Bus 305 exam 1 Questions And Answers
2024
Software that organizes, manages, and processes business data, such as
data concerned withinventory, customers, and vendors, is called: -
ANSWER-Data Management Software
Software that manages the resources of the computer is called: -
ANSWER-System Software
Software used to apply the computer to a specific task for an end user is
called: - ANSWER-Application Software
Legacy systems are still in use today because: - ANSWER-They are to
expensive to redesign
In co-location, a firm: - ANSWER-Purchases and owns their web server but
locates the server in the physical facility of a hosting service.
What would be a reason for using a workstation rather than a personal
computer? - ANSWER-When you need more powerful computational
abilities
Which of the following types of computer is used for weather
forecasting?puter? - ANSWER-Supercomputer
Connecting geographically remote computers in a single network to create
a .virtual - ANSWER-supercomputer. is called:
Grid Computing
The use of multiple computers linked by a communications network for
processing is called:( - ANSWER-Distributed processing
The business case for using grid computing involves all of the following
except: - ANSWER-Centralized maintance
, In a multitiered network - ANSWER-The work of the entire network is
balanced over several levels of servers
A client computer networked to a server computer, with processing split
between the two types of machinces is called - ANSWER-Two-tiered
client/server architecture.
The primary storage technologies are - ANSWER-Storage networks,
magnetic tape,magnetic disk, and optical disk
Which of the following is a type of optical disk storage - ANSWER-CD rom
Which of the following storage technology stores data sequentially -
ANSWER-Magnetic disks
A high-speed network dedicated to storage that connects different kids of
storage devices, such as tape libraries and disk arrays so they can be
shared by multiple servers best describes - ANSWER-SAN
Which of the following is a device used to collect data directly form the
environment for input into a computer system - ANSWER-Sensor
Which of the following is not a type of output device - ANSWER-Keyboard
The main challenge coming to microsofts office software suite will be -
ANSWER-web based productivity software such as google apps
What type of device gathers data and converts them to electronic form for
sure by the computer? - ANSWER-Input device.
A widget is a - ANSWER-Small software program that can be added to web
pages or placed on the desktop
Microsoft word is an example of - ANSWER-Word processing software
An industry-wide effort to develop systems that can configure optimize tune
and heal themselves when broken and protect themselves from outside
intruders and self destruction is called - ANSWER-Autonomic computing