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Questions
Chapter 1
1. Why does a building architect need to understand the technology of building materials and construction? Does a systems architecture have a similar need to understand computer-related technology? Why or why not?
2. How is the knowledge needed to operate complex devices different from the knowledge needed to acquire and configure them?
3. What knowledge of computer hardware and system software is necessary to perform activities in the UP business modeling and requirements disciplines?
4. What knowledge of computer hardware and system software is necessary to perform activities in the UP design and deployment disciplines?
5. What additional technical issues must be addressed when managing a computer center or campus-wide network compared with developing a single information system?
6. List three types of technical information sources that an IS professional might use when researching a new storage technology and selecting specific products that incorporate that technology. Which information source types are most likely to provide unbiased information? Why?
Chapter 2
1. What similarities exist in mechanical, electrical, and optical methods of computation?
2. What shortcomings of mechanical computation did the introduction of electronic computing devices address?
3. What shortcomings of electrical computation will optical computing devices address?
4. What is a CPU? What are its primary components?
5. What are registers?What are their functions?
6. What is main memory? How does it differ from registers?
7. What are the differences between primary and secondary storage?
8. How does a workstation differ from a desktop computer?
9. How does a supercomputer differ from a mainframe computer?
10. Describethreetypesofmulticomputerconfigurations.Whataretheircomparativeadvan- tages and disadvantages?
11. What classes of computer systems are normally used for servers