E-Commerce

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Which of the following is not a major technology trend in e-commerce?

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Computing and networking component prices increase dramatically

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E-commerce can be defined as:

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The use of the Internet and the Web to transact business

Front 3

Which of the following is the best definition of transaction costs?

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The cost of participating in markets

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E-commece can be said to have begun in:

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1995

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Which of the following is not an example of a Web 2.0 application?

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Yahoo

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None of the following technologies easily crosses national boundaries to a global audience except:

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the Internet

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The early days of e-commerce are considered:

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A stunning technological success as the Internet and the Web increased from a few thousand to billions of e-commerce transactions per year.

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Which of the following is the top online retailer ranked by online sales?

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Amazon

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Which of the following is not true regarding e-commerce today?

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The market middlemen disappeared

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Which business improvement is associated with the technological development of local area networks and client/server computing?

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Workgroup automation (e.g. document sharing)

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and are typically the most easily identifiable aspects of a company's business model.

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Value proposition & revenue model

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Which element of the business model addresses the question of why a customer should buy from the firm?

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Value proposition

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Which of the following are Amazon's primary value propositons?

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Selection and convenience

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Which element of the business model examines who else occupies the firm's intended marketspace?

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Competitive environment

Front 15

All of the following firms are successfully executing and online grocery business model except:

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Webvan

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Stickiness is an important attribute for which revenue model?

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Advertising revenue model

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Which of the following is an example of the affiliate revenue model?

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MyPoints

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Which of the following companies utilizes a transaction fee revenue model?

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E*Trade

Front 19

Which of the following would be considered an indirect competitor of Continental Airlines?

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Hertz.com

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A perfect market is one in which:

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There are no competitive advantages or asymmetries because all firms have equal access to all the factors to production

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Which of the following is not a basic building block of the Internet?

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The SMTP protocol

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The process of slicing digital messages into parcels, sending them along different communication paths as they become available, and reassembling them at the destination point is called:

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Packet switching

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Which of the following is the core communications protocol for the Internet?

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TCP/IP

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An IPv4 address is expressed as a:

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32-bit number that appears as a series of four seperate numbers separated by periods.

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The natural language convention used to represent IP addresses is called the:

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Domain name system

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The addresses used by browsers to identify the location of content on the Web are called:

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Uniform resource locators

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The backbone of the Internet is formed by:

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Network Service Providers (NSPs)

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technologies are being used today to extend the capacity of installed, long-haul fiber lines to enable broadband digital services.

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Photonic

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The first Web browser to make it possible to view documents on the Web with colored background, images, and animations was:

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Mosaic

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Software programs that gather and/or filter information on the Internet on a specific topic and provide a list of the results may be called any one of the following except:

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Avatars

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A(n) is a Web application that allows a user to easily add and edit content on a Web page.

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Wiki

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In the address http://www.company.com/client.html, which of the following is the top-level domain?

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.com

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In order from beginning to end, the major steps in SDLC, are:

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System analysis/planning; system design; building the system; testing; and implementation

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Which of the following basic system functionalities is used to display goods on a Web site?

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Digital catalog

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Which of the following details the actual hardware components to be used in a system?

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Physical design

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All of the following can enhance page delivery speed except:

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Increasing the dynamic content on the pages

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The leading Web server software is:

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Apache

Front 38

Which of the following is required for commerce to occur?

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An exchange of value

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Which of the following is used to process certificates and private/public key information?

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SSL

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Which of the following cannot be used to retrieve objects from a database?

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HTML

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A(n) is software that allows users to have digital content automatically sent to their computers over the Internet.

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RSS aggregator

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The most significant technology that can reduce barriers to Internet access is:

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Wireless Web technology

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Network externalities are related to which of the following features of e-commerce technology?

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Universal Standards

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Above all, e-commerce is a -driven phenonmenon.

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Technology

Front 45

The major technologies used with wireless local area networks are:

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Wi-Fi standard and Bluetooth

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The "hubs" where the backbone owners connect with one another are called:

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Internet Exchange Points (IXPs)

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The protocol that enables the transmission of voice and other forms of audio communication over the Internet is called:

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VoIP

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Which of the following protocols is used to send mail to a server?

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SMTP

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Advantages of dynamic page generation include all of the following except:

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Multi-browser functionality

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You could most easily add personalized, interactive content to your Web page by incorporating a:

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