Question

1. The first company to become hugely successful by providing access to the Internet, AOL, displayed which of the following characteristics?

	a.	It leveraged its strong brand identity to make it the industry leader for many years.
	b.	It leveraged its enormous financial resources to replace its original technology by acquiring dramatically more powerful next generation technology as soon as it became available.
	c.	It failed to build on its original technological and financial success and soon gave way to other industry leaders using vastly superior technology.
	d.	It leveraged its original high profitability to invest in R&D of new technologies that made it the industry leader for many years

2. The _________ protocol places packets on, and receives them from, the network medium.

	a.	Internet
	b.	Application
	c.	Network interface
	d.	Transport

3.

	a.	Big data becomes less useful over time since data changes too rapidly for a system to keep up.
	b.	Big Data is so large and complex that it must be managed by using a traditional DBMS.
	c.	Big Data predictions come from teaching computers to think like humans.
	d.	Big Data systems perform well because they contain huge amounts of data on which to base their predictions.

4. Which of the following is true about client/server computing?

	a.	Client machines can be easily added to the network over time
	b.	Clients typically have more computing power than servers
	c.	Even though a server goes down the clients are able to function normally.
	d.	The most powerful networked systems have more servers than client machines

Answer 1

2) Network Interface protocol places packets on, and receives them from, the network medium.

3) Big Data systems perform well because they contain huge amounts of data on which to base their predictions.

4) The most powerful networked systems have more servers than client machines

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