CIS 3.10 Midterm Questions Review

All of the following are correct domain suffixes except .

.neo—network organizations

are those companies that operate in the traditional, physical markets and do not conduct business electronically in cyberspace.

Brick-and-mortars

Trying to "outsmart" a search engine to improve a page's ranking is known as

SEO

Which of the following is the protocol of the internet?

TCP/IP

Other terms that can be used to represent the knowledge society include

The new economy, the network era, and the digital world.

Information systems today are

Ubiquitous

A minimum viable product is .

a product containing just the features needed to demonstrate how a solution meets the problem

In cloud computing, services are typically offered using .

a utility computing model

The revenue model involving the referring of customers to another business is called .

affiliate marketing

A wiki .

allows users to add content, revert edits, read content

All of the following are examples of infrastructure components except

applications

is using technology as a way to help complete a task within an organization faster and, perhaps, more cheaply.

automating

Each of the following was described in this chapter as a source of competitive advantage except for .

being the subject of a hostile takeover

is the process of creating an online diary made up of chronological entries.

blogging

reflects the percentage of users for whom a particular page is the only page visited on the website.

bounce rate

A company is said to have when it has gained an edge over its rivals.

competitive advantage

Being , or knowing how to use the computer as a device to gather, store, organize, and process information, can open up myriad sources of information.

computer literate

Whereas data are raw unformatted symbols or lists of words or numbers, information is

data that have been organized in a form that is useful

The ability to sell products directly to the end customers, without the need for distributors or retailers, is called .

disintermediation

To minimize fraud, e-tailers look for anomalies in .

email addresses provided, shipping and billing addresses, transaction patterns.

The process of adding metadata such as latitude and longitude to pictures, videos, or other content is called .

geotagging

EC is the exchange of among firms, between firms and their customers, and between customers, supported by communication technologies and, in particular, the internet

good, services, money

Large-scale computing problems can be solved using computing.

grid

Which of the following is not considered an intellectual property violation?

if you think it violates ip, it probably does.

Which of the following is not improving the value chain?

increasing operating cost

Collective intelligence is based on the notion that distributed groups of people with a divergent range of information and expertise will be able to outperform the capabilities of .

individual experts

For the most flexibility in the use of computing resources, companies choose a(n) provider.

infrastructure as a service

involves creating new products, processes, or services that return value to the organization.

innovation

Business models based on catering to niche markets in addition to (or instead of) purely selling mainstream products are said to center on the .

long tails

Which of the following is not a consequence of lack of availability, performance, or security?

loss of managerial oversight

Magnetic tape is typically used for .

maintaining customer records

At the level of the organization, functional managers (e.g., marketing managers, finance managers, manufacturing managers, and human resource managers) focus on monitoring and controlling operational-level activities and providing information to higher levels of the organization.

managerial

Tagging is adding to content such as maps, pictures, or web pages.

metadata

Offering the customer different (independent) touchpoints, such as a retail store and a catalogue is referred to as .

multichannel retailing

According to the Internet Tax Freedom Act, e-tailers must collect sales tax .

only from customers residing in a state where the business has substantial presence

A website asking you for permission to send you a weekly newsletter is an example of

opt in

Successful enterprise-oriented social media initiatives consider .

organizational culture, organizational hierarchies, technological inertia.

Webcasts are also known as .

podcasts

What are new technologies, products, or services that eventually surpass the existing dominant technology or product in a market called?

radical innovation

The ability to adapt to increases or decreases in demand for processing or storage is referred to as .

scalability

Microblogging is used primarily for .

short status updates

A supervisor's having to decide when to reorder supplies or how best to allocate personnel for the completion of a project is an example of a(n) decision.

structured

communication is when people are all meeting at the same time or in real time.

synchronous

Information systems were described in this chapter as

the combination of people and information technology that create, collect, process, store, and distribute useful data

What is meant by BYOD?

the use of personal devices and applications for work-related purposes

is using the network effect to increase brand awareness.

viral marketing

Which of the following was not discussed as a common type, or category, of information system used in organizations?

web graphics

Engineering drawings are typically prepared using .

workstations