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WorksheetsWIA1001 Quiz 5
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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.
Which of the following enables a single physical resource (such as a server or a storage device) to appear to the user as multiple logical resources?
Autonomic computing
Virtualization
Multicore processing
Ubiquitous computing
Which of the following types of computing involves purchasing computing power from a remote provider and paying only for the computing power used?
On-demand
Grid
Edge
Autonomic
Firms that allow employees to use their own devices are embracing which of the following?
Wearable computing
Mobile consolidation
Cloud computing
BYOD
Which of the following is NOT an example of the consumerization of IT?
Dropbox
Amazon Web Services
Gmail
Which of the following involves practices and technologies to minimize the environmental effects of manufacturing and managing computing devices?
Capacity planning
Green computing
Cloud computing
Utility computing
ZipRealty, which combines Google Maps with real estate data, is an example of _______
a mashup.
SOA.
a widget.
cloud computing.
Which type of software is created and updated by a worldwide community of programmers and available for free?
Software packages
Mashups
Outsourced
Open source
Sets of loosely coupled software components that exchange information with each other using standard web communication standards and languages are referred to as ____
web services.
EAI software.
SaaS.
SOA.
Which of the following refers to a set of self-contained services that communicate with each other to create a working software application?
Web services
EAI software
SOA
SOAP
The practice of contracting custom software development to an outside firm is commonly referred to as ____
outsourcing.
scaling.
service-oriented architecture.
application integration.
