IPA IP 2021 Question 4
A question IPA Japan published in 令和3年度 ITパスポート試験 公開問題 問4, translated into English. ITPEC is based on the same exams.
Which of the following is the most appropriate explanation of enterprise search?
Explanation
A mechanism that searches structured and unstructured data across a company's systems in one place — that is enterprise search.
Inside a company, information is scattered over file servers, groupware, e-mail, document management systems and business databases. Some of it is structured (records in a database) and much is unstructured (documents, e-mails, web pages). Enterprise search indexes all of these sources so that staff can find what they need with a single search, as with a web search engine, within the limits of their access rights.
Answer (a)
Why not others:
- •(b) — a large electronic collection of example sentences used as the basic data for natural language processing is a corpus
- •(c) — an input device that reads photographs and documents optically and digitizes them is an image scanner
- •(d) — analyzing the current systems and processes, setting targets toward the ideal state and pursuing total optimization is enterprise architecture (EA)
Key rule: Enterprise search = one search across all of a company's internal data sources, structured and unstructured; do not confuse it with a corpus (text data for NLP) or EA (a method of total optimization).
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