Gra743 Midterm

Front 1

True or False

The orderly arrangement of parts; structure, style, method of design & construction is called IT Infrastructure.

Back 1

False

It is called Architecture

Front 2

The productivity ratio is _______ over _________ .

Back 2

outputs/inputs

Front 3

Name the 2 ways you can increase productivity.

Back 3

increaseoutputwhilemaintaininginput

maintainoutputwhiledecreasinginput

Front 4

IT Architect is responsible for infrastructure ____________ .

Back 4

procurement

Front 5

True or False

IT Architect manages the life cycle

of technologies.

Back 5

True

Front 6

True or False

Blade servers are considered a client machine under the Computer Hardware Platforms component.

Back 6

False

Server machine

Front 7

Mainframes can replace thousands of smaller _______ servers.

Back 7

blade

Front 8

_____% of client side operating systems use Microsoft Windows.

Back 8

90%

Front 9

_____% of server side operating systems use Unix/Linux.

Back 9

30%

Front 10

When using the example of a road trip, an ethernet cable can be metaphorically represented as a _______ .

Back 10

car

Front 11

True or False

WLAN require additional software in order for the base station and wireless network card to work together.

Back 11

False

Front 12

True or False

A wireless network card only needs to be installed on one computer in each network.

Back 12

False

Front 13

What is an example of a leading network hardware providers?

Back 13

Cisco, Alcatel-­‐Lucent, Nortel

Front 14

What is an example of IT leading consulting firm?

Back 14

IBM Global services, HP tech solutions, Infosys

Front 15

What is software integration?

Back 15

act of ensuring new infrastructure works together with the firms legacy systems

Front 16

What does ISP stand for?

Back 16

Internet Service Provider

Front 17

Seagate,Westerndigital and EMC Corporation are all example of leading firms for providing ____________ data _________ .

Back 17

physical data storage

Front 18

MySQL stand for My ___________ _____________ _____________ .

Back 18

My Structure Query Language(MySQL)

Front 19

What does TCP stand for?

Back 19

Transmission Control Protocol(TCP)

Front 20

Other than the act we all want to do right after the midterm, what does NAP stand for?

Back 20

Network Access Point(NAP)

Front 21

The ____ (#) version of IP addresses uses a 32-­bit.

Back 21

4th version

Front 22

True or False

Most servers used Unix/Linux OS due to their less cost.

Back 22

True

Front 23

True or False

Some companies still run traditional mainframe systems or use mainframe computers as massive servers supporting large Websites and corporate enterprise applications.

Back 23

True

Front 24

True or False

IT infrastructure consists of just physical computing devices required to operate the enterprise.

Back 24

False

Front 25

A ___ is a think server computer with a modular design optimized to minimize the use of physical space and energy and often dedicated to a single application.

Back 25

blade

Front 26

What is the type of cloud computing platform delivers services online to a single organization though a private network?

Back 26

Private

Front 27

True or False

Java software is designed to run on any computing device, regardless of the specific microprocessor or operating system it uses

Back 27

True

Front 28

"Customer use infrastructure and programming tools supported by the cloud service provider to develop their own applications" describes what type of cloud service?

Back 28

Platform as a service

Front 29

______ _________ refers to a module of computing that provides access to a shared pool of computing resources (computers, storage, applications, and services) over a network, often the Internet

Back 29

cloud computing

Front 30

True or False

Scalability refers to the ability of a computer, product, or system to expand to serve a large number of users without breaking down

Back 30

True

Front 31

True or False

Automatic updating of Microsoft Word application is an example of Autonomic computing

Back 31

True

Front 32

True or False

An Open Source software is a software that is free to use by not to modify

Back 32

False

Front 33

What are some internal factors when making IT management decisions?

Back 33

marketdemandforyourfirm’sservices

yourfirm’sbusinessstrategy

yourfirmsITstrategy,infrastructureandcost

ITassessments

Front 34

_____ to _____ % of costs of Total Cost of Ownership is designated to hardware and software.

Back 34

20%-35%

Front 35

A company wants as much control as possible while not investing in physical servers, what service of cloud computing should they use?

Back 35

InfrastructureasaService(IaaS)

Front 36

Michelle is opening her own startup print company and is looking into cloud computing to keep her costs low. She should use _______ type of cloud computing.

Back 36

public

Front 37

What acts as security barrier within a network system?

Back 37

Firewall

Front 38

Using RAMMS as an example, explain how low balancers work.

Back 38

Low balancers distribute users onto multiple servers to prevent overload and crashing a single server.

Front 39

What are the 2 components of a URL?

Back 39

protocolidentifieranddomainname

Front 40

What does BYOD stand for?

Back 40

BringYourOwnDevice(BYOD)

Front 41

Gmail,Dropbox andFacebook are all examples of software in _________marketthenspreadsinbusinessorganizations

Back 41

consumer

Front 42

When distributing the internet, the ________ acts as a switch,

Back 42

router