CIS SHARKS

1.

1 point

Which of the following is not a potential business impact created by the growth in information industries?

Top managers must be computer-literate

Knowledge workers are generally higher paid

Entry-level positions will require less education

Downsizing will continue

2.

1 point

Which of the following is not one of the technologies shaping our future?

Digital ink

Teleliving

Alternative energy sources

Automatic computing

3.

1 point

What is a device that is around the same size as a credit card, containing embedded technologies that can store information and small amounts of software to perform some limited processing?

Token

Password

Smart Card

Biometrics

4.

1 point

What is the ability to present the resources of a single computer as if it is a collection of separate computers, each with its own virtual CPUs, network interfaces, storage, and operating system?

System virtualization

Server virtualization

Desktop virtualization

All of these

5.

1 point

What type of backup strategy would you recommend to an organization that deals with small amounts of noncritical information?

Hourly

Daily

Weekly

All of these

6.

1 point

What does the disaster recovery cost curve chart(s)?

The cost to the organization of the unavailability of information

The cost to the organization of recovering from a disaster over time

The cost to the organization of the unavailability of technology

All of these

7.

1 point

What does 50 percent of what a student learns about innovative technology in their freshman year of college become by their senior year?

Obsolete

Revised

Taken for granted

All of these

8.

1 point

What is trend monitoring?

When numerical data are available, a trend can be plotted to display changes through time and into the future

A trend is examined to identify its nature, causes, speed of development, and potential impacts

Trends viewed as particularly important in a specific community, industry, or sector are carefully monitored, watched, and reported to key decision makers

Complex systems can be modeled by means of mathematical equations and different scenarios can be run against the model to determine "what if" analysis

9.

1 point

What is a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment, but is a place where employees can move after a disaster?

Disaster recovery plan

Disaster recovery cost curve

Hot Site

Cold Site

10.

1 point

Which of the following reflects Moore's Law?

New generations of chips deliver double the processing power as the previous generation

New generations of chips deliver triple the processing power as the previous generation

New generations of chips deliver quadruple the processing power as the previous generation

Impossible to determine

11.

1 point

What is a model of software deployment, where an application is licensed for use as a service, provided to customers on-demand?

Cloud Computing

Software as a Service

Loose Coupling

Grid Computing

12.

1 point

What is trend analysis?

When numerical data are available, a trend can be plotted to display changes through time and into the future

A trend is examined to identify its nature, causes, speed of development, and potential impacts

Trends viewed as particularly important in a specific community, industry, or sector are carefully monitored, watched, and reported to key decision makers

Complex systems can be modeled by means of mathematical equations and different scenarios can be run against the model to determine "what if" analysis

13.

1 point

What are the technologies available to help prevent and build resistance to attacks?

Content filtering, encryption, firewalls

Content filtering, encryption, insiders

Encryption, firewalls, insiders

Firewalls, social engineering, encryption

14.

1 point

What is a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business?

Cold site

Hot site

Disaster recovery cost curve chart

Disaster Recovery Plan

15.

1 point

Which of the following is not considered a type of Biometrics?

Voice

Face

Iris

None of these

16.

1 point

Which of the following can be completed by encryption?

Switch the order of characters

Replace characters with other characters

Use a mathematical formula to convert the information into some sort of code

All of these

17.

1 point

What is fault tolerance?

An exact copy of a system's information

The ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure and includes restoring the information backup

A computer system designed that in the event a component fails, a backup component or procedure can immediately take its place with no loss of service

A backup operational mode in which the functions of a computer component (such as a processor, server, network, or database) is assumed by secondary system components when the primary component becomes unavailable through either failure or scheduled down time

18.

1 point

What is the identification of a user based on a physical characteristic, such as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice, or handwriting?

Smart Card

Token

Biometrics

Content filtering

19.

1 point

What determines the future environmental infrastructure requirements to ensure high-quality system performance?

Scalability

Capacity planning

Reliability

Availability

20.

1 point

What is encryption?

Occurs when an organization uses software that filters content to prevent the transmission of unauthorized information

Scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt the information

Hardware and/or software that guards a private network by analyzing the information leaving and entering the network

A form of unsolicited email

21.

1 point

Organizations anticipate, forecast, and assess future events using a variety of rational, scientific methods including:

Trend analysis

Trend monitoring

Trend projection

All of these

22.

1 point

Which of the following is not a potential business impact from people in developed countries living longer?

Global demand for elderly products will grow

Global demand for elderly services will grow

The cost of health care will decrease

Pharmaceutical companies will be pushed for advances in geriatric medicine

23.

1 point

What kind of society is being created by the growth in information industries?

Knowledge-independent global society

Knowledge-dependent global society

Knowledge-independent local society

Knowledge-dependent local society

24.

1 point

Which of the following is not one of the top reasons organizations should study trends?

Generate current revenue

Gain confidence

Generate ideas

Beat the competition

25.

1 point

What is autonomic computing?

Self-managing computing model named after, and patterned on, the development of information systems

Self-managing computing information system named after, and patterned on, the human body's autonomic nervous systems

Self-managing computing model named after, and patterned on, the human body's autonomic nervous systems

None of these

26.

1 point

What is a method for confirming users' identities?

Authentication

Prevention

Detection

Response

27.

1 point

What attacks computer systems by transmitting a virus hoax, with a real virus attached?

Malicious code

Hoaxes

Spoofing

Sniffer

28.

1 point

Which of the following authentication methods is 100 percent accurate?

Smart Card

Fingerprint authentication

User ID

None of these

29.

1 point

What occurs when an organization uses software that filters content to prevent the transmission of unauthorized information?

Biometrics

Encryption

Firewalls

None of these

30.

1 point

What is trend projection?

When numerical data are available, a trend can be plotted to display changes through time and into the future

A trend is examined to identify its nature, causes, speed of development, and potential impacts

Trends viewed as particularly important in a specific community, industry, or sector are carefully monitored, watched, and reported to key decision makers

Complex systems can be modeled by means of mathematical equations and different scenarios can be run against the model to determine "what if" analysis

31.

1 point

What enables organizations to optimize computing and data resources, pool them for large capacity workloads, share them across networks, and enable collaboration?

Virtualization

Interoperability

Loose Coupling

Grid Computing

32.

1 point

Which of the following is not an additional benefit of virtualization?

Rapid application deployment

Dynamic load balancing

Ease of use for customer relationship management systems

Streamlined disaster recovery

33.

1 point

What could be used to create an electronic book or newspaper with real pages?

Digital ink

Electronic ink

E Ink

Radio Paper

34.

1 point

What is failover?

An exact copy of a system's information

The ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure and includes restoring the information backup

A computer system designed that in the event a component fails, a backup component or procedure can immediately take its place with no loss of service

A backup operational mode in which the functions of a computer component (such as a processor, server, network, or database) is assumed by secondary system components when the primary component becomes unavailable through either failure or scheduled down time

35.

1 point

What is technology that digitally represents handwriting in its natural form?

Digital ink

Radio Paper

Digital Paper

Teleliving

36.

1 point

What is a detailed process for recovering information or an IT system in the event of a catastrophic disaster such as a fire or flood?

Cold site

Hot site

Disaster recovery cost curve chart

Disaster Recovery Plan

37.

1 point

What refers to resources and applications hosted remotely as a shared service over the Internet?

Cloud Computing

Interoperability

Loose Coupling

Grid Computing

38.

1 point

What refers to how well a system can adapt to increased demands of growth?

Scalability

Capacity planning

Reliability

Availability

39.

1 point

What is social engineering?

Using one's social skills to trick people into revealing access credentials or other information valuable to the attacker

Legitimate users who purposely or accidentally misuse their access to the environment and cause some kind of business-affecting incident

Small electronic devices that change user passwords automatically

A method for confirming user's identities