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________ was/were NOT initially supported by firms' IT departments.

A) Enterprise computing
B) LANs
C) Stand-alone mainframes
D) Stand-alone PCs

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Stand-alone PCs were first introduced in the ________.

A) 1930s
B) 1950s
C) 1970s
D) 1990s

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Suppose you store all your important documents and pictures on Google Drive. Google Drive is an example of a ________ cloud.

Which of the following cloud computing characteristics allows organizations to share resources?

Cloud computing is the traditional way of purchasing and running your own IT infrastructure.

________ clouds are shared, easily accessible, multicustomer IT infrastructures that are available nonexclusively to any entity in the general public)

What are the benefits of cloud computing? What are the risks and concerns of cloud computing? Do you think the benefits of cloud computing outweigh the risks? Why or why not? Under what circumstances would you be willing to use cloud computing?

Google Drive is an example of a public cloud)

Grid computing provides fault tolerance and redundancy.

When IT was first introduced into the business environment, organizations initially used ____________.

________ is the registry of descriptions of web services.

________ allows organizations to connect employee computers and servers onto one network.

With the ________ model, cloud computing providers offer remotely accessible servers, networks, and storage capacity.

________ allow organizations to use the existing internet infrastructure without having to implement any new technologies.

Customers manage the most with the IaaS service model compared to the PaaS and SaaS service models.

Which of the following cloud computing characteristics addresses the business need to increase or decrease capacity when necessary (for example, retailers frequently need much more computational capacity on Black Friday) ?

One of the major benefits of web services is that they can be reused across an organization in other applications.

Security is greatest when using a ________ cloud.

________ require massive amounts of electrical power, air conditioning, backup generators, and security.

Virtualization provides fault tolerance and redundancy.