INSY Exam 1
True
A company's strong linkages with its customers increasing switching costs:
Industry consortia
Amazon business is an example of which of the following business models?
False
An HTML5 app is one designed to specifically operate using a mobile device's hardware and operating system:
True
B2B e-commerce is the largest type of e-commerce:
True
E-commerce technologies provide a unique, many-to-many model of mass communication:
False
Economists take a purely technical approach to e-commerce:
The lack complementary resources needed to sustain their advantages
First movers often fail because?
False
Foursquare has decided to refocus its effort on developing a subscription-based revenue model:
True
HTML is used to format the structure and style of a web page:
True
Internet2 provides a nationwide 100 gigabit-per-second network:
False
On-demand service companies are characterized by the free sharing of resources between the company and consumers:
False
RWD works best for sites that have complex functionality:
False
Social technologies change industry structure by weakening powerful sales channels and shifts bargaining power to consumers:
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:
Transport services and representation standards layer
TCP/IP operates in which layer of internet architecture?
They offer a fast, convenient one-stop site where users can focus on their most important concerns and interests
The basic value proposition of community providers is?
True
The internet is a worldwide system of computer networks:
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):
Wi-fi and bluetooth
The major technologies used with wireless local area networks are?
True
The reinvention period of e-commerce is as much a sociological phenomenon as it is technological or business phenomenon:
False
The size of the mobile app audience greatly exceeds that of the mobile web audience:
False
The term e-commerce refers to the digital enabling of business processes both inside and outside the firm:
True
The term unfit fitness refers to a situation in which employees of a firm have the wrong skills for the current environment:
Reach
The total number of users or customers an e-commerce business can obtain is a measure of which of the following?
False
The web is the technology upon which the internet is based:
One competitor has an advantage others cannot purchase
Unfair competitive advantages occur when?
False
Universal standards make price discovery more costly, slower, and less accurate:
Internet society (ISOC)
What is a consortium of corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations that monitors internet policies and practices?
Application servers
What is a kind of middleware software that provides the glue connecting traditional corporate systems to the customers as well as all the functionality needed to conduct e-commerce?
Value web
What is a networked business eco system that coordinates a firm's suppliers, distributors, and delivery firms with its own production needs using an internet-based supply chain management system?
Angel investor
What is a wealthy individual who invests person funds in a start-up in exchange for an equity share in the business?
Rhapsody
What is an example of a company using the content provider model?
Transaction cost
What is the cost of participating in a market?
False
When developing an e-commerce presence, it is important to understand that the technology must drive the business, not the reverse:
Selection and convenience
Which of the following are Amazons primary value propositions?
They were a technological success but a mixed business success
Which of the following best describes the early years of e-commerce?
Maintain a basic, static website depicting the firm's brand
Which of the following describes the basic web policy of large firms during the invention period?
Unit testing
Which of the following involves testing a sites program modules one at a time?
Marketing analytics
Which of the following is NOT a basic functionality provided by e-commerce merchant server software?
Growth of the internet of things slow down
Which of the following is NOT a major technology trend in e-commerce in 2017-2018?
Market creator
Which of the following is NOT a variation of the e-trailer business model?
FTP
Which of the following is NOT one of the basic technological foundations of the internet?
Amazon mobile app
Which of the following is an example of e-business?
eHarmony
Which of the following is an example of the subscription revenue model?
Blue nile
Which of the following is not a community provider?
Intellectual property
Which of the following is one of the three primary societal issues related to e-commerce?
Richness
Which of the following refers to the complexity and content of a message?
Disintermediation
Which of the following refers to the displacement of market middlemen and the creation of a new direct relationship between producers and consumers?
Dollar shave club
Which of the following uses a subscription-based sales revenue model?
The web
Which of the following was the original "killer app" that made the internet commercially interesting and extraordinarily popular?