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isbc chapter 6 and appendix c from class

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Which of the following describes an agile MIS infrastructure?

identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured
includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization's goals
identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes and MIS assets
includes the hardware software and the telecommunications equipment that when combined provides the underlying foundation to support the organization's goals
What are the three business functions an MIS infrastructure supports?
operations, change, and the environment or sustainability
What is the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the information backup?
recovery
Within the sites that support disaster recovery, a ________ is a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business.
hot site
Which of the following agile MIS infrastructure characteristics refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems?
portability
Which of the following describes how well a system can adapt to increased demands?
scalability
Which of the following describes a system's weakness that can be exploited by a threat?
vulnerability
Miranda White likes taking old computer parts and remaking them into products such as earrings and clocks. Which of the following represents what Miranda is doing?
upcycle
Which of the following describes a company's acknowledged responsibility to society?
corporate social responsibility
What is made up of discarded technology devices?
ewaste
A primary key is a field that uniquely identifies a given record in a table. true or false?
true
A foreign key is a primary key of one table that appears as an attribute in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship between the two tables. true or false
true
A field is composed of rows and columns that represent an entity.
true or false
false
A one-to-many relationship occurs between two entities in which an instance of one entity can be related to only one instance of a related entity.
true or false
false one to one
Date of birth would be a stored attribute.
true or false
true
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