Deck 29: B: Extension: A Sustainable Mis Infrastructures

Question 1

Corporate social responsibility is a company's acknowledged responsibility to society.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

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

Answer 2

True

Question 3

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

Answer 3

True

Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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.

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

Ewaste reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product.

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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.

Question 13

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

Question 14

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.

Question 15

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

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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.

Question 21

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

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.

Question 24

Single-tenancy occurs 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.

Question 25

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

Question 26

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

Question 27

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.

Question 28

Multitenancy occurs in which each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system.

Question 29

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

Question 30

Dynamic scaling means the MIS infrastructure can be automatically scaled up or down based on needed requirements.

Question 31

Virtualization offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

Question 32

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

Question 33

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

Question 34

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

Question 35

Multitenancy occurs 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.

Question 36

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

Question 37

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

Question 38

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

Question 39

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

Question 40

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

Question 41

Cloud fabric controller is an individual that monitors and provisions cloud resources similar to a server administrator at an individual company.

Question 42

Public cloud promotes massive, global, industry wide applications offered to the general public.In a public cloud, customers are never required to provision, manage, upgrade, or replace hardware or software.

Question 43

Cloud bursting 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.

Question 44

Gordon Moore, the cofounder of Intel, established which MIS law?

A)Intel's Law
B)Gordon's Law
C)Moore's Law
D)Lee's Law

Question 45

Hybrid cloud serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations.

Question 46

Private cloud serves only one customer or organization and can be located on the customer's premises or off the customer's premises.

Question 47

Corporate social responsibility is a company's acknowledged responsibility to __________.

A)Shareholders
B)Employees
C)Society
D)Governments

Question 48

What describes the production, management, use, and disposal of technology in a way that minimizes damage to the environment?

A)Environmental MIS
B)Holistic MIS
C)The green designation for technology
D)Sustainability or green MIS

Question 49

What is a company's acknowledged responsibility to society?

A)Corporate social responsibility
B)Employees social responsibility
C)Society social responsibility
D)Government social responsibility

Question 50

Cloud fabric is the software that makes the benefits of cloud computing possible, such as multitenancy.

Question 51

Singletenancy occurs in which each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system.

Question 52

Sustainable MIS is a critical part of _____________ within a company.

A)Company standard for the green initiative
B)Corporate social responsibility
C)Social expectations
D)Society concerns

Question 53

Which of the following reflects Moore's law?

A)The doubling of computer chip performance per dollar every two years.
B)A company's ability to acquire small amounts of MIS equipment for cheaper cost.
C)A company's ability to acquire small amounts of capital for spending on innovative ideas every two years
D)The doubling of computer chip performance per dollar every six months.

Question 54

Utility computing offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity.

Question 55

Community cloud serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations.

Question 56

What is clean computing?

A)A subset of sustainable MIS referring to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment.
B)Technology built using environmentally friendly materials and designed to save energy.
C)Reuse or refurbishing of ewaste and creation of a new product.
D)A company's acknowledged responsibility to society.

Question 57

Community cloud 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.

Question 58

Miranda White likes taking old computer parts and remaking them into products like earrings and clocks.Which of the following represents what Miranda is doing?

A)Upcycle
B)Recycle
C)Ewaste
D)Sustainable MIS

Question 59

Cloud computing offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity.

Question 60

Hybrid cloud 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.

Question 61

The sustainable infrastructure pressure of increased energy consumption poses new and growing pressure.The energy consumed by a computer is estimated to produce as much as 10% of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a __________.

A)House
B)School
C)Car
D)Cell phone

Question 62

The increased demand in technology devices has caused an increase in discarded devices, a phenomenon known as ________.

A)Ewaste
B)Grid computing
C)Ergonomic code
D)Electronic sustainability

Question 63

What is a subset of sustainable MIS referring to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment?

A)Clean computing
B)Green personal computer
C)Upcycle
D)Corporate social responsibility

Question 64

What refers to the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle?

A)Ewaste
B)Energy consumption
C)Carbon emissions
D)Sustainable MIS

Question 65

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

Question 66

What are the ramifications of improper electronic recycling, when analyzing the example of a single desktop computer?

A)One computer contains more than 700 chemicals that can be toxic to the environment.
B)Computers in landfills can leak these toxic chemicals into our land, water, and air.
C)Computers contain high levels of mercury, lead, and cadmium-harmful toxins.
D)All of these.

Question 67

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

Question 68

What is corporate social responsibility?

A)A subset of sustainable MIS referring to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment.
B)A company's acknowledged responsibility to society.
C)Reuse or refurbishing of ewaste and creation of a new product.
D)Storage, management, and processing of data and applications over the Internet rather than on a personal computer or server.

Question 69

What refers to discarded, obsolete, or broken electronic devices?

A)Ewaste
B)Energy consumption
C)Carbon emissions
D)Sustainable MIS

Question 70

What is built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy?

A)Clean computing
B)Green personal computer
C)Upcycle
D)Corporate social responsibility

Question 71

What are the three pressures driving sustainable MIS infrastructures?

A)Decreases in electronic waste, energy waste, and carbon emissions.
B)Increases in ewaste, energy waste, and dynamic scaling.
C)Increases in electronic waste, energy waste, and carbon emissions.
D)Decreases in ewaste, energy waste, and carbon footprints.

Question 72

Cheap electricity is great for keeping business energy costs down, but this means that we have to rely more on ____________ for power.

A)Cars
B)Coal
C)Gasoline
D)All of these

Question 73

What is a green personal computer?

A)A subset of sustainable MIS referring to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment.
B)Technology built using environmentally friendly materials and designed to save energy.
C)Reuse or refurbishing of ewaste and creation of a new product.
D)A company's acknowledged responsibility to society.

Question 74

What is the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle called?

A)Sustainable MIS disposal
B)Sustainable device disposal
C)Sustainable software disposal
D)Sustainable enterprise disposal

Question 75

What is upcycle?

A)A subset of sustainable MIS referring to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment.
B)Technology built using environmentally friendly materials and designed to save energy.
C)Reuse or refurbishing of ewaste and creation of a new product.
D)Storage, management, and processing of data and applications over the Internet rather than on a personal computer or server.

Question 76

Which of the following are features of 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

Question 77

What is the amount of energy consumed by business processes and systems?

A)Ewaste
B)Energy consumption
C)Carbon emissions
D)Sustainable MIS

Question 78

Which of the following is not contributing to ewaste?

A)VCR
B)Automobile
C)Microwave
D)Computer

Question 79

What reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product?

A)Clean computing
B)Green personal computer
C)Upcycle
D)Corporate social responsibility

Question 80

What is a company's acknowledged responsibility to society?

A)Cloud computing
B)Clean computer
C)Upcycle
D)Corporate social responsibility