Exam 3: Information and Communications Technologies: The Enterprise Architecture

Steve is an entrepreneur setting up his Internet startup company on a small farm in rural New Jersey to take advantage of the low power costs. The office building spans across a rectangular area which is around 40 meters long diagonally. Steve plans to install a central wireless router that can provide Internet access from any point inside the office. The business operation requires high Internet speeds in the range of 100-150 Mb/s. Which of the following wireless standards would best serve Steve's requirements?

What is the drawback of using circuit-switching networks?

A network which connects computers, printers, scanners, and other devices in a single building or home is called a ________.

Software which is freely distributed along with the code underlying the program, without the aim of generating revenue, is known as ________.

Which of the following is an advantage of cloud computing?

Kazaa is a software that is commonly used to share audio and video files and documents over the Internet. These files are located in user's computers and not on a centralized server. Kazaa is an example of ________.

Mary connects to the Internet and types the address of a Web page on her browser. The browser sends a request to the system hosting the Web page, which then sends back the instructions to display the page requested. Which network is being used in this process?

A wireless router has a wired connection to the network and sends radio signals from the antennae.

"Cloud computing" is more about a brand new architecture than mere marketing hype.

Which of the following factors makes VoIP technology preferable to customers over circuit-switched networks?

Which of the following characteristics makes packet-switched networks preferable to circuit-switched networks?

Which of the following is a function of operating systems?

Voice phone calls, which require circuit-switching, cannot be configured to a packet-switching network.

Which of the following types of networks has one or more high performance hosts running programs and storing data that different users can access?

What is the function of the lower layers in the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model?

On what criteria are network types categorized? Give an example of each category.

Companies felt the need for virtualization because mainframe computers ________.

Which of the following is an example of an operating system?

Peer-to-peer networks support file sharing on the Internet.

RFID tags are typically used for ________.