MISY 3310 Chapter 3
Ordering a product online
A company can reduce its costs using ebusiness to change its business processes. Which of the following represents an example of a company reducing its costs through ebusiness?
True
The Internet marketplace is free of most forms of traditional sales tax.
User-contributed content
What is Web content that is created and updated by many users for many users?
True
A search engine is website software that finds other pages based on keyword matching similar to Google.
True
A webinar is a form of Web conferencing, which blends videoconferencing with document sharing and allows the user to deliver a presentation over the Web to a group of geographically dispersed participants.
Subscription fee
All of the following are forms of ebusiness except ________. -Infomediaries -Online marketplace -Content provider -Subscription fee
True
An Internet service provider (ISP) is a company that provides access to the Internet for a monthly fee.
False
Copyright laws protect collaborative websites like blogs and wikis allowing users to reuse material freely and easily.
True
Cybermediation refers to the creation of new kinds of intermediaries that simply could not have existed before the advent of ebusiness, including comparison-shopping sites such as Kelkoo and bank account aggregation services such as Citibank.
False
Disruptive technology tends to provide us with better, faster, and cheaper products.
True
Social networking is the practice of expanding your business and/or social contacts by constructing a personal network.
Affiliate program
What allows a business to generate commissions or referral fees when a customer visiting its website clicks a link to another merchant's website?
Web browser
What allows user to access the WWW?
Content sharing through open source, user-contributed content, collaboration inside the organization, collaboration outside the organization
What are the four most common Business 2.0 characteristics?
1) Dell, 2) Johnson & Johnson, 3) Procter & Gamble, 4) Walmart, 5) Cisco.
What are the top five companies expecting future growth from new investments?
Uses clickstream data to determine the effectiveness of the site as a channel-to-market.
What are website ebusiness analytics?
Uses clickstream data to determine the efficiency of the site for the users and operates at the server level.
What are website traffic analytics?
Pay-per-call
What generates revenue each time a user clicks on a link that takes the user directly to an online agent waiting for a call?
Buyers post feedback on sellers.
What is a reputation system?
Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet for a monthly fee.
What is an ISP?
IMing
What is another term for instant messaging?
Refers to the wisdom of the crowd.
What is crowdsourcing?
A business model details how a company creates, delivers, and generates revenue; an ebusiness model does all of the same except on the Internet
What is the difference between a business model and an ebusiness model?
Ecommerce is buying and selling of goods or services online; ebusiness includes ecommerce and all activities related to internal and external business operations
What is the difference between ecommerce and ebusiness?
Dark web
What is the portion of the Internet that is intentionally hidden from search engines, uses masked IP addresses, and is accessible only with a special web browser.
Providing the ability to inform and communicate with many people simultaneously, immediately, and with ease
What is the primary business advantage of using email?
Service provider
Which of the below is not a valid form of an ebusiness revenue model?
To find potential job candidates via LinkedIn To attract new job candidates via YouTube To review potential job candidates by viewing their Facebook page
Which of the below represents an example of why an employer would use social media?
Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox
Which of the following is a type of Web browser?
All of the above
Which of the following is an example of a disruptive technology? -Intel's low-end microprocessor -Oracle's database software -Sony's transistor-based consumer electronics -(transistor radio) -All of the above
Wikipedia
Which of the following is one of the largest wikis on the Web and one of the 10 most popular Web destinations?
Advertising fees, license fees, subscription fees, transaction fees, value-added services fees
Which of the following represents the primary ebusiness revenue models?
Cyborg anthropologist
Who is an individual who studies the interaction between humans and technology, observing how technology can shape humans' lives?