Plug-In B09 Sustainable Mis Infrastructures Full Test Bank

Business Driven Technology, 8e (Baltzan)

Plug-In B09 Sustainable MIS Infrastructures

1) Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, observed in 1965 that continued advances in technological innovation made it possible to reduce the size of a computer chip while doubling its capacity every two years.

2) Tim Berners-Lee, co-founder of Intel, observed in 1965 that continued advances in technological innovation made it possible to reduce the size of a computer chip while doubling its capacity every two years.

3) Unsustainable, or green, MIS describes the production, management, use, and disposal of technology in a way that maximizes damage to the environment.

4) Sustainable, or green, MIS describes the production, management, use, and disposal of technology in a way that minimizes damage to the environment.

5) Ewaste is discarded electronics and is growing with the growth of innovation, for example, a personal computer has a life expectancy of only three to five years and a cell phone is less than two years.

6) Upcycle refers to discarded electronics and is growing with the growth of innovation, for example, a personal computer has a life expectancy of only three to five years and a cell phone is less than two years.

7) Large increases in technology use, by both consumers and businesses, have greatly amplified energy consumption.

8) Sustainable MIS disposal refers to the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle.

9) Unsustainable MIS disposal refers to the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle.

10) Clean computing is a subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment.

11) A green personal computer (green PC) is built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy.

12) An upcycle reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product.

13) Corporate social responsibility is a subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment.

14) A black personal computer (black PC) is built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy.

15) Ewaste reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product.

16) Corporate social responsibility is a company's acknowledged responsibility to society.

17) Energy consumption is the amount of energy consumed by business processes and systems.

18) Carbon emissions include the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, produced by business processes and systems.

19) Carbon emission is the amount of energy consumed by business processes and systems.

20) Energy consumption includes the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, produced by business processes and systems.

21) A sustainable MIS infrastructure identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption.

22) A smart grid delivers electricity using two-way digital technology and is meant to solve the problem of outdated electrical grids.

23) Grid computing is a collection of computers, often geographically dispersed, that are coordinated to solve a common problem.

24) Cloud computing delivers electricity using two-way digital technology and is meant to solve the problem of outdated electrical grids.

25) Virtualization is a collection of computers, often geographically dispersed, that are coordinated to solve a common problem.

26) Virtualization creates multiple virtual machines on a single computing device. A good analogy is a computer printer. In the past you had to purchase a fax machine, copy machine, answering machine, and computer printer separately. This was expensive, required enough energy to run four machines, and created additional amounts of ewaste.

27) Storage virtualization combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device.

28) Network virtualization combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device.

29) Server virtualization combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications.

30) Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

31) Network virtualization combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device.

32) Server virtualization combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device.

33) Storage virtualization combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications.

34) Virtualization offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

35) A data center is a facility used to house management information systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.

36) Cloud computing stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the Internet rather than on a personal computer or server.

37) Dynamic scaling means the MIS infrastructure can be automatically scaled up or down based on needed requirements.

38) Single-tenancy in the cloud means that a single instance of a system serves multiple customers. In the cloud, each customer is called a tenant and multiple tenants can access the same system.

39) Multi-tenancy occurs in which each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system.

40) Multi-tenancy in the cloud means that a single instance of a system serves multiple customers. In the cloud, each customer is called a tenant and multiple tenants can access the same system.

41) Single-tenancy occurs in which each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system.

42) Cloud fabric is the software that makes the benefits of cloud computing possible, such as multi-tenancy.

43) Cloud fabric controller is an individual that monitors and provisions cloud resources similar to a server administrator at an individual company.

44) Cloud computing offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity.

45) Utility computing offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity.

46) Public cloud promotes massive, global, industry-wide applications offered to the general public. In a public cloud customers are never required to provision, manage, upgrade, or replace hardware or software.

47) Private cloud serves only one customer or organization and can be located on the customers' premises or off the customer's premises.

48) Community cloud serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations.

49) Hybrid cloud includes two or more private, public, or community clouds, but each cloud remains separate and is only linked by technology that enables data and application portability.

50) Hybrid cloud serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations.

51) Community cloud includes two or more private, public, or community clouds, but each cloud remains separate and is only linked by technology that enables data and application portability.

52) Cloud bursting is when a company uses its own computing infrastructure for normal usage and accesses the cloud when it needs to scale for high/peak load requirements ensuring a sudden spike in usage does not result in poor performance or system crashes.

53) Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel, established which MIS law?

A) Intel's Law

B) Gordon's Law

C) Moore's Law

D) Lee's Law

54) Which of the following reflects Moore's law?

A) The computer chip performance per dollar doubles every 18 months

B) A company's ability to acquire small amounts of MIS equipment for cheaper cost

C) A company's ability to acquire small amounts of capital for spending on innovative ideas every two years

D) The computer chip performance per dollar doubles every 6 months

55) What describes the production, management, use, and disposal of technology in a way that minimizes damage to the environment?

A) Environmental MIS

B) Holistic MIS

C) The green designation for technology

D) Sustainability or green MIS

56) Sustainable MIS is a critical part of ________ within a company.

A) company standard for the green initiative

B) corporate social responsibility

C) social expectations

D) society concerns

57) Corporate social responsibility is a company's acknowledged responsibility to ________.

A) shareholders

B) employees

C) society

D) governments

58) What is a company's acknowledged responsibility to society?

A) Corporate social responsibility

B) Employees social responsibility

C) Society social responsibility

D) Government social responsibility

59) Miranda White likes taking old computer parts and remaking them into products like earrings and clocks. Which of the following represents what Miranda is doing?

A) Upcycle

B) Recycle

C) Ewaste

D) Sustainable MIS

60) What is clean computing?

A) A subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment

B) Built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy

C) Reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product

D) A company's acknowledged responsibility to society

61) What is a green personal computer?

A) A subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment

B) Built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy

C) Reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product

D) A company's acknowledged responsibility to society

62) What is upcycle?

A) A subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment

B) Built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy

C) Reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product

D) Stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the Internet rather than on a personal computer or server

63) What is corporate social responsibility?

A) Subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment

B) A company's acknowledged responsibility to society

C) Reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product

D) Stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the Internet rather than on a personal computer or server

64) What is cloud computing?

A) Built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy

B) Reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product

C) A company's acknowledged responsibility to society

D) Stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the Internet rather than on a personal computer or server

65) What is a subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment?

A) Clean computing

B) Green personal computer

C) Upcycle

D) Corporate social responsibility

66) What is built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy?

A) Clean computing

B) Green personal computer

C) Upcycle

D) Corporate social responsibility

67) What reuses or refurbishes ewaste and creates a new product?

A) Clean computing

B) Green personal computer

C) Upcycle

D) Corporate social responsibility

68) What is a company's acknowledged responsibility to society?

A) Cloud computing

B) Clean computer

C) Upcycle

D) Corporate social responsibility

69) What stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the Internet rather than on a personal computer or server?

A) Clean computing

B) Cloud computing

C) Upcycle

D) Corporate social responsibility

70) The increased demand in technology devices has caused an increase in discarded devices, a phenomenon known as ________.

A) ewaste

B) grid computing

C) ergonomic code

D) electronic sustainability

71) Which of the below is not contributing to ewaste?

A) VCR

B) Automobile

C) Microwave

D) Computer

72) What are the three pressures driving sustainable MIS infrastructures?

A) Decreases in electronic waste, energy waste, and carbon emissions

B) Increases in ewaste, energy waste, and dynamic scaling

C) Increases in electronic waste, energy waste, and carbon emissions

D) Decreases in ewaste, energy waste, and carbon footprints

73) What is the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle called?

A) Sustainable MIS disposal

B) Sustainable device disposal

C) Sustainable software disposal

D) Sustainable enterprise disposal

74) What are the ramifications of improper electronic recycling, when analyzing the example of a single desktop computer?

A) One computer contains more than 700 chemicals that can be toxic to the environment

B) Computers in landfills can leak these toxic chemicals into our land, water, and air

C) Computers contain high levels of mercury, lead, and cadmium—harmful toxins

D) All of the choices are correct

75) The sustainable infrastructure pressure of increased energy consumption poses new and growing pressure. The energy consumed by a computer is estimated to produce as much as 10% of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a ________.

A) house

B) school

C) car

D) cell phone

76) Cheap electricity is great for keeping business energy costs down, but this mean that we have to rely more on ________ for power.

A) cars

B) coal

C) gasoline

D) All of these

77) What refers to discarded, obsolete, or broken electronic devices?

A) Ewaste

B) Energy consumption

C) Carbon emissions

D) Sustainable MIS

78) What is the amount of energy consumed by business processes and systems?

A) Ewaste

B) Energy consumption

C) Carbon emissions

D) Sustainable MIS

79) What includes the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, produced by business processes and systems?

A) Ewaste

B) Energy consumption

C) Carbon emissions

D) Sustainable MIS

80) What refers to the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle?

A) Ewaste

B) Energy consumption

C) Carbon emissions

D) Sustainable MIS

81) Which of the following sustainable infrastructure components is a collection of computers, often geographically dispersed, that are coordinated to solve a common problem?

A) Cloud computing

B) Grid computing

C) Virtualized computing

D) Database computing

82) With grid computing a problem is broken into pieces and distributed to many machines, allowing ________ processing than could occur with a single system.

A) moderate

B) slower

C) faster

D) cleaner

83) What is storage virtualization?

A) Combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device.

B) Combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device.

C) Combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications.

D) Offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

84) What is network virtualization?

A) Combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device.

B) Combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device.

C) Combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications.

D) Offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

85) What is server virtualization?

A) Combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device.

B) Combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device.

C) Combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications.

D) Offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

86) What is disaster recovery as a service?

A) Combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device.

B) Combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device.

C) Combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications.

D) Offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

87) What combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device?

A) Server virtualization

B) Network virtualization

C) Disaster recovery as a service

D) Storage virtualization

88) What combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device?

A) Server virtualization

B) Network virtualization

C) Disaster recovery as a service

D) Storage virtualization

89) What combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications?

A) Server virtualization

B) Network virtualization

C) Disaster recovery as a service

D) Storage virtualization

90) What offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster?

A) Server virtualization

B) Network virtualization

C) Disaster recovery as a service

D) Storage virtualization

91) Grid computing takes advantage of the available 75% of unused processing power of a computer and links thousands of individual computers around the world creating a ________ that can process intensive tasks.

A) personal computer

B) employee client

C) company server

D) virtual supercomputer

92) Which of the following delivers electricity using two-way digital technology?

A) A smart grid

B) A systematic grid

C) A collective grid

D) An interactive grid

93) DreamWorks Animation Company used which sustainable infrastructure component to complete many of its films including Shrek, Madagascar and Antz?

A) Agile computing

B) Grid computing

C) Cloud computing

D) Server computing

94) What is cloud computing services changing?

A) The way people access information

B) The way people deliver information

C) The way people use information

D) All of the choices are correct

95) What offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity?

A) Grid computing

B) Smart phones

C) Utility computing

D) Computing services

96) Where would you categorize a cloud computing benefit that allows a customer to store fewer applications on a client computer, which frees up the memory allowing for increases in performance?

A) Internet features

B) Increased costs

C) Increased performance

D) Increased software updates

97) What is a challenge for cloud computing that could cause employee performance to decrease?

A) Limited Internet features

B) Required Internet connectivity

C) Decreased dynamic scaling

D) Decreased job stability

98) What service delivers hardware networking capabilities, including the use of servers, networking, and storage over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model?

A) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

B) Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)

C) Software as a Service (SaaS)

D) Platform as a Service (PaaS)

99) What is dynamic scaling?

A) The ability for the system to cut back on expenses when needed

B) The infrastructure that is fixed and there are no surprises

C) The MIS infrastructure can be automatically scaled up or down based on needed requirements

D) The flexibility to charge more or less depending on the market

100) What are the three cloud computing service delivery models?

A) Independent as a Service, Supportive as a Service, Partnering as a Service

B) Infrastructure as a Service, Software as a Service, Platform as a Service

C) Innovation as a Service, Server as a Service, Platform as a Service

D) Intuit as a Service, Storage as a Service, Programming as a Service

101) Which cloud computing model offers applications on a pay-per-use basis?

A) Infrastructure as a Service

B) Platform as a Service

C) Software as a Service

D) Information as a Service

102) What is a Platform as a Service (PaaS)?

A) Set up and storage systems including servers, and database management model

B) Innovation and new develops new programs for business on an ongoing basis

C) Salesforce.com is an example of PaaS

D) Supports the deployment of entire systems including hardware, networking, and applications using pay-per-use revenue model

103) What enables computers to run multiple operating systems and multiple software applications at the same time and creates multiple "virtual" machines all on a single computing device?

A) Virtualization

B) Innovation

C) Availability

D) Viral computing

104) What is a facility used to house management information systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems?

A) Call center

B) Data center

C) Delivery base

D) Central center

105) What in the cloud means that a single instance of a system serves multiple customers?

A) Multi-tenancy

B) Single-tenancy

C) Cloud fabric

D) Cloud fabric controller

106) What occurs when each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system?

A) Multi-tenancy

B) Single-tenancy

C) Cloud fabric

D) Cloud fabric controller

107) What is the software that makes the benefits of cloud computing possible, such as multi-tenancy?

A) Multi-tenancy

B) Single-tenancy

C) Cloud fabric

D) Cloud fabric controller

108) What offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity?

A) Community cloud

B) Private cloud

C) Utility computing

D) Public cloud

109) What promotes massive, global, industry-wide applications offered to the general public?

A) Community cloud

B) Private cloud

C) Utility computing

D) Public cloud

110) What serves only one customer or organization and can be located on the customers' premises or off the customer's premises?

A) Community cloud

B) Private cloud

C) Utility computing

D) Public cloud

111) What serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations?

A) Community cloud

B) Private cloud

C) Utility computing

D) Hybrid cloud

112) What includes two or more private, public, or community clouds, but each cloud remains separate and is only linked by technology that enables data and application portability?

A) Community cloud

B) Private cloud

C) Utility computing

D) Hybrid cloud

113) What occurs when a company uses its own computing infrastructure for normal usage and accesses the cloud when it needs to scale for high/peak load requirements ensuring a sudden spike in usage does not result in poor performance or system crashes?

A) Community cloud

B) Private cloud

C) Cloud bursting

D) Hybrid cloud

114) What offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster?

A) Disaster recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

B) Software as a Service (SaaS)Data as a service (DaaS)

C) Software as a Service (SaaS)

D) Big data as a service (BDaaS)

115) What offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity?

A) Disaster recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

B) Data as a service (DaaS)

C) Software as a Service (SaaS)

D) Utility computing

116) What facilitates the accessibility of business-critical data in a timely, secure, and affordable manner?

A) Disaster recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

B) Data as a service (DaaS)

C) Software as a Service (SaaS)

D) Big data as a service (BDaaS)

117) What delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model?

A) Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

B) Data as a Service (DaaS)

C) Software as a Service (SaaS)

D) Big Data as a Service (BDaaS)

118) What offers a cloud-based Big Data service to help organizations analyze massive amounts of data to solve business dilemmas?

A) Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

B) Data as a Service (DaaS)

C) Software as a Service (SaaS)

D) Big Data as a Service (BDaaS)

119) What is Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)?

A) Offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

B) Delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model.

C) Facilitates the accessibility of business-critical data in a timely, secure, and affordable manner.

D) Offers a cloud-based Big Data service to help organizations analyze massive amounts of data to solve business dilemmas.

120) What is Data as a Service (DaaS)?

A) Offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

B) Delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model.

C) Facilitates the accessibility of business-critical data in a timely, secure, and affordable manner.

D) Offers a cloud-based Big Data service to help organizations analyze massive amounts of data to solve business dilemmas.

121) What is Software as a Service (SaaS)?

A) Offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

B) Delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model.

C) Facilitates the accessibility of business-critical data in a timely, secure, and affordable manner.

D) Offers a cloud-based Big Data service to help organizations analyze massive amounts of data to solve business dilemmas.

122) What is Big Data as a Service (BDaaS)?

A) Offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.

B) Delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model.

C) Facilitates the accessibility of business-critical data in a timely, secure, and affordable manner.

D) Offers a cloud-based Big Data service to help organizations analyze massive amounts of data to solve business dilemmas.

123) Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

124) Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure along with their business benefits.