ITC 761 Exam 2 Chp 5

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

20%

Which of the following is not an example of the consumerization of IT?

Amazon Web Services

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

Android

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

CRM

Which of the following is a leading networking hardware provider?

Cisco

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

Hold focus groups to assess your services

Which of the following statements about Linux is not true?

It has garnered 20 percent of the server operating system market

________ states that the value or power of a network grows exponentially as a function of the number of network members.

Metcalfes's Law

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

On-demand

Which of the following refers to a set of self-contained services that communicate with each other to create a working software application?

SOA

In a multi-tiered network:

The work of the entire network is balanced over several levels of servers

Which of the following is an example of a legacy system?

Transaction processing system running on a mainframe

All of the following are current hardware platform trends except:

Unix

Which of the following is a multitasking, multiuser, operating system developed by Bell Laboratories that operates on a wide variety of computing platforms?

Unix

Which of the following is not a part of the IT infrastructure ecosystem found in firms?

Virtual Reality Systems

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

Wearable computing devices

Which of the following factors does not help explain why computing resources today are even more available than in previous decades

Widespread rejection of technology standards

Which of the following is the foundation technology for web services?

XML

Which of the following is not one of the main six factors to consider when evaluating how much your firm should spend on IT infrastructure?

Your firm's organizational culture

Running a Java program on a computer requires:

a Java Virtual Machine to be installed on that computer.

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

a mashup

Today's computer transistors are roughly equivalent in size to:

a virus

The introduction of the minicomputer:

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

Linux is:

an example of open-source software

A(n) ________ is used to communicate between a user and an organization's back-end systems.

application server

A software program with a graphical user interface for displaying web pages and for accessing the web and other Internet resources is called a web:

browser

Which of the following is the network standard for connecting desktop computers into local area networks that enabled the widespread adoption of client/server computing and local area networks and further stimulated the adoption of personal computers?

ethernet

The marketplace for computer hardware:

has become increasingly concentrated in top firms.

SaaS refers to:

hosting and managing access to software applications delivered over the Internet to clients on a subscription basis.

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS):

is one type of cloud computing service where users pay only for the computing capacity they actually use.

Which of the following is not one of the current software platform trends?

multicore processors

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

nanotechnology

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

operating system software

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

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:

software packages

Specifications that establish the compatibility of products and the ability to communicate in a network are called:

technology standards

Which model can be used to analyze the direct and indirect costs to help firms determine the actual cost of specific technology implementations?

total cost of ownership

A client computer networked to a server computer, with processing split between the two types of machines, is called a(n):

two-tiered client/server architecture.

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

All of the following are cloud computing services except

virtualization as a service

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

web mashups