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The marketplace for computer hardware:


A) has become increasingly concentrated in top firms.
B) has expanded to include a wide variety of start-up and mobile-computing firms.
C) has moved significantly to Asian firms.
D) has been decimated by mobile and cloud computing.
E) has begun moving away from blade servers.

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Which of the following is a multitasking,multiuser,operating system developed by Bell Laboratories that operates on a wide variety of computing platforms?


A) Unix
B) Linux
C) OS X
D) COBOL
E) DOS

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You are starting a market research company with a single business partner and are planning the hardware and software needs for the two of you.Which factors should play into your decision of how much to spend on these investments?

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Using the competitive forces model for I...

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Interpretations of Moore's law assert that:


A) computing power will eventually level off.
B) transistors decrease in size 50% every two years.
C) data storage costs decrease by 50% every 18 months.
D) PCs decrease in market share by 9% every 5 years.
E) computing power doubles every 18 months.

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Firms that allow employees to use their own devices are embracing which of the following?


A) Wearable computing
B) Mobile consolidation
C) Cloud computing
D) BYOD
E) Self computing

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Which of the following is not a part of the IT infrastructure ecosystem found in firms?


A) Consultant and system integrators
B) Internet platforms
C) Operating system platforms
D) Enterprise software applications
E) Virtual reality systems

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Which of the following is not an example of the consumerization of IT?


A) Google Apps
B) Dropbox
C) Facebook
D) Gmail
E) Amazon Web Services

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Which of the following is not an example of a wearable computing device?


A) Smartwatch
B) Smart glasses
C) Smartphones
D) Activity trackers
E) Smart ID badges

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Place the following eras of IT infrastructure evolution in order,from earliest to most recent: 1.Cloud Computing Era; 2.Client/Server; 3.Enterprise Era; 4.Personal Computer; and 5.Mainframe and Minicomputer.


A) 5,2,3,4,1
B) 5,4,2,3,1
C) 4,5,2,3,1
D) 5,4,2,1,3
E) 4,5,3,2,1

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Which of the following is a recent addition to the mobile digital platform?


A) Quantum computing devices
B) Wearable computing devices
C) Cloud computing devices
D) Grid computing devices
E) Green computing devices

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Which of the following is not an IT infrastructure service component?


A) Operating system software
B) Computing platforms to provide a coherent digital environment
C) Physical facilities management to manage the facilities housing physical components
D) IT management services to plan and develop the infrastructure and provide project management
E) IT education services that provide training to employees

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SaaS refers to:


A) supplying online access over networks to storage devices and storage area network technology.
B) managing combinations of applications,networks,systems,storage,and security as well as providing Web site and systems performance monitoring to subscribers over the Internet.
C) self-contained services that communicate with each other to create a working software application.
D) easy-to-use software tools for displaying Web pages.
E) hosting and managing access to software applications delivered over the Internet to clients on a subscription basis.

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In N-tier computing,significant parts of website content,logic,and processing are performed by a single web server.

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An ad-hoc group of oceanographers needs to set up a system to analyze massive amounts of data on ocean temperatures.The technology and hardware for gathering the data and transmitting the data to a central computer is in place.What additional hardware might they need? What techniques might they use to make their research more efficient and lower costs?

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To store their data they may want to use...

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Have mainframes disappeared?

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Mainframes have not disappeared.They con...

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Today's computer transistors are roughly equivalent in size to:


A) the width of a fingernail.
B) a human hair.
C) a virus.
D) several atoms.
E) a grain of sand.

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Which of the following enables a single physical resource (such as a server or a storage device) to appear to the user as multiple logical resources?


A) Cloud computing
B) Autonomic computing
C) Virtualization
D) Multicore processing
E) Ubiquitous computing

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Web services can exchange information between two different systems only if the operating systems and programming languages upon which the systems are based are identical.

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Quantum computing is implemented primarily with enterprise or ISP servers.

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Specifications that establish the compatibility of products and the ability to communicate in a network are called:


A) network standards.
B) telecommunications standards.
C) technology standards.
D) Internet standards.
E) compatibility standards.

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