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Chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| At what percent do most servers operate? | 15-20% |
| The ability to be in many different states at once, dramatically increasing processing power, is a hallmark of: | Quantum computing |
| How would you determine the market demand for your firm's IT services? | Hold focus groups to assess your services |
| Which of the following is not an example of the emerging mobile digital platform? | CRM |
| ________unleash powerful economies of scale and result in price declines in manufactured computer products. | Technology standards |
| Which of the following refers to the ability of a computer, product, or system to expand to serve a larger number of users without breaking down: | Scalability |
| Today, many business firms continue to operate their legacy systems that meet a business need and would be costly to replace. | True |
| SaaS refers to: | Hosting and managing access to software applications delivered over the internet to clients on a subscription basis. |
| The network standard for connecting desktop computers into local area networks that enabled the widespread adoption of client/server computing and local area networks and further stimulated the adoption of personal computers is: | Ethernet |
| Application server software is responsible for locating and managing stored webpages. | False |
| SANs maintain a series of servers and provide fee-paying subscribers with space to maintain their websites. | False |
| Sets of loosely coupled software components that exchange information with each other using standard web communication standards and languages are referred to as: | Web services |
| All of the following are current hardware platform trends except: | Unix |
| Which of the following is not one of the main six factors to consider when evaluating how much your firm should spend on IT infrastructure: | Your firm's organizational structure |
| Prewritten, commercially available sets of software programs that eliminate the need for a firm to write its own software programs for certain functions, are referred to as: | Software packages |
| Which of the following factors does not help explain why computing resources today are ever more available than in previous decades: | Widespread rejection of technology standards |
| Linux is: | an example of open-source software |
| In N-tier computing, significant parts of website content, logic, and processing are performed by different servers. | True |
| The process of presenting a set of computing resources (such as computing power or data storage) so that they can all be accessed in ways that are not restricted by physical configuration or geographic location is called: | Cloud computing |
| Place the following eras of IT infrastructure evolution in order: | 5,4,2,3,1 |
| A SAN is a ______________________ Network. | Storage Area |
| A __________ is an integrated circuit to which two or more processors have been attached for enhanced performance and reduced power consumption. | Multicore processor |
| Which type of computing refers to firms purchasing power from remote providers and paying only for the computing power they use? | On-demand |
| Which of the following is not an IT infrastructure service component: | Operating system software |
| The practice of contracting custom software development to an outside firm is commonly referred to as: | Outsourcing |
| A formal contract between customers and their service providers that outlines the specific responsibilities of the service provider and to the customer is called a: | SLA |
| Which model can be used to analyze the direct and indirect costs to help firms determine the actual cost of specific technology implementations: | Total cost of ownership |
| Which type of infrastructure service provides voice and video connectivity to employees, customers, and suppliers? | Telecommunications |
| The development of TCP/IP occurred during the ________ era. | Enterprise computing |
| Which of the following is the most popular mobile operating system: | Android |
| Which of the following is a leading networking hardware provider: | Cisco |
| The phenomenon of employees using their own devices in the workplace is known as: | BYOD |
| ______ surfaces allow users to gesture on a screen with several fingers to execute commands. | Multitouch |
| ________ states that the value or power of a network grows exponentially as a function of the number of network members. | Metcalfe's Law |
| The collection of web services that are used to build a firm's software systems constitutes what is known as a service-oriented architecture. | True |
| What is the foundation technology for web services? | XML |
| Java software is designed to run on any computing device, regardless of the specific microprocessor or operating system it uses. | True |
| Enterprise infrastructure requires software that can link disparate applications and enable data to flow freely among different parts of the business. | True |
| _______ allows a single computing resource, such as a server, to appear to the user as multiple logical resources. | Virtualization |
| ________ provides a standard format for data exchange, enabling web services to pass data from one process to another. | XML |
| The introduction of the minicomputer: | Allowed computers to be customized to the specific task or department. |
| Today's nanotechnology-produced computer transistors are roughly equivalent in size to: | A virus |
| Which of the following is not one of the NIST defined characteristics of cloud computing: | Reduced elasticity |
| A client computer networked to a server computer, with processing split between the two types of machines, is called a: | Two-tiered client/server architecture |
| Whereas HTML is limited to describing how data should be presented in the form of webpages, XML can perform presentation, communication, and data storage tasks. | True |
| Specifications that establish the compatibility of products and the ability to communicate in a network are called: | Technology standards |
| The process of presenting a set of computing resources (such as computing power or data storage) so that they can all be accessed in ways that are not restricted by physical configuration or geographic location is called: | Cloud computing |
| TCO refers to the original cost of purchased technology: both hardware and software. | False |
| Software that manages the resources of the computer is called: | Operating system software |
| _____ uses individual atoms and molecules to create computer chips and other devices thinner than a human hair. | Nanotechnology |
| Running a Java program on a computer requires: | A Java Virtual Machine to be installed on that computer |
| A set of self-contained services that communicate with each other to create a working software application is called: | SOA |
| Hypertext markup language specifies how text, graphics, video, and sound are placed on a webpage document. | True |
| In green computing, reducing computer power consumption is a top priority. | True |
| IT infrastructure consists of just those physical computing devices required to operate the enterprise. | False |
| Web services can exchange information between two different systems only if the operating systems and programming languages upon which the systems are based are identical. | False |
| Which type of software is created and updated by a worldwide community of programmers and available for free: | Open source |
| Legacy systems are still used because they: | Are too expensive to redesign |
| A software tool with a graphical user interface for displaying webpages and for accessing the web and other internet resources is called a web: | browser |
| The technology trends exhibited by Portugal Telecom, as discussed in the chapter opening case, illustrate the shift away from green computing. | False |
| Which of the following statements about Linux is not true: | It has garnered 20 percent of the server operating system market |
| Which of the following is not one of the current software platform trends: | Multicore processors |
| The marketplace for computer hardware: | Has become increasingly concentrated in top firms |
| The decision to purchase your own IT assets or rent them from external providers is also referred to as the rent-versus-buy decision. | True |
| Interpretations of Moore's law assert that: | Computing power doubles every 18 months |
| Quantum computing is implemented primarily with enterprise or ISP servers. | False |
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