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Portability determines future environmental infrastructure requirements to ensure high-quality system performance.

A) True
B) False

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Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.

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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 only operates online, her MIS infrastructure needs to be fast, efficient, and accurate, ensuring the best possible experience for her customers.Which of the following is a critical component in Jessica's MIS infrastructure?


A) Hardware and software
B) Client
C) Server
D) All of these

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

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


A) Through the firm's own infrastructure
B) By an outside service provider on company premises
C) By an outside service provider hosted remotely
D) All of these

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

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What is dynamic scaling?


A) The ability for the system to cut back on expenses when needed
B) The infrastructure that is fixed and where there are no surprises
C) The MIS infrastructure can be automatically scaled up or down based on needed requirements
D) The flexibility to charge more or less depending on the market

E) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

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A ___________ is a computer designed to request information from the server.

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An MIS infrastructure is ___________ and ____________.


A) Dynamic and static
B) Dynamic and continually changing
C) A client and a server
D) Hardware and software

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

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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?


A) Backup and recovery plans
B) Fault tolerance
C) Failover
D) All of these

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

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The ______________ infrastructure business continuity planning, 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.

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


A) Radio stations' occasional tests of the national alert system
B) Wireless alerts for promotional discounts
C) Text messages from your local cell phone provider
D) All of these

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

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

A) True
B) False

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What offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity?


A) Grid computing
B) Smartphones
C) Utility computing
D) Computing services

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

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


A) Failback
B) Disrupting communications
C) Warm site
D) Hot site

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

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What service delivers hardware networking capabilities, including the use of servers, networking, and storage over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model?


A) Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
B) Dynamic scaling
C) Software as a service (SaaS)
D) Platform as a service (PaaS)

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

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


A) Reduces costs
B) Improves productivity
C) Optimizes business operations
D) All of these

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

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

A) True
B) False

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Top-level MIS employees require _________________ access or unrestricted access to the entire system so that they can perform functions as resetting passwords, deleting accounts, and shutting down entire systems.

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Combating ewaste, energy consumption, and carbon emissions requires a firm to focus on creating an information MIS infrastructure.

A) True
B) False

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


A) Capacity system
B) Capacity planning
C) Capacity function
D) Performance indicators

E) C) and D)
F) None of the above

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


A) Where the two cost effects intersect
B) When the cost to the company of unavailability of information and technology is high
C) When the cost to the company of recovering from a disaster over time is high
D) When the two cost effects are furthest apart

E) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

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