INSY 3330 Quiz 1
How long does it take for 300,000 X-rays to be transmitted on a 100-gbps network?
1 minute
In which year can e-commerce be said to have begun?
1995
The leading web server software is:
Apache
All of the following are methods of improving the processing architecture of a website except:
Adding web services
The existence of many competitors in any one market segment may indicate:
Market is saturated
Which of the following is an example of an on-demand service company?
Airbnb
Snapchat's Lenses feature is an example of which of the following?
Augmented Reality
Which of the following uses a subscription-based sales revenue model?
Dollar Shave Club
Which of the following is an example of social e-commerce?
The term e-commerce refers to the digital enabling of business processes both inside and outside the firm.
False
All of the following were visions of e-commerce expressed during the early years of e-commerce except:
Fast follower advantage
Which of the following is not a mobile messaging application?
Feedly
Which of the following is one of the three primary societal issues related to e-commerce? Group of answer choices
Intellectual property
Which of the following enables Internet users to communicate with each other, although not in real time?
Online Forum
What is the primary revenue model for an e-distributor?
Sales
Which of the following statements about the Web is not true?
The Web is the technology upon which the Internet is based.
The backbone of the Internet is formed by:
Tier 1 ISPs
A company's strong linkages with its customers increase switching costs.
True
E-commerce technologies provide a unique, many-to-many model of mass communication.
True
Ubiquity lowers the cognitive energy required to transact in a marketspace.
True
Which of the following involves testing a site's program modules one at a time?
Unit testing
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 of the following can be considered synonymous with the term e-commerce?
digital commerce
Which of the following is not a primary activity in a firm value chain?
finance/accounting
All of the following are issues facing Pinterest except:
inability to retain users
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 refers to any disparity in relevant market information among parties in a transaction?
information asymmetry
Which of the following is not a limitation of the current Internet?
the difficulty in expanding capacity by adding servers and clients
A perfect market is one in which:
there are no competitive advantages or asymmetries because all firms have equal access to all the factors to production.
All of the following use a social network marketing strategy except:
Amazon
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 a community provider?
Blue Nile
Which of the following is not a basic type of cloud computing service?
FiOS
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
MySQL is which of the following?
Open source database software
Django is based on which of the following?
Python
Which of the following features of e-commerce technology enables merchants to market and sell "complex" goods and services to consumers via marketing messages that can integrate video, audio, and text?
Richness
Which of the following uses a subscription revenue model for books?
Scribd
Which of the following statements about the mobile platform is not true?
Size of the mobile app audience greatly exceeds that of mobile web audience
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.
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. Group of answer choices
True
Prior to the development of e-commerce, websites primarily delivered static HTML pages.
True
SaaS and PaaS providers can typically provide services at lower costs through scale economies.
True
The Reinvention period of e-commerce is as much a sociological phenomenon as it is a technological or business phenomenon.
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 early years of e-commerce were driven by all of the following factors except:
an emphasis on exploiting traditional distribution channels.
The Transport Layer of TCP/IP is responsible for which of the following?
providing communication with the application by acknowledging and sequencing the packets to and from the application
First movers often fail because:
they lack complementary resources needed to sustain their advantages.
