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T1
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An AT&T Bell Labs term originally used in 1962 for the first digitally multiplexed transmission system for voice signals. Present day use indicates a digital carrier facility used to transmit a digital signal 1 or DS1 formatted digital signal at 1.544 megabits per second. This is equivalent to 24 analog lines. T1 transmission uses a bipolar Return To Zero alternate mark inversion line coding scheme.
Tangible Benefits
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Benefits that can be measured and quantified. Tangible benefits include savings that result from improved performance and efficiency.
Tangible Costs
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Costs that can be measured and quantified. Tangible costs include costs for hardware, software, people, and supplies for both the development process and ongoing operations.
Task
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Well defined components of project work. Often a task is referred as a work package.
TCP/IP
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- Transmission Control Protocol over Internet Protocol
- The TCP/IP Suite of protocols
Technical Architecture
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In enterprise architecture, business and technical computing specifications are considered. The technical architecture includes specification for only technical dimensions or components. In Virginia’s enterprise architecture, the technical domains include: integration, security, platform, networking and telecommunications, application, database, enterprise systems management, and information architecture.
Technical Controls
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Information security measures implemented through technical software or hardware.
Technical Specifications
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Specifications that establish the material and performance requirements of goods and services.
Technology Infrastructure
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Means telecommunications, automated data processing, word processing and management information systems, and related information, equipment, goods and services.
Technology Investments
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A management tool comprised of essential information about technology investments, structured to facilitate the evaluation of investment alternatives in support of an agency’s overall strategic business plan.
Technology Portfolio
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A management tool comprised of essential information about technology investments, structured to facilitate the evaluation of investment alternatives in support of an agency’s overall strategic business plan.
Technology Standard
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A specific and, where applicable, technical document containing directives and mandatory specifications governing the management, development, and use of information technology resources. (COV ITRM STANDARD GOV2000-01.1)
Telecommunications
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Any origination, transmission, emission, or reception of signals, writings, images, and sounds or intelligence of any nature, by wire, radio, television, optical or other electromagnetic systems.
Telecommunications Equipment
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Defined as, but not limited to: channel service units, data compression units, line drivers, bridges, routers, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode switches (ATM), multiplexers and modems. Also, private branch exchanges (PBX), Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) terminal equipment, voice mail units, automatic call distribution (ACD), voice processing units and key systems. Video communications products such as: coders, multipoint conferencing units and inverse multiplexers.
Telecommunications Facilities
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An apparatus necessary or useful in the production, distribution, or interconnection of electronic communications for state agencies or institutions including the buildings and structures necessary to house such apparatus and the necessary land.
Telecommunications Industry Association
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A standards body. An association that sets standards for communications cabling.
Telecommunications Services
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These services include, but are not limited to; data communication services, such as point- to-point and multipoint circuits, Internet, Frame Relay SMDS, ATM, and dial up lines, and voice communications services such as Centrex, business/private lines and WATS lines including 800 services, tie and access lines, long distance services, voice mail, pay phones, wireless communications and cellular services (see also “Public Telecommunications Services”).
Template
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A partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting, organizing and presenting information and data. Templates are often based upon documents created during prior projects. Templates can reduce the effort needed to perform work and increase the consistency of results.
PMBOK
Test Environment
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An Environment for quality assurance; this provides a less frequently changed version of the application which testers can perform checks against. This allows reporting on a common revision so developers know whether particular issues found by testers have already been corrected in the development code. This environment will be closer to your production environment but will house no production data.
Third-Party Provider
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A company or individual that supplies IT equipment, systems, or services to COV Agencies.
Threat
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Any circumstance or event (human, physical, or environmental) with the potential to cause harm to an information system in the form of destruction, disclosure, adverse modification of data, and/or denial of service by exploiting the vulnerability.
Tier Definitions
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Tier One – Services across/among agency systems
Tier Two – Services within an agency
Tier Three – Sub-agency level
Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA)
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Time Division Multiple Access
Time to Interactive (TTI)
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A measure of how much time passes before the page is fully interactive, which means:
- First Contentful Paint (FCP) is complete.
- No long JavaScript tasks happened within the last 5 seconds.
- No more than two in-flight GET requests are occurring at the same moment.
Time-Scaled Network Diagram
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Any project schedule network diagram drawn in such a way that the positioning and length of the activity represent its duration. Essentially, the diagram is a bar chart that includes network logic.
PMBOK
Timeframe
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The period when action is required to mitigate the risk. Timeframe is one of the three attributes of risk. (SEI)
Token
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A small tangible object that contains a built-in microprocessor utilized to store and process information for authentication.
Token Ring
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An IEEE 802.5 standard for media access. Conflicts in the transmission of messages are avoided by the granting of “tokens” which give permission to send.
Topic
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Simply a logical subdivision of the domain. All components relevant to the Commonwealth’s Technical Architecture are included within one of the identified topics. Within the Information domain topics include Reporting, Data Management, Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management.
Total Blocking Time (TBT)
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Measures the total amount of time that a page is blocked from responding to user input, such as mouse clicks, screen taps, or keyboard presses. The sum is calculated by adding the blocking portion of all long tasks between First Contentful Paint and Time to Interactive.
Total Cost
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The sum of all cost (fixed and variable) for a particular item or activity over a specified period.
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
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A calculation of the fully burdened cost of owning a component. The calculation helps consumers and enterprise managers assess both direct and indirect costs and benefits related to the purchase of IT components. For the business purchase of a computer, the fully burdened costs can also include such things as service and support, networking, security, user training, and software licensing.
Traditional
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Context: (Hosting Options: Traditional hosting services include physical and virtual servers that do not meet the five NIST characteristics defined above. These services can be provided on-premise or off-premise (eGov). Implementation of a hybrid cloud model could be extended to cover these types of services within the service and management model.
Transaction Service
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Guaranteed “all-or-nothing” execution of update requests against multiple (heterogeneous) resources.
Transform the Business
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A project portfolio category for projects that support business functionality, deliverables, or processes by changing the way an organization does business.
Transformational Projects
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Projects that change the way an organization does business.
Transitional
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Rating category used in this document to rate integration technologies. This technology is not consistent with the Commonwealth’s Enterprise Technical Architecture strategic direction. Agencies may use this technology only as a transitional strategy for moving to a strategic technology. Agencies currently using this technology should migrate to a strategic technology as soon as practical. A migration or replacement plan should be included as part of the Agency’s IT Strategic Plan.
Transmission Control Protocol. (TCP)
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An OSI layer 4 Protocol
Traveling Professional
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The Travelling Professional includes End Users that need the ability to work remotely. They include Managers or Supervisors in addition to resources who also primarily utilize e-mail, a limited number of applications (primarily the MS Office suite), and web browsing. These End Users must have the ability to work through a VPN connection and do not always have access to a reliable wireless network.
Triggering
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Application components are dispatched automatically based on a predefined event condition. The definition of the event concept varies between the different types of integration technologies, e.g., request for certain elements in a database, arrival of a message in a queue, or method invocation request for an object that is managed by an ORB.
Triggers
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Indications that risk has occurred or is about to occur. Triggers may be discovered in the risk identification process and watched in the risk monitoring and control process.
PMBOK
Triple Constraint
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A framework for evaluating competing demands. The triple constraint is often depicted as a triangle where one of the sides or one of the corners represents one of the parameters being managed by the project team.
PMBOK
Trojan horse
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A malicious program that is disguised as or embedded within legitimate software.
Trusted System or Network
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An IT system or network that is recognized automatically as reliable, truthful, and accurate, without continual validation or testing.