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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?

A) Accessibility
B) Moore's law
C) Antivirus software
D) Fault tolerance

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Francis works in the human resources division of a large oil and gas company in Texas.Francis's 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?

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.

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.

What is software?

The information MIS infrastructure supports the day-to-day business operations and plans for ____________.

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

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

Maintainability means the system functions correctly and provides accurate information.

A company can create a _________ that would detail the process for recovering information or a system in the event of a catastrophic disaster.

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

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

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

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

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