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IT For Managers 101 Practice Test: Global Ecology, Ethics, and Social Responsibility
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IT For Managers 101 Practice Test: Global Ecology, Ethics, and Social Responsibility
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1. Better use of IT to shift away from energy-intensive work habits and lifestyles to low carbon habits and lifestyles depends on _____.
2. Data center virtualization means that servers are __________.
3. As analytics become a commodity, the real differentiators are __________ and the ability to make productive decisions.
4. Routers, switches, and modems operated by end users have been inefficient power guzzling machines mostly because __________.
5. Opponents of social media monitoring define it as __________.
6. Reduction in the total number of employees, reengineering of business processes, and the ability of lower-level employees to perform higher-level jobs may result in __________.
7. What is global warming?
8. Blogging to influence financial markets may be deemed by the FTC or SEC as a(n) __________, particularly when done by the CEO hiding his identity.
9. MTN Group is the mobile telecom company operating in Africa and the Middle East. MTN has reduced GHG emissions and costs by using __________ to run mobile base stations.
10. In environmental terms, a process or industry is __________ when it uses up natural resources faster than they can be replenished.
11. Carbon footprint refers to the amount of __________ emitted by a particular activity, industry, or value chain.
12. The “Next Generation Data Center” strategy is based on the ability to deliver and support secure IT applications through __________.
13. The IT sector is responsible for an estimated __________ of the global carbon footprint as a result of emissions from the energy used to run servers, computers, and other hardware.
14. Which is not one of the trends in the future of IT in organizations?
15. Why are mobile handsets a threat to the environment?
16. IT’s capability to introduce ever-growing amounts of data into our lives can exceed our capacity to keep up with the data, leading to __________.
17. The GSMA’s Green Power for Mobile (GPM) program has the goal of helping the mobile industry use renewable energy sources, such as __________ to power over 100,000 off-grid base stations in developing countries by 2012.
18. Technological and economic forces are prompting fresh approaches to systems development using __________ for competitive advantage.
19. Which does not describe issues or characteristics of information quality?
20. Bloomberg BusinessWeek (2008) reported that knowledge workers are distracted __________ at work—answering the phone, checking e-mail, responding to a text, or checking YouTube or Facebook.
21. There is a trend toward __________ because the adaptable IT framework makes it much easier to manage issues of cost, scale and agility.
22. Carbon footprint is typically measured in __________.
23. Which is not one of the characteristics or challenges associated with green IT?
24. The Internet is composed of huge numbers of power-consuming, heat-generating __________ running 24x7x365 worldwide and __________ that direct data packets over networks to their destination.
25. What is the greenhouse effect?