WIA1001 Quiz 5

Which type of infrastructure service stores and manages corporate data and provides capabilities for analyzing the data?


• Networking


• Telephone

• Telecommunications

• Data management

Specifications that establish the compatibility of products and the ability to communicate in a network are called ____

• network standards

• technology standards

• Internet standards

• compatibility standards

Place the following eras of IT infrastructure evolution in order, from earliest to most recent: 1. Cloud Computing Era; 2. Client/Server; 3. Enterprise Era; 4. Personal Computer; and 5. Mainframe and Minicomputer.


• 5, 2, 3, 4, 1

• 5, 4, 2, 3, 1

• 4, 5, 2, 3, 1


• 5, 4, 2, 1, 3

Interpretations of Moore's law assert that _______

• computing power will eventually level off.


• transistors decrease in size 50% every two years.

• computing power doubles every 18 months.


• PCs decrease in market share by 9% every 5 years.


________ states that the value or power of a network grows exponentially as a function of the number of network members.


• Metcalfe's Law

• Moore's Law

• Law of scalability


• Law of outsourcing

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is ____

• a type of cloud computing service; users pay only for the computing capacity they actually use.


• is a cloud-based service which provides software applications to users on demand.


• is a cloud-based service that provides a platform for software development.

• provides users with a service-oriented architecture for their systems.


Which of the following is an example of a legacy system?

• Scalable grid computing system

• Transaction processing system running on a mainframe

• Web services running on a cloud computing platform

• Quantum computing system

Which of the following is the most popular mobile operating system?

• Linux


• iOS

• Android

• Chrome OS

Which of the following is NOT an example of a wearable computing device?

• Smart watch
es

• Smart glasses

• Smart phones

• Activity trackers

The ability to be in multiple states at once, dramatically increasing processing power, is a hallmark of _____

• edge computing.

• grid computing.

• utility computing.

• quantum computing.