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WGU - DAC1 B -
Continues terms starting BU
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Business Intelligence Dashboard | Tracks corporate metrics such as critical success factors and key performance indicators and includes advanced capabilities such as interactive controls, allowing users to manipulate data for analysis. |
| Business Model | A plan that details how a company creates, delivers, and generates revenues. |
| Business process | a standardized set of activities that accomplish a specific task such as processing a customer's order. |
| Business process management (BPM) | Integrates all of an organization's business processes to make individual processes more efficient. |
| Business process management tool | Used to create an application that is helpful in designing business |
| Business process model | A graphic description of a process, showing the sequence of process tasks, which is developed for a specific purpose and from a selected viewpoint. |
| Business process modeling (or mapping) | The activity of creating a detailed flow chart or process may of a work process showing its inputs, tasks, and activities, in a structured sequence. |
| Business process re engineering (BPR) | The analysis and redesign of workflow within and between enterprises. |
| Business requirement | The detailed set of business requests that the system must meet in order to be successful. |
| Business Rule | Defines how a company performs a certain aspect of its business and typically results in either a yes/no or true/false answer. |
| Business Strategy | A leadership plan that achieves a specific set of goals or objectives. |
| Business-to-consumer (B2C) | Applies to any business that sells its products or services to consumers over the internet. |
| Business to Business (B2B) | Applies to businesses buying from and selling to each other over the internet. |
| Buyer Power | Is assessed by analyzing the ability of buyers to directly impact the price they are willing to pay for an item. |
| Byte | Group of eight bits represents one natural language character. |
| Cache memory | A small unit of ultra-fast memory that is used to store recently accessed or frequently accessed data so that the CPU does to have to retrieve this data from slower memory circuits such as RAM |
| Capability Maturity Model Integration Method (CMMI) | A process improvement approach that contains 22 process areas. |
| Capacity | Represents the maximum throughput a system can deliver: for example, the capacity of a hard drive represents the size or volume. |
| Capacity planning | Determines the future IT infrastructure requirements for new equipment and additional network capacity. |
| Capital | Represents money whose purpose is to make more money, for example, the money used to buy a rental property or a business. |
| Carbon emission | Includes the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, produced by business processes and systems. |
| Cartography | The science and art of making an illustrated map or chart. |
| Central processing unit (CPU) (or microprocessor) | The actual hardware that interprets and executes the program (software) instructions and coordinates how all the other hardware devices work together. |
| Certificate authority | A trusted third party, such as VeriSign, that validates user identities by means of digital certificates. |
| Chief Information Officer (CIO) | Responsible for (1) overseeing all uses of information technology and (2) ensuring the strategic alignment of IT with business goals and objectives. |
| Chief Knowledge officer (CKO) | Responsible for collecting, maintaining and distributing the organization's knowledge. |
| Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) | Responsible for ensuring the ethical and legal use of information within an organization. |
| Chief Security Officer (CSO) | Responsible for ensuring the security of IT systems and developing strategies and IT safeguards agains attacks from hackers and virues. |
| Chief Technology Officer (CTO) | Responsible for ensuring the throughput, speed, accuracy, availability, and reliability of an organization's information technology. |
| Child Online Protection Act (COPA) | A law that protects minors from accessing inappropriate material on the internet. |
| Chipless RFID tags | Use plastic or conductive polymers instead of silicon-based microchips, allowing them to be washed or exposed to water without damaging the chip |
| Classification | Assigns records to one of a predefined set of classes. |
| Click-fraud | The abuse of pap-per-click, Pay-per-cal, and pay-per-conversion revenue models by repeatedly clicking on a link to increase charges or costs for the advertiser. |
| Clickstream Data | Exact pattern of a consumer's navigation through a site. |
| Client | Computer that is designed to request information from a server. |
| Client/server network | A model for applications in which the bulk of the back-end processing, such as preforming a physical search of a database, takes place on a server, while the front - end processing, which involves communicating with the users, is handled by the clients. |
| Cloud Bursting | When a company uses its own computing infrastructure for normal usage and accesses the cloud when it needs to scale for high/peak load requirements, ensuring a sudden spike in usage does not result in poor performance or system crashes. |
| Cloud Computing | Refers to resources and applications hosted remotely as a shared service over the Internet. |
| Cloud fabric | The software that makes the benefits of cloud computing possible, such as multi-tenancy. |
| Cloud Fabric Controller | An individual who monitors and provisions cloud resources similar to a server administrator at an individual company. |
| Cluster analysis | A technique used to divide and information set into mutually exclusive groups such that the members of each group are as close together as possible to one another and the different groups are as far apart as possible. |
| Clustering | Segmenting a heterogeneous population of records into a number of more homogeneous subgroups. |
| Coaxial cable | Cable that can carry a wide range of frequencies with low signal loss. |
| Cold Site | A separate facility that does not have any computer equipment , but is a place where employees can move after a disaster. |
| Collaboration System | An IT based set of tools that supports the work of teams by facilitating the sharing and flow of information. |
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