Exam 28: Enabling the Organizationdecision Making

What combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications?

Multi-tenancy occurs in which each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system.

Virtualization creates multiple virtual machines on a single computing device. A good analogy is a computer printer. In the past you had to purchase a fax machine, copy machine, answering machine, and computer printer separately. This was expensive, required enough energy to run four machines, and created additional amounts of ewaste.

What is server virtualization?

What in the cloud means that a single instance of a system serves multiple customers?

Corporate social responsibility is a company's acknowledged responsibility to ________.

Private cloud serves only one customer or organization and can be located on the customers' premises or off the customer's premises.

What is Big Data as a Service (BDaaS)?

Grid computing takes advantage of the available 75% of unused processing power of a computer and links thousands of individual computers around the world creating a ________ that can process intensive tasks.

What describes the production, management, use, and disposal of technology in a way that minimizes damage to the environment?

Server virtualization combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications.

Utility computing offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity.

Single-tenancy in the cloud means that a single instance of a system serves multiple customers. In the cloud, each customer is called a tenant and multiple tenants can access the same system.

What offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity?

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

Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, observed in 1965 that continued advances in technological innovation made it possible to reduce the size of a computer chip while doubling its capacity every two years.

Community cloud includes two or more private, public, or community clouds, but each cloud remains separate and is only linked by technology that enables data and application portability.

What occurs when a company uses its own computing infrastructure for normal usage and accesses the cloud when it needs to scale for high/peak load requirements ensuring a sudden spike in usage does not result in poor performance or system crashes?

What is Software as a Service (SaaS)?

Virtualization is a collection of computers, often geographically dispersed, that are coordinated to solve a common problem.