Exam 14: Emerging Trends, Technologies, and Applications

In the context of virtual reality (VR) technology, the main technology used in an exocentric environment is _____.

People can enter other cave automatic virtual environments (CAVEs) in other locations, no matter how far away they are geographically.

Symbic Technologies offers cloud computing services to several data centers around the world. It provides servers, networking elements, and storage. Symbic Technologies owns the equipment and is in charge of housing, functioning, and maintaining it. In the context of cloud computing services, it is evident that Symbic Technologies provides _____.

A _____ is a small electronic device consisting of a microchip and an antenna and performs the same task as bar codes.

_____ radio frequency identification (RFID) tags can be embedded in a sticker or under the human or animal skin.

Which of the following is true of a cave automatic virtual environment (CAVE)?

In grid computing, when a large complex task is split into smaller tasks that run simultaneously on several nodes, it is known as _____. ​

Discuss the issues with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags.

_____ incorporates many recent technologies under one platform, including the software as a service (SaaS) model, Web 2.0, grid computing, and utility computing.

Push technology can be effective for both business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) marketing.

With _____, a Web server delivers information to users, who have signed up for the service, instead of waiting for them to request the information be sent to them.

With_____ a user states a need before getting information, as when a uniform resource locator (URL) is entered in a Web browser so that the user can go to a certain Web site. ​

In the context of grid computing, each participant in a grid is referred to as a(n) _____.

Which of the following is true of biometrics?

Usually, active radio frequency identification (RFID) tags _____ than passive RFID tags.

A quick response (QR) code offers a smaller storage capacity compared to standard universal product codes (UPC) barcodes.

_____ is the provision of IT services on demand. ​

In the context of virtual reality (VR), allowing users in different locations to interact and manipulate the same world at the same time by connecting two or more virtual worlds is known as _____.

GuardIN is an IT security firm. It deals with highly secure data for a wide variety of software and e-commerce agreements, trademark licenses, and patent licenses. GuardIN needs a cloud computing option that would allow it to purchase and maintain the software and infrastructure itself. The cloud also needs to be designed in such a way that all users of the organization can access it without any lag. Which of the following cloud computing options would be most suitable for GuardIN?

How do head-mounted displays (HMDs) work?