A senior manager who analyzes internal and external information to analyze marketing campaigns and their affect on customer buying habits is using which type of application? a. Online analytical processing (OLAP) b. Geographic information systems (GIS) c. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) d. Decision support systems (DSS)

One of your customers wants you to build a personal server that he can use in his home. one of his concerns is making sure he has at least one backup of their data stored on the server in the event that a disk fails. you have decided to back up his data using raid. since this server is for personal use only, the customer wants to keep costs down. therefore, he would like to keep the number of drives to a minimum. which of the following raid systems would best meet the customer's specifications? a. raid 0 b. raid 1 c. raid 5 d. raid 10

What is domain name system (dns)? allows dynamic ip address allocation so users do not have to have a preconfigured ip address to use the network converts ip addresses into domains, or identifying labels that use a variety of recognizable naming conventions the efficient coexistence of telephone, video, and data communication within a single network, offering convenience and flexibility not possible with separate infrastructures the integration of communication channels into a single service

When making changes to optimize part of a processor, it is often the case that speeding up one type of instruction comes at the cost of slowing down something else. for example, if we put in a complicated fast floating-point unit, that takes space, and something might have to be moved farther away from the middle to accommodate it, adding an extra cycle in delay to reach that unit. the basic amdahl's law equation does not take into account this trade-off. a. if the new fast floating-point unit speeds up floating-point operations by, on average, 2ă—, and floating-point operations take 20% of the original program's execution time, what is the overall speedup (ignoring the penalty to any other instructions)? b. now assume that speeding up the floating-point unit slowed down data cache accesses, resulting in a 1.5ă— slowdown (or 2/3 speedup). data cache accesses consume 10% of the execution time. what is the overall speedup now? c. after implementing the new floating-point operations, what percentage of execution time is spent on floating-point operations? what percentage is spent on data cache accesses?