Quiz: Chapter 04 Hardware and Software

A data center designed to have an expected annual downtime of less than 30 minutes and the ability to handle a power outage of up to four days is a Tier _______________ data center.

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A _________ is a high-powered computer shared by dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of concurrent users connected to the machine over a network.

mainframe

____________ computers are used for limited applications, for example, by military, government, and scientific research groups such as the CIA and NASA.

Special-purpose

_______________ are three subclasses of computers associated with the multiple-user computer.

c. Server, mainframe, and supercomputer

Which of the EPEAT tiers requires meeting all the required criteria and at least 75 percent of the optional criteria?

Gold

A USB flash drive is an example of a __________________.

solid-state storage device

_______________ is a software design approach based on the use of discrete pieces of software (modules) to provide specific functions (such as displaying a customer's bill statement) as services to other applications.

Service-oriented architecture

_______________ is a form of software that is distributed, typically for free, with the source code studied, changed, and improved by both the original developers and a community of experts.

Open source software

_______________ provides data and instructions to the computer and receives results from it.

c. Input/output devices

A _______________ is a class of computer used by people on the move to run personal productivity software, access the internet, read and prepare email and instant messages, play games, listen to music, access corporate applications and databases, and enter data at the point of contact.

b. single-user portable computer