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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. In order to manage their relationship with an outsourcer or technology service provider, firms need a contract that includes a(n):
2. 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:
3. All of the following place strain on system capacity, except for:
4. In client/server computing, the client is:
5. Which of the following storage technology stores data sequentially?
6. The use of multiple computers linked by a communications network for processing is called:
7. Software that organizes, manages, and processes business data, such as data concerned with inventory, customers, and vendors, is called:
8. 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?
9. A set of self-contained services that communicate with each other to create a working software application is called:
10. 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 best describes:
11. A widget is a(n):
12. Linux plays a major role in back office operations, with about ________ of the U.S. server market.
13. Which is the most recent Windows operating system?
14. Which of the following is a type of optical disk storage?
15. Running a Java program on a computer requires:
16. ChicagoCrime.org, which combines Google Maps with crime data for the city of Chicago, is an example of:
17. What type of device gathers data and converts them into electronic form for use by the computer?
18. An example of autonomic computing is:
19. Which of the following is a device used to collect data directly from the environment for input into a computer system?
20. What is the foundation technology for Web services?
21. In a multitiered network:
22. Which type of software provides more control over text and graphic placement in the layout of a page than word processing software?
23. The interactive, multiuser operating system developed by Bell Laboratories in 1969 to be highly supportive of communications and networking is:
24. Microsoft Word is an example of:
25. The business case for using grid computing involves all of the following except: