What is the first step that an organisation should take to improve its Green IT credentials?
A. Rationalise its Data Centre.
B. Review competitors' green policies.
C. Establish its Green IT policy.
D. Replace its old PCs.
Which of the following actions make a PC more energy efficient?
A. Disabling stand-by settings.
B. Enabling active power management.
C. Enabling active screen savers.
D. Disabling CPU throttling features.
Which of the following would help identify how green an organisation currently is?
A. Add power meters to your servers.
B. Add screen savers to your PCs.
C. Add colour to your network printers.
D. Add redundancy to your storage devices.
Which of the following will reduce paper consumption?
A. Setting printers to duplex printing.
B. Setting printers to colour printing.
C. Setting printers to high quality printing.
D. Setting printers to draft printing.
Which of the following is one of the three market-based tools created by the Kyoto Protocol?
A. Carbon credit initiative.
B. Emissions trading.
C. Footprint reduction fund.
D. Carbon neutral implementation.
How can changes to the running of servers provide a 'quick win' when greening a data centre?
A. By running them with minimal throughput.
B. By running them at lower utilisation.
C. By running them with full redundancy.
D. By running them at higher temperature.
Which of the following is amongst the five marketing actions an organisation should take when greening
their brand?
a) Be accountable.
b) Be transparent.
c) Be credible.
d) Be an enabler.
A. a and d only.
B. a and b only.
C. b, c and d only.
D. a, b, c and d.
Which of the following are products included in the EPEAT Registry?
a) Monitors.
b) Mobiles.
c) Notebooks.
d) Printers.
A. b and d only.
B. a and c only.
C. a and b only
D. c and d only.
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.
What is the purpose of the EU Code of Conduct for data centres?
A. To reduce energy consumption.
B. To reduce C02 emissions.
C. To reduce data capacity.
D. To reduce server disposal.