Exam 5: Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies

Francis works in the human resources division of a large oil and gas company in Texas. Francis' tasks include maintaining payroll and vacation records, employment histories, and benefit information along with ensuring the security of all sensitive employee information. Which MIS infrastructure is most important to Francis?

What is a sudden, unexpected event requiring immediate action due to potential threat to health and safety, the environment, or property?

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

Cloud computing delivers electricity using two-way digital technology and is meant to solve the problem of outdated electrical grids.

What is network virtualization?

What is a warm site?

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

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.

Unsustainable MIS disposal refers to the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle.

A smart grid delivers electricity using two-way digital technology and is meant to solve the problem of outdated electrical grids.

Ewaste reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product.

Scalability refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems.

If you want to support the environment you will focus on building a strong sustainable MIS infrastructure, which identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption.

Software is a computer designed to request information from a server.

Large increases in technology use, by both consumers and businesses, have greatly amplified energy consumption.

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

What serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations?

Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

What identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them?

What is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks?