Question 1

Today, many business firms continue to operate their legacy systems that meet a business need and would be costly to replace.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

A small design agency you are consulting for will be creating client Web sites and wants to purchase a Web server so they can host the sites themselves. How will you advise them on this purchase?

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They need to understand total cost of ow...

Question 3

The development of TCP/IP occurred during the ________ era.

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A)   cloud and mobile computing
B)   general-purpose mainframe and minicomputer
C)   client/server era
D)   personal computer
E)   enterprise computingF) A) and B)
G) All of the above

Question 4

Linux is

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A)   primarily concerned with the tasks of end users.
B)   designed for specific machines and specific microprocessors.
C)   an example of open-source software.
D)   especially useful for processing numeric data.
E)   poorly suited to power fast computers.F) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

Question 5

What is the foundation technology for Web services?

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A)   XML
B)   HTML
C)   SOAP
D)   UDDI
E)   SCSIF) B) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 6

________ are computers consisting of a circuit board with processors, memory, and network connections that are stored in racks.

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A)   Mainframes
B)   Rack servers
C)   Cloud servers
D)   Hybrid servers
E)   Blade serversF) B) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 7

Software that manages the resources of the computer is called

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A)   operating system software.
B)   application software.
C)   data management software.
D)   network software.
E)   partitioning software.F) A) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 8

The practice of contracting custom software development to an outside firm is commonly referred to as

Accepted Answer

A)   outsourcing.
B)   scaling.
C)   service-oriented architecture.
D)   application integration.
E)   utility computing.F) A) and C)
G) B) and D)

Question 9

Quantum computing is implemented primarily with enterprise or ISP servers.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Briefly explain why corporations are increasingly interested in using Unix or Linux for their operating system.

Accepted Answer

Linux is an inexpensive and robust open-...

Question 11

Explain why standards are so important in information technology. What standards have been important for the growth of Internet technologies?

Accepted Answer

Standards are important because they res...

Question 12

Legacy systems are still used because they

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A)   can only be run on the older mainframe computers.
B)   are too expensive to redesign.
C)   integrate well using new Web services technologies.
D)   contain valuable data that would be lost during redesign.
E)   incorporate cloud technologies.F) D) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 13

The collection of Web services that are used to build a firm's software systems constitutes what is known as a service-oriented architecture.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

The marketplace for computer hardware

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A)   has become increasingly concentrated in top firms.
B)   has expanded to include a wide variety of start-up and mobile-computing firms.
C)   has moved significantly to Asian firms.
D)   has been decimated by mobile and cloud computing.
E)   has begun moving away from blade servers.F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

Question 15

Which model can be used to analyze the direct and indirect costs to help firms determine the actual cost of specific technology implementations?

Accepted Answer

A)   supply and demand
B)   return on investment
C)   breakeven point
D)   cost-benefit analysis
E)   total cost of ownershipF) All of the above
G) C) and D)

Question 16

Which of the following is not one of the NIST defined characteristics of cloud computing?

Accepted Answer

A)   ubiquitous network access
B)   location-independent resource pooling
C)   on-demand self service
D)   measured service
E)   reduced elasticityF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 17

Whereas HTML is limited to describing how data should be presented in the form of Web pages, XML can perform presentation, communication, and data storage tasks.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The decision to purchase your own IT assets or rent them from external providers is also referred to as the rent-versus-buy decision.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

________ allows a single computing resource, such as a server, to appear to the user as multiple logical resources.

Accepted Answer

A)   Cloud computing
B)   Virtualization
C)   Quantum computing
D)   Nanotechnology
E)   Utility computingF) All of the above
G) B) and E)

Question 20

TCO refers to the original cost of purchased technology:
 both hardware and software.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

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