Home
Subjects
Expert solutions
Create
Log in
Sign up
Upgrade to remove ads
Only ₩37,125/year
- Science
- Computer Science
-
Flashcards
-
Learn
-
Test
-
Match
-
Flashcards
-
Learn
-
Test
-
Match
Terms in this set (70)
MIS Infrastructure
Includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets.
Hardware
Consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system
Software
The set of instructions the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.
Network
A communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standard methodology in which they can communicate.
Client
A computer designed to request information from a server.
Server
A computer dedicated to providing information in response to requests.
Information MIS infrastructure
Identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured.
Agile MIS infrastructure
Includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization's needs.
Sustainable MIS infrastructure
Identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption.
Backup
An exact copy of a system's information.
Recovery
The ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the information backup.
Fault tolerance
The ability for a system to respond to unexpected failures or system crashes as the backup system immediately and automatically takes over with no loss of service.
Failover
A specific type of fault tolerance that occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data.
Failback
Occurs when the primary machine recovers and resumes operations, taking over from the secondary server.
Disaster recovery plan
A detailed process for recovering information or a system in the event of a catastrophic disaster.
Hot site
A separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business.
Cold site
A separate facility that does not have any computer equipment but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.
Warm site
A separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration.
Disaster recovery cost curve
Charts (1) the cost to the company of the unavailability of information and technology and (2) the cost to the company of recovering from a disaster over time.
Emergency
A sudden, unexpected event requiring immediate action due to potential threat to health and safety, the environment, or property.
Emergency preparedness
Ensures a company is ready to respond to an emergency in an organized, timely, and effective manner.
Business continuity planning (BCP)
Details how a company recovers and restores critical business operations and systems after a disaster or extended disruption.
Business impact analysis
Identifies all critical business functions and the effect that a specific disaster may have upon them.
Emergency notification service
An infrastructure built for notifying people in the event of an emergency.
Technology failure
Occurs when the ability of a company to operate is impaired because of a hardware, software, or data outage.
Incident management
The process responsible for managing how incidents are identified and corrected.
Technology recovery strategies
Focus specifically on prioritizing the order for restoring hardware, software, and data across the organization that best meets business recovery requirements.
Accessibility
The varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system.
Administry access
Unrestricted access to the entire system.
Web accessibility
People with disabilities, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities, can use the web.
Web accessibility initiative (WAI)
Brings people together 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.
Availability
The time frames when the system is operational.
Unavailable
Not operating and cannot be used.
High availability
Occurs when a system is continuously operational at all times.
Maintainability (flexibility)
Refers to how quickly a system can transform to support environmental changes.
Portability
The ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems.
Reliability (accuracy)
Ensures a system is functioning correctly and providing accurate information.
Vulnerability
A system weakness that can be exploited by a threat.
Scalability
Describes how well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth.
Performance
Measures how quickly a system performs a process or a transaction.
Capacity
The maximum throughput a system can deliver; for example, the capacity of a hard drive represents its size or volume.
Capacity planning
Determines future environmental infrastructure requirements to ensure high-quality system performance.
Usability
The degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use.
Serviceability
How quickly a third party can change a system to ensure it meets user needs and the terms of any contracts, including agreed levels of reliability, maintainability, or availability.
Moore's Law
Refers to the computer chip performance per dollar doubles every 18 months.
Sustainable (green) MIS
Describes the production, management, use, and disposal of technology in a way that minimizes damage to the environment.
Corporate social responsibility
Companies' acknowledged responsibility to society.
Ewaste
Refers to discarded, obsolete, or broken electronic devices.
Sustainable MIS disposal
Refers to the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle.
Energy consumption
The amount of energy consumed by business processes and systems.
Carbon emissions
Carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide produced by business processes and systems.
Grid computing
A collection of computers, often geographically dispersed, that are coordinated to solve a common problem.
Smart grid
Delivers electricity using 2-way digital technology.
Virtualization
Creates multiple "virtual" machines on a single computing device.
Data center
A facility used to house management information systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.
Cloud computing
A model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources.
Multi-tenancy
In the cloud means that a single instance of a system serves multiple customers.
Single-tenency
Each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system.
Cloud fabric
The software that makes possible the benefits of cloud computing, such as multi-tenancy.
Cloud fabric controller
An individual who monitors and provisions cloud resources, similar to service administrator at an individual company.
Utility computing
Offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity.
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
Delivers hardware networking capabilities, including the use of servers, networking, and storage, over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model.
Dynamic scaling
Which means the MIS infrastructure can be automatically scaled up or down based on needed requirements.
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model.
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Supports the deployment of entire systems including hardware, networking, and applications using a pay-per-use revenue model.
Public cloud
Promotes massive, global, and industrywide applications offered to the general public.
Private cloud
Serves only one customer or organization and can be located on the customer's premises or off the customer's premises.
Community cloud
Serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations.
Hybrid cloud
Includes 2 or more private, public, or community clouds, but each cloud remains separate and is linked by technology that enables data and application portability.
Cloud bursting
When a company uses its own computing infrastructure for normal usage and accesses the cloud when it needs to scale for peak load requirements, ensuring a sudden spike in usage does not result in poor performance or system crashes.
Recommended textbook solutions
Computer Organization and Design MIPS Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface
5th EditionDavid A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy
220 solutions
Data Structures and Algorithms in Java
6th EditionRoberto Tamassia
565 solutions
Starting Out with Python
4th EditionTony Gaddis
629 solutions
The Practice of Computing Using Python
2nd EditionRichard Enbody, William F Punch
329 solutions
Sets with similar termsChap 5
80 terms
akyl50
MSIS CHAPTER 5 VOCAB
72 terms
halodude23
MIS Chapter 5
64 terms
malcazar1
ISOM Chapter 5
77 terms
tricia_lynn_roberson
Sets found in the same folderMIS 311 CH 4 Vocab
82 terms
katcro101
MIS CH 6 Vocab
58 terms
katcro101
MIS 311 Appendix B Vocab
29 terms
katcro101
INFO 210 CH.8
32 terms
NicoMartinez1228
Other sets by this creatorIBUS CH 6 Vocab
9 terms
katcro101
German 102 Final Exam Vocab
205 terms
katcro101
MIS Ch 9 Quiz
19 terms
katcro101
OPM Ch 5 HW
25 terms
katcro101
Verified questions
COMPUTER SCIENCE
How do you get the byte number of a file’s current read position? How do you get the byte number of a file’s current write position?
Verified answer
COMPUTER SCIENCE
What types of services does the process manager provide?
Verified answer
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Write a function called findReading. It should use a Reading structure reference variable as its parameter. The function should ask the user to enter values for each member of the structure.
Verified answer
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Show how to implement a queue using two stacks. Analyze the running time of the queue operations.
Verified answer
Other Quizlet setsLab 11: Anatomy and organization of skel…
23 terms
Brandon_Sills3
adv pos test 1
52 terms
Mar88thomas
hwh
44 terms
FijiChild
formwork exam quiz 7
22 terms
Connor1855
Related questionsQUESTION
Which Windows PowerShell cmdlet can you use to view the health status for Storage Spaces in file server?
2 answers
QUESTION
When a company hosts a cloud, it establishes multiple servers, possibly in diverse geographic areas, with data being redundantly stored on several servers.
5 answers
QUESTION
What's the difference between the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and the AWS software development kits (SDK)? (Select TWO.)
5 answers
QUESTION
True or False: HDLC is very similar to the SDLC synchronous data link protocol.
3 answers