Chapter 5: IT Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies

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

• Networking

• Telecommunications

• Data management

• VOIP

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

________ uses individual atoms and molecules to create computer chips and other devices.

• Virtualization

• Nanotechnology

• Quantum computing

• A minicomputer

________ 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 networks

IT infrastructure consists of only those physical computing devices and software required to operate the enterprise.

• True

• False

Which of the following is a leading networking hardware provider?

• Dell

• Intel

• IBM

• Cisco

All of the following are current hardware platform trends except:

• green computing.

• virtualization.

• cloud computing.

• Unix.

Firms that allow employees to use their own devices are embracing which of the following?

• BYOD

• Wearable computing

• Cloud computing

• Self computing

Which of the following involves practices and technologies to minimize the environmental effects of manufacturing and managing computing devices?

• Cloud computing

• Green computing

• Utility computing

• On-demand computing

Which type of software is created and updated by a worldwide community of programmers and available for free?

• Software packages

• Mashups

• Open source

• Closed source