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CIS 2010: Intro to Info Systems Assignment 5: Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies & Appendix B: Networks and Telecommunications Due Saturday, 27 June (20% of your course grade) PURPOSE Knowledge: After completing this assignment, you will understand: 1. Discuss MIS Infrastructures. 2. Discuss building sustainable MIS Infrastructures. 3. How MIS supports growth, operations, profitability, and sustainability. 4. Discuss Network Basics. Skills: After doing this assignment you will be able to: 1. Identify the three primary areas associated with a MIS Infrastructure. 2. Describe the characteristics of a MIS Infrastructure. 3. Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS. 4. Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS. 5. Identify the network types. TASK After reading Chapter 5 and Appendix B, complete the following chart and upload your completed file (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .xlsx) to the Assignment5 folder. Supporting Operations Information MIS Infrastructure Supporting Change Agile MIS Infrastructure Supporting Sustainability Sustainable MIS Infrastructure Three primary areas provided by an information infrastructure: Characteristics that help ensure that your systems can meet and perform under any unexpected or unplanned changes: The three primary side effects of businesses’ expanded use of technology: 1. Back up and Recovery 2. Disaster Recovery Plan 3. Business Continuity Plan 1. Accessibility 2. Availability 3. Maintainability 4. Portability 5. Reliability 6. Scalability 1. Carbon Emissions 2. Energy Consumption 3. Ewaste

CIS 2010: Intro to Info Systems Assignment 5: Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies & Appendix B: Networks and Telecommunications Due Saturday, 27 June (20% of your course grade) 7. Usability Sites to support Disaster Recovery: Of the above characteristics, which has a challenge of determining when to schedule system downtime if the system is expected to operate continuously? Ways a company can grow in terms of computing resources while becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption: 1. Hot site 2. Cold site 3. Warm site 1. High availability occurs when a system is continuously operational at all times and companies deploy failover systems so they can take the primary system down for maintenance and activate the secondary system to ensure continuous operation. 1. Grid Computing 2. Virtualization 3. Cloud Computing APPENDIX B What are the three network types? A network typically includes four things (besides the computers themselves): Which network is useful in sharing resources such as files, printers, and games?