EXAM 3 MIS 111

The NotPetya Cyberattack caused how much in damage around the world?

10 billion

Bitcoin keeps track of it's ledger showing who owns what bitcoins using what technology?

A Public BlockChain

In the assigned reading, Don Norman makes the case for viewing conceptual models as what?

A story in context

________ is an autonomous device that monitors its own condition as well as physical and environmental conditions around it; it is an underlying technology of ________.

A wireless sensor; the IoT

What term is used to describe the marketing analysis where two versions of a web page are compared to see which one gives a better conversion rate for similar visitors at the same time?

A-B (or Split) Testing

According to the "IOT Changes Everything" video case, one of the challenges limiting the widespread deployment of IOT is the transitioning to IPv6. What is the value of using IPv6 to IOT?

Ability to uniquely address billions of IOT devices

The advantage of ________________ is they can be read over greater distances.

Active RDID tags

________ use internal batteries for power, and they broadcast radio waves to a reader.

Active RFID codes

Many experts believe —— is the solution to the challenge of making money from social networking sites and social commerce sites.

Advertising

Anything that is capable of being owned or controlled to produce value would be considered as what?

Asset

What low-power, non-directional wireless technology is used to create small personal area networks for cell phones and portable music players?

Bluetooth

---- modem services share bandwidth among subscribers in a locality, so speeds can decrease significantly when large numbers of neighbors access the Internet at the same time.

Cable

—— is access to the internet through your TV connection.

Cable modem

What Nuclear Remediation Site had their computers wiped clean by NotPetya?

Chernobyl

What term did Don Norman define as story that puts the operation of the system into context, weaving together all of the essential components, providing a framework, a context, and reasons for understanding?

Conceptual model

When we discussed the design of network infrastructure, we noted that the design of connectors on computers we generally related to the speed of the communication interface, the function being supported (number of signals required), and what other issue related to human-computer interaction?

Constraints to improve reliability

What term is used to compare the number of closed sales to the the total number of website visitors? For example, if an ecommerce site receives 200 visitors in a month and has 50 sales, this term would be calcuated as 50 (sales) divided by 200 (visits), or 25%.

Conversion rate

What term did the textbook author use to describe when the functions of many physical devices are included in one other physical device?

Dematerialization

A blockchain is really just a what?

Distributed Ledger

What type of repeater has the greatest throughput

Double Radio

—— refers to efforts by unauthorized users to access data that are traveling over wireless networks

Eavesdropping

—- offer limited accessibility to the —— of participating companies

Extranets; intranets

According to IT's About Business 8.6, ________ launched EDEN to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its dock operations.

FedEx

What type of home ISP connection is typically the fastest

Fiber

Which of the following types of wire media has the highest physical security?

Fiber-optic cable

What term was coined by Eli Pariser to describe a personalized search in which a website algorithm predicts what information a user would like to see based on user location and past searches on the website?

Filter bubble

According to IT's About Business 8.2, Shellcatch uses —— to document which types of fish they catch and where.

GPS

Which of the project management documents includes all three of the triple constraints that are in the Scope Triangle?

Gantt Chart

What term is used to describe a function that uses an algorithm to convert an input of letters and numbers into an encrypted output of a fixed length?

Hash

Which of the following terms is used to measures the frequency of analog signals?

Hertz

What is the name of the collaborative effort to advance Blockchain technology by identifying and addressing important features for a cross-industry open standard for distributed ledgers that can transform the way business transactions are conducted globally?

Hyperledger Project

What type of image formatting would you want to use if you wanted words to be above and below the image and let the image be centered using the centering alignment

In Line with Text

The default layout if a new image in MS Word, which causes many people problems, is:

In line with text

If you want to insert am image with a caption, and have the caption automatically stay with the image whenever you move the image, your best option is:

Insert both the image and the caption into a text box

In the four layer model of the IOT architecture developed by the UofA's Cloud and Autonomic Computer Center, environmental sustainability would be most closely related to what layer?

Integrated application layer

The ---- layer of TCP/IP is responsible for addressing, routing, and packaging data packets.

Internet

Bitcoin's ledger technology is quite complex to prevent fraud, an example of which is given in the paper, what was the example and how did it work?

It was a 'Double Spend' where the hacker paid a merchant and themselves then invalidated the merchant payment

What term is used to describe the percentage value of the number of times a keyword or key phrase appears on a webpage as compared to the total amount of words on the page?

Keyword density

When describing the invention of the cell phone, who said "For the first time, you were calling a person, not a place..."?

Martin Cooper

If you have one wireless access point, for best coverage you should do what?

Mount it in the center of the house

—— are exchange points for Internet traffic

NAPs

Which of the following is the technology that enables most mobile wallet applications?

NFC

What is the name of the wireless technology that is designed to be embedded in mobile devices such as cell phones and credit cards allowing you to pay for items by waving your card within a few centimeters of a point-of-sale terminal?

Near-field Communication

What is the name of the device that of the physical device that interfaces computers with a local area network (LAN)?

Network Interface Card (NIC)

Who can submit new transactions to Bitcoin's Ledger?

Open, Pseudonymous contributors

Which of the POUR principles focuses on the concept that web accessibility is based upon the assumption that people need to be able to input the information into their brain so that they can process it?

Perceivable

What is an affordance?

Physical property of an object that shows functionality

In the assigned reading on accessibility, the authors note that while WCAG 1.0 focused on the techniques for accomplishing accessibility, WCAG 2.0 focused on what?

Principles of accessibilities

What term is used to describe the original consensus algorithm in a Blockchain network that is used to confirm transactions and produce new blocks to the chain?

Proof-of-Work

What term is used to describe the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object?

Provenance

_________ allows manufacturers to attach tags with antennas and computer chips on goods and then track their movement through radio signals.

RFID

Which of the following technologies would *not* require line-of-sight scanning?

RFID tags

Industry analytsts expect that 5th generation networks will be defined by three characterisitcs over 4th generation cellular networks. Which of the following would is not one of the expected changes?

Reduced signal attenuation

Google Analytics tracks the browser used to access a website. What term was used to describe a website that manages content based on the browser or device accessing the content?

Responsive Web Design

What type of website could adapt to the multiple devices (PC, mobile, and tablet) that a user incorporates in their daily shopping habits?

Responsive web design

If your internet speed seems slow, before calling your ISP and complaining the very first thing you should do is

Run a speedtest against the ISP's speed test site

What is the purpose of a PERT chart?

Schedule and organize tasks

Although web users should have an unlimited amount of time to complete tasks on the web, this design goal must be balanced against what other issue?

Security and risk

Bandwidth is the transmission capacity of a network, stated in bits per second. Which of the following "laws" we've discussed determines the maximum bandwidth (signallin rate) of a given type of communication media (e.g., copper cable, fiber optic, etc.)?

Shannon's Law

What type of electronic commerce helps shoppers connect with one another based on tastes, location, age, gender, and other selected attributes allowing them to share information using voting, comments, discussions, and reviews focused on shopping?

Social shopping

---- networks are an emerging technology that is becoming increasingly important to help organizations manage their data flows across their enterprise networks.

Software-denied

Which of the following is an example of using Linkedin for market research?

Solicit advice regarding a topic or issue by going to specific groups

What term is used to describe paid-for product ratings and reviews?

Sponsored reviews

Using the Internet of Things to increase the efficiency of a company's operations by allowing it to track, in real time, the movement of raw materials and parts through the manufacturing process to finished products delivered to the customer is related to what business function?

Supply chain management

What term is used to describe how telemedicine uses wireless transmission and receipt of data gathered from remote sensors to allow doctors can monitor patients and control medical equipment from a distance?

Telemetry

Which of the following is an example of using Facebook for market research?

Test market your messages, giving people 2-3 options and asking fans which one they prefer and why

Which of the following would *NOT* be a characteristic of a blockchain data store:

The data store is managed as a single database using cloud technology

From Don Norman's perspective, what fatal flaw does the BMW iDrive (which he described as a well thought out, very logical, and sensible device) have with respect its human interface?

The iDrive destroyed spatiality

In the assigned reading, Don Norman noted two critical issues with the original BMW iDrive design: the design failed to provide a good conceptual model (a story) and also what other problem?

The iDrive destroyed spatiality

Which of these is not an advantage of an all-in-one router, switch, WiFi access point, and Modem

They are cheap to upgrade

Which of these is NOT enumerated as a Motivation to Create Accessible Web Content?

To improve the reliability of technical functionality (technology centered motivations)

Select the answer below that orders the media correctly from the lowest to highest bandwith (data rates).

Twisted pair, Coaxial Cable, Fiber-optic Cable

According to IT's About Business 9.4, many GM owners used —— to share tips and put pressure on GM to provide better customer service.

Twitter

Which of the following is a short-range wireless network?

UWB

—— is a high-bandwidth wireless technology with transmission speeds in excess of 100 Mbps. It is a —- range wireless network technology.

UWB; Short

What term describes being able to access information and communication in almost any location?

Ubiquity

Common themes of a blockchain generally include everything but what?

Usually exists over a client-server network

———- refer(s) to word-of-mouth advertising.

Viral marketing

The internet is a ----

WAN

The four guiding principles of accessibility (perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust) are included in what document?

Web Content Accessibility Guide, Version 2.0

If you are creating a template for a team, so each team member can work on a different section of the document, which is the most important thing to standardize before distributing the template?

What Styles will be used and When

What type of sensor is an autonomous device that monitors its own condition, as well as physical and environmental conditions around it, such as temperature, sound, pressure, vibration, and movement and can also control physical systems, like opening and closing a valve and controlling the fuel mixture in your car?

Wireless sensor

According to IT's About Business 6.1, Eriteans who have access to the Internet typically use ----

dial-up

The Internet backbone is a —— network.

fiber-optic

The web —— the same thing as the internet.

is not

If everything stops working and connecting to the internet, and you have no idea what to do, the first thing you should try is?

powering the modem and router off then on again