Chapter 5 Ts Zul

Which type of infrastructure service stores and manages corporate data and provides capabilities for analyzing the data?

• Networking

• Telephone

• VOIP

• Data management

• Telecommunications

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

• Operating system software services

• Computing services that connect employees, customers, and suppliers into a coherent digital environment

• IT management services to plan and develop the infrastructure and provide project management

• IT education services that provide training to employees

• Physical facilities management services to manage the facilities housing physical components

Which of the following is a multitasking, multiuser, operating system developed by Bell Laboratories that operates on a wide variety of computers from different manufacturers?

• Unix

• OS X

• COBOL

• DOS

• Wintel

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;

5. Mainframe and Minicomputer.

• 5, 2, 3, 4, 1

• 5, 4, 2, 3, 1

• 4, 5, 2, 3, 1

• 5, 4, 2, 1, 3

• 4, 5, 3, 2, 1

Which of the following is not one of the current software platform trends?

• Open source software

• Cloud services

• Software outsourcing

• Software-defined storage

• Web services and service-oriented architecture

Which of the following refers to the ability of a computer, product, or system to expand to serve a larger number of users without breaking down?

• Modality

• Scalability

• Expandability

• Customizability

• Disintermediation

The decision to purchase your own IT assets or rent them from external providers is also referred to as the rent-versus-buy decision.

• TRUE

• FALSE