WGU C182 QUESTION AND ANSWERS (2022/2023) (LATEST AND UPDATED)
1. Match each action with the corresponding category.
a. Provides professional
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i. Part of the role of IT
b. Writes laws dealing with information technology.
i. Outside the role of IT
c. Engages in best practices for information systems.
i. Part of the role of IT
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2. How can an organization assist employees with the ethical use of information technology?
a. By ensuring databases are backed up
b. By monitoring network throughput
c. By developing policies for information usage
d. By establishing optimal server performance
c. By developing policies for information usage
3. Which regulation governs the actions of a company in the case of data records being compromised, lost, or stolen?
a. Digital Signature and Electronic Authorization laws
b. Security Breach Notification Laws
c. The Electronic Communication Privacy Act of 1986
d. Computer Matching and Primary Protection Act of 198
Security Breach Notification Laws
4. Which action would support confidentiality?
a. Checking that data is correct
b. Enabling file encryption
c. Ensuring that software is properly licensed
d. Making sure data is available when needed
Enabling file encryption
5. Which disaster recovery strategy is used to save info to multiple hard drives at the same time? a. Site sharing
b. Cold site storage
c. Data mirroring
d. Storing tape backups
Data mirroring
6. What two necessary elements of business continuity planning?
a. Identifying risks that may occur
b. Assessing key organizational activities
c. Ensuring continuity in the sequence of staffing schedules
d. Hiring an outside consultant to develop a plan
identifying risks that may occur
Ensuring continuity in the sequence of staffing schedules
7. Which type of systems conversation involves starting the conversion with a portion of end users? a. Phased
b. Pilot
c. Direct
d. Parallel
Pilot
8. Which type of systems testing includes having the customer test the system in an operational setting to see if it is useful? a. User acceptance
b. Beta
c. Alpha
d. Analysis
User acceptance
9. Which system requirement is an example of considering user needs in the design of an information system?
a. Allowing easy access to customer account information
b. Including an eye-tracking device for an input device
c. Incorporating a program that can translate text into spoken words
d. Ensuring that insertions into the buffer are limited in size
Allowing easy access to customer account information
10. What effect does scope creep have on a project?
a. It moves up the deadline of the project
b. It includes unqualified team members on the project
c. It impacts the allocation of resources for the project
d. It adds non-essential features to the project
It impacts the allocation of resources for the project
11. In what phase of a project does time estimation occur?
a. Closing
b. Planning
c. Initiation
d. Executing and controlling
Planning
12. Which risk assessment question is part of the initiation phase?
a. Was the project completed within budget
b. Did the scope change after the induction of the project?
c. Could the end users reject the outcome of the project?
d. What were the strengths of the project?
Could the end users reject the outcome of the project?
13. What step should be taken by a business when a third-party solution is found that will benefit a project?
a. Build the software with in house resources
b. Begin coding the solution with estimated parameters
c. Contact the group to arrange a demo of their product
d. Suggest that the company continues to explore options
Contact the group to arrange a demo of their product
14. Which action would be important for the IT department to take in order to help their business meet the goal of increased expansion into new territories/regions? a. Supporting the continuation of the current infrastructure.
b. Expanding the infrastructure to support additional locations
c. Scheduling their own internal meetings to discuss department goals
d. Working independently from business management to achieve company goals
Expanding the infrastructure to support additional locations
15. Which is the role of the systems administrator?
a. To develop and maintain the websites on the company web server
b. To install and maintain the website
c. To install and maintain network resources
d. To design networks
To install and maintain network resources
16. What is the purpose of the IT department?
a. It hires employees for the organization
b. It promotes the firm's products
c. It oversees funds flowing through the organization
d. It helps the organization achieve strategic goals
It helps the organization achieve strategic goals
17. What type of information processing allows input data to be accepted as a set of records and processed as a unit? a. Just in time
b. Real time
c. Batch
d. Event driven
Batch
18. What is the database administrator's role in security?
a. To eliminate data redundancy when integrating old with new systems
b. To institute protocols to protect the databases from external threats
c. To set ports on the router to secure the transport of data
d. To create a redundant server architecture
To institute protocols to protect the databases from external threats
19. What are the three main categories of databases?
a. Flat file, relational, hierarchal
b. Table query report
c. Relation join project
d. Spreadsheet simple complex Flat file, relational, hierarchal
20. Which filed must contain a unique value in order for a relational database table to function? a. Name
b. Record number
c. ID Number
d. Primary Key . Primary Key
21. In which category of the DIKW hierarchy would business intelligence be located? a. Information
b. Knowledge
c. Data
d. Wisdom
Knowledge
22. Why is it important to ensure that data support business goals?
a. To ensure raw data is captured
b. To provide opportunities for communication
c. To establish needs of users
d. To aid in making strategic decisions
To aid in making strategic decisions
23. Armando is a freelance graphic designer. He has decided to create a database of the artwork he has done throughout the years. Each of his pieces of art is sorted using an assigned name and number. Which data type will be required in order to create his database? a. Boolean
b. Floating Point
c. String data
d. Numeric Integer
String data
24. Which data type is used to represent product order code that comprises alphanumberic characters?
a. Fixed-Point
b. String
c. Boolean
d. Floating-point
String
25. Which SQL clause is used to inform the database management system (DMBS) which tables should be interrogated by the query? a. FROM
b. HERE
c. SELECT
d. WHERE
FROM
26. What is the role of drivers in facilitating communication between applications and databases?
a. They allow all the data to be communicated via the network.
b. They allow the application to interact with the database
c. They allow ODBC to be used for interactions with the database and applications
d. They allow SQL to manage communications between applications and databases.
They allow ODBC to be used for interactions with the database and applications
27. What is another term for a formula that outlines how to execute a task?
a. User-Defined function
b. Process
c. Pseudocode
d. Algorithm
d. Algorithm
28. Which is true of databases and the applications that interact with them?
a. Applications store data in their own files
b. The database determines the application classes
c. Applications are interdependent with the database.
d. The database can support at most one application.
Applications are interdependent with the database.
29. Which two languages have traditionally been used for automation rather than software development? a. TCL
b. PYTHON
c. C++
d. COBOL
TCL
PYTHON
30. What statement is true concerning compiled and interpreted computer language?
a. Both compiled and interpreted languages are written in binary code.
b. A compiler translates an entire program into executable program, which can be run at a later time, while the interpreter does this incrementally.
c. An interpreted language program runs faster than a compiled language program.
d. A compiled language-program is portable and can be run on multiple types of system, whereas an interpreted program runs on a single type of system.
A compiler translates an entire program into executable program, which can be run at a later time, while the interpreter does this incrementally.
31. Which component facilitates communication between the other two components in the MVC architecture model? a. View
b. Model
c. Presentation
d. Controller Controller
32. On which tier of an N-Tier architecture model are user interfaces developed? a. Logic
b. Application
c. Data
d. Presentation
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