MIS Lecture 3 Questions

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

• Networking

• Telephone

• VOIP

• Data management

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

• network standards

• telecommunications standards

• technology standards

• Internet standards

• compatibility standards

A(n) ________ is used to communicate between a user and an organization's back-end systems.

• public server

• private server

• legacy server

• application server

• blade server

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

• 4, 5, 3, 2, 1

The introduction of the minicomputer:

• allowed computers to be customized to the specific needs of departments or business units.

• strengthened centralized computing.

• offered new, powerful machines at higher prices than mainframes.

• represented the rise of Microsoft.

• was dominated by IBM.

A client computer networked to a server computer, with processing split between the two types of machines, is called a(n):

• service-oriented architecture

• on-demand architecture

• multi-tiered client/server architecture

• two-tiered client/server architecture

• divided architecture

In a multi-tiered network

• the work of the entire network is centralized

• the work of the entire network is balanced over several levels of servers

• processing is split between clients and servers

• processing is handled by multiple, geographically-remote clients

• processing is located in the cloud

Interpretations of Moore's law assert that:

• computing power will eventually level off.

• transistors decrease in size 50% every two years.

• data storage costs decrease by 50% every 18 months.

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

• computing power doubles every 18 months.

Today's computer transistors are roughly equivalent in size to:

• the width of a fingernail.

• a human hair.

• a virus.

• several atoms.

• a grain of sand.

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

• Virtualization

• Nanotechnology

• Quantum computing

• A minicomputer

• On-demand computing