Question 1

________ are created by combining and customizing components from different online software applications.

Accepted Answer

A)  Apps 
B)  Mashups 
C)  SaaS 
D)  Web services

Question 2

How would you determine the market demand for your firm's IT services?

Accepted Answer

A)  Perform a TCO analysis. 
B)  Benchmark your services. 
C)  Hold focus groups to assess your services. 
D)  Analyze sales returns on key investments.

Question 3

Prewritten,commercially available sets of software programs that eliminate the need for a firm to write its own software programs for certain functions,are referred to as

Accepted Answer

A)  software packages. 
B)  mashups. 
C)  outsourced software. 
D)  open-source software.

Question 4

Which computing standard is significant because it made; an easy-to-use software language that greatly expanded the ability of programmers to write business-related programs and reduced the cost of software.

Accepted Answer

A)  American Standard Code for Information Interchange 
B)  Common Business Oriented Language 
C)  Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol 
D)  Ethernet

Question 5

A SAN is a ________ network.

Accepted Answer

A)  server area 
B)  storage area 
C)  scalable architecture 
D)  service-oriented architecture

Question 6

Web services can exchange information between two different systems regardless of the operating system or programming languages on which the systems are based.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Which type of computing refers to firms purchasing computing power from remote providers and paying only for the computing power they use?

Accepted Answer

A)  on-demand 
B)  grid 
C)  edge 
D)  autonomic

Question 8

The ________ PC,becoming the standard PC in the Personal Computer Era,uses the Windows operating system software on a computer with an Intel microprocessor.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The ________ PC,becoming the standard PC in...

Question 9

_________________________ states that the amount of digital information is roughly doubling every year

Accepted Answer

The answer of _________________________ states that the amount of digital...

Question 10

The multitasking,multi-user,operating system developed by Bell Laboratories that operates on a wide variety of computing platforms is

Accepted Answer

A)  Unix. 
B)  Linux. 
C)  OS X. 
D)  COBOL.

Question 11

A _________________ is operated solely for an organization.It may be managed by the organization or a third party and may exist on premise or off premise.

Accepted Answer

A)  public cloud 
B)  private cloud 
C)  utility computing 
D)  on-demand computing

Question 12

What are the drawbacks of cloud computing? Do you think these ever outweigh the benefits,and if so,in what cases?

Accepted Answer

The answer of What are the drawbacks of cloud computing?...

Question 13

IT infrastructure consists of just those physical computing devices required to operate the enterprise.

Accepted Answer