Chapter 5 - Quiz 5

T/F: SANs maintain a series of servers and provide fee-paying subscribers with space to maintain their websites.

False

T/F: Hypertext markup language specifies how text, graphics, video, and sound are placed on a webpage.

True

T/F: In financial services firms, investments in IT infrastructure represent more than half of all capital invested.

True

T/F: The decision to purchase your own IT assets or rent them from external providers is also referred to as the rent-versus-buy decision.

True

T/F: Whereas HTML is limited to describing how data should be presented in the form of Web pages, XML can perform presentation, communication, and data storage tasks.

True

The introduction of the minicomputer: Select one: a. allowed computers to be customized to the specific needs of departments or business units. b. strengthened centralized computing. c. offered new, powerful machines at higher prices than mainframes. d. represented the rise of Microsoft. e. was dominated by IBM.

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

A(n) ________ is an integrated circuit to which two or more processors have been attached for enhanced performance and reduced power consumption. Select one: a. multicore processor b. legacy processor c. scalable processor d. aggregate circuit e. green circuit

a. multicore processor Question text

Software that manages the resources of the computer is called: Select one: a. operating system software. b. application software. c. data management software. d. network software. e. web services software.

a. operating system software.

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? Select one: a. Cloud computing b. Autonomic computing c. Virtualization d. Multicore processing e. Ubiquitous computing

c. Virtualization

All of the following are current hardware platform trends except: Select one: a. green computing. b. virtualization. c. cloud computing. d. Unix. e. quantum computing.

d. Unix.