Chapter 5 Flashcards
(20 cards)
________ provide data, voice, and video connectivity to employees, customers, and suppliers.
A. Telecommunication services
B. Application software services
C. Physical facilities management services
D. Data management services
E. IT management services
A. Telecommunication services
All the following are eras in IT infrastructure evolution except the ________.
A. client/server era
B. personal computer era
C. enterprise computing era
D. disruptive technology era
E. general purpose mainframe and mini-computer era
D. disruptive technology era
A model of computing that provides a shared pool of computing resources for an organization to use over the Internet is called ________.
A. distributed computing
B. mobile computing
C. enterprise computing
D. cloud computing
E. client/server computing
D. cloud computing
________ states that the number of components that a computer chip can hold doubles every two years.
A. Moore’s Law
B. Metcalfe’s Law
C. The Law of Mass Digital Storage
D. Brooks’ Law
E. Archimedes’ principle
A. Moore’s Law
___________ are used reliably and securely to handle high transaction volumes, analyze huge data sets, and support large workloads in cloud data centers.
A. Laptop computers
B. Desktop computers
C. Tower computers
D. Cloud computers
E. Mainframe computers
E. Mainframe computers
________ is a lightweight operating system for cloud computing.
A. iOS
B. Android
C. Linux
D. Google Chrome OS
E. Microsoft Windows
D. Google Chrome OS
________ support(s) a firm’s website and include(s) web hosting services, routers, and cabling or wireless equipment.
A. Wide area networks
B. Local area networks
C. Network attached storage
D. Internet platforms
E. Flash drives
D. Internet platforms
________ systems are older transaction processing systems, usually created for mainframes.
A. Legacy
B. Transaction processing
C. Software
D. Networked
E. Database
A. Legacy
All the following are wearable computing devices EXCEPT ________.
A. tablet computers
B. smartwatches
C. smart ID badges
D. smart glasses
E. activity trackers
The widespread use of personal devices in the workplace and school is often referred to as ________.
A. bring your own desktop (BYOD)
B. bring your own phone (BYOP)
C. bring your own device (BYOD)
D. bring your own tablet (BYOT)
E. bring your own laptop (BYOL)
C. bring your own device (BYOD)
A type of computer that could be in many states at once is called a ________.
A. nanocomputer
B. stateful computer
C. blade server
D. quantum computer
E. microcomputer
D. quantum computer
All the following are essential characteristics of the cloud EXCEPT ________.
A. location-independent resource pooling
B. web beacons
C. on-demand self-service
D. ubiquitous network access
E. rapid elasticity
B. web beacons
Free software produced by a team of hundreds of thousands of programmers around the world is called ________.
A. proprietary software
B. commercial software
C. legacy software
D. open source software
E. closed source software
D. open source software
The leading operating system on servers, mainframe computers, and supercomputers is ________.
A. Linux
B. MVS
C. Unix
D. HP-UX
E. Microsoft Windows
A. Linux
________ is an object-oriented programming language that is processor and operating system independent.
A. Visual Basic
B. ADA
C. Java
D. C
E. C++
C. Java
A set of loosely coupled software components that exchange information with one another using universal standards and languages are called ________.
A. XML
B. Software packages
C. HTML
D. web services
E. service-oriented architecture
D. web services
The ability of a computer, product, or system to expand to serve more users without breaking down is called ________.
A. self-healing
B. scopability
C. scalability
D. expandability
E. immutability
C. scalability
All the following are important questions about IT governance EXCEPT ________.
A. central versus distributed IT
B. allocation of infrastructure costs
C. how data should be stored in a database
D. relationship between central and distributed IT
E. who will control and manage the firm’s IT infrastructure
C. how data should be stored in a database
The decision to purchase or rent IT assets is called the ________ decision.
A. financing
B. rent-to-own
C. build versus buy
D. cost-based
E. rent-versus-buy
E. rent-versus-buy
All the following are total cost of ownership infrastructure components EXCEPT ________.
A. staff salaries
B. installation
C. training
D. software acquisition
E. hardware acquisition
A. staff salaries
