Exam 23: B: Extension: A 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.

Hardware is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.

Why is estimating future growth a challenge for most companies?

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

Scalability describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth.If a company grows faster than anticipated, it might experience a variety of problems, from running out of storage space to taking more time to complete transactions.Anticipating expected, and unexpected, growth is key to building scalable systems that can support that development.

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

Technology recovery strategies focus specifically on prioritizing the order for restoring hardware, software, and data across the organization that best meets business recovery requirements.

What is a communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standard methodology in which they can communicate?

What is scalability?

What is a hot site?

High availability occurs when a system is continuously operational at all times.

When building a scalable system that can support new company developments, what are the key factors to consider?

What has the ability to recover information or systems in the event of catastrophic disasters?

What are the primary elements in an information MIS infrastructure?

What is a sustainable MIS infrastructure?

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

Unavailability occurs when a system is continuously operational at all times.

Recovery is the ability to get a system up and running, including restoring the information backup, in the event of a system crash or failure.

Which of the following is an example of an emergency notification system?

What occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data to which users are automatically directed if the primary server crashes?