GCSE/IGCSE ICT - Policy, Strategy, and Back-ups Quiz

Critical Success factors happen when:
1. The company has broken even
2. Certain things happen which enable manegers to state that the business is a success
3. When the workforce achieve a level of productivity.
4. There are no customer complaints.
Which one of these will NOT contribute to critical success factors
1. Customer service is excellent
2. Products are of high quality
3. The members of the board award themselves massive bonus payments.
4. Customers come to our company in preference to a rival
A distributed information processing system is one where:
1. All ICT processing is done by the ICT services department.
2. All ICT processing is done on one site only.
3. ICT processing is done on stand-alone machines.
4. ICT processing may be done within departments
Which one of the following levels of processing system will enable a strategic decision to be made?
1. A management information system
2. A knowledge work system
3. A transaction processing system
4. A database management system
Which one of the following is an advantage for a distributed processing system?
1. hardware is compatible throughout the company
2. the organisation can get better deals on maintenance contracts
3. The processing capabilities match the departments processing needs.
4. better exchange of data between computers
Software is said to run on a platform. This means that:
1. the software arrives on a CD-ROM
2. the software can be run by certain kinds of hardware.
3. the computer running the software has to be a laptop.
4. this is specialised software designed for the safe operation of trains.
Software can be run to allow software designed for PCs to run on Macs and vice versa. This is called:
1. emancipation software
2. interpretation software
3. transperambulation software
4. emulation software
Which one of the following statements is correct about "Future-Proofing" of hardware and software.
1. This can be assured by purchasing state of the art machines and software.
2. It is impossible to future proof software, but purchasing a state of the art machine will at least future proof the hardware.
3. It is impossible to future proof hardware, but future proofing software is possible by ensuring that there are no errors.
4. It is impossible to do for either software or hardware, since both are under constant development.
The best method for avoiding data loss is:
1. back-up onto a floppy disk
2. back up onto a CD Rom
3. use of a RAID that automatically backs up the data
4. use of a flash memory
The reason that it is sensible for companies to do back ups on their data is:
1. the company can have several copies of the data on which to work.
2. Loss of data can be catastropic.
3. the companies would have redundant resources.
4. Compamies can only do back ups if they hold less than 700 MB of data.
With whom should the responsibility lie for backing up company data?
1. A data entry clerk
2. A young recruit in the sales department who is into ICT.
3. The computer technician
4. Computer service manager
As well as doing back ups, a company needs a back up strategy. Which one of these is an important part of the back up strategy?
1. The software used.
2. The back up media are held at sepaerate locations.
3. The data that are held.
4. The back up media are held in one fireproof safe.
Which one of the following is true for on-line backing up?
1. It uses a RAID system in a remote location.
2. It is done every day after office hours.
3. It is best done with digital audio tape.
4. It uses the grandfather, father, son method of back-up keeping
Grandfather, Father, Son back-up regimes are used for:
1. On-line processing
2. Pseudo on-line processing
3. Knowledge work systems
4. Transaction processing
A small company holds about 5 gigabytes of data. Which one of the following would be the best back-up medium?
1. Floppy disk
2. CD-ROM
3. DVD
4. DAT

Policy, Strategy, and Back-ups

A2 Level