Question 1

The greatest strategic advantage of cloud solutions is that they increase an organization's __________,or ability to quickly implement IT for competitive advantage.

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Question 2

The central feature of a ________ is a model or formula that enables sensitivity analysis,what-if analysis,goal seeking,and/or risk analysis.

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Question 3

____________ virtualization combines the available resources in a network by splitting the network load into manageable parts,each of which can be assigned (or reassigned)to a particular server on the network.

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Question 4

A ___________ is a general purpose IS designed to provide reports to managers for tracking operations,monitoring and control.

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Question 5

Companies or government agencies that need greater security and data confidentiality set up their own clouds on servers that they own.These are called __________.

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Question 6

Payroll transactions are processed together using _________ processing

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Question 7

___________ virtualization is the pooling of physical storage from multiple network storage devices into what appears to be a single storage device that is managed from a central console.

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Question 8

An Information System (IS)is part of an organizational culture that consists of the IS,business processes,and _________.

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Question 9

___________virtualization is the use of software to emulate hardware or a total computer environment other than the one the software is actually running in.

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Question 10

____________ is a technique that creates a virtualization layer and multiple virtual machines (VM)that run on a single physical machine.

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Question 11

The type of information system which organizes and presents data from both internal and external sources in an easy to use dashboard format is called _________.

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Question 12

A ________ is an interactive application that aids managers in making decisions that would otherwise require a great deal of time to figure out.

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Question 13

Data from sales orders,payroll,accounting,financial,marketing,purchasing,inventory control,and so forth are processed by a combination of hardware and software called ___________.

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Question 14

The cloud computing ___________ consists of SaaS,PaaS,and IaaS.

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Question 15

_________ serve as the formal or informal contract or agreement defining the relationships between an organization and a vendor (supplier of cloud services).

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Question 16

Data Virtualization has led to a new type of facility called the _______,which optimizes the use of resources,balances workloads,and maximizes operational efficiency by dynamically distributing workloads and provisioning networks.

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Question 17

The functional difference between a DSS and an MIS is that a DSS contains models that use information to make decisions while an MIS is used to create ____________ from data.

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Question 18

Financial and airline reservations systems use ________ processing.

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Question 19

_____________ solutions are growing in popularity with organizations because they reduce the burden of deploying,provisioning,and updating software apps.

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Question 20

______________ apps are typically accessed over a network using a Web browser (no hardware or software to install)and paid for by a fixed subscription fee or on a per-use basis.

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Quiz 2: Information Systems, IT Architecture, Data Governance, and Cloud Computing