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Computer servers in the United States account for about 61 percent of the total energy needs of the entire country.

A) True
B) False

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


A) Intel's law
B) Gordon's law
C) Moore's law
D) All of these

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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Corporate social responsibility is a company's acknowledged responsibility to __________.


A) Shareholders
B) Employees
C) Society
D) Governments

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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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

E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

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What do you call the safe disposal of MIS assets when they reach the end of their life cycle?


A) Sustainable MIS disposal
B) Sustainable device disposal
C) Sustainable software disposal
D) Sustainable enterprise disposal

E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

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The three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure include grid computing, __________ computing, and virtualized computing.

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Why is estimating future growth a challenge for most companies?


A) Growth can occur because the company acquires new markets
B) Growth can occur because the company acquires new customers
C) Growth can occur because the company acquires new products
D) All of these

E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

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What are the seven characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure?


A) Accessibility, availability, maintainability, portability, reliability, scalability, and usability
B) Accessibility, affordability, mobility, portability, reliability, scalability, and usability
C) Accessibility, availability, mobility, penetrability, responsibility, sensibility, and usability
D) Accessibility, affordability, functionality, changeability, constancy, sources, and understanding

E) C) and D)
F) All of the above

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Ewaste 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.

A) True
B) False

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There are three primary areas where enterprise architects focus when maintaining a firm's MIS infrastructure: information MIS infrastructure, agile MIS infrastructure, and sustainable MIS infrastructures.

A) True
B) False

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The _________ MIS infrastructure includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization's goals.

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Building and deploying flexible systems can allow for ___________.


A) Reconfigurations
B) Easy updates and changes
C) Solutions for unexpected business environmental changes
D) All of these

E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

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What is a widely held but difficult to achieve standard of availability for a system?


A) "Five 9s" availability
B) "1%" minimum availability
C) The "five's accessibility" code
D) "Five 10s" availability

E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

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What creates a way for a company to recover and restore partially or completely interrupted critical functions within a predetermined time after a disaster or extended disruption?


A) Disaster recovery plan
B) Disaster recovery cost curve
C) Business continuity planning
D) Emergency notification system

E) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

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Moore's law refers to the way computer chip performance per dollar doubles every 18 _________.

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Computers in United States account for 1 percent of the total energy needs of the entire country.This is roughly equal to the total energy needs of ______________.


A) A country such as Russia
B) A company such as Microsoft
C) A vehicle such as a bus
D) A state such as Mississippi

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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What is a person called who is grounded in technology, fluent in business, and able to provide the important bridge between MIS and the business?


A) MIS infrastructure manager
B) MIS specialist
C) Enterprise architect
D) Enterprise manager

E) A) and D)
F) All of the above

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Which of the following offers a low-speed and low-cost backup method?


A) DVD
B) Thumb drive
C) External hard drive
D) All of these

E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

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Where would you categorize the cloud computing benefits that include decreases in hardware, maintenance costs, and software upgrades?


A) Decreased maintenance issues
B) Increased computing power
C) Increased storage capacity
D) Increased information security

E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

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A disaster recovery _________ curve charts the cost to the company of the unavailability of information and technology and the cost to the company of recovering from a disaster over time.

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