MGMT 3100 chapter 5
PeroxyChem's IT staff was able to free its IT staff to spend less time on routine maintenance and more time on strategic tasks designed to grow the business through ________.
a managed cloud infrastructure
BYOD is one aspect of the consumerization of IT, in which new information technology first emerges in the ________ and spreads into ________.
consumer market; business organizations
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 best describes the competitive forces model?
A competitive forces model can be used to determine how much to spend on IT infrastructure and where to make strategic infrastructure investments.
The size of a nanotube is about ________ thinner than a human hair.
10,000 times
Mainframe Era
1960's-Present CENTRALIZED processing CENTRALIZED storage Terminal access STILL UTILIZED TODAY. Detailed transactions, calculations/analysis, precision requirements
Client/Server Era
1980's-Present HYBRID processing (Centralized and Distributed) HYBRID storage Fueled internet's growth STILL USED TODAY, cisco systems' ethernet protocol
Enterprise Era
1990's - Present MULTI-TIER processing CENTRALIZED storage STILL USED TODAY. leverages "best practice" Standards CRITICAL. shared DBS/APIS/resources, Networks of services
Cloud/Mobile Era
2000-present user-customized processing and storage multi-tier architecture standards more critical enables LOCATION services (GPS and other technologies) Cloud-based software and the data it uses are hosted on powerful servers in data centers and can be accessed with an Internet connection and a standard Web browser.
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
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
The IT infrastructure in organizations today is an outgrowth of more than 50 years of evolution in computing platforms. There have been five stages in this evolution, each representing a different configuration of computing power and infrastructure elements. Select the list below with the correct five eras.
general-purpose mainframe and minicomputer computing, personal computers, client/server networks, enterprise computing, and cloud and mobile computing
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provides ________.
processing, storage, and networking resources
A positive regarding cloud computing includes ________.
rapid elasticity
At some hospitals, doctors and nurses use ________ for hands-free access to patient records.
smart eyeware
What does scalability refer to?
the ability of a computer, product, or system to expand to serve a large number of users without breaking down
PC Era
DISTRIBUTED processing PORTABLE storage Inspired networking STILL USED TODAY Desktops&Laptops "Virtual" PCs at UNO
IBM DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL, Apache, and Hadoop are all examples of which component?
Data management and storage
The ________ trend in computer hardware platforms explains how more and more people are using tablet devices to run enterprise wide software applications from remote locations.
cloud computing
A cloud ________.
can be private or public
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
________ refers to a model of computing that provides access to a shared pool of computing resources over the Internet.
cloud
The typical computing configuration in 1960 was ______.
mainframe
Which of the following technology drivers is described by Moore's Law?
microprocessing power
__________ uses individual atoms and molecules to create computer chips and other devices that are thousands of times smaller than current technologies permit.
nanotechnology
________ is free software produced by a community of several hundred thousand programmers around the world.
open source
The ________ trend has profound implications for corporate software platforms because it reduces costs, improves reliability, and increases resilience
open source softward
The________ deals with the exponential decrease in the cost of storing data, stating that the number of kilobytes of data that can be stored on magnetic media for $1 roughly doubles every 15 months.
Law of Mass Digital Storage
Which of the following is an open source operating system?
Linux
Which list below contains all the factors you can use to answer the question: How much should our firm spend on IT infrastructure?
Market demand for your firm's services, your firm's business strategy, your firm's IT strategy, infrastructure and cost, information technology assessment, competitor firm services, and competitor firm IT infrastructure investments
Different applications can use ________ to communicate with each other in a standard way without time-consuming custom coding.
Web services
Nearly 90% percent of all PCs at the client level use which OS?
Windows
________ 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
__________ can be used to determine how much to spend on IT infrastructure and where to make strategic infrastructure investments.
a competitive forces model
Which of the following options is a page description language for generating Web pages (e.g., text, dynamic links)?
HTML
What does HTML stand for?
Hypertext Markup Language
_________ consists of a set of physical devices and software applications that are required to operate the entire enterprise.
IT infrastructure
Which of the following best defines IT infrastructure?
IT infrastructure is the shared technology resources that provide the platform for the firm's specific information system applications.
Which of the following has been a major threat to the Wintel dominance as a computer platform in recent years?
Increasing iPhone and Android device sales
Which of the following is microprocessor to which two or more processing cores have been attached for enhanced performance?
Multicore process
Microsoft Windows, Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Chrome, Android, and iOS are all examples of which component?
Operating systems platforms
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.
PaaS (platform as a service)
Which of the following types of cloud computing is owned and maintained by a cloud service provider and made available to the general public or an industry group?
Public cloud
Google G Suite is an example of:
SaaS (software as a service)
________ 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 intergration
__________ can be used to analyze direct and indirect costs to help firms determine the actual cost of specific technology implementations.
The total cost of ownership (TCO) model
Which of the following best describes virtualization
Virtualization organizes computing resources so that their use is not restricted by physical configuration or geographic location.
Java is _______
an operating system- and hardware-independent programming language that is the leading interactive programming environment for the Web
When Samsung's smartphones overheated and caught on fire, the company had to recall 2.5 million devices. This example demonstrates the ________ component of the TCO model.
downtime
The amount that firms worldwide are expected to spend in 2018 on ________ is $704 billion.
hardware devices
An IT infrastructure includes ________.
hardware, software, and services
A(n) ________ is defined as the shared technology resources that provide the platform for the firm's specific information systems applications.
information technology infrastructure
Your firm's business strategy is a(n) ________ of the competitive forces model for IT infrastructure.
internal part
