test 2 Flashcards
What are the ramifications of improper electronic recycling, when analyzing the example of a single desktop computer?
Computers in landfills can leak these toxic chemicals into our land, water and air
Computers contain high levels of mercury, lead and cadmium-harmful toxins
One computer contains more than 700 chemicals that can be toxic to the environment
All of the above
All the above
What does a business continuity plan typically include?
How quickly the system recovery needs to be performed
Which systems and business processes are critical and the maximum amount of time the company can continue to operate without functioning systems
Where a hot site is located
How frequently the system backup is performed
Which systems and business processes are critical and the maximum amount of time the company can continue to operate without functioning systems
The information MIS infrastructure supports the day-to-day business operations and plans for ________.
Malicious internet attacks
Security breaches and theft
Floods and earthquakes
All of the above
All the above
What is the primary reason a company has a failover system?
To take down the primary system for maintenance, while the secondary system activates to ensure continuous operations
To use different systems continuously at the same time
To allow employees to work virtually
All of the above
To take down the primary system for maintenance while the secondary system activates to ensure continuous operations
What is a computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests?
Server
What is a facility used to house management information systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems?
Data center
What serves only one customer or organization and can be located on the customer’s premises or off the customer’s premises?
Public cloud
Community cloud
Private cloud
Utility computing
Private Cloud
What is the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the information backup?
Capacity planning
Reliability
Failure tolerance
Recovery
Recovery
Which of the following is an effect a company could experience because of a disaster such as a fire, flood, or hurricane?
Damaging physical infrastructures
Halting transportation
Disrupting communications
All of the above
All the above
What service delivers hardware networking capabilities, including the use of servers, networking, and storage over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model?
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)
Infrastructure as a Service
What measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction?
Performance
Portability
Sustainability
Capacity planning
Performance
What occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data, and if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically directed to a secondary server?
Maintainability
Failover
Reliability
Disaster recovery cost curve
Failover
True or False
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) allows files containing text, programs, graphics, numerical data, and so on to be downloaded off or uploaded onto a network.
True
True or False
Transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) provides the technical foundation for the public Internet as well as for large numbers of private networks.
True
True or False
The network interface layer places data packets on the network for transmission.
True
