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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.

A) True
B) False

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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.

A) True
B) False

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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.

A) True
B) False

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

A) True
B) False

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

A) True
B) False

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Which characteristics support an agile MIS infrastructure?


A) Accessibility, availability, maintainability, portability, reliability, scalability, usability
B) Backup and recovery plan, disaster recovery plan, business continuity planning
C) Grid computing, cloud computing, and virtualization
D) Storage, network, and server virtualization

E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

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

A) True
B) False

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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).

A) True
B) False

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


A) Capacity
B) Web accessibility
C) Web accessibility initiative
D) Vulnerability

E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

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

A) True
B) False

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

A) True
B) False

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Maintainability means the system quickly transforms to support environmental changes.

A) True
B) False

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


A) DVD
B) Thumb drive
C) External hard drive
D) All of the above

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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What is clean computing?


A) A subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment
B) Built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy
C) Reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product
D) A companies' acknowledged responsibility to society

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

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

A) True
B) False

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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.

A) True
B) False

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

A) True
B) False

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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.

A) True
B) False

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Which of the following reflects Moore's law?


A) The computer chip performance per dollar doubles every 18 months
B) A company's ability to acquire small amounts of MIS equipment for cheaper cost
C) A company's ability to acquire small amounts of capital for spending on innovative ideas every two years
D) The computer chip performance per dollar doubles every 6 months

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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