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
