ITC 761 Chapter 5

Place the following eras of IT infrastructure evolution in order, from earliest to most recent: 1. Cloud Computing Era; 2. Client/Server; 3. Enterprise Era; 4. Personal Computer; and 5. Mainframe and Minicomputer.

5, 4, 2, 3, 1

Which of the following involves practices and technologies to minimize the environmental effects of manufacturing and managing computing devices?

Green computing

Which of the following statements about Java is not true?

Java programs cannot be used on mobile devices.

Which of the following statements about Linux is not true?

Linux is the leading operating system for desktop systems.

Which of the following are the leading operating systems for corporate servers?

Microsoft Windows Server, Unix, and Linux

________ uses individual atoms and molecules to create computer chips and other devices.

Nanotechnology

Which of the following types of computing involves purchasing computing power from a remote provider and paying only for the computing power used?

On-demand

Which type of software is created and updated by a worldwide community of programmers and available for free?

Open source

Which of the following statements about mobile devices is not true?

Qualcomm has a monopoly on manufacture of processers for mobile devices.

Which of the following is not one of the characteristics of cloud computing, as defined by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology?

Reduced elasticity

Which of the following is not an example of the mobile digital platform?

SDS devices

Which of the following is not an example of a wearable computing device?

Smartphones

Which type of infrastructure service stores and manages corporate data and provides capabilities for analyzing the data?

Telecommunications

All of the following are typically factors in a firm's decision to engage consulting and system integration services except:

The firm's staff knows more about the firm's IT infrastructure than service providers.

ZipRealty, which combines Google Maps with real estate data, is an example of:

a web mashup.

The introduction of the minicomputer:

allowed computers to be customized to the specific needs of departments or business units.

The Internet hardware server marketplace:

has become increasingly concentrated in top firms.

A(n) ________ is an integrated circuit which contains two or more processors to enhance performance and reduce power consumption.

multicore processor

Which of the following is not an IT infrastructure service component?

operating system software services

The practice of contracting custom software development to an outside firm is commonly referred to as:

outsourcing.

The ability to be in multiple states at once, dramatically increasing processing power, is a hallmark of:

quantum computing.

Hardware and software acquisition costs account for about ________ percent of TCO.

20

Which of the following is the most popular smartphone operating system?

Android

All of the following are current hardware platform trends except:

SOA.

All of the following have multitouch capabilities except:

Unix

Which of the following is a multitasking, multiuser, operating system developed by Bell Laboratories that operates on a wide variety of computers from different manufacturers?

Unix

Which of the following enables a single physical resource (such as a server or a storage device) to appear to the user as multiple logical resources?

Virtualization

Which of the following is a recent addition to the mobile digital platform?

Wearable computing devices

Which of the following is an easy-to-use software program with a graphical user interface for displaying web pages and for accessing the web and other Internet resources?

Web browser

Which of the following is not a technology driver transforming IT infrastructure?

Widespread rejection of technology standards

Linux is:

an example of open-source software.

All of the following are cloud computing services except:

system integration services.

Which of the following refers to a set of loosely coupled software components that exchange information with each other using standard web communication standards and languages?

web services