chapter 3 CIS 243

Linux plays a major role in supporting business information systems, and has garnered about ________ of the U.S. server market.

25 percent

Which of the following is a type of optical disk storage?

CD-ROM

Which type of software provides more control over text and graphic placement in the layout of a page than word processing software?

Desktop publishing software

A mainframe is a type of legacy workstation.

FALSE

Allowing departments to make their own software and hardware purchases increases efficiency and minimizes the need for centralized support.

FALSE

An SaaS provider maintains a large Web server, or series of servers, and provides fee-paying subscribers with space to maintain their Web sites.

FALSE

Application server software is responsible for locating and managing stored Web pages.

FALSE

Client/server computing is the most widely used form of centralized processing. Answer

FALSE

HTML5 is the latest evolution of HTML, and is designed to make it much easier to embed third-party add-ons, such as Flash animations and streaming video, in web pages.

FALSE

IT infrastructure technology is the set of physical devices required to operate the entire enterprise.

FALSE

One of the main benefits of moving to mobile business computing platforms is the dramatically lower costs of hardware.

FALSE

SaaS providers deliver and provide Web-based, remote access to storage

FALSE

Today, most system and application software is custom built by in-house programmers.

FALSE

Using an online storage service such as DropBox is a type of virtualization.

FALSE

XML is limited to describing how data should be presented in the form of Web pages; HTML can perform presentation, communication, and storage of data.

FALSE

________ describes the efforts of companies to reduce the power and cooling costs of maintaining their technology assets.

Green computing

According to your reading of the chapter opening case, which new hardware technology did BART utilize to more closely match its computing power and storage capacities to its real needs?

Grid computing

What type of device gathers data and converts them into electronic form for use by the computer?

Input device

Which of the following statements is not true about cloud computing?

It removes the concern about data and systems security for businesses.

Which of the following is not one of the most important four programming languages for business?

Java

________ is an operating system-independent, processor-independent, object-oriented programming language that has become a leading interactive programming environment for the Web.

Java

Which of the following is not a type of output device?

Keyboard

Which of the following storage technology stores data sequentially?

Magnetic tape

A high-speed network dedicated to storage that connects different kinds of storage devices, such as tape libraries and disk arrays so they can be shared by multiple servers, best describes:

SAN.

In order to manage their relationship with an outsourcer or technology service provider, firms need a contract that includes a(n):

SLA

A set of self-contained services that communicate with each other to create a working software application is called:

SOA

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

Which of the following types of computer would you use to support a computer network? Answer

Server

The primary storage technologies are:

Storage networks, magnetic tape,magnetic disk, and optical disk

Which of the following types of computer is used for weather forecasting?

Supercomputer

A computer language translation program is an example of system software

TRUE

A private cloud is operated by a single organization but may be managed by a third party and be located off premises.

TRUE

A software package for a mainframe usually requires a programmer to install it.

TRUE

Hypertext markup language specifies how text, graphics, video, and sound are placed on a document.

TRUE

Nanotechnology uses individual atoms and molecules to create computer chips and other devices that are thousands of times smaller than current technologies permit.

TRUE

Software localization refers to the entire process of converting software to operate in a second language.

TRUE

Systems integration means ensuring the legacy systems work with new elements of the infrastructure.

TRUE

The collection of Web services that are used to build a firm's software systems constitutes what is known as a service-oriented architecture.

TRUE

Total cost of ownership components include costs for downtime, training, and support.

TRUE

Web browsers are the primary interface for accessing the Internet.

TRUE

Web services can exchange information between two different systems regardless of the operating system or programming languages on which the systems are based.

TRUE

XML provides a standard format for data exchange, enabling Web services to pass data from one process to another.

TRUE

n cloud computing, rapid elasticity refers to the ability of computing resources to be quickly altered to meet demand.

TRUE

The interactive, multiuser operating system developed by Bell Laboratories in 1969 to be highly supportive of communications and networking is:

UNIX

The main challenge coming to Microsoft's Office software suite will be:

Web-based productivity software such as Google Apps.

What would be a reason for using a workstation rather than a personal computer?

When you need more powerful computational abilities

What is the foundation technology for Web services?

XML

Running a Java program on a computer requires:

a Java virtual machine to be installed on the computer.

ChicagoCrime.org, which combines Google Maps with crime data for the city of Chicago, is an example of:

a mashup.

Linux is:

an example of open-source software.

Software used to apply the computer to a specific task for an end user is called:

application software.

An industry-wide effort to develop systems that can configure, optimize, tune, and heal themselves when broken, and protect themselves from outside intruders and self-destruction is called:

autonomic computing.

Virtualization: Answer

can boost server utilization rates to 70% or higher.

You use ________ to predict when a computer hardware system becomes saturated.

capacity planning

The business case for using grid computing involves all of the following except:

centralized maintenance.

Software that organizes, manages, and processes business data, such as data concerned with inventory, customers, and vendors, is called

data management software.

The use of multiple computers linked by a communications network for processing is called:

distributed processing.

The floppy disk used by earlier generation PCs for portable storage has now been largely replaced by:

flash drives.

A report generator is a type of:

fourth-generation language.

Two categories of fourth-generation languages are:

graphics language and application software package.

Connecting geographically remote computers in a single network to create a "virtual supercomputer" is called:

grid computing.

A software suite:

includes full-featured versions of application software bundled as a unit.

Software applications that combine different online software applications are referred to as:

mashups.

All of the following place strain on system capacity, except for:

minimized response time for transaction processing.

A(n) ________ allows users to interact with a computer by using several fingers to perform gestures without using a mouse or keyboard.

multitouch interface

Languages that enable a user to make requests using conversational commands resembling human speech are called:

natural languages.

________ is free software created and updated by a worldwide community of programmers.

open source software

The contracting of custom software development to outside firms is commonly referred to as:

outsourcing.

In co-location, a firm:

purchases and owns their Web server but locates the server in the physical facility of a hosting service.

Which of the following is a device used to collect data directly from the environment for input into a computer system?

sensor

Microsoft Excel is an example of:

spreadsheet software.

Software that manages the resources of the computer is called:

system software.

In client/server computing, the client is:

the computer that acts as the user point of entry.

In a multitiered network:

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

Legacy systems are still in use today because:

they are too expensive to redesign.

To analyze the direct and indirect costs and determine the actual cost of specific technology implementations, you would use a:

total cost of ownership model.

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

two-tiered client/server

Purchasing computing power from a central computing service and paying only for the amount of computing power used is commonly referred to as:

utility computing.

An example of autonomic computing is:

virus protection software that runs and updates itself automatically.

Microsoft Word is an example of:

word-processing software.