WGU D075 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
MANAGEMENT ESSENTIALS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
1. Adware: Programs that automatically display or download advertising to a computer.
2. Application Software: Software that is designed for the user to carry out a specific task.
3. Best Practice: A management process, technique, or method that is most effective at arriving
at a desired outcome or a better outcome than any other process, technique, or method.
4. Big Data: Data that is collected from all over the internet, including smartphone metadata,
internet usage records, social media activity, computer usage records, and countless other data
sources.
5. Bus Topology: A network topology sometimes called a linear bus, where each of a
network's nodes is connected to a common linear backbone that has two endpoints.
6. Business Analytics: Attempts to make connections between data so organizations can try to
predict future trends that may give them a competitive advantage.
7. Business Intelligence (BI: Strategies and technologies used by enterprises for the
data analysis of business information.
,8. Cache: A hardware or software component that stores data so that future requests for that data
can be served faster.
9. Campus Area Network (CAN): A computer network that connects two or more LANs that
are located on a campus.
10. Chief Information Officer (CIO): A job title for the board-level head of an
information technology department within a business organization. The CIO's job is to make sure
IT assets are in place to ensure a smooth transition.
11. Chief Information Security Officer (CISO): The CISO is generally focused on
the security of an organization's data and information, making sure it is backed up, deciding who
gets to see it and who does not, and so on.
12. Chief Security Officer (CSO): A CSO is in charge of such things as the physical
security and safety of employees, facilities, and corporate assets and may have a law enforcement
background.
13. Chief Technology Officers (CTO): The CTO runs the organization's IT engineering
group and serves as the company's top technology architect.
14. Click Fraud: An internet fraud scheme that automatically passes a user to an advertiser,
whether they had any intention of visiting or not, in order to collect a per-click fee.
,15. Clients: An end user's computer in a computer network.
16. Computer Network: Two or more computers connected together to communicate and
share resources.
17. Cybersecurity: The convergence of technologies, sound practice, and processes
designed to protect net- works and their devices, programs, and data from attack or unauthorized
access.
18. Data Analysis: The application of statistics and logic techniques to define, illustrate, and
evaluate data.
19. Data Management (DM): The practices, architectural techniques, and tools for
achieving consistent access to and delivery of data across the spectrum of data subject areas and
data structure types in the enterprise.
20. Data Management Processes: The process of acquiring data, making sure the
data are valid, and then storing and processing the data into usable information for a business.
21. Data Mapping: Extra notes about the definition of a field, its data, and its use
22. Data Mining: The examination of huge sets of data to find patterns and connections and
identify outliers and hidden relationships.
23. Databases: Well-thought-out collections of computer files, the most important of which are
, called tables.
24. Database Administrators (DBAs): DBAs categorize data requirements and
create the database entities and models that ensure accurate and smooth-flowing information
throughout a business.
25. Database Management System Software (DBMS): An application software
that is used to create a collection of related files that consist of records of data separated by fields
that can be queried to produce populations of information.
26. Default-allow Firewall Rule: A rule that all traflc is allowed unless it has been
specifically blocked.
27. Default-deny Firewall Rule: The only network connections that are permitted are the
ones that have been explicitly allowed.
28. Denial-of-service: An attempt to make a computer or any of its resources unavailable to
its intended users.
29. Disk Storage: Nonvolatile, secondary storage on a physical device like a hard drive or
optical disk with a read/write apparatus.
30. Ethernet Card: Provides the computer with a unique 48-bit address called a MAC
(media access control) address. No two Ethernet cards have the same address.
31. Extract, Transform, and Load: Tools that are used to standardize data across
systems and allow the data to be queried.
32. File Allocation Table (FAT): A table of contents that directs the read/write arm of the
hard drive to the location where data exist and accesses the data upon the user's request.
33. Firewall: Specialized hardware and software that ensures that only authorized personnel
can access and use an organization's intranet.
34. Foreign Key: A field in a database table that provides a link between two tables in a
relational database.
MANAGEMENT ESSENTIALS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
1. Adware: Programs that automatically display or download advertising to a computer.
2. Application Software: Software that is designed for the user to carry out a specific task.
3. Best Practice: A management process, technique, or method that is most effective at arriving
at a desired outcome or a better outcome than any other process, technique, or method.
4. Big Data: Data that is collected from all over the internet, including smartphone metadata,
internet usage records, social media activity, computer usage records, and countless other data
sources.
5. Bus Topology: A network topology sometimes called a linear bus, where each of a
network's nodes is connected to a common linear backbone that has two endpoints.
6. Business Analytics: Attempts to make connections between data so organizations can try to
predict future trends that may give them a competitive advantage.
7. Business Intelligence (BI: Strategies and technologies used by enterprises for the
data analysis of business information.
,8. Cache: A hardware or software component that stores data so that future requests for that data
can be served faster.
9. Campus Area Network (CAN): A computer network that connects two or more LANs that
are located on a campus.
10. Chief Information Officer (CIO): A job title for the board-level head of an
information technology department within a business organization. The CIO's job is to make sure
IT assets are in place to ensure a smooth transition.
11. Chief Information Security Officer (CISO): The CISO is generally focused on
the security of an organization's data and information, making sure it is backed up, deciding who
gets to see it and who does not, and so on.
12. Chief Security Officer (CSO): A CSO is in charge of such things as the physical
security and safety of employees, facilities, and corporate assets and may have a law enforcement
background.
13. Chief Technology Officers (CTO): The CTO runs the organization's IT engineering
group and serves as the company's top technology architect.
14. Click Fraud: An internet fraud scheme that automatically passes a user to an advertiser,
whether they had any intention of visiting or not, in order to collect a per-click fee.
,15. Clients: An end user's computer in a computer network.
16. Computer Network: Two or more computers connected together to communicate and
share resources.
17. Cybersecurity: The convergence of technologies, sound practice, and processes
designed to protect net- works and their devices, programs, and data from attack or unauthorized
access.
18. Data Analysis: The application of statistics and logic techniques to define, illustrate, and
evaluate data.
19. Data Management (DM): The practices, architectural techniques, and tools for
achieving consistent access to and delivery of data across the spectrum of data subject areas and
data structure types in the enterprise.
20. Data Management Processes: The process of acquiring data, making sure the
data are valid, and then storing and processing the data into usable information for a business.
21. Data Mapping: Extra notes about the definition of a field, its data, and its use
22. Data Mining: The examination of huge sets of data to find patterns and connections and
identify outliers and hidden relationships.
23. Databases: Well-thought-out collections of computer files, the most important of which are
, called tables.
24. Database Administrators (DBAs): DBAs categorize data requirements and
create the database entities and models that ensure accurate and smooth-flowing information
throughout a business.
25. Database Management System Software (DBMS): An application software
that is used to create a collection of related files that consist of records of data separated by fields
that can be queried to produce populations of information.
26. Default-allow Firewall Rule: A rule that all traflc is allowed unless it has been
specifically blocked.
27. Default-deny Firewall Rule: The only network connections that are permitted are the
ones that have been explicitly allowed.
28. Denial-of-service: An attempt to make a computer or any of its resources unavailable to
its intended users.
29. Disk Storage: Nonvolatile, secondary storage on a physical device like a hard drive or
optical disk with a read/write apparatus.
30. Ethernet Card: Provides the computer with a unique 48-bit address called a MAC
(media access control) address. No two Ethernet cards have the same address.
31. Extract, Transform, and Load: Tools that are used to standardize data across
systems and allow the data to be queried.
32. File Allocation Table (FAT): A table of contents that directs the read/write arm of the
hard drive to the location where data exist and accesses the data upon the user's request.
33. Firewall: Specialized hardware and software that ensures that only authorized personnel
can access and use an organization's intranet.
34. Foreign Key: A field in a database table that provides a link between two tables in a
relational database.
