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| Include the plans for how an organization will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and IT assets. |
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| 4 Different lenses through which a business must be looked when dealing with Enterprise Architecture |
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| business, data, applications, and technology |
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| A person grounded in technology, fluent in business, and provides the important bridge between IT and the business. |
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| 3 components of basic enterprise architectures |
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| information architecture, infrastructure architecture, and application architecture. |
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| Identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured. |
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| An exact copy of the systems information. |
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| The ability to get the system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure and includes restoring the information backup |
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| he computer system designed that in the event a component fails, a backup component or procedure can immediately take its place with no loss of service |
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| A backup in which the functions of the computer component (server, network, database) are assumed by secondary system components when the primary component becomes unavailable either failure or scheduled downtime |
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| 2 Techniques used to help in the case of system failure |
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1. Fault tolerance
2. Failover |
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| A detailed process for recovering information or an IT system in the event of a catastrophic disaster such as a fire or flood. |
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| A separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business. |
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| A separate facility that does not have any computer equipment, but is a place where employees can move after a disaster |
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| Disaster Recovery Chart Curve |
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| 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 |
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| Business Continuity Planning |
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| A plan for how an organization will recover and restore partially or completely interrupted critical functions within a predetermined time after a disaster or extended disruption. |
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| Infrastructure Architecture |
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| Includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organizations goals. |
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| 5 primary characteristics of an infrastructure architecture |
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| flexibility, scalability, reliability, availability, and performance. |
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| Refers to how well a system can adapt to increased demands |
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| Determines the future IT infrastructure requirements for new equipment and additional network capacity |
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| Ensures all systems are functioning correctly in providing accurate information. |
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| Addresses when systems can be accessed by users |
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| Refers to a system or component that is continuously operational for a desirably long length of time |
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| Measures how quickly a system performs a certain assets or transaction (in terms of efficiency IT metrics of both speed and throughput). |
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| Determines how applications integrate and relate to each other |
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| Contain a repertoire of web-based data and procedural resources that use shared protocols and standards permitting different applications to share data and services. |
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| The capability of 2 or more computer systems to share data and resources, even though they are made by different manufacturers |
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| The eyes and ears of the business expressed in technology–they detect threats and opportunities and alert those who can act on the information |
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| More like software products than they are coding projects–they must appeal to a broad audience, and they need to be reusable if they're going to have an impact on productivity |
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| 2 Primary parts of web services |
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| A broad, general term that describes nonproprietary IT hardware and software made available the standards and procedures by which their products work, making it easier to integrate them. |
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| Refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit- usually developed as a public collaboration in made freely available |
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| 3 architecture trends quickly becoming requirements for business |
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| service oriented architectures, virtualization, and grid computing |
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| Service Oriented Architecture |
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| A business driven IT architectural approach that supports integrating a business as linked, repeatable tasks or services |
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| Simply, a business task (such as checking a potential customer's credit rating when opening a new account) |
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| Extensible Markup Language |
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| A markup language for documents containing structured information–what Web services are based on |
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| The capability of services to be joined on demand to create composite services or disassembled just as easily into their functional components |
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| A framework of dividing the resources of a computer into multiple execution environments–a way of increasing physical resources to maximize investment in hardware |
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| The ability to present resources of a single computer as if it is a collection of separate computer, each with its own virtual CPU’s, network interfaces, storage, and operating system |
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| Trends that brought virtualization into the spotlight |
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| Hardware Being Underutilized, Data Centers Running out of Space, Energy Costs Increasing, and System Administration Costs Mounting |
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| • The amount of improvement itself grows over time because there's an exponential increase in capacity for every generation of processor improvement (twice as much) |
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| An aggregation of geographically dispersed computing, storage, and network resources, coordinated to deliver improved performance, higher quality of service, better utilization, and easier access to data |
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| Grid computing business benefits |
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| organizations can optimize computing and data resources, pool them for larger–capacity workloads, share them across networks, and enable collaboration |
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