Chapter 5.1 MIS Infrastructures
Chapter 5.2 Building Sustainable MIS Infrastructures
Chapter 6.1 Data, Information, and Databases
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How quickly a third-party or vendor can change a system to ensure it meets user needs and the terms of any contracts

What is serviceability?

100

Stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the Internet

What is cloud computing?

100

Includes fixed data incapable of change in the event of a user action

What is static information?

100

Continued advances in technological innovation made it possible to reduce the size of a computer chip while doubling its capacity every two years

What is Moore's Law?

100

Performs functions such as resetting passwords and deleting accounts

What is administrator access?

200

Separate and fully equipped facility where a company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business

What is a hot site?

200

Delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model

What is Software as a Service (SaaS)?

200

Enforce business rules vital to an organization's success

What are business critical integrity constraints?

200

Three cloud computing service delivery models

What are 1) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), 2) Software as a Service (SaaS), and 3) Platform as a Service (PaaS)?

200

Information used to perform operational tasks

What is transactional information?

300

Outlines the costs to support a disaster recovery plan

What is a disaster recovery cost curve?

300

Three pressures driving sustainable MIS infrastructures

What are increases in 1) electronic waste, 2) energy waste, and 3) carbon emissions?

300

Advantages of data-driven websites

What are 1) easier to manage content and 2) store large amounts of data?

300

Statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables

What is regression?

300

Four primary traits of the value of information

What are 1) type, 2) timeliness, 3) quality, and 4) governance?

400

Characteristics of a sustainable MIS infrastructure

What are 1) grid computing, 2) cloud computing, and 3) virtualization?

400

Single instance of a system serves multiple customers in the cloud

What is multi-tenancy?

400

Ensures that every data value is correct and accurate

What is data validation?

400

Reasons for low-quality information

What are 1) online customers intentionally enter inaccurate information to protect their privacy, 2) different systems have different information entry standards and formats, and 3) third-party and external information contains inaccuracies and errors?

400

Focus on building this to support organization change

What is an agile MIS infrastructure?

500

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 backup server

What is failover?

500

Takes advantage of computers' unused processing power and links thousands of individual computers around the world

What is grid computing?

500

Table that stores information about people, places, or events

What is an entity?

500

Aggregate or summary information is in agreement with detailed information

What is consistency?

500

Communications technology aimed at providing high-speed wireless data over metropolitan area networks

What is worldwide interoperability for microware access (WiMAX)?