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Management Information Systems (MIS) Practice Test: IT Infrastructure: Hardware and Software
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Management Information Systems (MIS) Practice Test: IT Infrastructure: Hardware and Software
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1. Purchasing computing power from a central computing service and paying only for the amount of computing power used is commonly referred to as:
2. Microsoft Excel is an example of:
3. Software applications that combine different online software applications are referred to as:
4. What would be a reason for using a workstation rather than a personal computer?
5. Running a Java program on a computer requires:
6. The primary storage technologies are:
7. An industry-wide effort to develop systems that can configure, optimize, tune, and heal themselves when broken, and protect themselves from outside intruders and self-destruction is called:
8. The interactive, multiuser operating system developed by Bell Laboratories in 1969 to be highly supportive of communications and networking is:
9. In co-location, a firm:
10. Which of the following is not one of the most important four programming languages for business?
11. Software that manages the resources of the computer is called:
12. Which is the most recent Windows operating system?
13. Which of the following is a type of optical disk storage?
14. 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?
15. All of the following place strain on system capacity, except for:
16. Which of the following types of computer is used for weather forecasting?
17. A widget is a(n):
18. What is the foundation technology for Web services?
19. Which of the following storage technology stores data sequentially?
20. The business case for using grid computing involves all of the following except:
21. Which technology allows a client and server to exchange small pieces of data behind the scene so that an entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user requests a change?
22. To analyze the direct and indirect costs and determine the actual cost of specific technology implementations, you would use a:
23. Connecting geographically remote computers in a single network to create a virtual supercomputer" is called:"
24. Languages that enable a user to make requests using conversational commands resembling human speech are called:
25. Which of the following is a device used to collect data directly from the environment for input into a computer system?