Exam 5: It Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies

A _________________ is owned and maintained by a cloud service provider,such as Amazon Web Services,and made available to the general public or industry groups.

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Distinguish between grid computing,cloud computing,and utility computing.

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Grid computing involves connecting geographically remote computers into a single network to create a computational grid that combines the computing power of all the computers on the network with which to attack large computing problems.In cloud computing,technology services are provided over a network,primarily the Internet.These may be infrastructure services,such as storage or networking,or platform services,such as IBM's application development and test service,or software services,such as salesforce.com.On-demand computing occurs when firms pay subscription fees or pay only for their usage of a vendor's cloud computing services.

A formal contract between customers and their service providers that outlines the specific responsibilities of the service provider and to the customer is called a(n)

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Briefly explain why corporations are increasingly interested in using Unix or Linux for their operating system.

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Which type of infrastructure services provides voice and video connectivity to employees,customers,and suppliers?

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Question 5

The development of TCP/IP occurred during the ________ era.

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Software that manages the resources of the computer is called

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Which of the following is not one of three variations of Moore's Law,none of which Moore ever stated?

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Some companies still run traditional mainframe systems or use mainframe computers as massive servers supporting large Web sites and corporate enterprise applications.

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

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Question 10

Which of the following factors provides an understanding of why computing resources today are ever more available than in previous decades?

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Question 11

Which of the following is not an IT infrastructure service component?

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Question 12

Mainframe computing refers to a model of computing that provides access to a shared pool of computing resources (computers,storage,applications,and services)over a network,often the Internet.

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A _________________________ is owned and maintained by a cloud service provider,such as Amazon Web Services,and made available to the general public or industry groups.

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Question 14

Which of the following is not one of the main six factors to consider when evaluating how much your firm should spend on IT infrastructure?

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The practice of contracting custom software development to an outside firm is commonly referred to as

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Legacy systems are still used because they

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Question 17

The network standard for connecting desktop computers into local area networks that enabled the widespread adoption of client/server computing and local area networks and further stimulated the adoption of personal computers is

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___________________ provides a lightweight operating system for cloud computing using netbooks that are manufactured by Google partners such as Samsung and Acer.

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Hypertext markup language specifies how text,graphics,video,and sound are placed on a Web page document.

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A _________________ is owned and maintained by a cloud service provider,such as Amazon Web Services,and made available to the general public or industry groups.

Distinguish between grid computing,cloud computing,and utility computing.

A formal contract between customers and their service providers that outlines the specific responsibilities of the service provider and to the customer is called a(n)

Briefly explain why corporations are increasingly interested in using Unix or Linux for their operating system.

Which type of infrastructure services provides voice and video connectivity to employees,customers,and suppliers?

The development of TCP/IP occurred during the ________ era.

Software that manages the resources of the computer is called

Which of the following is not one of three variations of Moore's Law,none of which Moore ever stated?

Some companies still run traditional mainframe systems or use mainframe computers as massive servers supporting large Web sites and corporate enterprise applications.

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

Which of the following factors provides an understanding of why computing resources today are ever more available than in previous decades?

Which of the following is not an IT infrastructure service component?

Mainframe computing refers to a model of computing that provides access to a shared pool of computing resources (computers,storage,applications,and services)over a network,often the Internet.

A _________________________ is owned and maintained by a cloud service provider,such as Amazon Web Services,and made available to the general public or industry groups.

Which of the following is not one of the main six factors to consider when evaluating how much your firm should spend on IT infrastructure?

The practice of contracting custom software development to an outside firm is commonly referred to as

Legacy systems are still used because they

The network standard for connecting desktop computers into local area networks that enabled the widespread adoption of client/server computing and local area networks and further stimulated the adoption of personal computers is

___________________ provides a lightweight operating system for cloud computing using netbooks that are manufactured by Google partners such as Samsung and Acer.

Hypertext markup language specifies how text,graphics,video,and sound are placed on a Web page document.

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