ITC ch 5 questions

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. client. beacon. service. app.

browser

The practice of contracting custom software development to an outside firm is commonly referred to as: service-oriented architecture. scaling. outsourcing. application integration. utility computing.

outsourcing

At what percent of capacity do most servers operate? 100% 40-50% 80-90% Approximately 70 percent 15-20%

15-20%

Hardware and software acquisition costs account for about ________ percent of TCO. 90 50 40 20 75

20

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 4, 5, 3, 2, 1 5, 4, 2, 1, 3 5, 2, 3, 4, 1 4, 5, 2, 3, 1

5, 4, 2, 3, 1

Which of the following is not an example of the mobile digital platform? Smartwatches CRM Cell phones Kindle Tablets

???CRM

Which of the following is not an example of the consumerization of IT? Google Apps Facebook Dropbox Amazon Web Services Gmail

Amazon Web services

Firms that allow employees to use their own devices are embracing which of the following? BYOD Wearable computing Mobile consolidation Self computing Cloud computing

BYOD

Which of the following is a leading networking hardware provider? Dell IBM Seagate Cisco Intel

Cisco

Which of the following involves practices and technologies to minimize the environmental effects of manufacturing and managing computing devices? Utility computing Cloud computing Capacity planning Green computing On-demand computing

Green computing

How would you determine the market demand for your firm's IT services? Benchmark your services Perform a TCO analysis Hold focus groups to assess your services Perform a stress test Analyze sales returns on key investments

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. Linux works on all the major hardware platforms. Linux applications are embedded in cell phones, smartphones, netbooks, and other handheld devices. It is available in free versions downloadable from the Internet. It plays a major role in the back office running local area networks.

It has garnered 20 percent of the server operating system market

Which of the following is the most popular mobile operating system? Unix iOS Linux Android Chrome OS

Linux

________ states that the value or power of a network grows exponentially as a function of the number of network members. Law of networks Metcalfe's Law Law of outsourcing Moore's Law Law of scalability

Metcalfe's Law

Which of the following types of computing involves purchasing computing power from a remote provider and paying only for the computing power used? Edge Autonomic On-demand Quantum Grid

On-demand

Which type of software is created and updated by a worldwide community of programmers and available for free? Open source Software packages Closed source Mashups Outsourced

Open source

Which of the following is not an IT infrastructure service component? Operating system software IT education services that provide training to employees IT management services to plan and develop the infrastructure and provide project management Physical facilities management to manage the facilities housing physical components Computing platforms to provide a coherent digital environment

Operating system software

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? On-demand self service Ubiquitous network access Reduced elasticity Measured service Location-independent resource pooling

Reduced elasticity

A formal contract between customers and their service providers that outlines the specific responsibilities of the service provider and to the customer is called a(n): SLA. SaaS. RFQ. TCO. SOA.

SLA

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

SOA

Which of the following is not an example of a wearable computing device? Smart ID badges Smartphones Smart glasses Activity trackers Smartwatch

Smartphones

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. the firm's staff do not have the skills necessary to deploy and maintain the firm's IT infrastructure. The firm's staff does not have the necessary experience to deploy and maintain the firm's IT infrastructure. the firm does not have the staff necessary to deploy and maintain the firm's IT infrastructure. The firm does not have the budget to deploy and maintain a firm's IT infrastructure.

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

Which of the following is an example of a legacy system? Scalable grid computing system MDM software Transaction processing system running on a mainframe Web services running on a cloud computing platform Quantum computing system

Transaction processing system running on a mainframe

All of the following are current hardware platform trends except: virtualization. green computing. cloud computing. quantum computing. Unix.

Unix

Which of the following is a multitasking, multiuser, operating system developed by Bell Laboratories that operates on a wide variety of computing platforms? COBOL Unix OS X Linux DOS

Unix

Which of the following is not a part of the IT infrastructure ecosystem found in firms? Consultant and system integrators Operating system platforms Internet platforms Virtual reality systems Enterprise software applications

Virtual reality systems

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? Autonomic computing Multicore processing Ubiquitous computing Virtualization Cloud computing

Virtualization

Which of the following is a recent addition to the mobile digital platform? Grid computing devices Quantum computing devices Wearable computing devices Cloud computing devices Green computing devices

Wearable computing devices

________ are created by combining and customizing components from different online software applications. SaaS Apps Web mashups Web services Web browsers

Web mashups

Which of the following factors does not help explain why computing resources today are even more available than in previous decades? Network economics Declining communications costs and the Internet Moore's law Widespread rejection of technology standards Law of mass digital storage

Widespread rejection of technology standards

Which of the following became the standard PC in the Personal Computer Era? MITS PC Wintel PC Apple II Altair DOS PC

Wintel PC

Which of the following is the foundation technology for web services? SCSI SOAP UDDI XML HTML

XML

Running a Java program on a computer requires: no specialized software, as Java is platform-independent. a miniature program to be downloaded to the user's computer. the Mozilla Firefox browser and no other browsers. a Java Virtual Machine to be installed on the server hosting the Java applet. a Java Virtual Machine to be installed on that computer.

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. cloud computing. a widget. SOA. a web service.

a mashup

Today's computer transistors are roughly equivalent in size to: a virus. a grain of sand. several atoms. a human hair. the width of a fingernail.

a virus

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

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

Linux is: primarily concerned with the tasks of end users. poorly suited to power fast computers. an example of open-source software. especially useful for processing numeric data. designed for specific machines and specific microprocessors.

an example of open-source software.

A(n) ________ is used to communicate between a user and an organization's back-end systems. legacy server blade server public server application server private server

application server

Interpretations of Moore's law assert that: transistors decrease in size 50% every two years. PCs decrease in market share by 9% every 5 years. computing power doubles every 18 months. computing power will eventually level off. data storage costs decrease by 50% every 18 months.

computing power doubles every 18 months

Which type of infrastructure service stores and manages corporate data and provides capabilities for analyzing the data? VOIP Data management Telephone Networking Telecommunications

data management

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? ASCII Ethernet COBOL TCP/IP Linux

ethernet

The marketplace for computer hardware: has expanded to include a wide variety of start-up and mobile-computing firms. has moved significantly to Asian firms. has been decimated by mobile and cloud computing. has begun moving away from blade servers. has become increasingly concentrated in top firms.

has become increasingly concentrated in top firms.

SaaS refers to: self-contained services that communicate with each other to create a working software application. hosting and managing access to software applications delivered over the Internet to clients on a subscription basis. managing combinations of applications, networks, systems, storage, and security as well as providing Web site and systems performance monitoring to subscribers over the Internet. easy-to-use software tools for displaying Web pages. supplying online access over networks to storage devices and storage area network technology.

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

The Windows Operating System: is an operating system used on most Wintel PCs throughout the world. is a data management application used on PCs. is used on virtually all tablet and mobile devices today. was an early PC operating system. is a web-based operating system for the Internet era.

is an operating system used on most Wintel PCs throughout the world?

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS): provides cloud users with ubiquitous networking environment. is a cloud-based service that provides a platform for software development. is a cloud-based service which provides software applications to users on demand. is one type of cloud computing service where users pay only for the computing capacity they actually use. provides users with a service-oriented architecture for their systems.

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

The development of TCP/IP occurred during the ________ era. client/server era personal computer mainframe cloud and mobile computing general-purpose mainframe and minicomputer

mainframe

A(n) ________ is an integrated circuit which contains two or more processors to enhance performance and reduce power consumption. aggregate circuit multicore processor legacy processor green circuit scalable processor

multicore processor

Which of the following is not one of the current software platform trends? Multicore processors Software outsourcing Open-source software HTML5 Web services and service-oriented architecture

multicore processors

________ uses individual atoms and molecules to create computer chips and other devices. A minicomputer Quantum computing Nanotechnology On-demand computing Virtualization

nanotechnology

The ability to be in multiple states at once, dramatically increasing processing power, is a hallmark of: quantum computing. utility computing. grid computing. colocation. edge computing.

quantum computing

Which of the following refers to the ability of a computer, product, or system to expand to serve a larger number of users without breaking down? Scalability Modality Disintermediation Customizability Expandability

scalability

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: open-source software. outsourced software. software packages. mashups. service level agreements.

software packages

Specifications that establish the compatibility of products and the ability to communicate in a network are called: telecommunications standards. compatibility standards. technology standards. network standards. Internet standards.

technology standards.

In a multi-tiered network: the work of the entire network is centralized. processing is split between clients and servers. processing is located in the cloud. the work of the entire network is balanced over several levels of servers. processing is handled by multiple, geographically-remote clients.

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

All of the following are cloud computing services except: infrastructure as a service. software as a service. platform as a service. on-demand computing. virtualization as a service.

virtualization as a service

Sets of loosely coupled software components that exchange information with each other using standard web communication standards and languages are referred to as: SOAP. SaaS. web services. SOA. EAI software.

web services

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? The IT investments made by competitor firms Your firm's organizational culture Market demand for your firm's services Your firm's business strategy Information technology assessment

your firms organizational culture