Exam 4: Hardware and Software

Which of the following statements is true of thick-client applications?

A ________ is used to receive and process thousands of requests from a large number of users.

How can the Internet of Things act as a disruptive force to change the way in which businesses function?

The speed and costs of central processing units are the same across multiple hardware vendors.

Modifications to the source code of an open source project cannot be added to the project.

The ________ refers to the idea in which objects are becoming connected to the Internet so that they can interact with other devices,applications,or services.

Both client and server computers must use the same operating system.

Explain how computer programs are licensed to individuals and organizations.

Which of the following is the most widely used operating system in business?

An exabyte is equivalent to 1,024 petabytes.

A host operating system controls the activities of the virtual machines it hosts.

A dual-processor computer has ________ CPUs.

Application programs can be processed by both clients and servers.

The ________ selects instructions,processes them,performs arithmetic and logical comparisons,and stores results of operations in memory.

Main memory is also called read-only memory.

A virtual machine does not have a disk space.

The central processing unit (CPU)of a computer reads data and instructions only from a read-only memory.

Although an operating system does a lot of application-specific work,it does little to make the computer usable.

USB flash drives are used to back up data and transfer it from one computer to another.

________ computers have four central processing units (CPUs).