Asset Management 3

Question 1

What is New Zealand’s largest infrastructure asset

Answer 1

Pavement

Question 2

Strategic Maintenance

Answer 2

performed early in pavement life

Question 3

Emergent Maintenance

Answer 3

reduce need to perform reactive repair

Question 4

Reactive

Answer 4

unplanned, for immediate needs

- restores the roadway to a serviceable condition

Question 5

Lifecycle Programs

Answer 5

1. Maintenance:
   - Strategic
   - Emergent
2. Reactive

Question 6

Safety in AM

Answer 6

• keep the public safe
• cost generally increases with safety - balance
• Health and Safety can make a project unfeasible

Question 7

Funding in AM

Answer 7

• bank loan
• company income
• government
• rates
• investment rates
• global financial market

Question 8

Politics in AM

Answer 8

• political pressure
• public pressure
• election year

Question 9

The Zachman Framework

Answer 9

• logical structure for classifying and organising models or “descriptive representations” of an enterprise
• derived from analogous structures in architecture
• building enterprise models help in accumulating large enterprise knowledge which is needed to accommodate change

Question 10

Zachman Framework and IT

Answer 10

• Zachman framework is a thinking tool to understand many complex IT related issues
• helps in organising development thoughts
• also helps in developing strategies for creating flexible and agile enterprises
• by filling cells of Zachman matrix, information systems are automatically aligned with management corporate goals

Question 11

System Architecture Patterns

Answer 11

1. Independent Systems
2. Interfaced Systems
3. Interoperable Systems
4. Integrated Systems

Question 12

Independent Systems

Answer 12

do not share any processes or data

Question 13

Interfaced Systems

Answer 13

• simply connected systems or subsystems that can exchange information accross the common boundary that they share
• systems share data, but no processes

Question 14

Interoperable Systems

Answer 14

• provide and accept services from other systems and use the services exchanged to enable them to operate effectively together
• systems share limited processes, and data

Question 15

Integrated systems

Answer 15

• tightly coupled interconnection of different, highly specialised devices into a broader system providing complex functions which require close interactions between its components
• systems share many processes and data

Question 16

Phase 1

Answer 16

Conceptual Data Model

• may include a high level definition of the main model entities and relationships between them
• “high-level data model” synonymous with a conceptual data model

Question 17

Phase 2

Answer 17

A Logical Data Model

• includes more detailed design and seen as intermediary between conceptual and physical design
• will include more specific information which will allow coding within a database, without necessarily including specific details that might ffacilitate coding with one particular DBM

Question 18

Phase 3

Answer 18

Physical Data Model
- may include specifics which facilitate coding within a specific data base management system (DBMS) including for example internal storage structures, acceess paths and file organisation

Question 19

Autonomous Agents in AM

Answer 19

• have their own freedom to govern themselves and/or control their own affairs
• e.g. stakeholders in the project

Question 20

Key Components to Define a Complex system

Answer 20

• system boundary (scope of LOS and project)
• influencing factors (incoming and outgoing pressures)
• nodes (stages in LOS and project lifecycle)
• links (connections/communication between stages/nodes)
• feedback loops

Question 21

Data needed for AM plan

Answer 21

• investment costs over life cycle of project
• operational costs
• benefits
• discount rate
• risk costs (consequence of failure)

Question 22

Principles of Infrastructure Information Management Systems builds on key components

Answer 22

• hardware
• software
• data
• processes/procedures and standards
• people