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WGU C954 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT CERTIFICATION EVALUATION EXAMS SOLVED QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS FULL REVIEW GRADED A+
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⩥ ransomware. Answer: This is a form of malware designed to encrypt files, rendering them unusable. The ransomware creators demand a ransom in exchange for decryption. ⩥ spyware. Answer: A special class of adware that collects data about the user and transmits it over the internet without the user's knowledge or permission ⩥ adware. Answer: Software that claims to serve some useful function and often fulfils that function but also allows internet advertisers to display advertisements without the user's consent ⩥ agile MIS infrastructure.
Answer: Includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provide the underlining foundation to support the organizational goals ⩥ sustainable MIS infrastructure. Answer: Identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption ⩥ failover. Answer: This occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data; if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically directed to the secondary server or backup server. ⩥ disaster recovery plan. Answer: A corporate plan that specifies which employees will participate in business recovery and their duties, as well as what hardware, software, and facilities will be used; includes a detailed process for recovering information or a system in the event of catastrophic disaster and should be based on general conditions, not specific scenarios ⩥ disaster recovery cost curve. Answer: Charts (1) the cost to the organization of the unavailability of information and technology and (2) the cost to the organization of recovering from a disaster over time
⩥ capacity planning. Answer: Determines future environmental infrastructure requirements to ensure high-quality system performance ⩥ serviceability. Answer: How quickly a third-party vendor can change a system to ensure it meets users' needs in terms of agreed levels of reliability, maintainability, or availability ⩥ pharming attack. Answer: A group of computers on which a hacker has planted zombie programs ⩥ zombie farm. Answer: Used often by an organized crime association to launch a massive phishing attack ⩥ authorization. Answer: The process of providing a user with permissions, including access level, file access, hours of access, and amount of allocated storage space ⩥ smart card.
Answer: A device about the size of a credit card, containing embedded technologies that can store information and a small amount of software to perform limited processing ⩥ privilege escalation. Answer: An attacker gains additional privileges by taking over another account that has additional permissions or by increasing the level of permissions for their account. ⩥ vertical privilege escalation. Answer: Attackers grant themselves a higher access level, allowing the attacker to perform illegal actions, such as running unauthorized code or deleting data ⩥ horizontal privilege escalation. Answer: Attackers grant themselves the same access levels they already have but assume the identity of other users ⩥ advanced encryption standard (AES). Answer: Introduced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), AES is an encryption standard designed to keep government information secure ⩥ cyberterrorism.
Answer: A phishing expedition where the emails are carefully designed to target a particular person or organization ⩥ vishing (or voice phishing). Answer: A phone scam that attempts to defraud people by asking them to call a bogus telephone number to confirm their account information ⩥ intrusion detection software (IDS). Answer: Features full-time monitoring tools that search for patterns in network traffic to identify intruders ⩥ content filtering. Answer: Occurs when organizations use software that filters content to prevent the transmission of unauthorized information ⩥ maintenance phase. Answer: In this phase, the organization performs changes, corrections, additions, and upgrades to ensure the system continues to meet business goals ⩥ prototyping. Answer: An experimental process where design teams implement ideas into tangible forms from paper to digital; increases the chance for
successful implementation as well as the chance of detecting errors early on ⩥ preventative maintenance. Answer: Makes a system change to reduce the chance of future system failures ⩥ methodology. Answer: A set of policies, procedures, standard processes, practices tools, and techniques that people apply to TECO management challenges ⩥ waterfall methodology. Answer: A sequence of phases in which the output of each phase becomes the input for the next ⩥ discovery prototyping. Answer: Building a small-scale representation or working model of the system to ensure it meets the user and business requirement ⩥ iterative development. Answer: Consist of a series of tiny projects ⩥ agile methodology.
Answer: An open-standard way of supporting the interoperability of technology systems ⩥ cascading style sheet (CSS). Answer: A markup language for web documents containing structured information ⩥ loose coupling. Answer: The capability of services to be joined on demand ⩥ service. Answer: oriented architecture (SOA)-A business-driven enterprise architecture that supports integrating a business as linked repeatable activities task or service ⩥ service. Answer: oriented architecture (SOA) service-A business-driven enterprise architecture that supports integrating a business as linked repeatable activities task or service ⩥ service. Answer: oriented architecture (SOA) service-A business task, such as checking a potential customer's credit rating, when opening a new account
⩥ tangible benefit. Answer: Easy to quantify and typically measured to determine the success or failure of a project ⩥ intangible benefits. Answer: Benefits that are difficult to quantify or measure ⩥ kill switch. Answer: A trigger that enables a project's manager to close the project prior to completion ⩥ feasibility. Answer: The measure of the tangible and intangible benefit of an information system ⩥ program evaluation and review technique (PERT) chart. Answer: A graphical network model that depicts a project's tasks and the relationship between those tasks ⩥ dependency. Answer: A series of tasks that are interrelated, such as the logical relationship that exists between a project task and a milestone
Answer: Documents that include how to use the system and troubleshoot issues or problems ⩥ online training. Answer: Training delivered via the internet in order to allow employees to complete the materials at their own pace ⩥ workshop training. Answer: Held in a classroom environment and led by an instructor ⩥ Gantt chart. Answer: A simple bar chart that lists project tasks vertically against the projects time frame listed horizontally ⩥ in. Answer: sourcing, in-house development-A common approach using the professional expertise within an organization to develop and maintain the organization's information technology systems ⩥ outsourcing. Answer: It is an arrangement by which one organization provides services for another organization that chooses not to perform them in- house. Benefits include cost savings and extended work resources. Drawbacks include a loss of corporate knowledge and confidentiality.
⩥ onshore outsourcing. Answer: The process of engaging another company within the same country for services ⩥ communication plan. Answer: It defines the how, what, when, and who in the flow of project information to stakeholders. It is key for managing expectations. ⩥ project constraint. Answer: A specific factor that can limit options within a project ⩥ project assumption. Answer: A factor that is considered to be true, real, or certain without proof or demonstration ⩥ project deliverable. Answer: Any measurable, tangible, and verifiable outcome, result, or item that is produced to complete a project or part of a project ⩥ project objective. Answer: Quantifiable criteria that must be met for the project to be considered a success
activities related to current or future duties; similar to training, except training is normally a short-term learning experience for a specific task, while development is a long-term learning experience that helps to grow the individual mentally and emotionally ⩥ efficiency. Answer: It is a measure (normally a percentage) of the actual output to the standard output expected. Efficiency measures how well someone or something is performing relative to expectations. ⩥ problem. Answer: solving-Problem-solving is the act of defining a problem; determining the cause of the problem; identifying, prioritizing, and selecting alternatives for a solution, and implementing a solution ⩥ esprit de corps. Answer: This is the spirit, soul, and state of mind of an organization or the overall consciousness of the organization that a person identifies with and feels a part of. This term normally refers to an entire unit or group, while morale can refer to an individual ⩥ ethical climate. Answer: The "feel of the organization" about the activities that have ethical content or those aspects of the work environment that constitute
Answer: Conformance to the requirements of a stated product or service attribute ⩥ self. Answer: directed work team-A small, independent, self-organized, and self-controlling group in which members plan, organize, determine, and manage their duties and actions, as well as perform many other supportive functions ⩥ shadow IT. Answer: The use of information technology systems, devices, software, applications, and services without explicit IT department approval or involvement ⩥ business architecture. Answer: A discipline that "represents holistic, multidimensional business views of capabilities, end‐to‐end value delivery, information, and organizational structure; and the relationships among these business views and strategies, products, policies, initiatives, and stakeholders ⩥ total quality management (TQM). Answer: This describes Japanese-style management approaches to quality improvement. It includes the long-term success of the organization through customer satisfaction and is based on participation
of all members of the organization in improving process, products, service, culture, etc. ⩥ mentoring. Answer: The act or process of helping or advising a new colleague and giving advice to a younger or less experienced person, especially in a job or at school environment ⩥ worker efficiency. Answer: A measure (usually computed as a percentage) of worker performance that compares the standard time allowed to complete a task to the actual worker time to complete it ⩥ geoeconomics. Answer: The effects of geography on the economic realities of international business activities ⩥ employee monitoring policy. Answer: Stating explicitly how, when, and where the company can monitor its employees ⩥ e.