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Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.
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A business impact analysis identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them.
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Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure.
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Business impact analysis details how a company recovers and restores critical business operations and systems after a disaster or extended disruption.
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Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.
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Emergency preparedness ensures a company is ready to respond to an emergency in an organized, timely, and effective manner.
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What occurs when a company uses its own computing infrastructure for normal usage and accesses the cloud when it needs to scale for high/peak load requirements ensuring a sudden spike in usage does not result in poor performance or system crashes?
A. community cloud
B. private cloud
C. cloud bursting
D. hybrid cloud
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An emergency is a sudden, unexpected event requiring immediate action due to potential threat to health and safety, the environment, or property.
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What 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. community cloud
B. private cloud
C. utility computing
D. hybrid cloud
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A cold site is a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.
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What serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations?
A. community cloud
B. private cloud
C. utility computing
D. hybrid cloud
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A warm site is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.
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What serves only one customer or organization and can be located on or off the customer's premises?
A. community cloud
B. private cloud
C. utility computing
D. public cloud
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A warm site is a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business.
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What promotes massive, global, industry-wide applications offered to the general public?
A. community cloud
B. private cloud
C. utility computing
D. public cloud
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A warm site is a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.
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What is platform as a service (PaaS)?
A. set up and storage systems including servers, and database management model
B. develops new programs for business on an ongoing basis
C. Salesforce.com is an example of PaaS.
D. supports the deployment of entire systems including hardware, networking, and applications using pay-per-use revenue model
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A cold site is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.
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Which cloud computing model offers applications on a pay-per-use basis?
A. infrastructure as a service
B. platform as a service
C. software as a service
D. information as a service
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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.
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What offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster?
A. server virtualization
B. network virtualization
C. disaster recovery as a service
D. storage virtualization
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Disasters such as power outages, fires, floods, hurricanes, and even malicious activities such as hackers and viruses strike companies every day. Disasters can have effects on disrupting communications, damaging physical infrastructures, halting transportation, and blocking utilities.
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What is disaster recovery as a service?
A. combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device
B. combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device
C. combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications
D. offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster
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Failback, a specific type of fault tolerance, occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data, and if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically directed to the secondary server or backup server.
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What offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity?
A. community cloud
B. private cloud
C. utility computing
D. public cloud
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Failover occurs when the primary machine recovers and resumes operations, taking over from the secondary server.
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What are the three cloud computing service delivery models?
A. independent as a service, supportive as a service, partnering as a service
B. infrastructure as a service, software as a service, platform as a service
C. innovation as a service, server as a service, platform as a service
D. intuit as a service, storage as a service, programming as a service
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Failover, a specific type of fault tolerance, occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data, and if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically directed to the secondary server or backup server. This is a high-speed and high-cost method of backup and recovery.
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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 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
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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.
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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. smart phones
C. utility computing
D. computing services
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A backup is an exact copy of a systems information.
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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. disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)
C. software as a Service (SaaS)
D. platform as a Service (PaaS)
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Failover backs up an exact copy of a systems information.
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What is the software that makes the benefits of cloud computing possible, such as multi-tenancy?
A. multi-tenancy
B. single-tenancy
C. cloud fabric
D. cloud fabric controller
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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.
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What in the cloud means that each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system?
A. multi-tenancy
B. single-tenancy
C. cloud fabric
D. cloud fabric controller
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Fault tolerance is an exact copy of a systems information.
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What in the cloud means that a single instance of a system serves multiple customers?
A. multi-tenancy
B. single-tenancy
C. cloud fabric
D. cloud fabric controller
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Failback occurs when the primary machine recovers and resumes operations, taking over from the secondary server.
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What is a challenge for cloud computing that could cause employee performance to decrease?
A. limited Internet features
B. required Internet connectivity
C. decreased dynamic scaling
D. decreased job stability
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The ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the company information is called a failover.
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Where would you categorize a cloud computing benefit that allows a customer to store fewer applications on a client computer, which frees up the memory allowing for increases in performance?
A. Internet features.
B. increased costs
C. increased performance
D. increased software updates
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If you want to support the environment, you will focus on building a strong, sustainable MIS infrastructure, which identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption.
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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 are correct.
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An enterprise architect is a person grounded in technology, fluent in business, and able to provide the important bridge between MIS and the business.
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What is a facility used to house management information systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems?
A. delivery base
B. central center
C. call center
D. data center
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Hardware is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.
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What stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the Internet rather than on a personal computer or server?
A. clean computing
B. cloud computing
C. upcycle
D. corporate social responsibility
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Software is a computer designed to request information from a server.
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What is cloud computing?
A. built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy
B. reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product
C. a companies acknowledged responsibility to society
D. stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the Internet rather than on a personal computer or server
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If you want to support organization change, you will focus on building a strong information MIS infrastructure, which identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured.
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What combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications?
A. server virtualization
B. network virtualization
C. disaster recovery as a service
D. storage virtualization
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If you want to support business operations, you will focus on building a strong information MIS infrastructure, which identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured.
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What combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device?
A. server virtualization
B. network virtualization
C. disaster recovery as a service
D. storage virtualization
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There are three primary areas where enterprise architects focus when maintaining a firms MIS infrastructure including information MIS infrastructure, agile MIS infrastructure, and sustainable MIS infrastructures.
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What combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device?
A. server virtualization
B. network virtualization
C. disaster recovery as a service
D. storage virtualization
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A good way to understand the clientserver 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).
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What is server virtualization?
A. combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device
B. combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device
C. combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications
D. offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster
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A client is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.
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What enables computers to run multiple operating systems and multiple software applications at the same time and creates multiple "virtual" machines all on a single computing device?
A. virtualization
B. innovation
C. availability
D. viral computing
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A server is a computer designed to request information from a client.
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What is network virtualization?
A. combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device
B. combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device
C. combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications
D. cffers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster
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A server is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.
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What is storage virtualization?
A. combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device
B. combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device
C. combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications
D. offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster
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A client is a computer designed to request information from a server.
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DreamWorks Animation Company used which sustainable infrastructure component to complete many of its films, including Shrek, Madagascar, and Antz?
A. agile computing
B. grid computing
C. cloud computing
D. server computing
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A network is a communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standard methodology in which they can communicate.
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Which of the following delivers electricity using two-way digital technology?
A. a smart grid
B. a systematic grid
C. a collective grid
D. an interactive grid
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Hardware is the set of instructions the software executes to carry out specific tasks.
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Grid computing takes advantage of the available 75% of unused processing power of a computer and links thousands of individual computers around the world creating a ________ that can process intensive tasks.
A. personal computer
B. employee client
C. company server
D. virtual supercomputer
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Software consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system, where hardware is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.
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With grid computing, a problem is broken into pieces and distributed to many machines, allowing ________ processing than could occur with a single system.
A. more accurate
B. slower
C. faster
D. cleaner
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Software is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.
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What includes the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, produced by business processes and systems?
A. ewaste
B. energy consumption
C. carbon emissions
D. sustainable MIS
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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.
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Which of the following sustainable infrastructure components is a collection of computers, often geographically dispersed, that are coordinated to solve a common problem?
A. cloud computing
B. grid computing
C. virtualized computing
D. database computing
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Every company, regardless of size, relies on some form of MIS infrastructure, whether it is a few personal computers networked together or many interconnected around the world.
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What is the amount of energy used by business processes and systems?
A. ewaste
B. energy consumption
C. carbon emissions
D. sustainable MIS
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MIS infrastructure is a communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standard methodology for communication.