BUS 610 Test #1

Today, in the United States, more than ________ people of all ages use the Internet at least once a month.

300 million

Upgrading a server from a single processor to multiple processors is an example of scaling a site vertically.

True

Which of the following statements about the mobile platform is not true?

Almost 250 million individuals in the United States used tablet computer apps in 2022.

Which of the following statements is not true?

Automobile manufacturers and airline industries are direct competitors.

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

E*Trade

WLAN-based Internet access derives from the same technological foundations as telephone-based wireless Internet access.

False

Which of the following is not one of the basic technological foundations of the Internet?

FTP

A multi-tier architecture includes a web and database server.

False

Social technologies change industry structure by weakening powerful sales channels and shifts bargaining power to consumers.

False

The concept behind document formatting had its roots in which of the following?

GML

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

HTML

During which phase of the development of the Internet was the Domain Name System (DNS) introduced?

Institutionalization phase

Which of the following is an example of a company using the content provider model?

Netflix

Which of the following is a standard that makes it possible to access data from any application regardless of the database and operating system software being used?

ODBC

Which of the following can be considered synonymous with the term e-commerce?

digital commerce

Which of the following best defines e-commerce?

digitally enabled commercial transactions between and among organizations and individuals

Which of the following refers to the displacement of market middlemen and the creation of a new direct relationship between producers and consumers?

disintermediation

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

SMTP

Which of the following is a simple but powerful method for describing a firm's strengths and weaknesses?

SWOT analysis

________ are the types of information systems capabilities needed to meet business objectives.

System functionalities

As online sales become a larger percentage of all sales, online sales growth will likely eventually decline.

True

E-commerce technologies provide a unique, many-to-many model of mass communication.

True

Metaverse-like experiences are being used primarily for gaming and advertising.

True

Native web apps need to be developed for different mobile platforms.

True

SaaS and PaaS providers can typically provide services at lower costs through scale economies.

True

Which of the following protocols provides an alternative to TCP when the error-checking and correction functionality of TCP is not necessary?

UDP

Which of the following is developing a smart home interoperability standard?

W3C.

All of the following are methods of improving the processing architecture of a website except:

adding web servers.

Which of the following is an unfair competitive advantage?

brand name

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

digital catalog

All of the following may lead to a competitive advantage except:

fewer products.

Which of the following is a characteristic of the Consolidation phase of e-commerce?

high-complexity retail products and services

Which of the following statements about mobile apps is not true?

iOS apps are cross-platform, open-source applications.

Organizations that typically provide an array of services to startup companies along with a small amount of funding are referred to as:

incubators.

Which of the following is a characteristic of e-commerce during the Invention period?

low-complexity retail products

The financial services and travel services industries typically use the ________ business model.

transaction broker

Which of the following is the minimum system architecture requirement for an e-commerce website that processes orders?

two-tier architecture

Which of the following features of e-commerce technology is related to the concept of network externalities?

universal standards

Which of the following is a set of rules for transferring data?

protocol

A ________ marketplace supplies products and services of interest to a particular industry.

vertical