Question 1

What is an information MIS infrastructure?
A)identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured
B)includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization's goals
C)identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption
D)includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets

Accepted Answer

Information MIS infrastructure identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured.

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 3

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.

Accepted Answer

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 4

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 5

What consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system?
A)hardware
B)software
C)client
D)server

Accepted Answer

Hardware consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system.

Question 6

Cloud bursting is 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.

Accepted Answer

Cloud bursting is 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 7

Which of the following is a benefit of a solid MIS infrastructure?
A)reduces costs
B)improves productivity
C)optimizes business operations
D)All of these are correct.

Accepted Answer

The MIS infrastructure includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets.A solid MIS infrastructure can reduce costs, improve productivity, optimize operations, generate growth, and increase profits.It protects systems from failures or crashes.

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 9

What is a computer designed to request information from a server?
A)hardware
B)software
C)client
D)server

Accepted Answer

A client is a computer designed to request information from a server.

Question 10

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.

Accepted Answer

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 11

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 13

What is the difference between hardware and software?
A)Hardware is the physical devices associated with a computer system, where software is the instructions the hardware executes to carry out tasks.
B)They are both specific forms of clients.
C)Hardware executes the instructions to carry out tasks, where software is the physical devices associated with a computer system.
D)They are both specific forms of servers.

Accepted Answer

These are the definitions of hardware and software.

Question 14

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.

Accepted Answer

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 15

Who is a person who is grounded in technology, fluent in business, and able to provide the important bridge between MIS and the business?
A)MIS Infrastructure manager
B)MIS specialist
C)enterprise architect
D)enterprise manager

Accepted Answer

This is the definition of an enterprise architect.

Question 16

What is an agile MIS infrastructure?
A)identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured
B)includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization's goals
C)identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption
D)includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets

Accepted Answer

Agile MIS Infrastructure includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization's goals.

Question 17

What is a communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standard methodology in which they can communicate?
A)network
B)software
C)client
D)server

Accepted Answer

Network is a communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standard methodology in which they can communicate.

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 20

What is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks?
A)hardware
B)software
C)client
D)server

Accepted Answer

Software is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.

Quiz 5: Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies

What is an information MIS infrastructure?

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

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.

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

What consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system?

Cloud bursting is 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.

Which of the following is a benefit of a solid MIS infrastructure?

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

What is a computer designed to request information from a server?

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.

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

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

What is the difference between hardware and software?

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.

Who is a person who is grounded in technology, fluent in business, and able to provide the important bridge between MIS and the business?

What is an agile MIS infrastructure?

What is a communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standard methodology in which they can communicate?

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

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

What is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks?