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33) All of the following are examples of wearable computing devices except:
A) smartwatches.
B) smart badges.
C) activity trackers.
D) smart glasses.
E) smartphones.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.2: What are the major computer hardware, data storage, input, and output technologies
used in business and the major hardware trends?
34) All of the following are features of smartwatches except a(n):
A) accelerometer.
B) altimeter.
C) compass.
D) gyrometer.
E) barometer.
AACSB: Application of Knowledge
LO: 5.2: What are the major computer hardware, data storage, input, and output technologies
used in business and the major hardware trends?
35) Which of the following is considered to be the fastest growing form of computing?
A) Wearable computing
B) Green computing
C) Nanocomputing
D) Enterprise computing
E) Cloud computing
AACSB: Application of Knowledge
LO: 5.2: What are the major computer hardware, data storage, input, and output technologies
used in business and the major hardware trends?
36) A mainframe is a type of legacy workstation.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.2: What are the major computer hardware, data storage, input, and output technologies
used in business and the major hardware trends?
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37) Client/server computing is the most widely used form of centralized processing.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.2: What are the major computer hardware, data storage, input, and output technologies
used in business and the major hardware trends?
38) Application server software is responsible for locating and managing stored web pages.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.2: What are the major computer hardware, data storage, input, and output technologies
used in business and the major hardware trends?
39) Using an online storage service such as DropBox is a type of virtualization.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.2: What are the major computer hardware, data storage, input, and output technologies
used in business and the major hardware trends?
40) In cloud computing, rapid elasticity refers to the ability of computing resources to be quickly
obtained, increased, or decreased to meet demand.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.2: What are the major computer hardware, data storage, input, and output technologies
used in business and the major hardware trends?
41) A private cloud is operated for the benefit of a single organization but may be managed by a
third party and located off premises.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.2: What are the major computer hardware, data storage, input, and output technologies
used in business and the major hardware trends?
42) Google Apps is an example of SaaS.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.2: What are the major computer hardware, data storage, input, and output technologies
used in business and the major hardware trends?
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43) Nanotechnology uses individual atoms and molecules to create computer chips and other
devices that are thousands of times smaller than current technologies permit.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.2: What are the major computer hardware, data storage, input, and output technologies
used in business and the major hardware trends?
44) An SaaS provider maintains a large web server, or series of servers, and provides fee-paying
subscribers with space to maintain their websites.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.2: What are the major computer hardware, data storage, input, and output technologies
used in business and the major hardware trends?
45) An international ad hoc group of climatologists and oceanographers needs to set up a system
to analyze massive amounts of data on ocean temperatures, collected hourly by hundreds of ships
worldwide. What types of hardware might they need for storage and processing? What
techniques might they use to make their research more efficient and lower costs?
AACSB: Information Technology; Written and Oral Communication
LO: 5.2: What are the major computer hardware, data storage, input, and output technologies
used in business and the major hardware trends?
46) You are starting a small market research company with a single business partner, and are
planning the hardware and software needs for the two of you. You realize that you will need to
make daily backups of your data. What choices do you have as backup media, and what will you
choose? Why?
AACSB: Information Technology; Written and Oral Communication
LO: 5.2: What are the major computer hardware, data storage, input, and output technologies
used in business and the major hardware trends?
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47) List and describe the major trends in computer hardware. Which of these do you think will
create the biggest changes in business information systems, and why?
AACSB: Information Technology; Written and Oral Communication
LO: 5.2: What are the major computer hardware, data storage, input, and output technologies
used in business and the major hardware trends?
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48) You are an IT consultant advising a building inspection company that conducts home
inspections throughout your state. The company wishes to switch to primarily mobile computing,
so that inspectors can finalize reports without having to return to the office, but they are not sure
how to go about this. What will be your advice?
AACSB: Information Technology; Written and Oral Communication
LO: 5.2: What are the major computer hardware, data storage, input, and output technologies
used in business and the major hardware trends?
49) What are the essential characteristics of cloud computing?
AACSB: Information Technology; Written and Oral Communication
LO: 5.2: What are the major computer hardware, data storage, input, and output technologies
used in business and the major hardware trends?
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50) Which of the following is an interactive, multiuser operating system developed by Bell
Laboratories in 1969 to be highly supportive of communications and networking?
A) UNIX
B) Linux
C) OS X
D) COBOL
E) Chrome
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.3: What are the major types of computer software used in business and the major software
trends?
51) Linux is:
A) primarily concerned with the tasks of end users.
B) designed for specific machines and specific microprocessors.
C) an example of open-source software.
D) especially useful for processing numeric data.
E) the operating system for the Macintosh computer.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.3: What are the major types of computer software used in business and the major software
trends?
52) Linux plays a major role in supporting business information systems, and has garnered about
________ of the U.S. server market.
A) 10 percent
B) 25 percent
C) 35 percent
D) 50 percent
E) 80 percent
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.3: What are the major types of computer software used in business and the major software
trends?
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53) Which of the following is a visual programming tool and environment for creating
applications that run on Microsoft Windows operating systems?
A) Java
B) C++
C) XML
D) Visual Basic
E) COBOL
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.3: What are the major types of computer software used in business and the major software
trends?
54) The toy manufacturer you work for wants to exchange data with a chain of toy stores in order
to improve its distribution and speed to market. The toy stores use different software than your
firm. Which of the following tools or technologies presents the best solution?
A) Mashups
B) Extranet
C) Web services
D) Cloud computing
E) Intranet
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.3: What are the major types of computer software used in business and the major software
trends?
55) At the client level, ________ percent of PCs use some form of the Microsoft Windows
operating system.
A) 50
B) 70
C) 80
D) 90
E) 100
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.3: What are the major types of computer software used in business and the major software
trends?
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56) Microsoft Word is an example of:
A) open-source software.
B) word-processing software.
C) software productivity suite.
D) data management software.
E) presentation graphics software.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.3: What are the major types of computer software used in business and the major software
trends?
57) Which of the following statements about Linux is not true?
A) Linux is a UNIX-like operating system.
B) Linux plays a major role in running web servers and local area networks.
C) Linux is the primary OS used in quantum computing.
D) Linux is a robust alternative to Windows operating systems.
E) Linux is an example of open source software.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.3: What are the major types of computer software used in business and the major software
trends?
58) Microsoft Excel is an example of:
A) data management software.
B) spreadsheet software.
C) presentation graphics.
D) word processing software.
E) presentation graphics software.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.3: What are the major types of computer software used in business and the major software
trends?
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59) Which type of software provides more control over text and graphic placement in the layout
of a page than word processing software?
A) Desktop publishing software
B) Spreadsheet software
C) Graphics software
D) Presentation software
E) Data management software
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.3: What are the major types of computer software used in business and the major software
trends?
60) The main challenge coming to Microsoft's Office software suite will be:
A) open-source, Linux-based suites such as OpenOffice.
B) cloud-based productivity software such as Google Docs and Google Apps.
C) mobile software.
D) in-house, custom software created using open-source web services.
E) Apple's iWork.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.3: What are the major types of computer software used in business and the major software
trends?
61) Running a Java program on a computer requires:
A) a Java Virtual Machine to be installed on the computer.
B) a Java Virtual Machine to be installed on the server hosting the Java applet.
C) an applet to be downloaded to the user's computer.
D) no extra or specialized software, as Java is platform-independent.
E) an Intel processor and the Windows operating system.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.3: What are the major types of computer software used in business and the major software
trends?
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62) What is the foundation technology for web services?
A) HTML
B) XML
C) SOAP
D) UDDI
E) Java
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.3: What are the major types of computer software used in business and the major software
trends?
63) A(n) ________ is a set of self-contained services that communicate with each other to create
a working software application.
A) web service
B) hybrid cloud
C) SOA
D) ERP
E) mashup
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 5.3: What are the major types of computer software used in business and the major software
trends?
64) ZipRealty, which combines Google Maps with real estate data, is an example of:
A) cloud computing.
B) SOA.
C) a widget.
D) a mashup.
E) a web service.
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
LO: 5.3: What are the major types of computer software used in business and the major software
trends?
