quiz 3 COMPUTER SCIENCE THEN AND NOW

_____ is the study of designing and building computers and computer-based systems.

Computer engineering

______ is the most theoretical computing discipline, focusing mostly on finding new and better ways for computers to work.

Computer science

Which of the following statements is true about scalability? Choose 3 options.

Horizontal scaling has fewer limits than vertical scaling. Scalability should be considered very early in the project. The cloud offers services to automatically scale your system and balance the workload between components.

____ is the computing discipline that focuses on helping companies store and manage their data.

Information systems

_____ focuses on integrating information technology solutions and business processes.

Information systems

is the study and use of very small technology units.

Nanotechnology

is the ability of a system to grow as the volume of users increases.

Scalability

focuses on developing and maintaining large software systems.

Software engineering

By using the cloud to support their application or website, developers have access to services like ____

autoscaling

Which of these jobs would be most appropriate for someone who majors in information systems?

designing a database for an online retailer

Which career would be most likely to work directly with end-users?

help desk specialist

that increases the capacity of the system automatically, with preset limits. Cloud solutions also offer _____ which divides the tasks between network resources based on traffic and their individual capacities.

load balancing

A _____ handles requests from and returns data to other computers in a _____

server network

Most users expect a web page to load _____ seconds or less

three