WGU C952 Comp. Architecture, Exam Questions & Answers, Rated A+

WGU C952 Comp. Architecture, Exam Questions & Answers, Rated A+ Information Revolution - -third revolution for civilization after agricultural and industrial classes of computing - -personal computers, servers, embedded computers personal computers - -this class drove evolution only 35 years old good performance at low cost third party software servers - -modern form of large computers carries sizable workloads greater computing, storage, I/O capacity typically accessed via network runs large programs for multiple users supercomputer - -highest performance and cost configured as servers embedded - -computer inside another device runs one predetermined app or collection of software has low tolerance for failure processor cores - -used by many embedded processors written in hardware description language Verilog or VHDL allows integration with other app-specific hardware personal mobile device - -PMD small wireless device connects to internet rely on batteries downloads apps warehouse scale computers - -WSCs giant datacenters relied by cloud computing post-pc era - -personal mobile devices are replacing PCs cloud computing - -large collection of servers provides services over internet offers rental of servers dynamically software as a service - -SaaS delivers software as a service over Internet via a browser instead of binary code that must be installed multicore microprocessor