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ITCR-Maestría en Administración de Empresas
Curso: AM1303 Sistemas de Información Gerencial – Examen parcial
Instructor: M.Sc. Gerardo Brenes
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Nombre del estudiante: _________________________________________ Carné: _______________
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(verdadero) ó (falso) según sea el caso.
Las que dicen “
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la página del libro donde se encuentra la clave de la respuesta. Las preguntas son en
inglés cortesía de Pearson Educación y están agrupadas por capítulo del libro. En este
caso incluyen capítulos del 1 al 4. .
Chapter 5: IT Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies
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1. IT infrastructure technology is purely a set of physical devices and software applications that
are required to operate the entire enterprise.
Answer: Difficulty: Easy Reference: pp. 171–172
2. Client/server computing is a widely used form of centralized processing.
Answer: Difficulty: Medium Reference: pp. 175, 178
3. In two-tiered client/server architecture, the processing is split between two types of servers.
Answer: Difficulty: Hard Reference: p. 175
4. Application server software is responsible for locating and managing stored Web pages.
Answer: Difficulty: Medium Reference: p. 176
5. An application server may reside on the same computer as a Web server or on its own
dedicated computer.
Answer: Difficulty: Medium Reference: p. 176
6. Enterprise integration requires software that can link disparate applications and enable data
to flow freely among different parts of the business.
Answer: : Difficulty: Medium Reference: p. 177
7. The mainframe market has grown steadily over the past decade.
Answer: Difficulty: Medium Reference: p. 186
8.
The operating system is used to manage the computer’s activities.
Answer: Difficulty: Easy Reference: p. 186
9. SANs create large central pools of storage that can be rapidly accessed and shared by mul-
tiple servers.
Answer: Difficulty: Medium Reference: p. 187
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10. Like an ASP, a Web hosting service provides shared applications to subscribed users, but
does this through a Web portal.
Answer: Difficulty: Medium Reference: p. 188
11. Autonomic computing is implemented primarily with enterprise or ISP servers.
Answer: Difficulty: Medium Reference: p. 192
12. N-tier computing is a multi-tier, load-balancing scheme for Web-based applications in which
significant parts of Web site content, logic, and processing are performed by smaller, less ex-
pensive servers located nearby the user.