Exam 5: Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies

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

Cloud bursting is when a company uses its own computing infrastructure for normal usage and access 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.

The ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the company information is called a failover.

Portability describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth.

Carbon emissions include the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, produced by business processes and systems.

A disaster recovery plan contains a ________ that outlines the costs to support the plan.

Cheap electricity is great for keeping business energy costs down, but this means that we have to rely more on ________ for power.

Failover is a specific type of fault tolerance, occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data, and if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically directed to the secondary server or backup server. This is a high-speed and high-cost method of backup and recovery.

There are three primary areas where enterprise architects focus when maintaining a firm's MIS infrastructure including information MIS infrastructure, agile MIS infrastructure, and sustainable MIS infrastructures.

Top-level MIS employees require administrator access, or unrestricted access to the entire system. Administrator access can perform functions such as resetting passwords, deleting accounts, and shutting down entire systems.

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 enables computers to run multiple operating systems and multiple software applications at the same time and creates multiple 'virtual' machines all on a single computing device?

What is Big data as a service (BDaaS)?

What are the different options where an emergency notification service can be deployed?

What is corporate social responsibility?

What is disaster recovery as a service?

What is a hot site?

What is the software that makes the benefits of cloud computing possible, such as multi-tenancy?

Shawn works at the local electrical company in Nampa, ID, which provides electricity to the entire city of Boise. This area is prone to floods, high winds, and tornados. As the lead enterprise architect on the night shift, Shawn has been asked to suggest ways the company can protect its information MIS infrastructure. Shawn notices that the company does not have the ability for its systems to respond to unexpected failures or crashes and there is not a backup system that can automatically take over without a loss of service to Boise residents. What should Shawn recommend his company implement?

Vulnerability is a system weakness that can be exploited by a threat.