Question 1

A cold site can destroy large amounts of vital data, often causing incidents, unplanned interruption of a service.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

What is an information MIS infrastructure?

Accepted Answer

A) Identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured. 
B) Includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization's goals. 
C) Identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption. 
D) Includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets. 
A) Identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured. 
B) Includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization's goals. 
C) Identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption. 
D) Includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets.

Question 3

A disaster recovery plan contains a _____________ that outlines the costs to support the plan.

Accepted Answer

A) Disaster organizational cost analysis 
B) Disaster recovery improvements 
C) Disaster financial costs 
D) Disaster recovery cost curve 
A) Disaster organizational cost analysis 
B) Disaster recovery improvements 
C) Disaster financial costs 
D) Disaster recovery cost curve

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

A) Emergency 
B) Emergency preparedness 
C) Business impact analysis 
D) Technology failure 
A) Emergency 
B) Emergency preparedness 
C) Business impact analysis 
D) Technology failure

Question 5

Performance measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

In a client/server relationship the client is the one using a web browser to access a website, which is a server that would respond with the web page being requested by the client.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

A warm site is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Each year businesses lose time and money because of system crashes and failures.Which of the following offers the best way to protect a system from crashes and failures?

Accepted Answer

A) Backup and recovery plans 
B) Fault tolerance 
C) Failover 
D) All of these 
A) Backup and recovery plans 
B) Fault tolerance 
C) Failover 
D) All of these

Question 9

Reliability means the system functions correctly and provide accurate information.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

A cold site is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Hardware is the set of instructions the software executes to carry out specific tasks.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Portability describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

A business impact analysis identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Which characteristics support a sustainable MIS infrastructure?

Accepted Answer

A) Accessibility, availability, maintainability, portability, reliability, scalability, and usability. 
B) Backup and recovery planning, disaster recovery planning, and business continuity planning. 
C) Grid computing, cloud computing, and virtualization. 
D) Storage, network, and server virtualization. 
A) Accessibility, availability, maintainability, portability, reliability, scalability, and usability. 
B) Backup and recovery planning, disaster recovery planning, and business continuity planning. 
C) Grid computing, cloud computing, and virtualization. 
D) Storage, network, and server virtualization.

Question 15

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

A client is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Serviceability is how quickly a third-party or vendor can change a system to ensure it meets user needs and the terms of any contracts including agreed levels of reliability, maintainability, or availability.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Failover backs up an exact copy of a system's information.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Reliability is a system weakness that can be exploited by a threat.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Apple understood the importance of usability when it designed its _________.

Accepted Answer

A) PowerPoint software 
B) Antivirus software 
C) Fault tolerance system 
D) iPod and iTunes system 
A) PowerPoint software 
B) Antivirus software 
C) Fault tolerance system 
D) iPod and iTunes system

Exam 23: B: Extension: A Mis Infrastructures

A cold site can destroy large amounts of vital data, often causing incidents, unplanned interruption of a service.

What is an information MIS infrastructure?

A disaster recovery plan contains a _____________ that outlines the costs to support the plan.

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

Performance measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction.

In a client/server relationship the client is the one using a web browser to access a website, which is a server that would respond with the web page being requested by the client.

A warm site is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.

Each year businesses lose time and money because of system crashes and failures.Which of the following offers the best way to protect a system from crashes and failures?

Reliability means the system functions correctly and provide accurate information.

A cold site is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.

Hardware is the set of instructions the software executes to carry out specific tasks.

Portability describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth.

A business impact analysis identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them.

Which characteristics support a sustainable MIS infrastructure?

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.

A client is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.

Serviceability is how quickly a third-party or vendor can change a system to ensure it meets user needs and the terms of any contracts including agreed levels of reliability, maintainability, or availability.

Failover backs up an exact copy of a system's information.

Reliability is a system weakness that can be exploited by a threat.

Apple understood the importance of usability when it designed its _________.

Business Driven Technology

Identifying Competitive Advantages

Strategic Initiatives for Implementing Competitive Advantages

Measuring the Success of Strategic Initiatives

Organizational Structures That Support Strategic Initiatives

Valuing and Storing Organizational Information Databases

Accessing Organizational Information Data Warehouses

Understanding Big Data and Its Impact on Business

Enabling the Organization Decision Making

Extending the Organization Supply Chain Management

Building a Customer-Centric Organization Customer Relationship Management

Integrating the Organization From End to End Enterprise Resource Planning

Creating Innovative Organizations

E-business

Creating Collaborative Partnerships

Integrating Wireless Technology in Business

Developing Software to Streamline Operations

Methodologies for Supporting Agile Organizations

Managing Organizational Projects

B: Extension: A Business Basics

B: Extension: A Business Process

B: Extension: A Hardware and Software Basics

B: Extension: A Networks and Telecommunications

B: Extension: A Information Security

B: Extension: A Ethics

B: Extension: A Operations Management

B: Extension: A Sustainable Mis Infrastructures

B: Extension: A Business Intelligence

B: Extension: A Global Information Systems

B: Extension: A Global Trends

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