Title: Self-test Quiz: Section 3.3
Course: ICT Sustainability

Q: _________________ describes structured data for storage in data management systems such as relational databases.
A: Data models / A data model / Data model / * Data model*

Q: A federated style of IT work would mean
- that IT activities are distributed in pockets throughout the organization. ('Federation' means 'an organization or group within which smaller divisions have some degree of internal autonomy.')
- that all IT activity happens in one place. (That would be centralization . . .)
- that it is easy to ensure that all IT activity follows green ICT policies. (Standardization is easier when functions are centralized.)
- that there is effective commuication between semi-autonomous IT groups. (No. In fact, there is the danger that isolated “silos” will not communicate.)
- that collaborative editing and sharing of information is the norm. (No. That probably needs to be encouraged.)
A: that IT activities are distributed in pockets throughout the organization.
Feedback: What does a federated IT function mean to green ICT? How important is communication between groups doing IT?

Q: Enterprise architecture typically uses diagrams to help describe the structure and process used to create and keep track of the structure.
- True (For example, https://enterprisearchitecture.nih.gov/SiteCollectionDocuments/enterprisearchitecture.nih.gov/About/Images/ITGovernance.gif)
- False
A: True

Q: Match the term or concept to its definition:
- An abstract representation of how an organization operates across process, organization, and technology domains in order to accomplish its function. | Operating model
- A collection of related, structured activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product (serve a particular goal) for a particular customer or customers. | Business process
- A set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications that specifies how some software components should interact with each other. | Application programming interface (API)
- A description of the objects represented by a computer system together with their properties and relationships; these are typically "real world" objects such as products, suppliers, customers, and orders. | data model
- A diagram that is used to document the primary strategic goals being pursued by an organization or management team. It is an element of the documentation associated with the Balanced Scorecard, and in particular is characteristic of the second generation of Balanced Scorecard designs that first appeared during the mid-1990s. | strategy map
- Refers broadly to the process of resolving a functional relationship into its constituent parts in such a way that the original function can be reconstructed (i.e., recomposed) from those parts by function composition. In general, this process of decomposition is undertaken either for the purpose of gaining insight into the identity of the constituent components (which may reflect individual physical processes of interest, for example), or for the purpose of obtaining a compressed representation of the global function, a task which is feasible only when the constituent processes possess a certain level of modularity (i.e., independence or non-interaction). Interactions between the components are critical to the function of the collection. All interactions may not be observable, but possibly deduced through repetitive perception, synthesis, validation and verification of composite behavior. | functional decomposition

Q: ___________ is data which describes the enterprise's data.
A: Metadata / Meta data