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Unit 5: Business Hardware Software and IT Infrastructure

5.11 Review Questions Notes

1. Describe the evolution of IT infrastructure in detail with suitable example.
2. What is Moore’s law? How it is related to Micro-processing Power.

3. Describe the laws of mass digital storage in detail.
4. Enlighten the various components of IT infrastructure.
5. Discuss the role of IOS within the network structure.
6. Why IT infrastructure is necessary for any organization? Give your suggestion.
7. What are the various trends in hardware platform? Explain.

8. Describe the impact of Information Technology on the Emergence of Networks.
9. The enterprises inside a network cannot operate properly if they have not the possibility
to communicate quickly, accurately, and over long distances. Comment.

10. What is groupware? Explain the methods in which humans interact.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. IT infrastructure 2. separate
3. automated 4. mainframe
5. Moore’s Law 6. Nanotechnology
7. doubling 8. magnetic

9. Enterprise Software 10. Internet
11. network 12. interdependent
13. Enterprise Software Architecture. 14. business
15. Groupware 16. collaborative

5.12 Further Readings

Books Bhatnagar, S.C. and K.V. Ramani, Computers and Information Management, Prentice
Hall of India Private Ltd, New Delhi, 1991.
Davis, Gordon B. and Margrethe H. Olsen, Management Information Systems,
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Singapore, 1985.

Goyal D.P., Management Information Systems (MIS), Deep & Deep Publications,
New Delhi, 1994.
Kenneth C Laudon and Jane P Laudon, Management Information Systems - Managing
the Digital Firm, 9th Ed. Pearson Education Asia, New Delhi, 2007.
O, Brien, James A., Management Information Systems , Galgotia Publications (P)
Ltd., New Delhi, 1991.
Post, Gerald V., Management Information Systems: Solving Business Problems with
Information Technology, Third edition, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
Limited, New Delhi, 2003.

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