INSY 3330 Ch 1-4 Q&A's
In the address http://www.company.com/clients.html, which of the following is the top-level domain?
.com
How long does it take for 300,000 X-rays to be transmitted on a 100-gbps network?
1 minute
________ are a kind of middleware software that provides the glue connecting traditional corporate systems to the customer as well as all the functionality needed to conduct e-commerce.
Application servers
Which of the following protocols enables the exchange of routing information among different autonomous systems on the Internet?
BGP
Which of the following is not an example of the bricks-and-clicks e-tailing business model?
Bluefly
Which of the following technologies is used to separate the design and presentation of content from the content creation process?
CMS
Which of the following is an example of C2C e-commerce?
Craigslist
Which of the following companies uses a transaction fee revenue model?
E*Trade
Which of the following statements is not true?
Economists take a purely technical approach to e-commerce.
Which of the following is an example of social e-commerce?
Tier 1 ISPs provide Internet access to consumers and businesses.
False
Which of the following is not a mobile messaging application?
Feedly
The ________ is a consortium of corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations that monitors Internet policies and practices.
Internet Society (ISOC)
Which of the following describes the basic web policy of large firms during the Invention period?
Maintain a basic, static website depicting the firm's brand.
Django is based on which of the following?
Python
Which of the following statements about responsive web design (RWD) is not true?
RWD works best for sites that have complex functionality.
Which of the following statements about e-commerce, in the United States in 2017, is not true?
Social e-commerce generates more revenue than mobile e-commerce.
________ was the first truly large-scale digitally enabled transaction system in the B2C arena.
The French Minitel
Which of the following best describes the early years of e-commerce?
They were a technological success but a mixed business success.
Which of the following is a utility program that allows you to track the path of a message sent from a client computer to a remote computer on the Internet?
Tracert
Which of the following is not an element of friction-free commerce?
Transaction costs are high.
E-commerce technologies provide a unique, many-to-many model of mass communication.
True
Firms that fail to produce returns greater than alternative investments typically go out of business.
True
Internet2 provides a nationwide 100 gigabit-per-second network.
True
The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, and issuance of enabling regulations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, allows a start-up company to use crowdfunding to solicit investors to invest in small and early-stage start-ups.
True
The Reinvention period of e-commerce is as much a sociological phenomenon as it is a technological or business phenomenon.
True
The major hubs in the United States where the Internet backbone intersects with regional and local networks are now commonly referred to as Internet Exchange Points (IXPs).
True
The term unfit fitness refers to a situation in which employees of a firm have the wrong skills for the current environment.
True
The protocol that enables the transmission of voice and other forms of audio communication over the Internet is called:
VoIP.
The major technologies used with wireless local area networks are:
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
The early years of e-commerce are considered:
a stunning technological success as the Internet and the Web increased from a few thousand to billions of e-commerce transactions per year.
All of the following use a social network marketing strategy except:
amazon.
A wealthy individual who invests personal funds in a start-up in exchange for an equity share in the business is referred to as a(n):
angel investor.
Which of the following is an unfair competitive advantage?
brand name
Advantages of dynamic page generation include all of the following except:
client-side execution of programming.
Which of the following basic system functionalities is used to display goods on a website?
digital catalog
All of the following were visions of e-commerce expressed during the early years of e-commerce except:
fast follower advantage.
Organizations that typically provide an array of services to start-up companies along with a small amount of funding are referred to as:
incubators
Which of the following is not a unique feature of e-commerce technology?
information asymmetry
All of the following are basic functionality provided by e-commerce merchant server software except:
marketing analytics.
Beginning the e-commerce development process with a mobile presence rather than a desktop website is referred to as which of the following?
mobile first design
Which of the following enables Internet users to communicate with each other, although not in real time?
online forum
In general, the key to becoming a successful content provider is to:
own the content being provided.
Above all, e-commerce is a ________ phenomenon.
technology driven
Which of the following was the original "killer app" that made the Internet commercially interesting and extraordinarily popular?
the Web
Which of the following factors is not a significant influence on a company's competitive environment?
the availability of supportive organizational structures
The existence of many competitors in any one market segment may indicate:
the market is saturated.
First movers often fail because:
they lack complementary resources needed to sustain their advantages.
A(n) ________ allows users to easily add and edit content on a web page.
wiki
Which business application is associated with the technological development of local area networks and client/server computing?
workgroup automation (e.g., document sharing)
