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Which of the following questions would a company need to answer when first establishing a backup and recovery plan?


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

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

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

A) True
B) False

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According to the text, which of the following does not benefit from smart grid computing?


A) The U.S.power grid
B) Excel Energy's grid
C) Boulder, Colorado's electric grid
D) Comcast Cable's grid

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

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


A) Business operational plan
B) Business continuity plan
C) Emergency notification service
D) Emergency continuity plan

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

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

A) True
B) False

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


A) Hot site
B) Cold site
C) Warm site
D) Disaster site

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

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A _________ grid delivers electricity using two-way digital technology.

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


A) Maintainability
B) Scalability
C) Capacity planning
D) Portability

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

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

A) True
B) False

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Grid computing takes advantage of the available 75 percent of unused processing power of a computer and links thousands of individual computers around the world, creating a (an) _______ that can process intensive tasks.


A) Personal computer
B) Employee client
C) Company server
D) Virtual supercomputer

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

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Which characteristics support an information MIS infrastructure?


A) Accessibility, availability, maintainability, portability, reliability, scalability, usability
B) Backup and recovery plan, disaster recovery plan, business continuity plan
C) Grid computing, cloud computing, and virtualization
D) All of these

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

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Usability means the system functions correctly and provides accurate information.

A) True
B) False

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

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One comparison of the life expectancy of electronic devices is the analogy that one human year is equivalent to ________ years of technological advancements.


A) 10
B) 2
C) 50
D) 7

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

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


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

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

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


A) Portability
B) Capacity planning
C) Performance
D) Sustainability

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

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What is a facility used to house management information systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems?


A) Call center
B) Data center
C) Delivery base
D) Central center

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

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Apple understood the importance of usability when it designed its _________.


A) PowerPoint software
B) Antivirus software
C) Fault tolerance system
D) iPod and iTunes system

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

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Enterprise architects require _____________ access so they can perform such functions as resetting passwords or deleting accounts.


A) Functional access
B) Infrastructure access
C) Restricted access
D) Administrator access

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

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What is cloud computing services changing?


A) The way people access information
B) The way people deliver information
C) The way people use information
D) All of these

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

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