Answers of Chapter 14 "Discovering Computers 2011 : Living in a Digital World"

True/False
1. True
2. False
3. True
4. True
5. False
6. False
7. True
8. True
9. True
10. True

Multiple Choice

1.c
2.b
3.a
4.b
5.a
6.d
7.a
8.d


Matching
1.h
2.f
3.b
4.e
5.d
6.g
7.a
8.j
9.i
10.c


Short Answers
1. Managers's responsibilities are in coordinating and controlling the resources of an organization.
The activities done by manager to coordinate the resources of an organization : planning, organizing, leading, controlling.

2. CMS is an information system that combines databases, softwares, and procedures that allow users to access to many forms of files.
Types of content that may be processed by CMS : images, multimetida datas, security controls, metadata.

3. Server virtualization : can divide physical servers to many virtual servers, and storage virtualization : can combine many physical storage devices into single logical storage.
Cloud computing is a service using Internet to give computer needs to users. Grid computing is the networking, which combines many servers and/or PC into one large computer.

4. E-retail, finance, travel, health, and entertainment and health.
E-retail : occurs when users want to sell their product online. Health : websites providing up-to-date medicines, health information, exercises to the world. Travel : websites allowing users to know how-to reach certain places from their current place, or to book a flight.

5. Backup plan should contain the location of alternate computer facility in case of the organization's event normal location is destroyed.

The aspects contributing to the success of a backup plan : backing up all important resources, numbers of people trained in the backup and recovery procedures.