An Industry-Wide Effort to Develop Systems That Can Configure, Optimize

question 45

Multiple Choice

An industry-wide effort to develop systems that can configure, optimize, tune, and heal themselves when broken, and protect themselves from outside intruders and self-destruction is called:

• A)grid computing.
• B)utility computing.
• C)cloud computing.
• D)autonomic computing.

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Definitions:

Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test

This statistical test, which doesn't assume a specific distribution, is used to assess if two distinct samples have different population mean rankings.

Mann-Whitney Test

A non-parametric test used to evaluate whether two independent samples are drawn from the same distribution or differ significantly.

Nonparametric Test

A type of statistical test that does not assume a specific distribution for the data, often used when data doesn't meet the assumptions required for parametric tests.

Normally Distributed

Describes a probability distribution that is symmetrical around its mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.