What does Carbon Energy Accounting measure in an organisation?
A. The entire amount of energy used by the organisation.
B. The entire cost of supplying energy to the organisation.
C. The entire financial profit of adopting a Green IT strategy in the organisation.
D. The entire amount of CO2 produced by the organisation.
Which of the following is a method for managing risk?
A. PRAMM.
B. TRAMM.
C. CRAMM.
D. GRAMM.
Which of the following is the best definition of cap and trade?
A. Companies can trade emissions within an agreed limit.
B. Companies can trade emissions within agreed timescales.
C. Companies can trade emissions with an agreed price.
D. Companies can trade emissions within a single region.
Virtualised computing resources are delivered dynamically. What does this mean?
A. The resources are delivered with very high throughput.
B. The resources are delivered only when they are needed.
C. The resources are delivered with very low CPU utilisation.
D. The resources are delivered with no storage requirement.
Which of the following are steps you can take to help justify a green IT programme?
a.
Highlight current costs.
b.
Investigate available skilled labour.
c.
Identify legislative dangers.
d.
Demonstrate cultural resistance.
A.
b, c and d.
B.
b and d.
C.
a and c.
D.
a, b and d.
What is the best definition of a Carbon Footprint?
A. The amount of greenhouse gas emitted within a defined geographical area.
B. The amount of greenhouse gas emitted by extracting minerals.
C. The amount of greenhouse gas emitted by an organisation.
D. The amount of greenhouse gas emitted minus the amount of carbon offsetting.
Which of the following methods is used to assess the full lifecycle cost to a user of an IT service?
A. Total Cost of Utilisation.
B. Total Cost of Ownership.
C. Total Cost of Provision.
D. Total Cost of Allocation.
Which of the following activities would make data centres more energy efficient?
a.
Consolidate resources onto a smaller number of servers.
b.
Position servers as close together as possible.
c.
Replace old CRT monitors with LCD displays.
d.
Retire all unused and unnecessary data storage capacity.
A.
a, b and d.
B.
a, c and d.
C.
b, c and d.
D.
b and d.
A Green IT policy should be aligned to which other organisational policy?
A. The Performance Management policy.
B. The Health and Safety policy.
C. The Equal Opportunities policy.
D. The Environmental policy.
What action can you take to reduce the power consumption of your data centre?
A. Shut down servers out of business hours.
B. Replace small servers with larger ones.
C. Reallocate under-used servers to run active services.
D. Upgrade servers to always run the latest software.