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    Chapters 5.1 and 5.2

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    An MIS ___________ includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets.

    infrastructure

    _________ consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system, and software is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.

    Hardware

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

    Client

    What is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests?

    Server

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

    Enterprise architect

    Select three information MIS infrastructure components.

    Backup,
    Business continuity planning,
    Disaster recovery

    Select two accurate statements in relation to MIS infrastructure.

    Software is the set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks., Hardware consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system.

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

    Agile

    ____________ MIS infrastructure identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption?

    Sustainable

    A ________ is an exact copy of a system's information.

    backup

    What 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?

    Recovery

    __________ tolerance is the ability for a system to respond to unexpected failures or system crashes as the backup system immediately and automatically takes over with no loss of service.

    Fault

    What 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?

    Failover

    What occurs when the primary machine recovers and resumes operations, taking over from the secondary server?

    Failback

    True or false: Companies should choose a backup and recovery strategy in line with their goals and operational needs.

    True

    A ___________ recovery plan is a detailed process for recovering information or a system in the event of a catastrophic disaster.

    disaster

    What is a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business?

    Hot site

    A(n) _________ site is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.

    cold

    A(n) __________ site is a separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.

    warm

    Select two items a disaster recovery cost curve charts.

    The cost to the company of recovering from a disaster over time.
    The cost to the company of the unavailability of information and technology

    What is a sudden, unexpected event requiring immediate action due to potential threat to health and safety, the environment, or property?

    Emergency

    What ensures a company is ready to respond to an emergency in an organized, timely, and effective manner?

    Emergency preparedness

    A business _________ analysis identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them.

    impact

    What is an infrastructure built for notifying people in the event of an emergency?

    Emergency notification service

    What occurs when the ability of a company to operate is impaired because of a hardware, software, or data outage?

    Technology failure

    Business ____________ planning details how a company recovers and restores critical business operations and systems after a disaster or extended disruption.

    continuity

    A(n) __________ is an unplanned interruption of a service.

    incident

    An incident ___________ contains all of the details of an incident.

    record

    What is the process responsible for managing how incidents are identified and corrected?

    Incident management

    Technology _________ strategies focus specifically on prioritizing the order for restoring hardware, software, and data across the organization that best meets business recovery requirements.

    recovery

    ___________ refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system.

    Accessibility

    What is unrestricted access to the entire system?

    Administrator access

    What means that people with disabilities, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities, can use the web?

    Web accessibility

    What brings together people from industry, disability organizations, government, and research labs from around the world to develop guidelines and resources to help make the web accessible to people with disabilities, including auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual disabilities?

    Web accessibility initiative (WAI)

    What is a system called when it is not operating and cannot be used?

    Unavailable

    What refers to how quickly a system can transform to support environmental changes?

    Maintainability

    What refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems?

    Portability

    ___________ ensures a system is functioning correctly and providing accurate information.

    Reliability

    What is a system weakness, such as a password that is never changed or a system left on while an employee goes to lunch, that can be exploited by a threat?

    Vulnerability

    ____________ availability occurs when a system is continuously operational at all times.

    High

    What describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth?

    Scalability

    What measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction?

    Performance

    ___________ represents the maximum throughput a system can deliver; for example, the capacity of a hard drive represents its size or volume.

    Capacity

    What determines future environmental infrastructure requirements to ensure high-quality system performance?

    Capacity planning

    Usability is the degree to which a system is easy to _______ and efficient and satisfying to use.

    learn

    ___________ is how quickly a third party can change a system to ensure it meets user needs and the terms of any contracts, including agreed levels of reliability, maintainability, or availability.

    Serviceability

    _______ Law refers to the computer chip performance per dollar doubles every 18 months.

    Moores

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

    Sustainable MIS

    What is a company's acknowledged responsibility to society?

    Corporate social responsibility

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

    Clean computing

    A _________ personal computer is built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy.

    green

    Select the three primary side effects of businesses' expanded use of technology.

    Increased carbon emissions
    Increased electronic waste
    Increased energy consumption

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

    Ewaste

    What reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product?

    upcycle

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

    Sustainable MIS disposal

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

    Energy consumption

    What includes the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide produced by business processes and systems?

    Carbon emissions

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

    Grid computing

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

    disposal

    A _______ grid delivers electricity using two-way digital technology. It is meant to solve the problem of the world's outdated electrical grid, making it more efficient and reliable by adding the ability to remotely monitor, analyze, and control the transmission of power.

    smart

    ___________ system creates a virtual version of computing resources, such as an operating system, a server, a storage device, or network resources.

    Virtualized

    Virtualization creates multiple "virtual" ______ on a single computing device.

    machines

    What combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device?

    Storage virtualzation

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

    Network

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

    Server

    What is a facility used to house management information systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems?

    Data center

    Select the three ways a data center can become more sustainable.

    Reduce energy consumption

    Find locations where resources are inexpensive, clean, and available

    Store greater amounts of information in less space

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

    Cloud

    What occurs in the cloud and means that a single instance of a system serves multiple customers?

    Multi-tenancy

    What refers to a multi-tenancy co-tenant that monopolizes bandwidth, servers, CPUs, and other resources that cause network performance issues?

    Noisy neighbor

    The cloud ___________ is the software that makes possible the benefits of cloud computing, such as multi-tenancy.

    fabric

    ____________-tenancy implies that each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system.

    Single

    Who is an individual who monitors and provisions cloud resources, similar to a server administrator at an individual company?

    Cloud fabric controller

    _________ cloud promotes massive, global, and industrywide applications offered to the general public.

    Public

    What serves only one customer or organization and can be located on the customer's premises or off the customer's premises?

    Private cloud

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

    Community

    A cloud _______ creates a standard way for cloud providers to simplify the process of gathering audit data and communicate how they address security, governance, and compliance.

    audit

    ___________ 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.

    Hybrid

    What occurs when a company uses its own computing infrastructure for normal usage and accesses the cloud when it needs to scale for peak load requirements, ensuring a sudden spike in usage does not result in poor performance or system crashes?

    Cloud bursting

    What offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity?

    Utility computing

    ____________ as a Service delivers hardware networking capabilities, including the use of servers, networking, and storage, over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model.

    Infrastructure

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

    Dynamic

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

    Disaster Recovery as a Service

    ___________ as a Service delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model.

    Software

    What facilitates the accessibility of business-critical data in a timely, secure, and affordable manner?

    Data as a Service

    What involves applications such as anti-virus software delivered over the Internet with constant virus definitions updates that are not reliant on user compliance?

    Security as a Service

    What offers enterprise communication and collaboration services over the Internet such as instant messaging systems, online meetings, and video conferencing?

    Unified Communications as a Service

    What supports the deployment of entire systems including hardware, networking, and applications using a pay-per-use revenue model?

    Platform as a Service

    What offers a cloud-based Big Data service to help organizations analyze massive amounts of data to solve business dilemmas?

    Big Data as a Service

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