e-comm
Which of the following is the core communications protocol for the Internet?
TCP/IP
The backbone of the Internet is formed by:
Tier 1 ISPs
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.
Which type of e-commerce is distinguished by the type of technology used in the transaction rather than by the nature of the market relationship?
mobile e-commerce
A firm's ________ describes how a firm will produce a return on invested capital.
revenue model
Which of the following is an example of a CMS?
wordPress
________ is an example of e-business.
Amazon's inventory control system
Which of the following protocols enables the exchange of routing information among different autonomous systems on the Internet?
BGP
Which of the following was not able to successfully implement a freemium business model?
Baremetrics
Which of the following is an example of C2C e-commerce?
Craiglist
Which of the following is not an advantage of client/server computing over centralized mainframe computing?
Each client added to the network increases the network's overall capacity and transmission speeds.
Which of the following is an example of social e-commerce?
Which of the following is not a mobile messaging application?
Feedly
The ________ helps define the overall structure of the Internet.
IAB
Which of the following organizations involved with Internet governance has the United States recently given up control over?
IANA
Which of the following organizations coordinate the Internet's systems of unique identifiers, such as IP addresses and top-level domain systems?
ICANN
Which of the following is an example of the affiliate revenue model?
MyPoints
Which of the following is the most commonly used server-side scripting language?
PHP
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 was the original "killer app" that made the Internet commercially interesting and extraordinarily popular?
The Web
Which of the following statements about the Web is not true?
The Web is the technology upon which the Internet is based.
Two-tier architecture typically includes a web server and a database server.
True
The protocol that enables the transmission of voice and other forms of audio communication over the Internet is called:
VoIP
________ is not an open source software tool.
WebSPhere
All of the following are basic functionality provided by web servers except:
a shopping cart
Stickiness is an important attribute for which of the following revenue models?
advertising revenue model
You could expect to find the following services in a web server software package except:
an RSS aggregator.
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
All of the following are examples of Web 2.0 sites and applications except:
auction sites
Which of the following is not a community provider?
blue nile
Which of the following technologies has enabled the Internet to grow exponentially to support millions of users, without overloading the network architecture?
client/server computing
________ is a model of computing in that computer processing, storage, software, and other services are provided as a shared pool of virtualized resources over the Internet.
cloud computing
eBay uses all of the following business models except:
content provider
Which of the following terms is synonymous with e-commerce?
digital commerce
Which of the following refers to the displacement of market middlemen and the creation of a new direct relationship between producers and consumers?
disintermediation
Innovative entrepreneurs and their business firms that destroy existing business models are referred to as ________.
disruptors
The business model of e-tailers is similar to that of:
e-distributors
All of the following use a subscription revenue model for music except:
eHarmony
Dynamic page generation increases menu costs.
false
IPv6 provides for 32-bit IP addresses.
false
On-demand service companies are characterized by the free sharing of resources between the company and consumers.
false
Packet switching requires a dedicated circuit.
false
Retail e-commerce in the United States is not expected to continue growing at double-digit growth rates in 2016-2017.
false
Storing HTML pages in RAM rather than on a server's hard drive is an expensive way to fine-tune the processing architecture of a website.
false
WLAN-based Internet access derives from the same technological foundations as telephone-based wireless Internet access.
false
Tier 3 ISPs provide long-haul fiber-optic networks that comprise the Internet's backbone.
false (Tier 1)
Which of the following is not a primary activity in a firm value chain?
finance/accounting
Which of the following involves a company giving away a certain level of product or services without charge, but then charging a fee for premium levels of the product or service?
freemium strategy
Business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce in the United States:
has grown at double-digit rates between 2010 and 2016.
All of the following statements about mobile apps are true except:
iOS apps are cross-platform, open-source applications.
TheSeam is an example of a(n)_____________ business model:
industry consortium
During which phase of the development of the Internet was the Domain Name System (DNS) introduced?
institutional
Which of the following is one of the three primary societal issues related to e-commerce?
intellectual property
All of the following might be part of a website's middle-tier layer except:
legacy corporate applications.
In the ________ business model, a web-based business builds a digital environment in which buyers and sellers can meet, display products, search for products, and establish prices.
market creator
Which of the following is not a variation of the e-tailer business model?
market creator
All of the following are basic functionality provided by e-commerce merchant server software except:
marketing analytics
The layer of Internet architecture that ties the applications to the communications network and includes such services as security and authentication is called the:
middleware services layer
The process of slicing digital messages into parcels, sending them along different communication paths as they become available, and reassembling them at the destination point is called:
packet switching
All of the following are business models employed in the online music industry except:
peer-to-peer streaming
Which of the following are specialized computers that transmit message parcels along available Internet communication paths and on to their destinations?
routers
What is the primary revenue model for an e-distributor?
sales
Which of the following represent Amazon's primary value proposition(s)?
selection and convenience
Above all, e-commerce is a ________ phenomenon.
technology driven
Interactivity in the context of e-commerce provides which of the following functionalities?
the enabling of two-way communication between consumer and merchant
The basic value proposition of community providers is:
they offer a fast, convenient one-stop site where users can focus on their most important concerns and interests.
Which of the following is not an element of friction-free commerce?
transaction costs are high
A private cloud is operated solely for the benefit of a single tenant.
true
A value proposition defines how a company's product or service fulfills the needs of a customer.
true
All firms need an organization to efficiently implement their business plans and strategies.
true
Amazon Web Services is an example of cloud computing.
true
B2B e-commerce is the largest type of e-commerce.
true
E-commerce and e-business systems blur together at the business firm boundary, at the point at which internal business systems link up with suppliers or customers.
true
Interactivity that enables product customization alters industry structure by reducing the threat of substitutes.
true
Mobile web apps are typically built using HTML5 and Java.
true
PHP is an open source, general purpose scripting language that is most frequently used in server-side web applications to generate dynamic web page content.
true
SaaS and PaaS providers can typically provide services at lower costs through scale economies.
true
The JOBS Act and issuance of enabling regulations by the Securities and Exchange Commission allow a start-up company to use crowdfunding to solicit investors to invest in small and early-stage start-ups.
true
Which of the following is the minimum system architecture requirement for an e-commerce website that processes orders?
two-tier architecture
Which element of the business model addresses what a firm provides that other firms cannot?
value proposition
________ and ________ are typically the most easily identifiable aspects of a company's business model.
value proposition; revenue model
Which type of investor typically becomes interested in a start-up company after it has begun generating revenue?
venture capital investors
Which business application is associated with the technological development of local area networks and client/server computing?
workgroup automation (e.g., document sharing)
How long does it take for 300,000 X-rays to be transmitted on a 100-gbps network?
1 minute
An IPv4 address is expressed as a:
32-bit number that appears as a series of four separate numbers separated by periods.
All of the following are major players in hosting/co-location/cloud services except:
WordPress.
All of the following are examples of social networks except:
Y combinator