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- 1. Multiple Choice
1) Software that manages the resources of the computer is called:
A) system software.
B) application software.
C) data management software
D) network software.
E) web services software.
- 2. Multiple Choice
2) Software used to apply the computer to a specific task for an end user is called:
A) system software.
B) application software.
C) data management software.
D) network software.
E) web services software.
- 3. Multiple Choice
3) Software that organizes, manages, and processes business data, such as data concerned with inventory, customers, and vendors, is called:
A) system software.
B) application software.
C) data management software
D) network software.
E) web services software.
- 4. Multiple Choice
4) Which of the following is an example of a legacy system?
A) Transaction processing system running on a mainframe
B) Scalable grid computing system
C) Web services running on a cloud computing platform
D) MDM software
E) Quantum computing system
- 5. Multiple Choice
5) A firm's IT infrastructure provides the foundation for supporting all the information systems in the business.
TRUE
FALSE
- 6. Multiple Choice
6) Today, most system and application software is custom built by in-house programmers.
TRUE
FALSE
- 7. Multiple Choice
7) Systems integration means ensuring the legacy systems work with new elements of the infrastructure.
TRUE
FALSE
- 8. Multiple Choice
9) In a ________ computing model, companies use their own infrastructure for essential computing tasks and adopt public cloud computing for less critical operations or additional processing during peak business periods.
A) scalable
B) quantum
C) grid
D) hybrid cloud
E) private cloud
- 9. Multiple Choice
10) What would be a reason for using a workstation rather than a personal computer?
A) When you need more powerful computational abilities
B) When you need to access a network
C) When you need to serve applications and data to client computers
D) When you need to share resources
E) When you need to connect to a cloud computing platform
- 10. Multiple Choice
11) Which of the following types of computer would you use to support a computer network?
A) Server
B) Mainframe
C) Workstation
D) PC
E) Tablet
- 11. Multiple Choice
12) Which of the following types of computer is used for weather forecasting on a national or worldwide scale?
A) Mainframe
B) Server
C) Minicomputer
D) Supercomputer
E) PC
- 12. Multiple Choice
13) Connecting geographically remote computers in a single network to create a "virtual supercomputer" is called:
A) co-location.
B) cloud computing.
C) grid computing
D) client/server computing.
E) centralized processing
- 13. Multiple Choice
14) The use of multiple computers linked by a communications network for processing is called:
A) grid computing
B) distributed processing
C) client/server computing
D) centralized processing
E) supercomputing
- 14. Multiple Choice
15) The business case for using grid computing involves all of the following except:
A) cost savings.
B) centralized maintenance.
C) speed of computation.
D) agility.
E) increased computational power.
- 15. Multiple Choice
16) Which of the following statements about client/server computing is not true?
A) The client provides the user interface.
B) The bulk of processing occurs on the client.
C) Computing on the Internet is based on the client/server model.
D) The client is normally a desktop or laptop computer.
E) The server provides security, remote access, and user authentication.
- 16. Multiple Choice
17) In a multitiered network:
A) the work of the entire network is centralized.
B) the work of the entire network is balanced over several levels of servers.
C) processing is split between clients and servers.
D) processing is handled by multiple, geographically remote clients.
E) users interface with the server rather than the client.
- 17. Multiple Choice
18) A client computer networked to a server computer, with processing split between the two types of machines, is called a(n) ________ architecture.
A) service-oriented
B) on-demand
C) multitiered client/server
D) two-tiered client/server
E) grid
- 18. Multiple Choice
19) The primary storage technologies are:
A) storage networks, magnetic tape, magnetic disk, and optical disk.
B) hard drives, magnetic tape, magnetic disk, and optical disk.
C) storage networks, magnetic disks, hard disks, and optical disks.
D) hard drives, removable drives, storage networks, and magnetic tape
E) flash drives, SSDs, storage networks and magnetic disks
- 19. Multiple Choice
20) Which of the following is a type of optical disc storage?
A) CD-ROM
B) Hard drive
C) USB flash drive
D) Magnetic tape
E) SSD
- 20. Multiple Choice
21) Which of the following storage technology stores data sequentially?
A) CD-ROM
B) RAID
C) Magnetic disks
D) Magnetic tape
E) USB flash drive
- 21. Multiple Choice
22) Which of the following is a high-speed network dedicated to storage that connects different kinds of storage devices, such as tape libraries and disk arrays so they can be shared by multiple servers?
A) SSN
B) ASP
C) LAN
D) SAN
E) Grid
- 22. Multiple Choice
23) What type of device gathers data and converts them into electronic form for use by the computer?
A) Output device
B) Input device
C) Optical storage
D) Magnetic storage
E) SAN
- 23. Multiple Choice
24) Which of the following devices collects data directly from the environment for input into a computer system?
A) Sensor
B) Touch screen
C) Audio input
D) Trackball
E) Digital scanner
- 24. Multiple Choice
25) Which of the following is not a type of output device?
A) Speakers
B) Cathode ray tube
C) Ink jet printer
D) Keyboard
- 25. Multiple Choice
26) Virtualization:
A) allows one operating system to manage several physical machines
B) has enabled microprocessor manufacturers to reduce the size of transistors to the width of an atom.
C) can boost server utilization rates to 70% or higher
D) allows smartphones to run full-fledged operating systems.
- 26. Multiple Choice
27) Which of the following statements is not true about cloud computing?
A) It is the fastest-growing form of computing
B) It removes the concern about data and systems security for businesses
C) It allows smaller firms to use resources previously unaffordable
D) It relies on the Internet as the platform for delivering services to users
- 27. Multiple Choice
28) Which of the following is not an essential characteristic of cloud computing?
A) On-demand self-service
B) Rapid elasticity
C) Measured service
D) Open source software
- 28. Multiple Choice
29) ________ describes the practices and technologies used to minimize the environmental effects of manufacturing and managing computing devices.
A) Capacity planning
B) Cloud computing
C) Green computing
D) Utility computing
- 29. Multiple Choice
32) Which of the following is not an example of the consumerization of IT?
A) Google Apps
B) Dropbox
C) Facebook
D) Gmail
E) Amazon Web Services
- 30. Multiple Choice
33) All of the following are examples of wearable computing devices except:
A) smartwatches.
B) smart badges.
C) activity trackers.
D) smart glasses.
E) smartphones.
- 31. Multiple Choice
34) All of the following are features of smartwatches except a(n):
A) accelerometer
B) altimeter
C) compass.
D) gyrometer
E) barometer.
- 32. Multiple Choice
35) Which of the following is considered to be the fastest growing form of computing?
A) Wearable computing
B) Green computing
C) Nanocomputing
D) Cloud computing
- 33. Multiple Choice
50) Which of the following is an interactive, multiuser operating system developed by Bell Laboratories in 1969 to be highly supportive of communications and networking?
A) UNIX
B) Linux
C) OS X
D) COBOL
- 34. Multiple Choice
51) Linux is:
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.
- 35. Multiple Choice
53) Which of the following is a visual programming tool and environment for creating applications that run on Microsoft Windows operating systems?
A) Java
B) C++
C) XML
D) Visual Basic
- 36. Multiple Choice
54) The toy manufacturer you work for wants to exchange data with a chain of toy stores in order to improve its distribution and speed to market. The toy stores use different software than your firm. Which of the following tools or technologies presents the best solution?
A) Mashups
B) Extranet
C) Web services
D) Cloud computing
- 37. Multiple Choice
56) Microsoft Word is an example of:
A) open-source software
B) word-processing software
C) software productivity suite
D) data management software
- 38. Multiple Choice
57) Which of the following statements about Linux is not true?
A) Linux is a UNIX-like operating system
B) Linux plays a major role in running web servers and local area networks
C) Linux is the primary OS used in quantum computing
D) Linux is a robust alternative to Windows operating systems
- 39. Multiple Choice
58) Microsoft Excel is an example of:
A) data management software
B) spreadsheet software
C) presentation graphics
D) word processing software
- 40. Multiple Choice
59) Which type of software provides more control over text and graphic placement in the layout of a page than word processing software?
A) Desktop publishing software
B) Spreadsheet software
C) Graphics software
D) Presentation software
- 41. Multiple Choice
60) The main challenge coming to Microsoft's Office software suite will be:
A) open-source, Linux-based suites such as OpenOffice
B) cloud-based productivity software such as Google Docs and Google Apps.
C) mobile software.
D) in-house, custom software created using open-source web services
- 42. Multiple Choice
61) Running a Java program on a computer requires:
A) a Java Virtual Machine to be installed on the computer.
B) a Java Virtual Machine to be installed on the server hosting the Java applet.
C) an applet to be downloaded to the user's computer.
D) no extra or specialized software, as Java is platform-independent
- 43. Multiple Choice
62) What is the foundation technology for web services?
A) HTML
B) XML
C) SOAP
D) UDDI
- 44. Multiple Choice
63) A(n) ________ is a set of self-contained services that communicate with each other to create a working software application.
A) web service
B) hybrid cloud
C) SOA
D) ERP
- 45. Multiple Choice
64) ZipRealty, which combines Google Maps with real estate data, is an example of:
A) cloud computing
B) SOA
C) a widget.
D) a mashup
- 46. Multiple Choice
65) Software applications that combine different components of online software applications are referred to as:
A) integrated software
B) widgets
C) mashups
D) grid computing
- 47. Multiple Choice
66) Which of the following software tools would you use to prepare a break-even analysis?
A) Word processing
B) Spreadsheet
C) Desktop publishing
D) Personal information management
- 48. Multiple Choice
67) Which of the following is an open-source operating system designed for mobile devices?
A) iOS
B) OS X
C) Chrome
D) Android
- 49. Multiple Choice
68) ________ is an operating system-independent, processor-independent, object-oriented programming language that has become a leading interactive programming environment for the web
A) XML
B) SOA
C) HTML
D) Java
- 50. Multiple Choice
69) ________ is free software created and updated by a worldwide community of programmers.
A) An app
B) Open-source software
C) Cloud-based software
D) A web service
- 51. Multiple Choice
70) The ability of a person booking a flight on Southwest.com's website to reserve a car from Dollar Rent-A-Car without having to leave the airline's website is an example of the usage by Dollar Rent-A-Car and Southwest Airlines of which of the following?
A) Cloud computing
B) Web services
C) Nanotechnology
D) SaaS
- 52. Multiple Choice
83) Which of the following refers to the ability of a computer, product, or system to expand to serve a larger number of users without breaking down?
A) Modifiability
B) Scalability
C) Expandability
D) Disintermediation
- 53. Multiple Choice
84) To analyze the direct and indirect costs and determine the actual cost of specific technology implementations, you would use a:
A) total cost of ownership model
B) return on investment model.
C) break-even point.
D) cost benefit analysis
- 54. Multiple Choice
85) Translating software to different languages is commonly referred to as:
A) software localization.
B) scaling.
C) service-oriented architecture.
D) outsourcing.
- 55. Multiple Choice
86) In order to manage their relationship with an outsourcer or technology service provider, firms need a contract that includes a(n):
A) TCO
B) SOA.
C) SLA.
D) API
- 56. Multiple Choice
87) In co-location, a firm:
A) purchases and owns its web server but locates the server in the physical facility of a hosting service
B) contracts with an external vendor to run its computer center and networks
C) off-loads peak demand for computing power to remote, large-scale data centers
D) utilizes an external, distributed computing grid
- 57. Multiple Choice
88) You use ________ to predict when a computer hardware system becomes saturated.
A) capacity planning
B) virtualization
C) localization
D) measured service
- 58. Multiple Choice
89) An analyst asked to perform capacity planning for a system would need to take into account all of the following factors except:
A) the maximum number of users a system can accommodate at one time.
B) the minimum response time for processing business transactions
C) the impact of future software applications
D) the purchase price of new computer hardware equipment
E) the volume of transactions
- 59. Multiple Choice
90) An analyst asked to perform a TCO analysis for a system would need to take into account all of the following factors except:
A) the minimum response time for processing business transactions
B) lost productivity if hardware or software failures cause the system to be unavailable for processing and user tasks
C) real estate and utility costs for housing and providing power for the technology
D) the purchase or license of software for each user
E) the cost to provide training to information systems specialists and end users
- 60. Multiple Choice
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