CCR FE
More commonly found outside the United States, Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) data connections for residential subscribers typically offer users about what connection speed (bandwidth)?
256 kbps (thousand bits per second)
As retailers globally are undertaking renewed efforts to re-imagine the traditional retail experience, approximately how much has the newly emerging retail-oriented digital shopping increased above the pre-COVID-19 levels since March of 2020, based on changes in credit-card and debit-card spend?
35%
Based on a cost analysis case study of a cloud deployment, using cloud computing resulted in a company reducing its annual operating cost of operation for power, labor, and hardware by approximately how much?
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
In our discussion of GreenTech, which of the following issues was NOT mentioned as one of the "unique legal and regulatory issues" that the author's recommended using foresight and preparation when developing new legal strategies?
Accessibility and universal design
In a data communication architecture, transmitters (senders) and receivers of messages are described using what term?
Actors
From the prespective of networking infrastrcutre, sound waves, such as the human voice, vary continuously over time and are considered what type of data?
Analog
Which of the following applications would be most commonly associated with short range systems (up to 1 meter) that are commonly in the vicinity of metals and liquids?
Animal identification Systems
With respect to HealthTech and MedTech, which of the following was NOT identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as one of the telehealth modalities?
At-home self-diagnostic testing
With respect to IOT security, what term is used to describe the digital and physical vulnerabilities of the IOT hardware and software environment?
Attack Surface
The failure of a cloud service provider to adhere to their contractual obligation to provide the specific level of service defined the SLA (Service Level Agreement) would be most commonly related to which of the following cloud service risks?
Availability
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
What data communications term is used to describe the transmission capacity of a network?
Bandwidth
From a networking infrastructure perspective, which of the following descriptive terms would generally be associated with the transmission of digital data?
Bits per second
What wireless technology's name is connected to Harald Blaatand, who was the King of Denmark from 940-981 and was famous for uniting Scandinavia (Denmark and Norway)?
Bluetooth
________ 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
How is the hierarchical order of pivot fields displayed in a pivot table (i.e., major vs. standing as when in the following sample pivot table) determined?
By the order of field names in the "Rows" section
Which of the following outcomes from using RFID tracking would be most commonly considered as a benefit associated directly with generating value for a company's products?
CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
Which of the following NFC (Near Field Communication) communication modes allows your phone to act like an "interactive card" for payment, transportation, identification, and physical access?
Card emulation mode
From a data network infrastructure perspective, what type of cabling (wired guided media) is commonly associated with residential subscribers with POTS (plain old telephone service) service?
Category 3 Twisted Pair Cables
According to the e-Waste in South Africa video case, what has resulted in a business opportunity for Bolunga Electronic Waste company to provide recycling e-Waste services?
Changes in technology has led to much quicker end-of-life for electronic products
Pivot tables allow data to be easily grouped and analyzed by their values, such residence hall or major. Which of the following data mining methods would use a similar approach?
Classification
According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Survey 2020, individuals currently employed in the "source job family" of information technology are most likely to transition into which of the following "destination jobs of tomorrow"?
Cloud Computing
What term is used to describe access to a shared pool of networks, servers, storage, applications and services that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction?
Cloud Computing
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
The images shown below are what type of guided (wireline) media?
Coaxial cable
What metadata from your orignal worksheet data is used to identify the Pivot Table Fields?
Column headings (Header row)
The expansion of telecommunications infrastructure occurred primarily during while era of globalization, as described by Thomas Friedman's video case on Globalization and the Flattening World?
Companies
In the IT/IOT Converged Security Model, which of the following dimensions is a task whose security-relating issues are performed and managed only in the automation & control level?
Configuration Management
Which of the following business applications would typically NOT be something that commonly associated with NFC (Near Field Communication) technology?
Connected vehicles, such as Qualcomm's V2X (Vehicle to Everything)
In the Internet Bridges the Communications Gap Transparently case study, what role does an ISP (Internet Service Provider) POP (Point of Presence) serve in the network?
Connects "Local Loop Carriers" to User Services
Using the cloud to run web-based applications offers all of the following advantages EXCEPT:
Constant Internet connection - cloud-based applications depend on the Internet to access both your documents
With respect to recent emerging technology trends, which of the following outcomes describes how the combination of technologies will not only foster growth and economic development but also disrupt of existing business models and create entirely new business categories?
Convergence of Advanced Technologies
According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Survey 2020, although the reallocation of current tasks between humans and machines (technologies) is already in motion, which of the following tasks is forecasted to be continued to be performed by humans more than any other in 2025?
Coordinating, developing, managing and advising
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
Which of the following factors would NOT commonly be used to create social contract around sustainability based on behavioral change?
Creating regulations to ensure compliance by employees
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
For network infrastructures that transmit information using analog signals through a communication channel, what term is used measure the bandwidth?
Cycles per second (Hertz)
In the discussion of how Internet Bridges the Communications Gap Transparently, which of the following was NOT discussed as a capability of the end-user device?
DNS and Email Services
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 metrics, related to the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by an organization, are companies using to help them assess their progress on meeting more aggressive environmental sustainability goals?
Decreased carbon footprint
Although they are not commonly used in most parts of the developed world today, ________ modems were used to convert information between analog and digital forms for transmission over the POTS telephone network.
Dial-up
Considering both the type of data (analog and digital) and the type of transmission (analog and digital), which of the following is the correct classification of information sent using LAN (local area network) cable standards?
Digital Data sent using Digital Transmission
What is the name of the computer software system that translates Uniform Resource Locator (URL's) into IP addresses?
Domain Name System
What term is used to describe the registry of names managed by ICANN that maps difficult to remember numeric IP addresses to a more human-oriented names (e.g., www.arizona.edu)?
Domain Name System (DNS)
Which of the following issues was NOT mentioned as one of the likely risk factors for emerging Greentech technologies?
Economic Losses from Product Obsolescence
According to the "Cloud Computing Trends for 2020" video case, what term is used to describe a distributed computing model where information is processed closer to its source?
Edge Computing
What property of virtualization allows entire virtual machines to be saved as file that can moved or copied like any other file?
Encapsulation
What was the name of a family of portable and secure mechanical cipher machines invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius in 1918 that was used by Germany throughout the Second World War?
Enigma
When considering the ethical dimension of green computing, which of the following is generally NOT considered one of the guiding principles of social responsibility?
Ensuring a positive return on investment (RIO)
Also known as an "end office", in the PSTN (Public Switeched Telephone Network), what term is used to describe one of the 19.000 telephone company US switching centers?
Exchanges
Similar to a technology used as part of the sustainability efforts in residence halls on the UArizona campus, what decision support tool does Cisco describe as being commonly used in Smart Buildings to communicate information collected from the building's IOT sensor network?
Executive Dashboards
With respect to network infrastructures, what type of cabling generally has the fastest transmission rate and highest immunity to electrical noise?
Fiber Optic Cables
What type of guided media is primary used by large telecommunications companies for the telecommunication lines that connect the Internet's primary (backbone) network nodes?
Fiber-optic cables
In an Excel PivotTable, which of the following data management functions is equivalent to adding a "slicer" to a data set?
Filtering (selecting) specific values
According to the What is a Pivot Table? video case, Excel PivotTables can perform all of the following data processing functions on information found in the original worksheet EXCEPT:
Find and correct invalid data values
During which industrial revolution did mechanized production using steam and water power replace human- and animal-powered machines?
First Industrial Revolution
Which industrial revolution is bring together digital, physical and biological systems to power smart factories and agricultural & food industries using cyber-physical systems, robotics, 3D printing, and smart sensors and instrumentation?
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Which type of signal multiplexing offers each user lower bandwidth, but is always on (continuously available), as shown in the example below for FM radio signals?
Frequency-division Multiplexing
________ satellites are stationary relative to a point on the Earth.
GEO (geosynchronous)
The IP (Internet Protocol) communications layer directly interfaces with all of the following except:
HTTP layer
Based on government data from 2019 published in the HIPAA Journal, which of the following categories represented the most frequent data breach for emerging healthcare technologies?
Healthcare Providers
The internet's "network of networks" design is organized as what type of logical structure?
Hierarchical network design
According to the Navajo Code Talkers video case, what Navajo word was used to represent a surveillance (or fighter) airplane?
Humming Bird
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 is used to describe the software that manages the hardware and an can run multiple instances of an OS (operating system) on a server with virtualization?
Hypervisor
________ is the first and most commonly used IP addressing scheme.
IPv4
A(n) ________ is a company that provides Internet connections for a fee.
ISP (Internet Service Provider)
As discussed in the Internet Bridges the Communications Gap Transparently case, DNS (Domain Network Services) may be provided internally as a local service by a company, or by what other group?
ISP (Internet Service Provider)
In the AVNet Video Case Green IT Strategies, what change in business practices resulted in the most significant savings for the company?
Implementing a home-based worker program
What dimension of the business use of cloud systems focus on the benefits of rapid deployment, on-demand provisioning, and disaster recovery?
Increased Flexibility
Which of the following business opportunities was enabled by the evolution of cellular communication technologies (i.e., 3G, 4G, and 5G networks) allowing cellular network providers to have higher density networks?
Increased customers
According to Firstmark's Internet of Everything Landscape survey, Energy, Supply Chain, Robotics, and Industrial Wearables are all part of what dimension of the Applications (Verticals) segment?
Industrial Internet
According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Survey 2020, although the reallocation of current tasks between humans and machines (technologies) is already in motion, which of the following tasks is least likely to be performed by humans in 2025?
Information and data processing
According to IOT Innovation Lab video case, one of The Hartford's two main strategic objectives for IOT devices is to help it predict, prevent, detect and mitigate what?
Insurance losses
In the CapGemini IOT Industry 4.0 case, what dimension focuses on the way that Smart Products are equipped with computing power that enables autonomous decision-making and self-learning processes based on algorithms?
Intelligent
Which of the following challenges for wireless communication is commonly caused by unregulated wireless network frequencies (e.g., 2.4 GHz) shared by other devices (e.g., cordless phones) and other general noise sources?
Interference
Which of the following types of computer ports (mechanical network connectors) would NOT be considered a serial data communication interface?
LPT Port
According to CIO Magazine, Kelowan, BC (Canada) is considered to be the best place to operate a data center in North American for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
Local tax incentives
Since ________ satellites move relative to a point on the Earth, a moderate number is needed for global coverage.
MEO (mid-earth orbit)
All of the following factors contributed to the success of the Navajo Code Talkers' ability to provide the US military with a virtually unbreakable encryption for messages EXCEPT:
Messages were first encrypted using an Enigma machine captured from the German Army before being translated into the Navajo language
"HTTP" (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) defines what?
Method used to send (transmit) the website from the server to the client browser
Which of the following frequency ranges is most commonly associated with long range applications requiring large data transfers?
Micro-wave (2.45GHz)
________ transmission systems transmit data through electromagnetic waves.
Microwave
What communication code was developed in 1835 to send messages digitally over a new communications infrastructure?
Morse Code
________ are exchange points for Internet traffic.
NAPs (Network Access Points)
In a smart city environment, which of the following was NOT described as a benefit from using IOT to connect traffic signals?
New revenue opportunities
What term is used to descript a set of functionalities that facilitate multi-dimensional data analysis for faster, more informed decision making?
On-Line Analytical Processing
Tracking, traceability, authentication, and control are all associated with what type of benefit provided by RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tracking?
Operational
Which of the following companies is NOT currently considered to be one of the "Big Three" leading public IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) and PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) cloud services vendors?
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
In the following diagram showing the transmission of packets P1 to P6 from New York to Los Angeles, which of the following packets would be routed through the switching center in Dallas?
P2
Which of the following cloud service models allows customers to rent servers, operating systems, storage, a database, software development technologies, and network capacity over the internet?
PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service)
In the 1990's, companies such as Limewire, Bittorrent, and Napster were based on what type of computing model?
Peer-to-peer (P2P)
What type of network is most commonly associated with Bluetooth technology?
Piconet or PAN (Personal Area Network)
Which of the following dimensions of the Open Cloud cloud taxonomy would offer services related to business intelligence, database management, and application development and testing?
Platform Services
Which of the following dimensions of emerging technologies in healthtech and medtech will have a potential impact relating to improved patient care and reduced healthcare spending through value-based care?
Policy
As discussed in the the video case "Vint Cerf Explains TCP Networking," what example does he use to explain how messages are sent?
Post Cards
With respect to saving energy, what aspect of using two-sided printing was discussed in class as providing the most signifiant benefit?
Printing a two-sided document uses only one sheet of paper, as opposed to two
Which of the following dimensions of the Internet of Everything (IOE) focuses on delivering the right information to the right person (or machine) at the right time?
Process
When analyzing information using a data cube, what term is used to describe the process of combining (summing) all data for one dimension of a data cube into a single value, such as adding quarterly sales amounts into the total sales for a year?
Projection
In a network communication architecture, what term is used to describe the rules of communication used to transmit a message?
Protocol
What type of cryptography was launched in 1976 by Bailey Whitfield, Diffie, Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle that facilitated encrypted communications without the need for advance delivery of keys?
Public-key cryptography
Which of the following data protection principles enshrined in the Eurpoean Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) should be considered when your analysis include fields whose data was not originally collected to be part of your analysis, such as the example in class where we included information about whether a student lived in a reidence hall when analyzing exam grades?
Purpose Limitation
Which of the following wireless technologies only supports one-way directional communication?
RFID
Which of the following options is the least common approach used to manage the thousands of PCs discarded each day?
Recycling
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)
As envisioned by the US Department of Transportation's roadmap for connected vehicles, DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communications) wireless communication technology will be used to link all of the following sources to a connected vehicle EXCEPT:
Satellite Radio
With respect to HealthTech and MedTech, which of the healthcare value pools identified by Perkins-Coie as "ripe for technological innovation" focused on digital at-home diagnostics and imaging diagnostics based on artificial intelligence and machine learning?
Screening and Diagnosis
Originally used in the Greek city-state of Sparta around the sixth century BCE, what cipher used messages written on a strip of parchment that has been wrapped around a thick baton?
Scytale cipher
According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Survey 2020, which of the following was considered by the companies surveyed as the most frequently perceived barrier to the adoption of new technologies?
Skills gaps in the local labour market
Which of the following "big" trends for the Fourth Industrial Revolution relates to how cyber-physical systems use the IOT (Internet of Things) to communicate and cooperate with each other and with humans in synchrotic time both internally and across organizational services?
Smart Factory
According to Adopting the IoT Paradigm: Challenges and Opportunities, using IOT to track packages, containers, and other bulkware are examples of what type of "smart" IOT technologies?
Smart logistics
Which of the following dimensions of emerging technologies in retail and e-commerce will have the likely impact refocusing consumers priorities on delivery and discount brands?
Social
According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Survey 2020, what specialize skill would commonly require cross-cutting (easily transferable across many occupations and roles), specialized skills in Cloud computing, Data and AI (Artificial Intelligence), Engineering, Marketing, and Product Development?
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
In which of the following cloud models is the customer responsible for managing the fewest of the computing resources?
Software-as-a-Service
Which of the following terms describes a technique used with the electric telegraph in which information is sent to an intermediate station where it is received and then sent at a later time to the final destination or to another intermediate station?
Store-and-forward
Ciphers, such as the Enigma machine, that rearrange the sequenceof characters based on a fixed rule are known as ______________.
Substitution ciphers
According to the Mainstream Green report written by Ogilvy and Mather, the attitude of which of the following groups is most likely to recognize the importance of sustainability and dedicate themselves to living a green or sustainable lifestyle?
Super Greens
Which of the following was not discussed as one of the three factors that should be considerd when a company considers developing a new telecom service?
Sustainability
Which of the following is a protocol for secure communications between web server and client that is characterized by issuance of an electronic certificate that explicitly verifies the identity of the server (web server, mail server)?
TLS/SSL (Transport Layer Security and Secure Sockets Layer)
The introduction of the first pay phone, trans-continental telephone service, and the first direct-dialed long distance call are examples of what type of milestone in evolution of telecommunication service in the US?
Technical Expansion
During which industrial revolution did electronics and information and communication (ICT) technology create a "digital revolution" that further advanced automation?
Third Industrial Revolution
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?
Time-division Multiplexing
According to A Cloudy History of Time, Honeywell, IBM, and Xerox the dominant companies in what industry in 1975?
Timesharing Industry
According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Survey 2020, which of the following outcomes do the most companies plan to benefit from by re-structuring their workforce in response to new technologies?
Transform the composition of their value chain
Ciphers, such as the Syctale cipher, that just change the order of the letters are know as ______________.
Transposition ciphers
What type of guided (wireline) media is relatively slow for transmitting data, subject to interference from other electrical sources, and can be easily tapped by unintended recipients to gain unauthorized access to confidential data?
Twisted-pair
POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) or basic, voice-grade analog telephone service has been historically most closely associated with what type of network infrastructure?
Twisted-pair Cabling
Which of the following data communications computer ports is a multi-function, bus-oriented (up to 127 devices), high-speed (up to 600 MBps) serial interface?
USB Port
In a hybrid encryption system, how does the transmitter of the message exchange the secret symmetric cipher with the receiver?
Using a public/private key message
When adding a pivot table comparison (analysis) field, where would you define the calculation (e.g., SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, etc.) to be used when displaying the value for a group of data?
Using the "Value Field Setting" in the Values area pulldown menu
Introduced in the 1990's, which of the following industry trends leading to cloud computing was described as using a business model of offering computing resources as a metered (based on actual usage rates)?
Utility computing
The comparison (analysis) fields, such as the "grade" field used in our in-class discussion of pivot tables, would be displayed in which section of an Excel PivotTable control panel, as shown below:
Values
Put the following list of computer networks in the correct order of networks from largest to smallest: local area networks (LANs), metropolitan area networks (MANs), personal area networks (PANs), and wide area networks (WANs).
WAN, MAN, LAN, PAN
What term is used to describe the act of locating WLANs (wireless local area networks) while driving (or walking) around a city or elsewhere so the intruder can then obtain a free Internet connection and possibly gain access to important data and other resources?
Wardriving
According to Cisco, what was considered the "inflection point" for the Internet of Things?
When the number of connected devices outnumbered people on the planet
_____________ are generally provided by common carriers such as telephone companies and the international networks of global communications services providers.
Wide area networks (WANs)
In the URL "http://www.arizona.edu/index.html", which of the following defines the "top level domain"?
edu
Using the Caesar Cipher shown below (with a shift key of 19), the PLAIN TEXT message of "PAR" would decode to what "cipher text" message?
itk
