Flashcards About MIS Chapter 5
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Emergency Notification Service
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An infrastructure built for notifying people in the event of an emergency. Example: Radio stations It can be deployed through the firm's own infrastructure, supplied by an outside service provider on company premisis or hosted remotely by an outside service provider.
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Technology Failure
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The ability of a company to operate is impaired because of hardware, software or data outage.
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Incidents
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Unplanned interruption of a service
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Technology Recovery Strategies
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Focuses specifically on prioritizing the order for restoring hardware, software and the data across the organization that best meets recovery requirements.
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Hardware
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Servers, computers and wireless devices
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Software
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Applications such as email, payroll and instant messaging
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Data Center
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Climate control, power supply and security
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Networking
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Wireless, LAN, fiber and cable
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Accessibility
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Refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view or perform when operating a system
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Administrator Access or Unrestricted Access
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Can perform functions such as resetting passwords, deleting accounts and shutting down entire systems.
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Web Accessibility
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All people with disabilities including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive or neurological disabilities can use the web.
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Web Assessibility Initiative (WAI)
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Brings together people from industry, disability organizations, gov't and research labs around the world to dev. guidelines and resources to help make the web accessible to people with disabilities. It allows people to access the full potential of the web.
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Community Cloud
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Serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations. Community clouds are emerging in highly regulated industries such as financial services and pharmaceutical companies.
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Data Center
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A facility used to house management info systems and asso. components such as telecommunications and storage systems. Sometimes referred to as "server farms." They consume power and require cooling and floor space while working to support business growth w/o disrupting normal business operations and the quality of service.
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Sustainable or Green MIS
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Describes the production, management, use and disposal of technology in a way that minimizes the damage to the environment.
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Public Cloud
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Amazon web services
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Private Cloud
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Serves only 1 customer or organization and can be located on or off customer's premisis. Example: Bank sensitive info
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Community Cloud
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Example: All Colorado State gov't organizations
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Hybrid Cloud
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Two or more private, public or community clouds but each cloud remains separate. Example: Cloud bursting
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Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS)
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Delivers hardware networking capabilities, including the use of servers, networking and storage over the cloud using pay-per-view revenue model.
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Utility Computing
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Offers pay-per-view use revenue model similar to a metered service.
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Hot Site
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A separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business.
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Cold Site
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A separate facility that does not have any computer equipment, but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.
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Warm Site
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A separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.
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Disaster Recovery Cost Curve
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Charts 1) Costs to the company of the unavailability of info and technology 2) The costs to the company of recovery from a disaster over time.
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Carbon Emissions
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Carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide produced by business processes and systems that are not reduced.
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Business Impact Analysis
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Identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them.
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Cloud Computing
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A model for enabling ubiguitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Connects people when internet is not available.
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Agile MIS Infrastructure Characteristics
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Accessibility - varying levels allow system users to access, view or perform operational functions.
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Availability
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System is operational during different time frames
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Maintainability
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The system quickly transforms to support environmental changes.
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Portability
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The system is available to operate on different devices or software platforms. Example: Apple Itunes
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Reliability
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The system functions correctly and provides accurate info.
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Scalability
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The system can "scale up" or adapt to the increased demands of growth.
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Usability
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The system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use.
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Recovery
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The ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the info back-up.
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Technology Recovery Strategies
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Focuses specifically on prioritizing the order for restoring hardware, software and data across the organization that best meets business recovery requirements.
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Ways Data Centers can be more Sustainable
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1) Carbon emissions 2) Reduce energy consumption 3) Floor space 4) Stores greater amounts of info in less space 5) Geographic location 6) Resources are inexpensive, clean and available
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Disaster Recovery Plan
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Detailed process for recovering info or a system in the event of a catastrophic disaster.
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Business Continuity Planning
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1) Disaster recovery plan 2) Technology recovery strategies 3) Business impact analysis 4) Emergency notification services
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Single Tenancy
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Each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain and individual system.
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Multi-Tenancy
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Helps reduce operational costs associated with implementing large systems as costs are dispersed across many tenants.
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Fault Tolerance
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The ability for a system to respond to unexpected failures or system crashes as the back-up system immediately and automatically takes over with no loss of service
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Software as a Service
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Delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model.
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Server
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Computer dedicated to providing info in response to requests.
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Cloud Fabric
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Software that makes possible the benefits of cloud computing, such as multi-tenancy.
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Three Primary Elements of MIS Infrasture
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1) Back up and recovery plan 2) Disaster recovery plan 3) Business continuity plan
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Dynamic Scaling
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MIS infrastructure can be automatically scaled up or down based on needed requirements.
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Capacity
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Reps the max throughout a system Example: Capacity of a hard drive
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Enterprise Architect
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Person grounded in technology, fluent in business and able to provide the important bridge between MIS and the business.
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On demand Service
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Users can increase storage and processing power as needed
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Broad Network Access
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All devices can access data and applications
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Rapid Elasticity
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Storage, network bandwidth and computing capacity that can be increased or decreased
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Measured Service
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Clients can monitor and measure transactions and use of resources
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Emergency
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Sudden, Unexpected event requiring immediate action due to potential health and safety, the environment or property.
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Client
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A computer designed to request info from a server.
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Virtualization
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Creates multiple virtual machines on a single computing device Example: computer printer
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3 Processes Driving Sustainable MIS Infrastructures
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1) Increased electronic waste 2) Increased energy consumption 3) Increased carbon emissions
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Ewaste
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Discarded, obsolete or broken electronic devices
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Smart Grid
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Delivers electricity using 2-way digital technology. It is meant to solve the problem of the world's outdated electrical grid, making it more efficient and reliable by adding the ability to remotely monitor, analyze and control the transmission of power.
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Failover
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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 the secondary or back-up server.
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Capacity Planning
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Determines future environmental infrastructure requirements to ensure high quality system performance.
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Moore's Law
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Computer chip performance per dollar doubles every 18 months
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3 Sustainable MIS infrastructure Components
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1) Cloud computing 2) Grid computing 3) Virtualization
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Platform as a Service
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Supports the deployment of entire systems including hardware, networking, and applications using a pay-per-use revenue model.
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Cloud Fabric Controller
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Individual who monitors and provisions cloud resources, similar to a server administrator
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Failback
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Primary machine recovers and resumes operations, taking over from the secondary server.
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Backup
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Exact copy of a system's info
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Emergency Preparedness
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Ensures a company is ready to respond to an emergency in an organized, timely and effective manner.
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What is the difference between hardware and software?
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Hardware is the physical devices associated with a computer system, where software is the instructions the hardware executes to carry out tasks.
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What service delivers hardware networking capabilities, including the use of servers, networking, and storage over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model?
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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
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What focuses specifically on prioritizing the order for restoring hardware, software, and data across the organization that best meets business recovery requirements?
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Technology recovery strategy
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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?
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Business continuity planning
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Within the sites that support disaster recovery, ____ is a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business.
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Hot site
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Enterprise architects require ____access so they can perform such functions as resetting passwords or deleting accounts
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Administrator
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What are the three pressures driving sustainable MIS infrastructures?
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Increases in electronic waste, energy consumption, and carbon emissions
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What in the cloud means that a single instance of a system serves multiple customers?
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Multi-tenancy
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What are the three cloud computing service delivery models?
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Infrastructure as a Service, Software as a Service and Platform as a Service
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Which of the following sustainable infrastructure components is a collection of computers, often geographically dispersed, that are coordinated to solve a common problem?
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Grid computing
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What are the three business functions an MIS infrastructure supports?
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Supports info change, change, and business continuity planning
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The ____MIS infrastructure identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption
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Sustainable
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What type of cloud computing serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations?
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Community Cloud
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What brings together people from industry, disability organizations, government, and research labs from around the world to develop guidelines and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities including auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech and visual disabilities?
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Web accessibility initiative
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When building a scalable system that can support new company developments what are the key factors to consider?
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Anticipating expected and unexpected growth
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What is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (eg networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction?
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Cloud computing
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Which of the following agile MIS infrastructure characteristics refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems?
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Portability
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What enables computers to run multiple operating systems and multiple software applications at the same time and creates multiple "virtual" machines on a single computing device?
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Virtualization
