Fairfax County IT Architecture Quizz

Architecture as a foundation and road map enables the County to establish...

• procedures to develop new technology when is needed.

• open standards, assess the impact of new requirements, allow the incorporation of new technologies.

• politics to be reviewed when is necessary to implement a new technology.

• a wide vision to answer when is necessary.

The business of the County have been grouped into four mayor functional areas as represented in the County's budget.

• Research and Development, Strategic scope and finance growing, Health care, Tourism.

• Financial project, Public Safety, Software Development, Economic incomes.

• Political actions and campaigns, Insurance, Tourism, Health Care.

• Human Services, Public Safety, Planning and Development, Finance and Revenue.

The three Programing Development Tools used by the County.

• Microsoft BizTalk, JAVA, SAP ABAP.

• JAVA, C++, PHP

• Microsoft BizTalk, Python, C++

• SAP ABAP, Python, PHP

Oracle and Microsoft SQL are the DBMS used by the County because

• they are the cheapest databases

• they are the best databases.

• they are standard COTS development architectures.

• they are used for all the world.

Defines the technical components of the infrastructure, server and client platforms, middleware, operating system and interfaces supported.

• Platform Architecture

• Software Architecture

• System Architecture

• Business Architecture

Server consolidation and virtualization effort in FY 2011 reduced the number for servers from over 1000 to...

• 60 active servers locally and 100 in the cloud.

• 500 virtualized servers.

• an average target ratio of 60:1.

• 0 locally and just 10 in the cloud with high performance.

One of the Storage Management requirements addressed by the Storage Area Network (SAN) are:

• Support great amount of users as the same time without fails.

• Scalable storage capacity that allows users to increase storage as needed.

• The ability to share data beyond the County.

• Get downtime zero all the time to have the information always available

The I-Net is the primary infrastructure interconnecting sites for the enterprise communications network to support both:

• The County government and Fairfax County public schools.

• Just the County government and nearshore offices.

• The County government and the Services spread around the County.

• The County government and the State of Virginia

The Network Architecture is includes

• Internet Architecture, Lan Architecture.

• Enterprise Internet Services, Strategic Wifi connections, Redundant communication cables.

• Institucional Wifi Services and Email Enterprise Services

• Enterprise Data Communications Network, Institutional Network (I-Net), Mobile Data Network, Voice Communications Network.

When a standard is established by DIT (Department of IT), it indicates that the technology selected is in alignment with:

• the County IT Policy for execution.

• broader IT goals, objectives, and strategic directions.

• IT definitions and has been tested for more than six months.

• the counsel of the County criteria.