Exam 12: Physical Architecture Layer Design

Project teams are usually more concerned with how an existing infrastructure needs to be changed or improved to support the requirements that were identified during analysis, as opposed to how to design and build an infrastructure from scratch.

Which one of the following is not part of the security requirements?

A network model will depict _____.

A server in the client-server architecture performs which of the following application functions?

Speed requirements, which are one kind of performance requirements, attempt to predict how many total and simultaneous users the system will need to support.

Which of the following is NOT one of the four basic functions of a computer application?

What is one primary problem with server-based computing architectures?

An advantage of server-based architecture is that they never become overloaded and are always able to process user demands in a timely way.

Recent studies have shown that almost ___ percent of organizations suffer a virus infection each year.

Virtualization is another term for cloud computing.

The function that provides the processing logic required by the human computer interaction layer is called presentation logic.

Many countries have ____ norms for expressing information such as dates that are unique to the country. Knowledge of these norms is important when developing global information systems.

What is an enchanted object?

The public key infrastructure (PKI) is ______.

Scalability is an important attribute in today's systems. Client-server architectures tend to be more scalable compared to the server-based architectures.

With the client-based architecture the clients are personal computers on a local area network and the server computer is a server on the same network.

The application function that allows data to be stored and retrieved is called _____.

A server in the server-based architecture performs application logic, data access logic, data storage, and presentation logic.

A node in a deployment diagram typically indicates a server, a client or a separate network. A node never represents an individual network device since that is a very low level of abstraction for a deployment diagram.

Assume that your network has a server and three clients, this network is an example of a four-tiered architecture.