Information Systems 5th Edition By Baltzan - Test Bank

Information Systems 5th Edition By Baltzan – Test Bank

 

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M: Information Systems, 5e (Baltzan)

Chapter 5  Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies

 

1) MIS infrastructure is a communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standard methodology for communication.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  A network is a communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standard methodology for communication.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

2) Every company, regardless of size, relies on some form of MIS infrastructure, whether it is a few personal computers networked together or many interconnected around the world.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Every company, regardless of size, relies on some form of MIS infrastructure, whether it is a few personal computers networked together or many interconnected around the world.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

3) Hardware consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system, where software is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Hardware consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system, where software is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

4) Software is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Software is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

5) Software consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system, where software is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Hardware consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system, where software is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

6) Hardware is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Software is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

7) A network is a communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standard methodology in which they can communicate.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  A network is a communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standard methodology in which they can communicate.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

8) A client is a computer designed to request information from a server.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  A client is a computer designed to request information from a server.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

9) A server is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  A server is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

10) A server is a computer designed to request information from a server.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  A client is a computer designed to request information from a server.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

11) A client is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  A server is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

12) A good way to understand the client server relationship is when someone uses a web browser (this would be the client) to access a website (this would be a server that would respond with the web page being requested by the client).

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  A good way to understand this is when someone uses a web browser (this would be the client) to access a website (this would be a server that would respond with the web page being requested by the client).

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

13) There are three primary areas where enterprise architects focus when maintaining a firm’s MIS infrastructure including information MIS infrastructure, agile MIS infrastructure, and sustainable MIS infrastructures.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  There are three primary areas where enterprise architects focus when maintaining a firm’s MIS infrastructure.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

14) If you want to support business operations you will focus on building a strong information MIS infrastructure, which identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  If you want to support business operations you will focus on your information MIS infrastructure, which identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

15) If you want to support organization change you will focus on building a strong information MIS infrastructure, which identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  If you want to support organization change you will focus on building an agile MIS infrastructure, which includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization’s goals.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

16) If you want to support the environment you will focus on building a strong sustainable MIS infrastructure, which identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  There are three primary areas where enterprise architects focus when maintaining a firm’s MIS infrastructure.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

17) Software is a computer designed to request information from a server.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  A client is a computer designed to request information from a server.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

18) Hardware is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  A server is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

19) An enterprise architect is a person grounded in technology, fluent in business, and able to provide the important bridge between MIS and the business.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  An enterprise architect is a person grounded in technology, fluent in business, and able to provide the important bridge between MIS and the business.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

20) The ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the company information is called a failover.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Recovery is the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the company information is called a backup.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

21) Failback occurs when the primary machine recovers and resumes operations, taking over from the secondary server.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Failback occurs when the primary machine recovers and resumes operations, taking over from the secondary server.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

22) Fault tolerance is an exact copy of a system’s information.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Backup is an exact copy of a system’s information.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

23) The three primary areas of support provided by information infrastructure are backup and recovery, disaster recovery plan, and the business continuity plan.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  The three primary areas of support provided by information infrastructure are backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

24) Failover backs up an exact copy of a system’s information.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Backup is an exact copy of a system’s information.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

25) A backup is an exact copy of a system’s information.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  A backup is an exact copy of a system’s information.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

26) Recovery is the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the information backup.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Recovery is the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the information backup.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

27) Failover is a specific type of fault tolerance, occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data, and if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically directed to the secondary server or backup server. This is a high-speed and high-cost method of backup and recovery.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Failover is a specific type of fault tolerance, occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data, and if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically directed to the secondary server or backup server. This is a high-speed and high-cost method of backup and recovery.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

28) Failover occurs when the primary machine recovers and resumes operations, taking over from the secondary server.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Failback occurs when the primary machine recovers and resumes operations, taking over from the secondary server.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

29) Failback is a specific type of fault tolerance, occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data, and if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically directed to the secondary server or backup server.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Failover is a specific type of fault tolerance, occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data, and if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically directed to the secondary server or backup server.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

30) Disasters such as power outages, fires, floods, hurricanes, and even malicious activities such as hackers and viruses strike companies every day. Disasters can have effects on disrupting communications, damaging physical infrastructures, halting transportation, and blocking utilities.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Disasters such as power outages, fires, floods, hurricanes, and even malicious activities such as hackers and viruses strike companies every day. Disasters can have effects on disrupting communications, damaging physical infrastructures, halting transportation, and blocking utilities.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

31) A hot site is a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  A hot site is a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

32) A cold site is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  A cold site is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

33) A warm site is a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  A warm site is a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

34) A warm site is a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  A hot site is a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

35) A warm site is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  A cold site is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

36) A cold site is a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  A warm site is a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

37) An emergency is a sudden, unexpected event requiring immediate action due to potential threats to health and safety, the environment, or property.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  An emergency is a sudden, unexpected event requiring immediate action due to potential threats to health and safety, the environment, or property.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

38) Emergency preparedness ensures a company is ready to respond to an emergency in an organized, timely, and effective manner.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Emergency preparedness ensures a company is ready to respond to an emergency in an organized, timely, and effective manner.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

39) Business impact analysis details how a company recovers and restores critical business operations and systems after a disaster or extended disruption.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Business continuity planning (BCP) details how a company recovers and restores critical business operations and systems after a disaster or extended disruption.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

40) A business impact analysis identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  A business impact analysis identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

41) A business continuity planning identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  A business impact analysis identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

42) A business impact analysis occurs when the ability of a company to operate is impaired because of a hardware, software, or data outage.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  A technology failure occurs when the ability of a company to operate is impaired because of a hardware, software, or data outage.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

43) A cold site can destroy large amounts of vital data, often causing incidents, unplanned interruption of a service.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Technology failures can destroy large amounts of vital data, often causing incidents, unplanned interruption of a service.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

44) An emergency contains all of the details of an incident.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  An incident record contains all of the details of an incident.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

45) Incident management is the process responsible for managing how incidents are identified and corrected.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Incident management is the process responsible for managing how incidents are identified and corrected.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

46) Technology recovery strategies focus specifically on prioritizing the order for restoring hardware, software, and data across the organization that best meets business recovery requirements.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Technology recovery strategies focus specifically on prioritizing the order for restoring hardware, software, and data across the organization that best meets business recovery requirements.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

47) Accessibility refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Accessibility refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

48) Top-level MIS employees require administrator access, or unrestricted access to the entire system. Administrator access can perform functions such as resetting passwords, deleting accounts, and shutting down entire systems.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Top-level MIS employees require administrator access, or unrestricted access to the entire system. Administrator access can perform functions such as resetting passwords, deleting accounts, and shutting down entire systems.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

49) High availability occurs when a system is continuously operational at all times.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  High availability occurs when a system is continuously operational at all times.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

50) Availability refers to the time frames when the system is operational.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Availability refers to the time frames when the system is operational.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

51) A system is called unavailable when it is not operating and cannot be used.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  A system is called unavailable when it is not operating and cannot be used.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

52) Portability refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Portability refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

53) Scalability describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth. If a company grows faster than anticipated, it might experience a variety of problems, from running out of storage space to taking more time to complete transactions. Anticipating expected, and unexpected, growth is key to building scalable systems that can support that development.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Scalability describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth. If a company grows faster than anticipated, it might experience a variety of problems, from running out of storage space to taking more time to complete transactions. Anticipating expected, and unexpected, growth is key to building scalable systems that can support that development.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

54) Reliability means the system functions correctly and provides accurate information.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Reliability means the system functions correctly and provides accurate information.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

55) Usability is the degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Usability is the degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

56) Maintainability means the system quickly transforms to support environmental changes.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Maintainability means the system quickly transforms to support environmental changes.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

57) Performance measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Performance measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

58) Capacity planning determines future environmental infrastructure requirements to ensure high-quality system performance.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Capacity planning determines future environmental infrastructure requirements to ensure high-quality system performance.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

59) Vulnerability is a system weakness that can be exploited by a threat.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Vulnerability is a system weakness that can be exploited by a threat.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

60) Serviceability is how quickly a third-party or vendor can change a system to ensure it meets user needs and the terms of any contracts including agreed levels of reliability, maintainability or availability.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Serviceability is how quickly a third-party or vendor can change a system to ensure it meets user needs and the terms of any contracts including agreed levels of reliability, maintainability or availability.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

61) Capacity represents the maximum throughput a system can deliver, for example the capacity of a hard drive represents the size or volume.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Capacity represents the maximum throughput a system can deliver, for example the capacity of a hard drive represents the size or volume.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

62) Web accessibility means that people with disabilities including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities can use the Web.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Web accessibility means that people with disabilities including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities can use the Web.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

63) The Web accessibility initiative (WAI) brings together people from industry, disability organizations, government, and research labs from around the world to develop guidelines and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities including auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual disabilities.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  The Web accessibility initiative (WAI) brings together people from industry, disability organizations, government, and research labs from around the world to develop guidelines and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities including auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual disabilities.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

64) Availability refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Accessibility refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

65) Unavailability occurs when a system is continuously operational at all times.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  High availability occurs when a system is continuously operational at all times.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

66) Accessibility refers to the time frames when the system is operational.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Availability refers to the time frames when the system is operational.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

67) A system is called available when it is not operating and cannot be used.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  A system is called unavailable when it is not operating and cannot be used.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

68) Scalability refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Portability refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

69) Portability describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Scalability describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth. If a company grows faster than anticipated, it might experience a variety of problems, from running out of storage space to taking more time to complete transactions. Anticipating expected, and unexpected, growth is key to building scalable systems that can support that development.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

70) Maintainability means the system functions correctly and provides accurate information.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Reliability means the system functions correctly and provides accurate information.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

71) Web accessibility is the degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Usability is the degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

72) Serviceability means the system quickly transforms to support environmental changes.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Maintainability means the system quickly transforms to support environmental changes.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

73) Scalability measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Performance measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

74) Maintainability determines future environmental infrastructure requirements to ensure high-quality system performance.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Capacity planning determines future environmental infrastructure requirements to ensure high-quality system performance.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

75) Reliability is a system weakness that can be exploited by a threat.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Vulnerability is a system weakness that can be exploited by a threat.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

76) Usability is how quickly a third-party or vendor can change a system to ensure it meets user needs and the terms of any contracts including agreed levels of reliability, maintainability, or availability.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Serviceability is how quickly a third-party or vendor can change a system to ensure it meets user needs and the terms of any contracts including agreed levels of reliability, maintainability, or availability.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

77) Flexibility represents the maximum throughput a system can deliver, for example the capacity of a hard drive represents the size or volume.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Capacity represents the maximum throughput a system can deliver, for example the capacity of a hard drive represents the size or volume.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

78) Availability means that people with disabilities including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities can use the Web.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Web accessibility means that people with disabilities including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities can use the Web.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

79) Administrator access initiative brings together people from industry, disability organizations, government, and research labs from around the world to develop guidelines and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities including auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual disabilities.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  The Web accessibility initiative (WAI) brings together people from industry, disability organizations, government, and research labs from around the world to develop guidelines and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities including auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual disabilities.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

80) Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, observed in 1965 that continued advances in technological innovation made it possible to reduce the size of a computer chip while doubling its capacity every two years.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  This is known as Moore’s Law.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

81) Tim Burners-Lee, co-founder of Intel, observed in 1965 that continued advances in technological innovation made it possible to reduce the size of a computer chip while doubling its capacity every two years.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, observed in 1965 that continued advances in technological innovation made it possible to reduce the size of a computer chip while doubling its capacity every two years.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

82) Unsustainable, or green, MIS describes the production, management, use, and disposal of technology in a way that maximizes damage to the environment.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Sustainable, or green, MIS describes the production, management, use, and disposal of technology in a way that minimizes damage to the environment.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

83) Sustainable, or green, MIS describes the production, management, use, and disposal of technology in a way that minimizes damage to the environment.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Sustainable, or green, MIS describes the production, management, use, and disposal of technology in a way that minimizes damage to the environment.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

84) Ewaste is discarded electronics and is growing with the growth of innovation, for example, a personal computer has a life expectancy of only three to five years and a cell phone is less than two years.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Ewaste is discarded electronics and is growing with the growth of innovation, for example, a personal computer has a life expectancy of only three to five years and a cell phone is less than two years.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

85) Upcycle refers to discarded electronics and is growing with the growth of innovation, for example, a personal computer has a life expectancy of only three to five years and a cell phone is less than two years.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Ewaste is discarded electronics and is growing with the growth of innovation, for example, a personal computer has a life expectancy of only three to five years and a cell phone is less than two years.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

86) Large increases in technology use, by both consumers and businesses, have greatly amplified energy consumption.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  The huge increase in technology use have greatly amplified energy consumption.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

87) Sustainable MIS disposal refers to the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Sustainable MIS disposal refers to the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

88) Unsustainable MIS disposal refers to the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  This is the definition of sustainable MIS disposal.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

89) Clean computing is a subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Clean computing is a subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

90) A green personal computer (green PC) is built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  A green personal computer (green PC) is built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

91) An upcycle reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  An upcycle reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

92) Corporate social responsibility is a subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Clean computing is a subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

93) A black personal computer (black PC) is built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  A green personal computer (green PC) is built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

94) Ewaste reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  An upcycle reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

95) Corporate social responsibility is a companies’ acknowledged responsibility to society.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Corporate social responsibility is a companies’ acknowledged responsibility to society.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

96) Energy consumption is the amount of energy consumed by business processes and systems.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Energy consumption is the amount of energy consumed by business processes and systems.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

97) Carbon emissions include the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, produced by business processes and systems.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Carbon emissions include the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, produced by business processes and systems.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

98) Carbon emission is the amount of energy consumed by business processes and systems.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Energy consumption is the amount of energy consumed by business processes and systems.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

99) Energy consumption includes the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, produced by business processes and systems.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Carbon emissions include the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, produced by business processes and systems.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

100) A sustainable MIS infrastructure identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  A sustainable MIS infrastructure identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

101) A smart grid delivers electricity using two-way digital technology and is meant to solve the problem of outdated electrical grids.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  A smart grid delivers electricity using two-way digital technology and is meant to solve the problem of outdated electrical grids.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

102) Grid computing is a collection of computers, often geographically dispersed, that are coordinated to solve a common problem.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Grid computing is a collection of computers, often geographically dispersed, that are coordinated to solve a common problem.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

103) Cloud computing delivers electricity using two-way digital technology and is meant to solve the problem of outdated electrical grids.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  A smart grid delivers electricity using two-way digital technology and is meant to solve the problem of outdated electrical grids.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

104) Virtualization is a collection of computers, often geographically dispersed, that are coordinated to solve a common problem.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Grid computing is a collection of computers, often geographically dispersed, that are coordinated to solve a common problem.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

105) Virtualization creates multiple virtual machines on a single computing device. A good analogy is a computer printer. In the past you had to purchase a fax machine, copy machine, answering machine, and computer printer separately. This was expensive, required enough energy to run four machines, and created additional amounts of ewaste.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Virtualization creates multiple virtual machines on a single computing device. A good analogy is a computer printer. In the past you had to purchase a fax machine, copy machine, answering machine, and computer printer separately. This was expensive, required enough energy to run four machines, and created additional amounts of ewaste.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

106) Storage virtualization combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Storage virtualization combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

107) Network virtualization combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Network virtualization combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

108) Server virtualization combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Server virtualization combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

109) Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

110) Network virtualization combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Storage virtualization combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

111) Server virtualization combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Network virtualization combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

112) Storage virtualization combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Server virtualization combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

113) Virtualization offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

114) A data center is a facility used to house management information systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  A data center is a facility used to house management information systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

115) Cloud computing stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the Internet rather than on a personal computer or server.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Cloud computing stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the Internet rather than on a personal computer or server.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

116) Dynamic scaling means the MIS infrastructure can be automatically scaled up or down based on needed requirements.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Dynamic scaling means the MIS infrastructure can be automatically scaled up or down based on needed requirements.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

117) Single-tenancy in the cloud means that a single instance of a system serves multiple customers. In the cloud, each customer is called a tenant and multiple tenants can access the same system.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Multi-tenancy in the cloud means that a single instance of a system serves multiple customers. In the cloud, each customer is called a tenant and multiple tenants can access the same system.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

118) Multi-tenancy occurs when each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Single-tenancy occurs when each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

119) Multi-tenancy in the cloud means that a single instance of a system serves multiple customers. In the cloud, each customer is called a tenant and multiple tenants can access the same system.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Multi-tenancy in the cloud means that a single instance of a system serves multiple customers. In the cloud, each customer is called a tenant and multiple tenants can access the same system.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

120) Single-tenancy occurs when each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Single-tenancy occurs when each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

121) Cloud fabric is the software that makes the benefits of cloud computing possible, such as multi-tenancy.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Cloud fabric is the software that makes the benefits of cloud computing possible, such as multi-tenancy.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

122) Cloud fabric controller is an individual that monitors and provisions cloud resources similar to a server administrator at an individual company.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Cloud fabric controller is an individual that monitors and provisions cloud resources similar to a server administrator at an individual company.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

123) Cloud computing offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Utility computing offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

124) Utility computing offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Utility computing offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

125) Public cloud promotes massive, global, industry-wide applications offered to the general public. In a public cloud customers are never required to provision, manage, upgrade, or replace hardware or software.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Public cloud promotes massive, global, industry-wide applications offered to the general public. In a public cloud customers are never required to provision, manage, upgrade, or replace hardware or software.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

126) Private cloud serves only one customer or organization and can be located on the customers’ premises or off the customer’s premises.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Private cloud serves only one customer or organization and can be located on the customers’ premises or off the customer’s premises.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

127) Community cloud serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Community cloud serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

128) Hybrid cloud includes two or more private, public, or community clouds, but each cloud remains separate and is only linked by technology that enables data and application portability.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Hybrid cloud includes two or more private, public, or community clouds, but each cloud remains separate and is only linked by technology that enables data and application portability.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

129) Hybrid cloud serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Community cloud serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

130) Community cloud includes two or more private, public, or community clouds, but each cloud remains separate and is only linked by technology that enables data and application portability.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Explanation:  Hybrid cloud includes two or more private, public, or community clouds, but each cloud remains separate and is only linked by technology that enables data and application portability.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

131) Cloud bursting is when a company uses its own computing infrastructure for normal usage and access the cloud when it needs to scale for high/peak load requirements ensuring a sudden spike in usage does not result in poor performance or system crashes.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Explanation:  Cloud bursting is when a company uses its own computing infrastructure for normal usage and access the cloud when it needs to scale for high/peak load requirements ensuring a sudden spike in usage does not result in poor performance or system crashes.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

132) What is an information MIS infrastructure?

1. A) identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured
2. B) includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization’s goals
3. C) infrastructure identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption
4. D) includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Information MIS infrastructure identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

133) What is an agile MIS infrastructure?

1. A) identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured
2. B) includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization’s goals
3. C) infrastructure identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption
4. D) includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Agile MIS infrastructure includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization’s goals.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

134) What is a sustainable MIS infrastructure?

1. A) identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured
2. B) includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization’s goals
3. C) infrastructure identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption
4. D) includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Sustainable MIS infrastructure identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

135) What is an MIS infrastructure?

1. A) identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured
2. B) includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization’s goals
3. C) infrastructure identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption
4. D) includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  MIS infrastructure includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

136) Who is a person who is grounded in technology, fluent in business, and able to provide the important bridge between MIS and the business?

1. A) MIS infrastructure manager
2. B) MIS specialist
3. C) enterprise architect
4. D) enterprise manager

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  This is the definition of an enterprise architect.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

137) Which of the following is a benefit of a solid MIS infrastructure?

1. A) reduces costs
2. B) improves productivity
3. C) optimizes business operations
4. D) all of these

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  The MIS infrastructure includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets. A solid MIS infrastructure can increase reduce costs, improve productivity, optimize operations, generate growth, and increase profits. It protects systems from failures or crashes.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

138) What is the difference between hardware and software?

1. A) Hardware is the physical devices associated with a computer system, where software is the instructions the hardware executes to carry out tasks.
2. B) They are both specific forms of clients.
3. C) Hardware executes the instructions to carry out tasks, where software is the physical devices associated with a computer system.
4. D) They are both specific forms of servers.

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  These are the definitions of hardware and software.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

139) What consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system?

1. A) hardware
2. B) software
3. C) client
4. D) server

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Hardware consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

140) What is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks?

1. A) hardware
2. B) software
3. C) client
4. D) server

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Software is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

141) What is a communications system created by linking two or more devices, and establishing a standard methodology in which they can communicate?

1. A) network
2. B) software
3. C) client
4. D) server

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  A network is a communications system created by linking two or more devices, and establishing a standard methodology in which they can communicate.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

142) What is a computer designed to request information from a server?

1. A) hardware
2. B) software
3. C) client
4. D) server

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  A client is a computer designed to request information from a server.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

143) What is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests?

1. A) hardware
2. B) software
3. C) client
4. D) server

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  A server is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

144) What is hardware?

1. A) consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system
2. B) the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks
3. C) a computer designed to request information from a server
4. D) a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Hardware consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

145) What is software?

1. A) consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system
2. B) the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks
3. C) a computer designed to request information from a server
4. D) a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Software is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

146) What is a network?

1. A) consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system
2. B) the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks
3. C) a computer designed to request information from a server
4. D) a communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standard methodology in which they can communicate

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  A network is a communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standard methodology in which they can communicate.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

147) What is a client?

1. A) consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system
2. B) the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks
3. C) a computer designed to request information from a server
4. D) a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  A client is a computer designed to request information from a server.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

148) What is a server?

1. A) consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system
2. B) the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks
3. C) a computer designed to request information from a server
4. D) a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  A server is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

149) An MIS infrastructure is

1. A) dynamic and static.
2. B) dynamic and continually changing.
3. C) a client and a server.
4. D) hardware and software.

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  An MIS infrastructure is both dynamic and continually changing.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

150) John works for Internal Computer Specialists, which focuses on helping small business owners resolve MIS infrastructure issues. John’s tasks include cleaning and replacing motherboards, cables, and internal components such as DVDs and hard drives. What does John’s role at Internal Computer Specialists focus on fixing?

1. A) hardware
2. B) clients
3. C) backup
4. D) recovery

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Hardware consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system. John’s company primarily works on the physical devices which include motherboards, cords, and CD/DVD drives.

Difficulty: 3 Hard

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Analyze

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

151) Jessica started her own online company, which specializes in selling items for bachelorette parties, wedding parties, and baby showers. Due to the fact that she operates only online, her MIS infrastructure needs to be fast, efficient, and accurate ensuring the best possible experience for her customers. Which of the below is a critical component in Jessica’s MIS infrastructure?

1. A) hardware and software
2. B) client
3. C) server
4. D) all of these

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Jessica needs hardware, software, clients, and a server to support her online business.

Difficulty: 3 Hard

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Analyze

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

152) What are the three business functions an MIS infrastructure supports?

1. A) supports operations, change, and the environment or sustainability
2. B) supports operations, customers, and ewaste
3. C) supports operations, clients, and servers
4. D) supports information, change, and business continuity planning

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  The three primary areas of an MIS infrastructure are 1) supporting operations, 2) supporting change, and 3) supporting the environment.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

153) Which of the following include the three components of an MIS infrastructure?

1. A) information MIS, aggregated MIS, and sustainable MIS infrastructures
2. B) information MIS, operational MIS, and changing MIS infrastructures
3. C) information MIS, agile MIS, and sustainable MIS infrastructures
4. D) varies depending on the industry

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  The three section titles of an MIS infrastructure are 1) information MIS, 2) agile MIS, and 3) sustainable MIS infrastructures.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

154) Which characteristics support an agile MIS infrastructure?

1. A) accessibility, availability, maintainability, portability, reliability, scalability, usability
2. B) backup and recovery plan, disaster recovery plan, business continuity planning
3. C) grid computing, cloud computing, and virtualization
4. D) storage, network, and server virtualization

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  The agile MIS infrastructure includes accessibility, availability, flexibility, performance, portability, reliability, scalability, and usability.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

155) Which characteristics support a sustainable MIS infrastructure?

1. A) accessibility, availability, maintainability, portability, reliability, scalability, usability
2. B) backup and recovery plan, disaster recovery plan, business continuity planning
3. C) grid computing, cloud computing, and virtualization
4. D) storage, network, and server virtualization

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  A sustainable MIS infrastructure includes grid computing, cloud computing, and virtualization.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

156) Which characteristics support an information MIS infrastructure?

1. A) accessibility, availability, maintainability, portability, reliability, scalability, usability
2. B) backup and recovery plan, disaster recovery plan, business continuity planning
3. C) grid computing, cloud computing, and virtualization
4. D) storage, network, and server virtualization

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  The information MIS infrastructure supports backup and recovery planning, disaster recovery planning, and business continuity planning.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

157) Grid computing, cloud computing, and virtualization are all elements of a(n) ________ MIS infrastructure.

1. A) agile
2. B) sustainable
3. C) information
4. D) virtualized

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Grid computing, cloud computing, autonomic computing, and virtualization are all elements of the sustainable MIS infrastructure.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

158) Accessibility, availability, maintainability, portability, reliability, scalability, usability are all elements of a(n) ________ MIS infrastructure.

1. A) agile
2. B) sustainable
3. C) information
4. D) virtualized

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Accessibility, availability, maintainability, portability, reliability, scalability, usability are all elements of an agile MIS infrastructure.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

159) Backup and recovery plan, disaster recovery plan, business continuity planning are all elements of a(n) ________ MIS infrastructure.

1. A) agile
2. B) sustainable
3. C) information
4. D) virtualized

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Backup and recovery plan, disaster recovery plan, business continuity plan are all elements of an information MIS infrastructure.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

160) Which of the below represents the primary elements in an information MIS infrastructure?

1. A) backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning
2. B) backup, accessibility, and usability
3. C) backup, cloud computing, and virtualization
4. D) grid computing, cloud computing, and virtualization

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Agile MIS infrastructure includes backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

161) The ________ MIS infrastructure identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption.

1. A) sustainable
2. B) information
3. C) virtualized
4. D) agile

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Sustainable MIS infrastructure identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

162) The ________ MIS infrastructure identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured.

1. A) sustainable
2. B) information
3. C) virtualized
4. D) agile

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  This is the definition of an information MIS infrastructure.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

163) The ________ MIS infrastructure includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation.

1. A) information
2. B) virtualized
3. C) agile
4. D) sustainable

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  This is the definition of an agile MIS infrastructure.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

 

 

164) Francis works in the human resources division of a large oil and gas company in Texas. Francis’ tasks include maintaining payroll and vacation records, employment histories, and benefit information along with ensuring the security of all sensitive employee information. Which MIS infrastructure is most important to Francis?

1. A) information MIS infrastructure
2. B) agile MIS infrastructure
3. C) sustainable MIS infrastructure
4. D) virtualized MIS infrastructure

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  The information MIS infrastructure identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured.

Difficulty: 3 Hard

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Analyze

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

165) The information MIS infrastructure supports the day-to-day business operations and plans for

1. A) security breaches and theft.
2. B) floods and earthquakes.
3. C) malicious Internet attacks.
4. D) all of these.

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  The information MIS infrastructure supports the day-to-day business operations and also plans for emergencies such as power outages, floods, earthquakes, malicious attacks via the Internet, theft, and security breaches.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

166) Each year businesses lose time and money because of system crashes and failures. Which of the following offers the best way to protect a system from crashes and failures?

1. A) backup and recovery plans
2. B) fault tolerance
3. C) failover
4. D) all of these

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Each year businesses lose time and money because of system crashes and failures. Ways to minimize this damage from crashes or failures is with strong backup and recovery plans in place as well as fault tolerance and failover.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

167) Which of the following describes the difference between a backup plan and a recovery plan?

1. A) Recovery is an exact copy of a system’s information, where backup is the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure.
2. B) Backup is mandatory, where recovery is optional.
3. C) Backup is an exact copy of a system’s information, where recovery is the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure.
4. D) Recovery is mandatory, where backup is optional.

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Backup is an exact copy of a system’s information, where recovery is the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

168) What occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data, and if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically directed to a secondary server?

1. A) failover
2. B) disaster recovery cost curve
3. C) reliability
4. D) maintainability

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Failover occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data, and if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically directed to a secondary server.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

169) What occurs when a primary machine recovers and resumes operations, taking over from a secondary server?

1. A) failback
2. B) disrupting communications
3. C) warm site
4. D) hot site

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  This is the definition of failback.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

170) What has the ability to recover information or systems in the event of catastrophic disasters?

1. A) recovery
2. B) disaster recovery
3. C) backup
4. D) failback

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Within the area of support provided by information infrastructure, the disaster recovery area has the ability to recover information or systems in the event of a catastrophic disaster.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

171) Shawn works at the local electrical company in Nampa, ID, which provides electricity to the entire city of Boise. This area is prone to floods, high winds, and tornados. As the lead enterprise architect on the night shift, Shawn has been asked to suggest ways the company can protect its information MIS infrastructure. Shawn notices that the company does not have the ability for its systems to respond to unexpected failures or crashes and there is not a backup system that can automatically take over without a loss of serve to Boise residents. What should Shawn recommend his company implement?

1. A) accessibility
2. B) Moore’s law
3. C) antivirus software
4. D) fault tolerance

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Fault tolerance is the ability for a system to respond to unexpected failures or system crashes as the backup system immediately and automatically takes over with no loss of service.

Difficulty: 3 Hard

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Analyze

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

172) What creates a way for a company to recover and restore partially or completely interrupted critical functions within a predetermined time after a disaster or extended disruption?

1. A) disaster recovery plan
2. B) disaster recovery cost curve
3. C) business continuity planning
4. D) emergency notification system

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  This is the definition of the business continuity planning area of the information infrastructure.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

173) What is the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the information backup?

1. A) failure tolerance
2. B) recovery
3. C) reliability
4. D) capacity planning

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Recovery is the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the information backup.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

174) Which of the below offers a low-speed and low-cost backup method?

1. A) DVD
2. B) thumb drive
3. C) external hard drive
4. D) all of these

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  DVDs, thumb drives, and external hard drives are low-speed and low-cost backup methods often used by students and business professionals.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

175) What question below would a company need to answer when first establishing a backup and recovery plan?

1. A) What types of storage mechanism will meet the needs of the company?
2. B) How often does the company need to backup its information?
3. C) What types of recovery systems does the company infrastructure need?
4. D) All of these

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  All of the questions above are critical to ask and have answered when a company is trying to establish their backup and recovery plans

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

176) Which of the following is an effect a company could experience because of a disaster such as a fire, flood, or hurricane?

1. A) disrupting communications
2. B) damaging physical infrastructures
3. C) halting transportation
4. D) all of these

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Within the disaster recovery plan, there are four potential effects outlined in the book that can have damaging effects on a company’s business operations, which include 1) disrupting communications, 2) damaging physical infrastructures, 3) halting transportation, and 4) blocking utilities.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

177) To combat disasters a company can create a ________ that would detail the process for recovering information or a system in the event of a catastrophic disaster.

1. A) disaster recovery plan
2. B) database lookup initiative
3. C) management recovery plan
4. D) tornado threat plan

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  To combat disasters a company can create a disaster recovery plan that would detail the process for recovering information or a system in the event of a catastrophic disaster.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

178) Within the sites that support disaster recovery, ________ is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.

1. A) hot site
2. B) cold site
3. C) warm site
4. D) disaster site

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  A cold site is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

179) Within the sites that support disaster recovery, ________ is a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business.

1. A) hot site
2. B) cold site
3. C) warm site
4. D) disaster site

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  A hot site is a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

180) Within the sites that support disaster recovery, ________ is a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.

1. A) hot site
2. B) cold site
3. C) warm site
4. D) disaster site

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  A warm site is a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

181) What is a hot site?

1. A) a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business
2. B) a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster
3. C) a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration
4. D) a detailed process for recovering information or a system in the event of a catastrophic disaster

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  A hot site is a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

182) What is a cold site?

1. A) a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business
2. B) a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster
3. C) a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration
4. D) a detailed process for recovering information or a system in the event of a catastrophic disaster

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  A cold site is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

183) What is a warm site?

1. A) a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business
2. B) a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster
3. C) a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration
4. D) a detailed process for recovering information or a system in the event of a catastrophic disaster

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  A warm site is a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

184) What is a disaster recovery plan?

1. A) a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business
2. B) a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster
3. C) a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration
4. D) a detailed process for recovering information or a system in the event of a catastrophic disaster

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Disaster recovery plan is a detailed process for recovering information or a system in the event of a catastrophic disaster.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

185) A disaster recovery plan contains a ________ that outlines the costs to support the plan.

1. A) disaster organizational cost analysis
2. B) disaster recovery improvements
3. C) disaster financial costs
4. D) disaster recovery cost curve

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  A disaster recovery plan usually has a disaster recovery cost curve to support it.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

186) What charts the cost to the company of the unavailability of information and technology and the cost to the company of recovering from a disaster over time?

1. A) disaster organizational cost analysis
2. B) disaster recovery improvements
3. C) disaster financial costs
4. D) disaster recovery cost curve

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  The disaster recovery cost curve charts 1) the cost to the company of the unavailability of information and technology and 2) the cost to the company of recovering from a disaster over time.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

187) The optimal disaster recovery plan in terms of cost and time is where on the disaster recovery cost curve?

1. A) where the two cost effects intersect
2. B) when the cost to the company of unavailability of information and technology is high
3. C) when the cost to the company of recovering from a disaster over time is high
4. D) when the two cost effects are furthest apart

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  On the disaster recovery cost curve, the optimal disaster recovery plan in terms of cost and time is when they are low and where the two cost effects intersect.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

188) What is a more comprehensive and all-encompassing plan that details how a company recovers and restores critical business operations and systems after a disaster or extended disruption?

1. A) business continuity planning
2. B) database management plan
3. C) disaster recovery plan
4. D) emergency recovery plan

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  This is the definition of business continuity planning.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

189) What does a business continuity plan typically include?

1. A) how frequently the system backup is performed
2. B) which systems and business processes are critical and the maximum amount of time the company can continue to operate without functioning systems
3. C) how quickly the system recovery needs to be performed
4. D) where a hot site is located

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  The business continuity planning system includes these factors, 1) identifying critical systems, business processes, and the maximum amount of time the company can continue to operate without functioning systems, 2) a detailed order in which functional areas should be restored, and 3) ensuring the most critical are focused on first.

Difficulty: 3 Hard

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Analyze

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

190) What is an infrastructure built for notifying people in the event of an emergency?

1. A) business operational plan
2. B) business continuity plan
3. C) emergency notification service
4. D) emergency continuity plan

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  This is the definition of an emergency notification service.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

191) What are the different options where an emergency notification service can be deployed?

1. A) through the firm’s own infrastructure
2. B) by an outside service provider on company premises
3. C) by an outside service provider hosted remotely
4. D) all of these

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  The three options where an emergency notification service can be deployed are 1) through the firm’s own infrastructure, 2) supplied by an outside service provider on company premises, or 3) hosted remotely by an outside service provider.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

192) Which of the following is an example of an emergency notification system?

1. A) radio stations’ occasional tests of the national alert system
2. B) wireless alerts for promotional discounts
3. C) text messages from your local grocery store
4. D) all of these

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Radio stations’ occasional tests of the national alert system are an example of an emergency notification system.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

193) What is a sudden, unexpected event requiring immediate action due to potential threats to health and safety, the environment, or property?

1. A) emergency
2. B) emergency preparedness
3. C) business Impact analysis
4. D) technology failure

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  An emergency is a sudden, unexpected event requiring immediate action due to potential threats to health and safety, the environment, or property.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

194) What ensures a company is ready to respond to an emergency in an organized, timely, and effective manner?

1. A) emergency
2. B) emergency preparedness
3. C) business Impact analysis
4. D) technology failure

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Emergency preparedness ensures a company is ready to respond to an emergency in an organized, timely, and effective manner.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

195) What identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them?

1. A) emergency
2. B) emergency preparedness
3. C) business Impact analysis
4. D) technology failure

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  A business impact analysis identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

196) What occurs when the ability of a company to operate is impaired because of a hardware, software, or data outage?

1. A) emergency
2. B) emergency preparedness
3. C) business Impact analysis
4. D) technology failure

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  A technology failure occurs when the ability of a company to operate is impaired because of a hardware, software, or data outage.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

197) What contains all of the details of an incident?

1. A) technology failure
2. B) incident record
3. C) incident management
4. D) technology recovery strategy

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  An incident record contains all of the details of an incident.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

198) What occurs when the ability of a company to operate is impaired because of a hardware, software, or data outage?

1. A) technology failure
2. B) incident record
3. C) incident management
4. D) technology recovery strategy

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  A technology failure occurs when the ability of a company to operate is impaired because of a hardware, software, or data outage.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

199) What is the process responsible for managing how incidents are identified and corrected?

1. A) technology failure
2. B) incident record
3. C) incident management
4. D) technology recovery strategy

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Incident management is the process responsible for managing how incidents are identified and corrected.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

200) What focuses specifically on prioritizing the order for restoring hardware, software, and data across the organization that best meets business recovery requirements?

1. A) technology failure
2. B) incident record
3. C) incident management
4. D) technology recovery strategy

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Technology recovery strategies focus specifically on prioritizing the order for restoring hardware, software, and data across the organization that best meets business recovery requirements.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

201) What are the seven characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure?

1. A) accessibility, availability, maintainability, portability, reliability, scalability, and usability
2. B) accessibility, affordability, mobility, portability, reliability, scalability, and usability
3. C) accessibility, availability, mobility, penetrability, responsibility, sensibility, and usability
4. D) accessibility, affordability, functionality, changeability, constancy, sources, and understanding

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  The seven characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure include: accessibility, availability, maintainability, portability, reliability, scalability, and usability.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

202) Which term refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system?

1. A) availability
2. B) accessibility
3. C) usability
4. D) responsibility

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  This is the definition of accessibility.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

203) Enterprise architects require ________ so they can perform such functions as resetting passwords or deleting accounts.

1. A) functional access
2. B) infrastructure access
3. C) restricted access
4. D) administrator access

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Administrator access or unrestricted access allows an enterprise architect to perform such functions as resetting passwords or deleting accounts.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

204) Which term refers to the time frames when the system is operational?

1. A) administrator access
2. B) accessibility
3. C) availability
4. D) portability

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  This is the definition of availability.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

205) What is the difference between unavailable and high availability?

1. A) High availability is when the system is not operating and can’t be used, where unavailable is when a system is continuously operating at all times.
2. B) Unavailable refers only to clients, where high availability refers to servers.
3. C) Unavailable is when the system is not operating and can’t be used, where high availability is when a system is continuously operating at all times.
4. D) High availability refers only to clients, where unavailable refers to servers.

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  These are the definitions for unavailable and high availability.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

206) What is a widely held but difficult to achieve standard of availability for a system?

1. A) “five 9s” availability
2. B) “1%” minimum availability
3. C) the “five’s accessibility” code
4. D) “five 10s” availability

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  A widely held but difficult to achieve standard of availability for a system is known as “five 9s” (99.999 percent) availability.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

207) Which of the following agile MIS infrastructure characteristics refers to how quickly a system can transform to support environmental changes?

1. A) maintainability
2. B) scalability
3. C) capacity planning
4. D) portability

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  This is the definition of maintainability or flexibility.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

208) Which of the following agile MIS infrastructure characteristics refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems?

1. A) reliability
2. B) portability
3. C) maintainability
4. D) usability

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  This is the definition of portability.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

209) What does reliability ensure?

1. A) The system has the ability to operate in many different operating systems.
2. B) The system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use.
3. C) The system is functioning correctly and providing accurate information.
4. D) The time frames when the system is operational.

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  This is the definition of reliability or accuracy.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

210) Why is estimating future growth a challenge for most companies?

1. A) Growth can occur because the company acquires new markets.
2. B) Growth can occur because the company acquires new customers.
3. C) Growth can occur because the company acquires new products.
4. D) All of these.

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Estimating company growth is challenging because growth can occur in different forms, such as the firm can acquire new customers, new product lines, or new markets.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

211) Which of the following describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands or growth?

1. A) flexibility
2. B) scalability
3. C) reliability
4. D) affordability

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  This is the definition of scalability.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

212) When building a scalable system that can support new company developments what are the key factors to consider?

1. A) anticipating expected and unexpected growth
2. B) organizing and deploying additional resources
3. C) understanding competitor products and services
4. D) analyzing the accessibility and availability of competitor systems

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  When building a scalable system that can support any new company development, the key factors to consider are anticipating expected and unexpected growth.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

213) What measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction?

1. A) portability
2. B) capacity planning
3. C) performance
4. D) sustainability

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  This is the definition of performance.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

214) What determines future environmental infrastructure requirements that ensure high-quality system performance?

1. A) capacity system
2. B) capacity planning
3. C) capacity function
4. D) performance indicators

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  This is the definition of capacity planning.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

215) What is the primary reason a company has a failover system?

1. A) to use different systems continuously at the same time
2. B) to allow employees to work virtually
3. C) to take down the primary system for maintenance, while the secondary system activates to ensure continuous operations
4. D) all of these

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Companies often deploy failover systems to take down the primary system for maintenance, while the secondary system activates to ensure continuous operation.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

216) What is usability?

1. A) The system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use.
2. B) The system functions correctly and provides accurate information.
3. C) The system allows varying levels of access.
4. D) The system quickly transforms to support environmental changes.

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  This is the definition of usability.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

217) What refers to how well a system can adapt to increased demands?

1. A) scalability
2. B) capacity planning
3. C) reliability
4. D) availability

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  This is a function of scalability.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember; Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

218) Apple understood the importance of usability when it designed its

1. A) PowerPoint software.
2. B) antivirus software.
3. C) fault tolerance system.
4. D) iPod and iTunes system.

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Apple designed only the iPod and iTunes and usability was key to its success.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

219) What represents the maximum throughput a system can deliver, for example the capacity of a hard drive represents the size or volume?

1. A) capacity
2. B) Web accessibility
3. C) Web accessibility initiative
4. D) vulnerability

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Capacity represents the maximum throughput a system can deliver, for example the capacity of a hard drive represents the size or volume.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

220) What means that people with disabilities including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities can use the Web?

1. A) capacity
2. B) Web accessibility
3. C) Web accessibility initiative
4. D) vulnerability

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Web accessibility means that people with disabilities including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities can use the Web.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

221) What brings together people from industry, disability organizations, government, and research labs from around the world to develop guidelines and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities including auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual disabilities?

1. A) capacity
2. B) Web accessibility
3. C) Web accessibility initiative
4. D) vulnerability

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  The Web accessibility initiative (WAI) brings together people from industry, disability organizations, government, and research labs from around the world to develop guidelines and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities including auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual disabilities.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

222) What is a system weakness that can be exploited by a threat?

1. A) capacity
2. B) Web accessibility
3. C) Web accessibility initiative
4. D) vulnerability

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Vulnerability is a system weakness that can be exploited by a threat.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

223) Which of the following terms represents how quickly a third-party or vendor can change a system to ensure it meets user needs and the terms of any contracts including agreed levels of reliability, maintainability, or availability?

1. A) capacity
2. B) web accessibility
3. C) serviceability
4. D) vulnerability

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Serviceability is how quickly a third-party or vendor can change a system to ensure it meets user needs and the terms of any contracts including agreed levels of reliability, maintainability, or availability.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

224) What is administrator access?

1. A) performs functions such as resetting passwords, deleting accounts, and shutting down entire systems
2. B) refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system
3. C) refers to the time frames when the system is operational
4. D) refers to how quickly a system can transform to support environmental changes

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Administrator access can perform functions such as resetting passwords, deleting accounts, and shutting down entire systems.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

225) What is accessibility?

1. A) performs functions such as resetting passwords, deleting accounts, and shutting down entire systems
2. B) refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system
3. C) refers to the time frames when the system is operational
4. D) refers to how quickly a system can transform to support environmental changes

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Accessibility refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

226) What is availability?

1. A) performs functions such as resetting passwords, deleting accounts, and shutting down entire systems
2. B) refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system
3. C) refers to the time frames when the system is operational
4. D) refers to how quickly a system can transform to support environmental changes

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Availability refers to the time frames when the system is operational.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

227) What is maintainability?

1. A) performs functions such as resetting passwords, deleting accounts, and shutting down entire systems
2. B) refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system
3. C) refers to how quickly a system can transform to support environmental changes
4. D) ensures that a system is functioning correctly and providing accurate information

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Maintainability (or flexibility) refers to how quickly a system can transform to support environmental changes.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

228) What is reliability?

1. A) performs functions such as resetting passwords, deleting accounts, and shutting down entire systems
2. B) refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system
3. C) refers to how quickly a system can transform to support environmental changes
4. D) ensures that a system is functioning correctly and providing accurate information

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Reliability (or accuracy) ensures that a system is functioning correctly and providing accurate information.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

229) What is unavailable?

1. A) a system that is not operating and cannot be used
2. B) refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems
3. C) measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction
4. D) the degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  A system is called unavailable when it is not operating and cannot be used.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

230) What is portability?

1. A) a system that is not operating and cannot be used
2. B) refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems
3. C) measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction
4. D) the degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Portability refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

231) What is performance?

1. A) a system that is not operating and cannot be used
2. B) refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems
3. C) measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction
4. D) the degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Performance measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

232) What is usability?

1. A) a system that is not operating and cannot be used
2. B) refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems
3. C) the degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use
4. D) describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Usability is the degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

233) What is scalability?

1. A) a system that is not operating and cannot be used
2. B) refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems
3. C) the degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use
4. D) describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Scalability describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

234) Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel, established which MIS law?

1. A) Intel’s law
2. B) Gordon’s law
3. C) Moore’s law
4. D) Lee’s law

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel, established that continued advances in technological innovation made it possible to reduce the size of a chip while doubling its capacity every two years.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

235) Which of the following reflects Moore’s law?

1. A) the computer chip performance per dollar doubles every 18 months
2. B) a company’s ability to acquire small amounts of MIS equipment for cheaper cost
3. C) a company’s ability to acquire small amounts of capital for spending on innovative ideas every two years
4. D) the computer chip performance per dollar doubles every 6 months

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  This is the definition of Moore’s law.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

236) What describes the production, management, use, and disposal of technology in a way that minimizes damage to the environment?

1. A) environmental MIS
2. B) holistic MIS
3. C) the green designation for technology
4. D) sustainability or green MIS

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  This is the definition of sustainability or green MIS.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

237) Sustainable MIS is a critical part of ________ within a company.

1. A) company Standard for the green initiative
2. B) corporate social responsibility
3. C) social expectations
4. D) society concerns

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Sustainable MIS is a critical part of corporate social responsibility.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

238) Corporate social responsibility is a company’s acknowledged responsibility to

1. A) shareholders.
2. B) employees.
3. C) society.
4. D) governments.

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  This is part of the definition of corporate social responsibility.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

239) What is a company’s acknowledged responsibility to society?

1. A) corporate social responsibility
2. B) employees social responsibility
3. C) society social responsibility
4. D) government social responsibility

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Corporate social responsibility is a company’s acknowledged responsibility to society.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

240) Miranda White likes taking old computer parts and remaking them into products like earrings and clocks. Which of the following represents what Miranda is doing?

1. A) upcycle
2. B) recycle
3. C) ewaste
4. D) sustainable MIS

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Upcycle reuses or refurbishes ewaste and create a new product.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

241) What is clean computing?

1. A) a subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment
2. B) built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy
3. C) reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product
4. D) a companies’ acknowledged responsibility to society

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Clean computing is a subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

242) What is a green personal computer?

1. A) a subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment
2. B) built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy
3. C) reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product
4. D) a companies’ acknowledged responsibility to society

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  A green personal computer (green PC) is built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

243) What is upcycle?

1. A) a subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment
2. B) built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy
3. C) reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product
4. D) stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the Internet rather than on a personal computer or server

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  An upcycle reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

244) What is corporate social responsibility?

1. A) a subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment
2. B) a company’s acknowledged responsibility to society
3. C) reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product
4. D) stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the Internet rather than on a personal computer or server

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Corporate social responsibility is a company’s acknowledged responsibility to society.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

245) What is cloud computing?

1. A) built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy
2. B) reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product
3. C) a company’s acknowledged responsibility to society
4. D) stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the Internet rather than on a personal computer or server

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Cloud computing stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the Internet rather than on a personal computer or server.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

246) What is a subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment?

1. A) clean computing
2. B) green personal computer
3. C) upcycle
4. D) corporate social responsibility

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Clean computing is a subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

247) What is built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy?

1. A) clean computing
2. B) green personal computer
3. C) upcycle
4. D) corporate social responsibility

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  A green personal computer (green PC) is built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

248) What reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product?

1. A) clean computing
2. B) green personal computer
3. C) upcycle
4. D) corporate social responsibility

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  An upcycle reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

249) What is a company’s acknowledged responsibility to society?

1. A) cloud computing
2. B) clean computer
3. C) upcycle
4. D) corporate social responsibility

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Corporate social responsibility is a company’s acknowledged responsibility to society

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

250) What stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the Internet rather than on a personal computer or server?

1. A) clean computing
2. B) cloud computing
3. C) upcycle
4. D) corporate social responsibility

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Cloud computing stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the Internet rather than on a personal computer or server.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

251) The increased demand in technology devices has caused an increase in discarded devices, a phenomenon known as

1. A) ewaste.
2. B) grid computing.
3. C) ergonomic code.
4. D) electronic sustainability.

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  This is the definition of ewaste.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

252) Which of the below is not contributing to ewaste?

1. A) VCR
2. B) automobile
3. C) microwave
4. D) computer

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Ewaste devices include CDs, DVDs, thumb drives, printers, printer cartridges, computers, cell phones, iPods, external hard drives, TVs, VCRs, DVD players, microwaves, and many more electronic devices.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

253) What are the three pressures driving sustainable MIS infrastructures?

1. A) decreases in electronic waste, energy waste, and carbon emissions
2. B) increases in ewaste, energy waste, and dynamic scaling
3. C) increases in electronic waste, energy waste, and carbon emissions
4. D) decreases in ewaste, energy waste, and carbon footprints

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Three pressures driving sustainable MIS infrastructures include increased electronic waste, increased energy waste, and increased carbon emissions.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

254) What is the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle called?

1. A) sustainable MIS disposal
2. B) sustainable device disposal
3. C) sustainable software disposal
4. D) sustainable enterprise disposal

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  This is the definition of sustainable MIS disposal.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

255) What are the ramifications of improper electronic recycling, when analyzing the example of a single desktop computer?

1. A) One computer contains more than 700 chemicals that can be toxic to the environment.
2. B) Computers in landfills can leak these toxic chemicals into our land, water, and air.
3. C) Computers contain high levels of mercury, lead, and cadmium—harmful toxins.
4. D) All of these.

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Just a single computer contains more than 700 chemicals that can be toxic to the environment, such as high levels on the toxins mercury, lead, and cadmium. If they end up in the landfill, the toxins can leach into our land, water, and air.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

256) The sustainable infrastructure pressure of increased energy consumption poses new and growing pressure. The energy consumed by a computer is estimated to produce as much as 10% of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a

1. A) house.
2. B) school.
3. C) car.
4. D) cell phone.

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  The energy consumed by a computer is estimated to produce as much as 10% of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a car.

Difficulty: 3 Hard

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Analyze

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

257) Cheap electricity is great for keeping business energy costs down, but this mean that we have to rely more on ________ for power.

1. A) cars
2. B) coal
3. C) gasoline
4. D) all of these

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Cheap electricity is great for keeping business energy costs down, but this mean that we have to rely more on coal for power.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

258) What refers to discarded, obsolete, or broken electronic devices?

1. A) ewaste
2. B) energy consumption
3. C) carbon emissions
4. D) sustainable MIS

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Ewaste refers to discarded, obsolete, or broken electronic devices.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

259) What is the amount of energy consumed by business processes and systems?

1. A) ewaste
2. B) energy consumption
3. C) carbon emissions
4. D) sustainable MIS

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Energy consumption is the amount of energy consumed by business processes and systems.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

260) What includes the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, produced by business processes and systems?

1. A) ewaste
2. B) energy consumption
3. C) carbon emissions
4. D) sustainable MIS

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Carbon emissions include the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, produced by business processes and systems.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

261) What refers to the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle?

1. A) ewaste
2. B) energy consumption
3. C) carbon emissions
4. D) sustainable MIS

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Sustainable MIS refers to the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

262) Which of the following sustainable infrastructure components is a collection of computers, often geographically dispersed, that are coordinated to solve a common problem?

1. A) cloud computing
2. B) grid computing
3. C) virtualized computing
4. D) database computing

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  This is the definition of grid computing.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

263) With grid computing a problem is broken into pieces and distributed to many machines, allowing ________ processing than could occur with a single system.

1. A) moderate
2. B) slower
3. C) faster
4. D) cleaner

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  With grid computing a problem is broken into pieces and distributed to many machines, allowing faster processing than could occur with a single system.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

264) What is storage virtualization?

1. A) combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device
2. B) combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device
3. C) combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications
4. D) offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Storage virtualization combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

265) What is network virtualization?

1. A) combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device
2. B) combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device
3. C) combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications
4. D) offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Network virtualization combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

266) What is server virtualization?

1. A) combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device
2. B) combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device
3. C) combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications
4. D) offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Server virtualization combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

267) What is disaster recovery as a service?

1. A) combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device
2. B) combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device
3. C) combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications
4. D) offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

268) What combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device?

1. A) server virtualization
2. B) network virtualization
3. C) disaster recovery as a service
4. D) storage virtualization

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Storage virtualization combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

269) What combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device?

1. A) server virtualization
2. B) network virtualization
3. C) disaster recovery as a service
4. D) storage virtualization

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Network virtualization combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

270) What combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications?

1. A) server virtualization
2. B) network virtualization
3. C) disaster recovery as a service
4. D) storage virtualization

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Server virtualization combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

271) What offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster?

1. A) server virtualization
2. B) network virtualization
3. C) disaster recovery as a service
4. D) storage virtualization

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

272) Grid computing takes advantage of the available 75% of unused processing power of a computer and links thousands of individual computers around the world creating a(n) ________ that can process intensive tasks.

1. A) personal computer
2. B) employee client
3. C) company server
4. D) virtual supercomputer

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Grid computing takes advantage of the available 75% of unused processing power of a computer and links thousands of individual computers around the world to create a “virtual supercomputer” that can process intensive tasks.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

273) Which of the following delivers electricity using two-way digital technology?

1. A) a smart grid
2. B) a systematic grid
3. C) a collective grid
4. D) an interactive grid

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  This is the definition of a smart grid.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

274) DreamWorks Animation Company used which sustainable infrastructure component to complete many of its films including Shrek, Madagascar, and Antz?

1. A) agile computing
2. B) grid computing
3. C) cloud computing
4. D) server computing

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Dreamworks Animation company utilized grid computing to complete many of its films including Shrek, Madagascar, Antz, and How to Train your Dragon.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

275) What is cloud computing services changing?

1. A) the way people access information
2. B) the way people deliver information
3. C) the way people use information
4. D) all of these

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Cloud computing services are changing the way everyone can access, deliver, and use information.

Difficulty: 3 Hard

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Analyze

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

276) What offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity?

1. A) grid computing
2. B) smart phones
3. C) utility computing
4. D) computing services

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  This is the definition of utility computing.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

277) Where would you categorize a cloud computing benefit that allows a customer to store fewer applications on a client computer, which frees up the memory allowing for increases in performance?

1. A) Internet features
2. B) increased costs
3. C) increased performance
4. D) increased software updates

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  This is the definition of increased performance.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

278) What is a challenge for cloud computing that could cause employee performance to decrease?

1. A) limited Internet features
2. B) required Internet connectivity
3. C) decreased dynamic scaling
4. D) decreased job stability

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  An Internet connection is required for cloud computing.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

279) What service delivers hardware networking capabilities, including the use of servers, networking, and storage over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model?

1. A) infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
2. B) disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)
3. C) software as a service (SaaS)
4. D) platform as a service (PaaS)

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  This is the definition of IaaS—infrastructure as a service.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

280) What is dynamic scaling?

1. A) the ability for the system to cut back on expenses when needed
2. B) the infrastructure that is fixed and there are no surprises
3. C) the MIS infrastructure can be automatically scaled up or down based on needed requirements
4. D) the flexibility to charge more or less depending on the market

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  This is the definition of dynamic scaling.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

281) What are the three cloud computing service delivery models?

1. A) independent as a service, supportive as a service, partnering as a service
2. B) infrastructure as a service, software as a service, platform as a service
3. C) innovation as a service, server as a service, platform as a service
4. D) intuit as a service, storage as a service, programming as a service

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS)

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Understand

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

282) Which cloud computing model offers applications on a pay-per-use basis?

1. A) infrastructure as a service
2. B) platform as a service
3. C) software as a service
4. D) information as a service

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  This is the definition of software as a service (SaaS).

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

283) What is a platform as a service (PaaS)?

1. A) Set up and storage systems including servers, and database management model.
2. B) Innovate and develop new programs for business on an ongoing basis.
3. C) Salesforce.com is an example of PaaS.
4. D) Supports the deployment of entire systems including hardware, networking, and applications using pay-per-use revenue model.

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  This is the definition of platform as a service (PaaS).

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

284) What enables computers to run multiple operating systems and multiple software applications at the same time, and creates multiple “virtual” machines all on a single computing device?

1. A) virtualization
2. B) innovation
3. C) availability
4. D) viral computing

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  This is the definition of virtualization.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

285) What is a facility used to house management information systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems?

1. A) call center
2. B) data center
3. C) delivery base
4. D) central center

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  This is the definition of data center.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

286) What in the cloud means that a single instance of a system serves multiple customers?

1. A) multi-tenancy
2. B) single-tenancy
3. C) cloud fabric
4. D) cloud fabric controller

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Multi-tenancy in the cloud means that a single instance of a system serves multiple customers. In the cloud, each customer is called a tenant and multiple tenants can access the same system.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

287) What occurs when each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system?

1. A) multi-tenancy
2. B) single-tenancy
3. C) cloud fabric
4. D) cloud fabric controller

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Single-tenancy occurs when each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

288) What is the software that makes the benefits of cloud computing possible, such as multi-tenancy?

1. A) multi-tenancy
2. B) single-tenancy
3. C) cloud fabric
4. D) cloud fabric controller

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Cloud fabric is the software that makes the benefits of cloud computing possible, such as multi-tenancy.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

289) What offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity?

1. A) community cloud
2. B) private cloud
3. C) utility computing
4. D) public cloud

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Utility computing offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

290) What promotes massive, global, industry-wide applications offered to the general public?

1. A) community cloud
2. B) private cloud
3. C) utility computing
4. D) public cloud

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Public cloud promotes massive, global, industry-wide applications offered to the general public. In a public cloud customers are never required to provision, manage, upgrade, or replace hardware or software.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

291) What serves only one customer or organization and can be located on the customers’ premises or off the customer’s premises?

1. A) community cloud
2. B) private cloud
3. C) utility computing
4. D) public cloud

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Private cloud serves only one customer or organization and can be located on the customers’ premises or off the customer’s premises.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

292) What serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations?

1. A) community cloud
2. B) private cloud
3. C) utility computing
4. D) hybrid cloud

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Community cloud serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

293) What includes two or more private, public, or community clouds, but each cloud remains separate and is only linked by technology that enables data and application portability?

1. A) community cloud
2. B) private cloud
3. C) utility computing
4. D) hybrid cloud

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Hybrid cloud includes two or more private, public, or community clouds, but each cloud remains separate and is only linked by technology that enables data and application portability.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

294) What occurs when a company uses its own computing infrastructure for normal usage and accesses the cloud when it needs to scale for high/peak load requirements ensuring a sudden spike in usage does not result in poor performance or system crashes?

1. A) community cloud
2. B) private cloud
3. C) cloud bursting
4. D) hybrid cloud

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Cloud bursting is when a company uses its own computing infrastructure for normal usage and accesses the cloud when it needs to scale for high/peak load requirements ensuring a sudden spike in usage does not result in poor performance or system crashes.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

295) What offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster?

1. A) disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)
2. B) data as a service (DaaS)
3. C) software as a service (SaaS)
4. D) big data as a service (BDaaS)

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

296) What offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity?

1. A) disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)
2. B) data as a service (DaaS)
3. C) software as a service (SaaS)
4. D) utility computing

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Utility computing offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

297) What facilitates the accessibility of business-critical data in a timely, secure, and affordable manner?

1. A) disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)
2. B) data as a service (DaaS)
3. C) software as a service (SaaS)
4. D) big data as a service (BDaaS)

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Data as a service (DaaS) facilitates the accessibility of business-critical data in a timely, secure, and affordable manner.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

298) What delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model?

1. A) disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)
2. B) data as a service (DaaS)
3. C) software as a service (SaaS)
4. D) big data as a service (BDaaS)

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Software as a service (SaaS) delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

299) What offers a cloud-based big data service to help organizations analyze massive amounts of data to solve business dilemmas?

1. A) disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)
2. B) data as a service (DaaS)
3. C) software as a service (SaaS)
4. D) big data as a service (BDaaS)

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Big data as a service (BDaaS) offers a cloud-based big data service to help organizations analyze massive amounts of data to solve business dilemmas.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

300) What is disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)?

1. A) offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster
2. B) delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model
3. C) facilitates the accessibility of business-critical data in a timely, secure, and affordable manner
4. D) offers a cloud-based Big Data service to help organizations analyze massive amounts of data to solve business dilemmas

 

Answer:  A

Explanation:  Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

301) What is data as a service (DaaS)?

1. A) offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster
2. B) delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model
3. C) facilitates the accessibility of business-critical data in a timely, secure, and affordable manner
4. D) offers a cloud-based Big Data service to help organizations analyze massive amounts of data to solve business dilemmas

 

Answer:  C

Explanation:  Data as a service (DaaS) facilitates the accessibility of business-critical data in a timely, secure, and affordable manner.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

302) What is software as a service (SaaS)?

1. A) offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster
2. B) delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model
3. C) facilitates the accessibility of business-critical data in a timely, secure, and affordable manner
4. D) offers a cloud-based Big Data service to help organizations analyze massive amounts of data to solve business dilemmas

 

Answer:  B

Explanation:  Software as a service (SaaS) delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

303) What is big data as a service (BDaaS)?

1. A) offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster
2. B) delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model
3. C) facilitates the accessibility of business-critical data in a timely, secure, and affordable manner
4. D) offers a cloud-based big data service to help organizations analyze massive amounts of data to solve business dilemmas

 

Answer:  D

Explanation:  Big data as a service (BDaaS) offers a cloud-based big data service to help organizations analyze massive amounts of data to solve business dilemmas.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Remember

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  automatic

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

 

 

304) Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

Answer:  The three primary areas where enterprise architects focus when maintaining a firm’s MIS infrastructure are: Supporting operations: Information MIS infrastructure identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured. Supporting change: Agile MIS infrastructure includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization’s goals. Supporting the environment: Sustainable MIS infrastructure identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption.

Difficulty: 3 Hard

Topic:  The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Analyze

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  manual

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

 

305) Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

Answer:  The three primary areas an information infrastructure provides to support continuous business operations are: Backup and recovery: A backup is an exact copy of a system’s information. Recovery is the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the information backup. Disaster recovery plan: This plan provides a detailed process for recovering information or a system in the event of a catastrophic disaster. Business continuity plan: This details how a company recovers and restores critical business operations and systems after a disaster or extended disruption.

Difficulty: 3 Hard

Topic:  Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Analyze

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  manual

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.

 

 

 

306) Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

Answer:  Accessibility refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system.

Availability refers to the time frames when the system is operational.

Maintainability (or flexibility) refers to how quickly a system can transform to support environmental changes.

Portability refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems.

Reliability (or accuracy) ensures a system is functioning correctly and providing accurate information.

Scalability describes how well a system can “scale up” or adapt to the increased demands of growth.

Usability is the degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use.

Difficulty: 3 Hard

Topic:  Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Analyze

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  manual

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.

 

307) Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

Answer:  Increased energy consumption, increased electronic waste, and increased carbon emissions are all associated with MIS. Ewaste refers to discarded, obsolete, or broken electronic devices. Sustainable MIS disposal refers to the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle.

Difficulty: 3 Hard

Topic:  MIS and the Environment

Bloom’s:  Analyze

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  manual

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

 

 

 

308) Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

 

Answer:  The components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure include:

Grid computing: A collection of computers, often geographically dispersed, that are coordinated to solve a common problem.

Cloud computing: The use of resources and applications hosted remotely on the Internet. The term comes (at least in part) from the image of a cloud to represent the Internet or some large networked environment.

Virtualized computing: The creation of multiple “virtual” machines on a single computing device.

Difficulty: 3 Hard

Topic:  Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

Bloom’s:  Analyze

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Gradable:  manual

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.