When Making Decisions About How to Acquire Any of the Components

question 164

Multiple Choice

When making decisions about how to acquire any of the components of the IT infrastructure, certain characteristics must be considered. One characteristic is manageability, which means:

• A) The component will contribute to the infrastructures ability to meet availability, reliability, and scalability requirements of the company's information systems TPS,MIS, DSS, etc.) and applications.
• B) The component will positively contribute to the task of implementing, maintaining, using and supporting the hardware and software that are required to deliver dependable applications.
• C) The component will contribute to the ability to scale up the infrastructure when additional application capacity is needed, or conversely, scale down to save money when capacity is not needed.
• D) It makes financial sense to invest in the component and that there is a good chance it will provide a positive return on investment.

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Definitions:

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Method of Agreement

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Method of Residues

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