Ch. 3 Quiz
Mobile banking and mobile sales are both a part of the emerging mbusiness.
True
Social tagging describes the collaborative activity of marking shared online content with keywords or tags as a way to ________.
-Organize it for future filtering -Organize it for future search -Organize it for future navigation (All of the above)
What is the difference between a business model and an ebusiness model?
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 a pure-play business?
A business that operates only on the Internet without a physical store.
What is an ezine?
A magazine published only in electronic form on a computer network.
What is a telepresence robot?
A remote-controlled, wheeled device with a display to enable video chat and videoconferencing.
What is Real Simple Syndication?
A web format used to publish frequently updated works.
Which of the following represents the primary ebusiness revenue models?
Advertising fees, license fees, subscription fees, transaction fees, value-added services fees
What allows a business to generate commissions or referral fees when a customer visiting its website clicks a link to another merchant's website?
Affiliate program.
How would a company like Flickr use social tagging on its website?
By allowing users to upload images and tag the images with their own keywords
Which of the following represents the primary forms of ebusiness?
Content providers, infomediaries, online marketplaces, portals, service providers, transaction brokers
What are the four most common Business 2.0 characteristics?
Content sharing through open source, user-contributed content, collaboration inside the organization, collaboration outside the organization
What is a discipline originated at the 1993 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association?
Cyborg anthropology
What is also referred to as the invisible web?
Deep Web (Deep web, sometimes called the invisible web, is the large part of the Internet that is inaccessible to conventional search engines.)
Which of the following is not one of the Internet's impacts on information?
Digital divide
The Innovator's Dilemma suggests that established companies can take advantage of ________ without hindering existing relationships with customers, partners, and stakeholders.
Disruptive technology (The book "Innovator's Dilemma," discusses how established companies can take advantage of disruptive technologies without hindering existing relationships with customers, partners, and stakeholders.)
What is a service that allows the owner of a domain name to maintain a simple website and provide email capacity?
Domain name hosting
Which of the below is not an example of a social bookmarking website?
Open source is any proprietary software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder.
False (Closed source is any proprietary software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder.)
Tacit knowledge consists of anything that can be documented, archived, and codified, often with the help of MIS. Examples of tacit knowledge are assets such as patents, trademarks, business plans, marketing research, and customer lists.
False (Explicit knowledge consists of anything that can be documented, archived, and codified, often with the help of MIS. Examples of explicit knowledge are assets such as patents, trademarks, business plans, marketing research, and customer lists.)
What is a nonprofit organization that has assumed the responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions previously performed under U.S. government contract?
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Which of the following demonstrates potential issues with Business 2.0 and information vandalism?
Open source allows anyone to be able to edit, damage, or destroy content (Potential issues facing Business 2.0 and information vandalism are with open source websites, which allow anyone to be able to edit, damage, or destroy content.)
What occurs when a system updates information at the same rate it receives the information?
Real-time communication
What is crowdsourcing?
Refers to the wisdom of the crowd.
eBay buyers voluntarily comment to other users and sellers on the quality of service, promptness of shipping, and their general satisfaction with the product. This is one of the most popular examples of user-generated content and is called ________.
Reputation system
Which of the following best describes Web 2.0?
Social media and user-generated Web content
Erik is the president and owner of Watch Out, a local website development company that helps clients create and build unique websites. Many of his daily tasks are heavily technical in nature and require a high level of computer programming and Internet knowledge. Which of the below would Erik primarily use when performing his daily tasks?
Source Code (Source code contains instructions written by a programmer specifying the actions to be performed by computer software. This is his main role or responsibility.)
How do the majority of potential customers find business websites?
Through search terms that match the content
A hashtag is a keyword or phrase used to identify a topic and is preceded by a hash or pound sign (#). For example, the hashtag #sandiegofire helped coordinate emergency responses to a fire.
True
A search engine is website software that finds other pages based on keyword matching similar to Google.
True
A wiki is a Hawaiian word for quick and is a type of a collaborative Web page that allows users to add, remove, and change content.
True
Search engine optimization (SEO) combines art along with science to determine how to make URLs more attractive to search engines resulting in higher search engine ranking.
True
Social bookmarking allows users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks.
True
User-contributed content (or user-generated content) is created and updated by many users for many users.
True
RSS allows a website to constantly feed information and news to consumers instead of having the consumer search for it.
True (In addition to facilitating syndication, RSS allows a website's frequent readers to track updates on the site)
Which term describes the WWW during its first few years of operation between 1991 and 2003?
Web 1.0
What is an international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web?
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
