Exam 3: Managing the Information Systems Infrastructure and Services

Briefly explain the history of computing.

Which of the following occurred in the 1958-1964 generation of computing?

Governmental regulations such as the ________ Act mandate archiving business documents and relevant internal communication,including e-mail and instant messages.

A ________ is a software application that can be used to locate and display Web pages,including text,graphics,and multimedia content.

The most prominent type of system software,the ________,coordinates the interaction between hardware components,peripherals,application software,and users.

________ networks enable any computer or device on the network to provide and request services.All members of the network have equivalent capabilities and responsibilities.

Distinguish between the software as a service model and the platform as a service model.

As defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),"________ is a model for enabling ubiquitous,convenient,on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction."

The applications under the Software as a Service model are typically the toughest to deploy.

With regard to the World Wide Web,Web pages are stored on ________.

With respect to the domain name,the suffix ".com" is reserved for network organizations.

Networking hardware and software facilitate the interconnection of different computers,enabling collaboration within organizations,across organizations,and literally around the world.

In grid computing,the slowest computer creates a bottleneck and slows down the entire grid.A(n)________ grid,consisting of a large number of homogeneous computers,can help overcome these problems.

Operating systems are often written in ________,a very low-level computer programming language that allows the computer to operate quickly and efficiently.

With respect to the general classes of computers,a ________ is very large and is used primarily as the main,central computing system for major corporations.

Data centers managed by a third party that rents out space to multiple organizational customers are known as ________.

Web servers process user requests for pages using the ________.

Briefly explain Moore's law.

The prediction that the number of transistors on a chip would double about every two years is known as ________.

A ________ is any computer on the network,or any software application,that uses only the services provided by the server.