MIS Chapter 5

the size of a nanotube is about _______________ thinner than a human hair

10,000 times

setting up a system so that it is not restricted by physical configuration or geographic location is an example of

virtualization

competitor firms' IT services is an _________________ 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.com's Force.com is an example of

platform as a service (PaaS)

a cloud can be

private or public

a positive regarding cloud computing includes

rapid elasticity

google apps are an example of

software as a service (SaaS)

the law of mass digital storage suggests

the amount of digital information doubles each year

________________ computing emerged in 1983

client/server

your firm's IT strategy is an __________________ of the competitive forces model for IT infrastructure

internal part

your firm's business strategy is an __________________________ of the competitive forces model for IT infrastructure

internal part

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

_______ is the most well-known open source operating system

Linux

regarding the IT infrastructure ecosystem, Internet platforms include

Apache and Microsoft IIS

____ is a page description language for generating Web pages (text, dynamic links)

HTML

regarding the IT infrastructure ecosystem, data management includes

Oracle, SQL server, and MySQL

enterprise software applications represent a

hundreds of billions of dollars per year industry