Exam 5: Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies

What is a Platform as a Service (PaaS)?

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

If you want to support organization change you will focus on building a strong information MIS infrastructure, which identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured.

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

Dynamic scaling means the MIS infrastructure can be automatically scaled up or down based on needed requirements.

Failback occurs when the primary machine recovers and resumes operations, taking over from the secondary server.

Technology recovery strategies focus specifically on prioritizing the order for restoring hardware, software, and data across the organization that best meets business recovery requirements.

The information MIS infrastructure supports the day-to-day business operations and plans for ________.

Which of the following agile MIS infrastructure characteristics refers to how quickly a system can transform to support environmental changes?

Energy consumption is the amount of energy consumed by business processes and systems.

The sustainable infrastructure pressure of increased energy consumption poses new and growing pressure. The energy consumed by a computer is estimated to produce as much as 10% of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a ________.

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.

Which term refers to the time frames when the system is operational?

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

What means that people with disabilities including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities can use the Web?

Availability refers to the time frames when the system is operational.

The ________ MIS infrastructure identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption.

Virtualization offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

What is a company's acknowledged responsibility to society?

Hardware consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system, where software is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.