Exam 5: Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies

What is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests?

Tim Burners-Lee, 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.

What is cloud computing services changing?

A client is a computer designed to request information from a server.

What are the seven characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure?

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.

Every company, regardless of size, relies on some form of MIS infrastructure, whether it is a few personal computers networked together or many interconnected around the world.

Which cloud computing model offers applications on a pay-per-use basis?

MIS infrastructure is a communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standard methodology for communication.

Jessica started her own online company, which specializes in selling items for bachelorette parties, wedding parties, and baby showers. Due to the fact that she only operates online, her MIS infrastructure needs to be fast, efficient, and accurate ensuring the best possible experience for her customers. Which of the below is a critical component in Jessica's MIS infrastructure?

What offers a cloud-based Big Data service to help organizations analyze massive amounts of data to solve business dilemmas?

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

Availability refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system.

What question below would a company need to answer when first establishing a backup and recovery plan?

Within the sites that support disaster recovery, ________ is a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.

Which characteristics support a sustainable MIS infrastructure?

What is Disaster recovery as a Service (DRaaS)?

A backup is an exact copy of a system's information.

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

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