One type of decision support system (DSS), called an executive information system, is designed to provide senior managers with information relevant to ___________ management activities such as setting policies, planning, and preparing budgets.

A security analyst has a sample of malicious software and needs to know what the sample in a carefully controlled and monitored virtual machine to observe the software's behavior. After the software has run, the analyst returns the virtual machines OS to a pre-defined know good state using what feature of virtualization?

A. Host elasticity B. Antivirus C. sandbox D. snapshots

___________ enables new classes to absorb the data and behaviors of existing classes and embellish these classes with new capabilities.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).