Exam 23: Measuring the Success of Strategic Initiatives

What creates a way for a company to recover and restore partially or completely interrupted critical functions within a predetermined time after a disaster or extended disruption?

A server is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.

What is a warm site?

What is the primary reason a company has a failover system?

What is portability?

A business impact analysis occurs when the ability of a company to operate is impaired because of a hardware, software, or data outage.

An MIS infrastructure is ________.

Which of the following is an example of an emergency notification system?

Which of the following agile MIS infrastructure characteristics refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems?

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

Emergency preparedness ensures a company is ready to respond to an emergency in an organized, timely, and effective manner.

Which characteristics support an information MIS infrastructure?

Disasters such as power outages, fires, floods, hurricanes, and even malicious activities such as hackers and viruses strike companies every day. Disasters can have effects on disrupting communications, damaging physical infrastructures, halting transportation, and blocking utilities.

A business continuity planning identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them.

What refers to how well a system can adapt to increased demands?

What is availability?

What is the difference between hardware and software?

Software consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system.

Enterprise architects require ________ access so they can perform such functions as resetting passwords or deleting accounts.

What does a business continuity plan typically include?