Exam 29: B: Extension: A Sustainable Mis Infrastructures

Miranda White likes taking old computer parts and remaking them into products like earrings and clocks.Which of the following represents what Miranda is doing?

Which of the following delivers electricity using two-way digital technology?

What is the amount of energy consumed by business processes and systems?

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

What is the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle called?

What is network virtualization?

Ewaste reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product.

What is a challenge for cloud computing that could cause employee performance to decrease?

With grid computing, a problem is broken into pieces and distributed to many machines, allowing _________ processing than could occur with a single system.

What is a facility used to house management information systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems?

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

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

What is disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)?

What is disaster recovery as a service?

What combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications?

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.

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A smart grid delivers electricity using two-way digital technology and is meant to solve the problem of outdated electrical grids.

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.

What is software as a service (SaaS)?