BCIS Exam 3 Notes

What is usability?

The system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use

What measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction?

Performance

Within the sites that support disaster recovery, ___________ is a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business.

Hot Site

What does reliability ensure?

The system is functioning correctly and providing accurate information

What offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity?

Utility computing

With grid computing a problem is broken into pieces and distributed to many machines, allowing _________ processing than could occur with a single system

Faster

Within the sites that support disaster recovery, __________ is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.

Cold site

Which of the following delivers electricity using two-way digital technology?

A smart grid

Which term refers to the time frames when the system is operational?

Availability

What occurs when a primary machine recovers and resumes operations, taking over from a secondary server?

Failback

What is the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the information backup?

Recovery

Which of the following reflects Moore's law?

The computer chip performance per dollar doubles every 18 months

To combat disasters a company can create a _________ that would detail the process for recovering information or a system in the event of a catastrophic disaster.

Disaster recovery plan

What uses resources and applications hosted remotely on the Internet?

Cloud Computing

What is the difference between hardware and software?

Hardware is the physical devices associated with a computer system, where software is the instructions the hardware executes to carry out task

What is the difference between unavailable and high availability?

unavailability is when the system is not operating and cant be used, where high availability is when a system is continuously operating at all times.

What occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data, and if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically directed to a secondary server?

Failover

Which of the following describes the difference between a backup plan and a recovery plan?

Backup plan is an exact copy of a system's information, where recovery is the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure.

Which of the following is an effect a company could experience because of a disaster such as a fire, flood, or hurricane?

All above

What is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests?

Server

What service delivers hardware networking capabilities, including the use of servers, networking, and storage over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model?

Infrastructure as a Service (laaS)

What enables computers to run multiple operating systems and multiple software applications at the same time and creates multiple 'virtual' machines all on a single computing device

Virtualization

What is a foreign key?

A primary key of one table that appears as an attribute in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship among the two tables.

Which of the following represent the four primary traits that help determine the value of information?

Information Type, Information timeliness, information quality, and information governance

What does extraction, transformation, and loading mean?

It is a process that extracts information from internal and external databases, transforms it using a common set of enterprise definitions, and loads it into a data warehouse

Which of the following is correct in reference to a database?

A database can support many logical views

Which of the following represents the different information formats?

Document, presentation, spreadsheet, database

What are the rules that help ensure the quality of information?

Integrity constraints

What encompasses all organizational information and its primary purpose is to support the performing of managerial analysis tasks?

Analytical information

Which of the following occurs when the same data element has different values?

Data inconsistency issue

What are rules that enforce basic and fundamental information-based constraints?

Relational integrity constraint

Which of the following creates, reads, updates, and deletes data in a database while controlling access and security?

Database management system

Which of the following occurs when a system produces incorrect, inconsistent, or duplicate data?

Data integrity issue

What encompasses all of the information contained within a single business process or unit of work and its primary purpose is to support the performing of daily operational tasks

Transactional information

What is the physical view of information?

Deals with the physical storage of information on a storage device such as a hard disk

Employees need to compare different types of information for what they commonly reveal to make strategic decisions. Which of the below represents the three common types of information found throughout an organization?

Levels, formats, granularities

What type of website is an interactive website kept constantly updated and relevant to the needs of its customers using a database?

data=driven website

What is the overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, and security of company data?

Data Governance

Which of the following would not be considered part of the timely characteristic of high-quality information?

Is the zip code missing in the address

What is it called when a manager has so much data and information that they cannot make a decision?

Data rich, information poor

What is data mining?

Process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone

Which of the following is the common term for the representation of multidimensional information?

Cube

In the relational database model, what is a person, place, thing, transaction, or event about which information is stored?

Entity

What is data redundancy?

All of the above

What is the smallest or basic unit of information?

Data element

Which of the following describes ETL?

All above

What exists to represent the relationship between two other entities?

Composite entity

What kind of attribute would be date of birth?

Stored attribute

What is a statement that defines an aspect of a business?

Business rule

Which of the following is a possible business rule?

All above

What is a primary key?

A field that uniquely identifies a given record in a table

What kind of attribute would be age?

Derived attribute

What occurs between two entities in which an instance of one entity can be related to many instances of a related entity?

One-To-many- relationship

What occurs when two entities can be related to each other in many instances?

Many-to-many relationship

What is a characteristic of a table?

field

What kind of attribute can be calculated using the value of another attribute?

Derived attribute

What kind of attribute would be given for a person who does not have an email address?

Null-Valued attribute

What has only a single value of each attribute of an entity?

Single-valued attribute

Which of the following is a type of attribute?

All above

What is a collection of related data elements?

record

What is a technique for documenting the entities and relationships in a database environment?

entity-relationship diagram

Which of the following statements is accurate?

all of the above

What occurs between two entities in which an instance of one entity can be related to only one instance of a related entity?

one-to-one relationship

What kind of attribute is assigned to an attribute when no other value applies or when a value is unknown?

null-valued attribute

What has the potential to contain more than one value for an attribute?

Multi-valued attribute