MIS CRC 3 Study Set
IPv4, which is the most widely used Internet Protocol addressing scheme, uses _____ bits allowing it to uniquely identify (address) at most 4,294,967,295 computers and devices.
32
In terms of the data-driven digital economy, the top 20 companies control what percentage of the essential global digital infrastructure in terms of cloud storage and compute?
80%
Developed by the Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense., what project began in 1969 to test the feasibility of sharing data, exchange messages, and transfer files?
ARPANet
A(n) ____________ is an agent or a vendor who assembles the software needed by enterprises and then packages it with services such as development, operations, and maintenance.
ASP (application service provider)
Which of the following was NOT discussed as an essential factor related to the rapid deployment of the IOT (Internet of Things)?
Ability of IOT sensors to be added to massive botnets easily
In the reading Holistic University Website Management, which of the following was NOT identified as a challenge to operating a high-quality website?
Accepting that due to time and cost constraints that a university website will be lower quality in terms of content, attractiveness, consistency, ease of use, and security.
What is the term used by Roberto Blake in the Responsive Web Design video case to describe having a different website specifically for the mobile-only version of a website and whose URL (Uniform Resource Locator) often starts with an "m." for the mobile-only version?
Adaptive Web Design
Related to the Scope Triangle or Quality Triangle, when scope creep or the addition of new functionality occurs during a project, which of the following was NOT discussed as a possible option when moving forward with the project?
Add testing (validate requirements)
In the BMW augmented reality (AR) case study, BMW reported that using AR improved their vehicle concept and prototype engineering processes in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
Allowed existing owners of BMW automobiles to make recommendations on prototype designs and features
Virtual reality (VR) is a fully immersive experience that provides a realistic, three-dimensional, computer-generated environment by doing all of the following EXCEPT:
Allowing physical, real-world elements to be manipulated in the virtual environment
What was the name of the innovative collaborative classroom pioneered by the Eller College of Management in the early 2000's?
Arizona Telesuite
Sensory inputs such as sound, video, graphics, GPS data via smartphones, tablets, heads-up displays, and smart glasses are often used with what type of computer-based reality system to enhance view a physical, real-world environment?
Augmented
As described in the What is Cloud Computing video case, using a cloud-based pay-as-you-go model allows companies to do all of the following EXCEPT:
Avoid having variable expenses each month for computing costs
Considering the value proposition of cloud architectures, which of the following would typically NOT be commonly considered a benefit of most public cloud computing architectures, such as Amazon Web Services?
Avoids the necessity of sharing their IT infrastructure from one project to the next due when developing new applications
In the architectural design virtual reality (VR) case study, architects benefit from the use VR during the design process in all of the following ways, EXCEPT:
Being able to learn about a construction site's history and appearance, including archeological artifacts
________ is a short-range wireless network used for communication among computer devices (e.g., telephones, personal digital assistants, smartphones) located close to one person.
Bluetooth
Offering broadband access to the Internet, ________ modems share bandwidth among subscribers which means that when large numbers of subscribers access the Internet at the same time, each user's bandwidth can decrease significantly.
Cable
Which of the following website design perspectives is focused on creating a website that helps a user understand the next steps needed to make a decision?
Call to Action (CTA)
Which of the following statements is NOT commonly considered as being associated with cloud computing?
Cloud computing engages users with both the computing service being asked for as well as the underlying details of how the service is achieved
________ refers to efforts by two or more entities who work together to accomplish certain tasks.
Collaboration
What term is used to describe the category of information shared by telepresence systems encoded in a participant's voice, physical body movements, and other non-verbal information?
Contextual Awareness
What type of planning, related to project scheduling, provides flexibility in the schedule to allow for changes resulting from the inevitable unexpected influences that create scheduling variation, such as illness and equipment failures?
Contingency planning
Documents such as status and variance reports are used by which of the following stages of project management?
Control Stage
Which of the following factors was NOT discussed as a reason that the number of digital nomad workers who are employed in the distributed workforce has been continuously expanding?
Convenience of using mass transit options for commuting
What other term is used to describe private clouds that are IT infrastructures that can be accessed only by by an exclusive group of related entities that share the same purpose and requirements, such as all of the business units within a single organization?
Corporate clouds
In the following budgetary spreadsheet, what aspect of the "triple constraint" do the financial cash flows and personnel allocations represent? https://d2l.arizona.edu/content/enforced/1250725-669-2231-7W2MIS111201401/PM%20Budget%20Spreadsheet.png?_&d2lSessionVal=cUzLfw18rqRNj9xX3pI5Ml8PK
Cost/Resource
A Gantt Chart a visual representation of a schedule that helps a project manager do all of the following EXCEPT:
Create business alignment for project schedule
Selecting EPEAT-compliant technology with a high rating over traditional, less energy efficient technology is an example of focusing on what sustainability effect?
Creation, Use and Disposal of a product
Categories such the value of the large amount of data stored in the cloud, cloud computing's immense processing power, geographical diversity of the location of virtual machines, and the inability to recover data when storage and computational capabilities are de-provisioned, are all concerns about cloud computing related to which of following issues?
Criminal Use
Why must microwave towers generally be spaced no more than 30 miles apart to ensure the transmitter and receiver are able to have line-of-sight of each other?
Curvature of the earth
________ modems use a portion of a voice telephone line to maintain a connection to offer immediately-available broadband access.
DSL
A subset of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), which of the following service models is used for the UofA's VCAT (Virtual Computing Access Technology) that allows students to access Windows-based software programs, such as Excel and Dreamweaver found in on-campus physical computer labs from anywhere you have a broadband internet connection?
DaaS Desktop as a service)
Which of the following is a potential disadvantage of telecommuting for employers?
Data security problems
________ occurs when one physical device, such as a smartphone, provides the functions that previously required many physical devices, such as GPS navigators, flashlights, medical devices, credit cards, texting, and cellular phones.
Dematerialization
What term is used to describe virtual representations of physical assets used for modeling and prediction of energy resources?
Digital Twins
Commonly used as a means of generating revenue, which of the following is the largest volume application running on the Internet?
What type of feasibility determines whether the project is an acceptable financial risk and, if so, whether the organization has the necessary time and money to successfully complete the project?
Economic
Which of the following carriers is NOT commonly associated with transmission of information using unguided (wireless) media?
Electric voltage (direct or alternating current)
All of the following were discussed as applications where digital technologies could help abate the emissions from the over one billion vehicles on the road in the transport sector EXCEPT:
Electronic Fuel Injection Controls
Macy's found that using VR (Virtual Reality) to allow retail customers to design a room and see how the room would appear using VR goggles had all of the following benefits EXCEPT:
Eliminated the need for in-store salespersons
What system acquisition method has the advantages of freeing up IT resources by bypassing the IS department and avoids delays, and allows users to control the design of the application and make changes as needed?
End-user Development
Along with Analyze, Define, and Create, which of the following learning outcomes is also associated with engaging customers in an active learning approach to inform them about your product or service?
Evaluate
Widely used in the areas of business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce and supply chain management (SCM), what term is used to describe a network that connects parts of the intranets of different organizations and enables business partners to communicate securely over the Internet using virtual private networks (VPNs)?
Extranet
Which of the following terms means that there is no single point of failure, such as how the design of a grid computing infrastructure ensures that the failure of one computer will not stop an application from executing?
Fault tolerance
Differences between the cloud-based Office 365 Excel Online and the installed Excel desktop app, such as not supporting all file formats, is an example of which which of the following disadvantages of using a cloud-based computing model?
Features might be limited
The images shown below are what type of guided (wireline) media?
Fiber-optic cable
What type of guided (wireline) media consists of thousands of very thin filaments of glass fibers surrounded by cladding?
Fiber-optic cable
With respect to managing risk, following what phase in both the waterfall and agile development processes does the customer determine the application's "value"?
Following the release phase of application development
Which of the following would NOT commonly be considered as an advantage of using grid computing to manage pools of hardware and software components?
Grid computing eliminates need to use costly broadband networks to access computing resources
In the health care virtual reality case study, the Bravemind system uses virtual environments to assist therapists in recreating difficult memories, such as explosions, firefights, insurgent attacks, and roadside bombs, at a pace that patients can handle. The virtual experiences created by Bravemind include all of the following EXCEPT:
Heat and blinding light similar to intense desert midday sunlight
Risk to a project can be measured on two major axes: likelihood of failure and impact of failure. A critical risk that can stop a project in its tracks, often known as a a "show stopper", would generally have what two attributes?
High Impact and High Likelihood
What element of a project plan describes the method of delivery that is covered by documents such as the technical specification and test plans?
How it is to be achieved
Due to the many legal and regulatory barriers to cloud computing, often related to international data access and transport, cloud computing customers have been forced to adopt what type of deployment model that is typically more expensive and offers more restricted benefits?
Hybrid Clouds
What term commonly used to describe a network of physical objects (devices) that are embedded with electronics, sensors, software and network that allows the objects to be sensed and controlled remotely across existing network infrastructure?
IOT (Internet of Things)
________ is the first and most commonly used IP addressing scheme.
IPv4
In order to accommodate the rapidly increasing number of devices that need IP addresses, such as smartphones and devices that constitute the Internet of Things, what protocol uses IP (Internet Protocol) addresses consisting of 128 bits?
IPv6
Which of the following was NOT identified as a reason that IOT (Internet of Thing) security should be a concern?
If an IOT sensors fails, then another one can pick up the data
Which of the following types of content would be the most effective way to engage an individual with content?
Immersive Reality
Since ________ satellites move relative to a point on the Earth, a moderate number is needed for global coverage.
MEO (mid-earth orbit)
Which of the following statements would NOT be a function commonly performed as part of the on-going maintenance support activity when using the SLDC (Software Development Life Cycle) development methodology?
Make-vs-buy analysis
Which of the following is not considered one of the shifts identified by the United Nations related to achieving a sustainable planet in the Digital Age?
Mandate Compliance
In a network communication architecture, what term is used to describe the infrastructure used to transmit a message?
Medium
________ is a small, portable wireless device that provides users with a permanent Wi-Fi hotspot wherever they go.
MiFi
In what type of computer-based reality environment three-dimensional content move closer to users when they move closer to it so it reacts in the same way as they would in the real world?
Mixed
________ is the smallest short-range wireless network that is designed to be embedded in mobile devices such as cell phones and credit cards as a payment system, such as mobile wallets.
NFC (Near Field Communication)
What is the name of the public connection points where Tier-1 providers (e.g., UUNet, BBN/Genuity, Sprint, AT&T) interconnect their networks?
Network Access Points (NAPs)
What is the name of the interface that physically connects devices to the LAN's (local area network's) communications medium?
Network interface card (NIC)
If a company acquires IT applications from outside contractors or external organizations, it is called ________.
Outsourcing
What is the name of the enhanced reality game that has generated billions in revenue for the developers by placing virtual creatures all over the world for players to view through their smartphone screens, as if the creatures were standing in front of them in the real world?
Pokémon Go
What term is used to describe the use of real-time data, analysis and automated application technologies to optimize the use of inputs such as fertilizer, pesticides and water enabling farmers to produce more and waste less?
Precision Agriculture
In a network communication architecture, what term is used to describe the rules of communication used to transmit a message?
Protocol
What name is used for the two-dimensional identification code shown below that can store information both horizontally and vertically?
QR code
Which of the following is a wireless sensor that contains enough data to uniquely identify an associated item?
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags
According to the Holistic University Website Management reading, which of the following business process evaluation KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) is a measure of the productivity of a business process during a selected period of time?
Ratio of Closed to Overall Tickets
Which of the following would typically NOT be a characteristic commonly found in most public cloud computing architectures, such as Amazon Web Services?
Requires significant up-front capital investments
According to the Holistic University Website Management reading, which of the following project management processes manages changes to schedule, customer requirements, communication, and development resources?
Risk Management
According to the DARPA: The Formative Years video case, what function did the Interface Message Processor serve in the early days of the internet to connect systems?
Router
Which of the following cloud service delivery models is application-oriented service where the vendor not only provides and manages both the software and infrastructure based on a customer's requirements, but also stores the customer's data in the cloud?
SaaS (Software-as-a-Service)
Which of the following characteristics relates to the ability of cloud computing to be able to break complex workloads into pieces to be served across an incrementally expandable infrastructure?
Scalable
What term is used to describes an approach in agile development that allows users to change their minds about what they want and need, and focuses on maximizing the development team's ability to deliver iterations quickly, called sprints, which allows them to respond to user requirements as they emerge?
Scrum
Categories such as access to sensitive data, data segregation (among customers), accountability, malicious insiders, and account control are all concerns about cloud computing related to which of following issues?
Security
According to the UofA's Autonomic Computing Lab's Model for the IOT (Internet of Things), which of the four layers incorporates technologies such as Smart Devices, Internet RFID (Radio Frequency ID), and the GPS (Global Positioning System)?
Sensing and Identification Layer
Which of the following terms would be used to describe massive data centers with hundreds or thousands of servers networked that require massive amounts of electrical power and air-conditioning.
Server farms
What term refers to structures that use data collection, integrated processes, smart engineering or creative design to self-regulate and optimize the building's environment and operations which can capture changes within the building and enable the building to self-learn and automatically modify or customize its settings?
Smart Buildings
According to the Holistic University Website Management reading, developing a website using a content management system (CMS) has what important advantage over common web development frameworks, such as PHP, JSP, and ASP.NET?
Supports roles and permissions
_________ is a system in which any object, animate or inanimate, has a unique identity and is able to send and receive data over the internet without human interaction.
The IoT (Internet of Things)
In the following example of a project schedule, the total duration is listed as 67 days; however, there are 117 calendar days between January 1st and April 28th. Why does the project's "Duration" column not exactly match the number of calendar days between the scheduled start and finish dates? https://d2l.arizona.edu/content/enforced/1250725-669-2231-7W2MIS111201401/Project%20Duration%20Example.JPG?_&d2lSessionVal=cUzLfw18rqRNj9xX3pI5Ml8PK
The duration only counts the number of working days.
Which type of signal multiplexing offers each user full bandwidth, but is only periodically on (shared availability), as shown in the example below for circuit utilization? https://d2l.arizona.edu/content/enforced/1250725-669-2231-7W2MIS111201401/Circuit%20Multiplexing.png?_&d2lSessionVal=cUzLfw18rqRNj9xX3pI5Ml8PK
Time-division Multiplexing
The image shown below are what type of guided (wireline) media?
Twisted-pair Cable
Which of the following technologies simplifies and integrates all forms of communication (e.g., voice, email, instant messaging, and videoconferencing) on a common hardware and software platform?
UC (Unified Communication)
In the Farmers Insurance virtual reality case study, how Virtual Reality (VR) used in Farmer's training program improve the skills of its staff?
Using simulated damage combinations and scenarios to help staff practice home damage assessments
According to the Holistic University Website Management reading, which of the following project management processes manages the site configuration and content, and allow modifying, updating, andreverting features?
Version Control
What type of computer-based reality system is a term that refers to a fully immersive experience that provides a realistic, three-dimensional, computer-generated environment replicating sight, touch, hearing, and in some cases, smell?
Virtual
Which of the following terms refer to the use of digital technologies that enable organizations or individuals who are geographically dispersed to collaboratively plan, design, develop, manage, and research products, services, and innovative applications?
Virtual collaboration
Which of the following cloud computing characteristics allows organizations to use a single physical server to run multiple applications that each have their own software environment?
Virtualization
According to the articles what technologies enable businesses and their employees to get in front of clients and customers but do it in a cost-savings manner?
VoIP and web conferencing
According to the Holistic University Website Management reading, what team composed of stakeholders in the website and specifies and prioritizes the desired website requirements?
Web Committee
RFID was developed to replace ________.
bar codes
What portion of the URL "https://eller.arizona.edu" would be considered as the top level domain that is managed at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)?
edu
What type of conversion involves running the old and new systems simultaneously for a time, which is is rarely used, since it impractical for customer-facing e-commerce systems?
parallel