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

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

Q: 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.

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

Q: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Q: 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.

Q: Cloud computing delivers electricity using two-way digital technology and is meant to solve the problem of outdated electrical grids.

Q: A smart grid delivers electricity using two-way digital technology and is meant to solve the problem of outdated electrical grids.

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

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

Q: 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.

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

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

Q: Carbon emission is the amount of energy consumed by business processes and systems.

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

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

Q: Corporate social responsibility is a companys acknowledged responsibility to society.

Q: Ewaste reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product.

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

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

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

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

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

Q: Unsustainable MIS disposal refers to the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle.

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

Q: 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.

Q: 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.

Q: 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.

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

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

Q: Tim Burners-Lee, cofounder 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.

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

Q: 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.

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

Q: Gordon Moore, cofounder 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.

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

Q: Maintainability determines future environmental infrastructure requirements to ensure high-quality system performance.

Q: Scalability measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction.

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

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

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

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

Q: 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.

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

Q: Serviceability means the system quickly transforms to support environmental changes.

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

Q: Maintainability means the system functions correctly and provides accurate information.

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

Q: Reliability is a system weakness that can be exploited by a threat.

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

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

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

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

Q: Unavailability occurs when a system is continuously operational at all times.

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

Q: 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.

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

Q: 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.

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

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

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

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

Q: 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.

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

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

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

Q: An emergency contains all of the details of an incident.

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

Q: Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.

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

Q: Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

Q: Business continuity planning identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them.