Chapter 5 Infrastructures and Sustainable Tech

Question 1

information mis infrastructure

Answer 1

supports operations; backup, recovery, disaster recovery, business continuity

Question 2

agile mis infrastructure

Answer 2

supports change; accessibility, maintainability, reliability

Question 3

sustainable mis infrastructure

Answer 3

supports sustainability; grid computing, cloud computing, virtualization

Question 4

backup

Answer 4

an exact copy of a system’s information

Question 5

recovery

Answer 5

the ability to get a system up and running int eh event of a crash or failure

Question 6

fault tolerance

Answer 6

the ability for a system to respond to unexpected failures or crashes as the backup system takes over.

Question 7

enterprise architect

Answer 7

the person fluent in business and able to provide the bridge between mis and business

Question 8

disaster recovery plan

Answer 8

process for recovering information or a system in the event of a disaster

Question 9

cold site

Answer 9

separate facility not equipt for work, but a place that ees can move to after a disaster

Question 10

hot site

Answer 10

separate fully equipt facility ready to start operations in the event of a disaster

Question 11

warm site

Answer 11

separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation

Question 12

accessibility

Answer 12

varying levels of what a user can access

Question 13

high availability

Answer 13

when a system is continually operational at all times

Question 14

maintainability

Answer 14

how quickly a system can transform to support environmental changes

Question 15

scalability

Answer 15

how well a system can scale up or adapt to the increased demands of growth

Question 16

usability

Answer 16

the degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient to use

Question 17

vulnerability

Answer 17

system weakness that can be exploited by a threat (passwords)

Question 18

reliability

Answer 18

ensures a system is functioning correctly and providing accurate information

Question 19

iaas

Answer 19

infrastructure as a service; delivery of hardware capability as a service

Question 20

grid computing

Answer 20

collection of computers often geographically spread out that are coordinated to solve a certain problem

Question 21

moores law

Answer 21

computer chip performance per dollar doubles every 18 months

Question 22

paas

Answer 22

platform as a service; supporting deployment of systems including hardware and networking using pay per use models

Question 23

saas

Answer 23

security as a service; antivirus software delivered over the internet serving virus updates

Question 24

virtualization

Answer 24

creates many virtual machines on a single computing device

Question 25

network virtualization

Answer 25

combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a device

Question 26

server virtualization

Answer 26

combines the resources like servers and processors from the application

Question 27

storage virtualization

Answer 27

combines multiple network storage devices to they appear as one storage device

Question 28

system virtualization

Answer 28

ability to present the resources of 1 computers a collection of separate computers, each with its own network interfaces and storage