CIS chapter 5 quiz
The size of a nanotube is about ________ thinner than a human hair.
10,000 times
Gipsi runs a manufacturing company. She recently invested in ________ computing devices because she wanted to improve productivity by delivering information to workers without requiring them to interrupt their tasks
wearable
Regarding the IT infrastructure ecosystem, data management includes ________.
Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL
A(n) ________ is a commercially available set of software programs that eliminate the need for a firm to write its own programs for business functions.
enterprise software application
Competitor firms' IT services is a(n) ________ of the competitive forces model for IT infrastructure.
external part
According to Moore's Law (1965), the ratio of price to performance has ________.
fallen
Salesforce's ________ provides a set of development tools and IT services that enable users to build new applications and run them in the cloud on their data center infrastructure.
platform as a service (PaaS)
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provides ________.
processing, storage, and networking resources
A positive regarding cloud computing includes ________.
rapid elasticity
Setting up a system so that it is not restricted by physical configuration or geographic location is an example of ________.
virtualization
Computer processing work that is split between a desktop computer and a more powerful computer that processes and stores shared data, serves up web pages, or manages network activities is called ________ .
client/server
The typical computing configuration in 1960 was ________.
mainframe
Regarding the IT infrastructure ecosystem, Microsoft Windows, Unix, and Mac OS X are examples of ________.
operating systems platforms
A(n) ________ is defined as the shared technology resources that provide the platform for the firm's specific information systems applications.
Information technology infrastructure
________ is a markup language that allows for tagging selected elements of the content of documents for their meanings and is used for transferring data.
XML
________ refers to a model of computing that provides access to a shared pool of computing resources over the Internet.
Cloud
Which of the following options is NOT part of the competitive forces model for IT infrastructure investment?
Current supply like your firm's services
Which of the following options is a page description language for generating Web pages (e.g., text, dynamic links)?
HTML
________ is free software produced by a community of several hundred thousand programmers around the world.
Open source
Google Apps are an example of ________.
Software as a service (SaaS)
________ services ensure that a firm's new infrastructure works with the firm's older systems and that all parts of the firm's infrastructure work together.
System integration
The Law of Mass Digital Storage suggests that the ________.
amount of digital information doubles each year
A cloud ________.
can be private or public
An IT infrastructure includes ________.
hardware, software, and services
Your firm's business strategy is a(n) ________ of the competitive forces model for IT infrastructure.
internal part