When Making Decisions About How to Acquire Any of the Components

question 32

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 affordability, 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:

Existential Instantiation

A logical principle that derives the existence of a particular instance of a predicate within a domain of discourse from a general statement.

Universal Instantiation

A logical rule stating that if something is true for everything in a certain set, then it is true for any specific thing in that set.

Universal Instantiation

A logical rule of inference that allows the derivation of a particular instance from a general statement, often used in formal proofs.

Universal Generalization

A logical rule that states if something is true for all members of a class, it is true in general.