Deck 4: The Relentless Distribution of Information Technology

Question 1

Throughout the 1980's networks of PC's known as Local Area Networks or LAN's became a widespread and increasingly important computing platform in organizations of all sizes.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The internal application of TCP/IP is known as what?

A) Intranet
B) Internet
C) Extranet
D) Intralnet

Answer 2

Intranet

Question 3

Which of the following describes the central problem in managing information systems functions within organizations?

A) How to effectively deliver services
B) How to allow access to distributed resources
C) How to maintain control of resources
D) How to integrate software and hardware infrastructures

Answer 3

How to effectively deliver services
How to allow access to distributed resources
How to maintain control of resources

Question 4

According to the text, which of the following best describes connectivity?

A) ability of computer system to connect to network
B) ability of computer system to connect to network and exchange information
C) ability of computer system to access network and transfer information
D) ability of computer system to access network, transfer information, and update information

Question 5

Which of the following is a major drawback to a globalized and mobilized workforce?

A) Lack of centralization
B) Diversified Software requirements
C) Lack of connectivity
D) Lack of availability

Question 6

Evaluation of the performance of an information system is dependent on which of the following factors:

A) user expectations
B) number of users
C) number of managers
D) management expectations

Question 7

Which of the following is a generic solution to the challenge of performance?

A) scalable solutions
B) reliable solutions
C) transparent solutions
D) server solutions

Question 8

If a company specifies that all desktops must use a certain operation system, software, and institute a directory service, what are they trying to achieve?

A) Performance gain
B) Transparency
C) Connectivity gain
D) Performance homogeneity

Question 9

According to the text a directory is

A) A comprehensive catalog of users
B) A comprehensive catalog of users and hardware files
C) A comprehensive catalog of users, IT resources, security information and roles
D) A basic tree structure used to traverse the system software

Question 10

The most successful strategy for security involves which of the following?

A) Users
B) Roles
C) Models
D) Resources

Question 11

Redundancy is the most common and dependable way to ensure reliability into a system.

Question 12

Redundancy is the most inconsistent and unpredictable way to ensure reliability into a system.

Question 13

Failover is the mechanism that redirects access or processing in the event of a failure to a working resource.

Question 14

Failover is the mechanism that directs access of users in the event of a failure to a stored procedure.

Question 15

Which of the following is the best way to achieve scalability of an information system?

A) dividing computing services into focused roles
B) combining hardware to create a centralized infrastructure
C) dividing software components into functional services
D) thinking about the future of computing systems

Question 16

The simplest way to achieve load balancing is to:

A) maintain a list of available servers and pass incoming requests to those servers
B) distribute the load of data transfer to a single server with high capacity
C) buy the latest load balancing software
D) institute single tier architecture

Question 17

OLTP stands for what?

A) online transfer processing
B) online transaction processing
C) online temporary processing
D) online processing transaction

Question 18

The presentation layer of an n-tier architecture does not contain which of the following

A) Browser
B) Database
C) Processing Applications
D) Web Services

Question 19

Which of the following would support having the data tier on one physical server?

A) splitting data is error prone
B) splitting data is highly complex
C) data is not highly integrated
D) functionally-orientated legacy systems

Question 20

Distributed information systems require greater:

A) training
B) support
C) investment
D) network administration

Question 21

Building an IT infrastructure requires:

A) short-term view
B) long-term view
C) senior-level commitment
D) company partner commitment

Question 22

Which of the following are architecture NO-NO's?

A) Trying to standardize everything
B) Choosing a technologist to lead the project
C) Making financial ROI the top goal
D) Confusing architecture with another technology project

Question 23

A 3-tier Client/Server architecture consists of which of the following?

A) Presentation tier
B) Business Logic Tier
C) Business Logistics Tier
D) Data Tier

Question 24

The presentation Layer is sometimes referred to as a client.

Question 25

If the amount of activity on the presentation layer is minimal the tier is referred to as a fat client.