BUSI 3700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Web Services Description Language, Soap, Server Farm
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Question type: true/false: entering data and programs from user departments to the mainframe was called remote data entry. Difficulty: medium: mis departments embraced the arrival of personal computers in the work place. Difficulty: easy: mainframe computers are no longer being used. Difficulty: easy: companies are building massive data centers called computer floors to meet their processing needs. Difficulty: easy: server farms can be located just about anywhere. Difficulty: medium: server virtualization uses software-based partitions to create multiple virtual servers on a single physical server. Difficulty: medium: grid computing combines processing resources to form a virtual supercomputer. Difficulty: easy: any application can run on a grid computing system. Difficulty: medium: utility computing is also called on-demand computing. Difficulty: easy: the cloud in cloud computing is composed of computers, the software on those computers, and the network connections among those computers. Difficulty: easy: the primary advantage of cloud computing is that it is easier for users to do their work.