when an organization moves employees outside its firewall, a growing movement to change the way corporations address technology security - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- deperimeterization malicious agents designed by spammers and other hackers to farm email addresses off websites or deposit spyware - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- destructive agents a phishing expedition in which emails are carefully designed to target a particular person or organization - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- spear phishing scam involving defraud by asking to call bogus number to confirm their account information - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- vishing (voice phishing)
uses zombie farm, to launch massive phishing attack (often used by organized crime) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- pharming attack a group of computers on which a hackers have planted zombie programs - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- zombie farm a method of conforming users' identities - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- authentication the process of providing a user with permission including access levels and abilities such as file access, hours of access, and amount of allocated storage space - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- authorization small electronic devices that change user passwords automatically - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- token card with embedded technologies that can store information and small amounts of software to perform some limited processing - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- smart card the id of a user based on physical characteristics (fingerprints iri, voice, handwriting) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- biometrica traditional security process, username/password - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- single factor authentication
a trusted third party that validates user identities by means of digital certificates (VeriSign) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- certificate authority a data file that identifies individuals or organizations online and is comparable to a digital signature - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- digital certificate hardware or software that guards a private network by analyzing the information leaving and entering the network - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- firewall features full-time monitoring tools that search for patterns in network traffic to identify intruders - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- intrusion detection software technique using fraudulent email to gain personal information - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- phishing masquerading attack that combines spam with spoofing - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- phishing expedition reroutes requests for legitimate websites to false websites - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- pharming intangible creative work that is embodied in physical form and includes copyrights, trademarks, and patents - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- intellectual property the legal protection afforded an expression of an idea, such as a song, book, or video game - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- copyright
an exclusive right to make, use, and sell an invention granted by a government to the inventor - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- patent the assurance that messages and information are available only to those who are authorized to view them - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- confidentiality the unauthorized use, duplication, distribution, or sale of copyrighted software - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- pirated software a technological solution that allows publishers to control their digital media to discourage, limit, or prevent illegal copying and distribution - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- digital rights management refers to the ability of a company to identify, search, gather, seize, or export digital information in responding to a litigation, audit, investigation, or information inquiry - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- ediscovery a computer attack where an attacker accesss a wireless computer network, internets data, uses network services, and/or sends an attack instructions without entire office, org that owns the network - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- drive-by hacking software written with malicious intent to cause annoyance or damage - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- virus
contracting an outsourcing agreement with a company in a nearby country - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- nearshore outsourcing using organizations from developing countries to write code and develop systems
- CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- offshore outsourcing defines how, what, when and who regarding the flow of project information to stakeholders and is key for managing expectations - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- communication plan the person or group who provides the financial resources for the project - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- executive sponsor specific factor that can limit options - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- project constraint factor that is considered to be true, real, or certain without proof or demonstration - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- project assumption any measurable, tangible, verifiable outcome, result, or item that is produced to complete a project or part of a project - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- project deliverable an internal dept that oversees all organix=zational projects - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- project management office (PMO)
represents key dates when a certain group of activities must be performed - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- project milestone quantifiable criteria that must be met for the project to be considered a success - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- project objective links the project to the organizations overall business goals - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- project scope statement a set of policies, procedures, standards, processes, practices, tools, techniques, and tasks that people apply to technical management challenges - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- methodology a sequence of phases in which the output of each phase becomes the input for the next - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- waterfall methodology builds small scale representation or working model of the system to ensure it meets the user and business requirements - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- discovery prototyping consists of series of tiny projects - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- iterative development aims for customer satisfaction through early and continuous delivery of useful software components developed by an iterative process with a design point that uses the bare minimum requirements - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- agile methodology
