Study Guide
Create business alignment for project schedule
A Gantt Chart a visual representation of a schedule that helps a project manager do all of the following EXCEPT
IT Center Team
According to the Holistic University Website Management reading, what team the backbone of the web team structure since it is responsible for the technical, quality, and operational aspects of the website?
Ratio of Closed to Overall Tickets
According to the Holistic University Website Management reading, which of the following business process evaluation KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) is a measure of the productivity of a business process during a selected period of time?
Average Ticket Assignment Time
According to the Holistic University Website Management reading, which of the following business process evaluation KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) is a measure of the responsiveness of the web team members to the various user requests?
System Update Process
According to the Holistic University Website Management reading, which of the following business processes is responsible for keeping the Drupal CMS (Content Management System), the Linux operating system, and antivirus software current?
Technical Issue Process
According to the Holistic University Website Management reading, which of the following business processes manages reports of website unavailability and performance issues?
Risk Management
According to the Holistic University Website Management reading, which of the following project management processes manages changes to schedule, customer requirements, communication, and development resources?
More than $1 Billion per year
According to the US EPA, if all computers sold in the United States were ENERGY STAR certified, the savings would grow to what?
20%
According to the World Economic Forum, of the approximately 50 million tons of electronic e-waste produced each year, what percentage is recycled?
VoIP and web conferencing
According to the articles what technologies enable businesses and their employees to get in front of clients and customers but do it in a cost-savings manner?
Electronic Fuel Injection Controls
All of the following were discussed as applications where digital technologies could help abate the emissions from the over one billion vehicles on the road in the transport sector EXCEPT:
Technology that is easily operated and maintained by users
An on-premise telepresence typically has all of the the following characteristics EXCEPT:
Manage Change
As described in the "Ten Axioms for Success", what approach should be used to addresses a common source of project failure described as "scope creep or drift" caused by deviations from the project plan?
Communication
As described in the "Ten Axioms for Success", what issue is considered as being vital to promote trust as project managers from the perspective of "Know Your Team"?
Overhead
As discussed in the Mythical Man Month, adding more people to a project exponentially increases the complexity of communications within the project team. This added communication represents added __________, resulting in more effort being devoted to managing the project's overall structure.
Software-as-a-Service (Saas)
Available to all students at the UofA, the Adobe Creative Cloud application suite is an
Commonly used as a means of generating revenue, which of the following is the largest volume application running on the Internet?
Hybrid Clouds
Due to the many legal and regulatory barriers to cloud computing, often related to international data access and transport, cloud computing customers have been forced to adopt what type of deployment model that is typically more expensive and offers more restricted benefits?
Strengths
Having strong brand recognition and existing distribution channels that create barriers to entry for competitors are most closely related to what aspect of a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) Analysis?
Reliability
In contrast with common perceptions of locally-managed, on-premise IT infrastructure, which of the following risk management issues relates to impact of recent high-profile outages of cloud computing services
80%
In terms of the data-driven digital economy, the top 20 companies control what percentage of the essential global digital infrastructure in terms of cloud storage and compute?
Crowd Labor
In the "Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding" video case, what term related to crowdsourcing is used to describe connecting with an on-demand, scaleable workforce that can perform a broad range of tasks by companies such as the Amazon Mechanical Turk marketplace?
Cost/Resource
In the following budgetary spreadsheet, what aspect of the "triple constraint" do the financial cash flows and personnel allocations represent?
The duration only counts the number of working days
In the following example of a project schedule, the total duration is listed as 67 days; however, there are 117 calendar days between January 1st and April 28th. Why does the project's "Duration" column not exactly match the number of calendar days between the scheduled start and finish dates?
Opportunities
Issues relating to new markets, services, and distribution channels are most closely related to what aspect of a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) Analysis?
Device Independence
Not being tethered to a single computer or network so that applications and documents follow you through the cloud, even when you use portable devices, are all examples of which of the following advantages for using a cloud-based model?
It helps the Project Manager manage expectations
One of the principles of scheduling for project management is to never give "off the cuff" or unconsidered responses. How does waiting and giving a considered response help the project manager when you have had time to evaluate all the factors help the project manager?
Decapitalization for Disinvestment
Preliminary estimates suggest that digital technologies can make significant contributions to tackling the triple planetary crisis in each of the following areas EXCEPT:
Add testing (validate requirements)
Related to the Scope Triangle or Quality Triangle, when scope creep or the addition of new functionality occurs during a project, which of the following was NOT discussed as a possible option when moving forward with the project?
High Impact and High Likelihood
Risk to a project can be measured on two major axes: likelihood of failure and impact of failure. A critical risk that can stop a project in its tracks, often known as a a "show stopper", would generally have what two attributes?
Creation, Use and Disposal of a product
Selecting EPEAT-compliant technology with a high rating over traditional, less energy efficient technology is an example of focusing on what sustainability effect?
$7.00
Selecting computers with EPEAT power supplies should reduce the annual operating cost of a computer by what?
Milestone
Similar to critical success factors, what term is used to describe a checkpoint for a project, usually when an important goal or deliverable has been reached during a project's timeline?
Developing Digital Competencies
The United Nations have identified all of the following as priorities for the shift to accelerate innovation related to achieving a sustainable planet in the Digital Age EXCEPT:
Creating Planetary Digital Twins
The United Nations have identified all of the following as priorities for the shift to enable alignment related to achieving a sustainable planet in the Digital Age EXCEPT:
Crowdsourcing
The development of the first marine chronometer in 1714 and the Oxford English Dictionary in 1858 are examples of using what type of collaborative problem solving?
IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service)
Using large resource pools located in data centers, which of the following cloud computing service
Constant Internet connection - cloud-based applications depend on the Internet
Using the cloud to run web-based applications offers all of the following advantages EXCEPT:
More than 50%
What % of people like to purchase products from companies that protect the environment?
Eliminate
What action should be taken to resolve a project risk that is considered as unacceptable under any circumstances and that it does not re-occur in the future?
Smart Sustainable City
What term is used to describe an innovative city that uses information and communication technologies (ICTs) and other means to improve quality of life, efficiency of urban operation and services, and competitiveness, while ensuring that it meets the needs of present and future generations with respect to economic, social, environmental as well as cultural aspects?
Digital Water Diplomacy
What term is used to describe the developments that have been made in the use of social media to foster water peace and cooperation in hydro-diplomacy through data sharing, enhanced transparency and increased trust among riparian states?
Crowdsourcing
What term is used to describe using the "Collective Intelligence" of a group to reach a
Digital Twins
What term is used to describe virtual representations of physical assets used for modeling and prediction of energy resources?
Smart Buildings
What term refers to structures that use data collection, integrated processes, smart engineering or creative design to self-regulate and optimize the building's environment and operations which can capture changes within the building and enable the building to self-learn and automatically modify or customize its settings?
Hybrid cloud
What type of cloud infrastructure delivers services based on security requirements, the mission-critical nature of the applications, and other company-established policies that supports organizations that want to maintain higher security standards for some data but
parallel
What type of conversion involves running the old and new systems simultaneously for a time, which is is rarely used, since it impractical for customer-facing e-commerce systems?
Contingency planning
What type of planning, related to project scheduling, provides flexibility in the schedule to allow for changes resulting from the inevitable unexpected influences that create scheduling variation, such as illness and equipment failures?
Granularity
When designing a project schedule, the ____________ of the schedule provides the level of detail for monitoring the progress of the project so that everyone has the same understanding of what must be achieved by when.
Encompasses the characteristics of grid computing
Which of the following cloud computing characteristics allows organizations to share the pr
Virtualization
Which of the following cloud computing characteristics allows organizations to use a single physical server to run multiple applications that each have their own software environment?
Who is to do it
Which of the following elements (documents) of a project plan describes the costs associated with the objectives of the project and includes the project budget?
Convenience of using mass transit options for commuting
Which of the following factors was NOT discussed as a reason that the number of digital nomad workers who are employed in the distributed workforce has been continuously expanding?
High cost of international telecommunications
Which of the following is NOT a reason some US companies are moving their call center
Reduced stress
Which of the following is a benefit of telecommuting for employees?
Data security problems
Which of the following is a potential disadvantage of telecommuting for employers?
Mandate Compliance
Which of the following is not considered one of the shifts identified by the United Nations related to achieving a sustainable planet in the Digital Age?
Work Breakdown Structure
Which of the following project management visualizations uses a hierarchical structure similar to a manufacturing Bil of Materials to show the relationships among the tasks in a project?
UC (Unified Communication)
Which of the following technologies simplifies and integrates all forms of communication (e.g., voice, email, instant messaging, and videoconferencing) on a common hardware and software platform?
A virtual team
Which of the following term is used to describe a group of people working in different locations
Digital twin
Which of the following terms describes a virtual software model of a physical object that allows engineers to virtually model different scenarios in order to improve their designs?
Workflow
Which of the following terms describes the the movement of information as it progresses through the sequence of steps that make up an organization's work procedures?
Fault tolerance
Which of the following terms means that there is no single point of failure, such as how the design of a grid computing infrastructure ensures that the failure of one computer will not stop an application from executing?
Virtual collaboration
Which of the following terms refer to the use of digital technologies that enable organizations or individuals who are geographically dispersed to collaboratively plan, design, develop, manage, and research products, services, and innovative applications?
Server farms
Which of the following terms would be used to describe massive data centers with hundreds or thousands of servers networked that require massive amounts of electrical power and air-conditioning
Client-server computing
Which of the following types of IT Infrastructure implements a distributed processing model that uses personal computers that are connected through a local area networks (LANs) to applications running on a mainframe computer?
Public cloud
Which of the following types of cloud computing environments describes a shared, easily accessible, multi-customer IT infrastructure that is available to any entity (individuals, groups, and organizations) on a non-exclusive basis?
Crowd Delivery
Which of the following was NOT one of the four different ways that were discussed in the video case Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding Explained about how crowdsourcing works?
Gantt Chart
Which of the project management scheduling visualizations includes all three of the triple constraints that are in the Scope Triangle (Time, Resources, and Scope)?
Cloud native
_____ is the name of an approach to building applications and services specifically for a cloud computing environment.
Collaboration
________ refers to efforts by two or more entities who work together to accomplish certain
On-premise
computing means the organization owns their IT infrastructure and maintains it in their data centers.
