Chapter 16
Integrating Collaborative Partnerships
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is a private network, provided by a third party, for exchanging information through a high
capacity connection?
A) VAN
B) WAN
C) VPN
D) None of the above
Answer: A Level: Easy Page: 163
Response: This is the definition of VAN.
2. What is a geographically dispersed telecommunication network?
A) VAN
B) WAN
C) VPN
D) None of the above
Answer: B Level: Easy Page: 163
Response: This is the definition of WAN.
3. What is a way to use the public telecommunication infrastructure to provide secure access to an
organization's network?
A) VAN
B) WAN
C) VPN
D) None of the above
Answer: C Level: Easy Page: 163
Response: This is the definition of VPN.
4. What is a standard format for exchanging business data?
A) VAN
B) WAN
C) MAN
D) None of the above
Answer: D Level: Medium Page: 164
Response: This is the definition of EDI.
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5. What is a standard format for exchanging business data?
A) EDI
B) Electronic trading networks
C) Web hosting
D) None of the above
Answer: A Level: Easy Page: 164
Response: This is the definition of EDI.
6. What are service providers that manage network services?
A) EDI
B) Electronic trading networks
C) Web hosting
D) None of the above
Answer: B Level: Easy Page: 165
Response: This is the definition of electronic trading networks.
7. What is the housing, serving, and maintaining files for one or more Web sites called?
A) EDI
B) Electronic trading networks
C) Web hosting
D) None of the above
Answer: C Level: Easy Page: 165
Response: This is the definition of Web hosting.
8. What is a company that provides individuals and other companies access to the Internet and other
related services, such as Web site building?
A) ISP
B) OSP
C) WISP
D) ASP
Answer: A Level: Easy Page: 166
Response: This is the definition of ISP.
9. What offers an extensive online array of services of their own apart form the rest of the Internet and
sometimes their own version of a Web browser?
A) ISP
B) OSP
C) WISP
D) ASP
Answer: B Level: Easy Page: 166
Response: This is the definition of OSP.
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10. What is an ISP that allows subscribers to connect to a server at designed "hot spots" or "access
points"?
A) ASP
B) OSP
C) WISP
D) ASP
Answer: C Level: Easy Page: 166
Response: This is the definition of WISP.
11. What is a company that offers an organization access over the internet to systems and related
services that would otherwise have to be located in personal or organizational computers?
A) ISP
B) OSP
C) WISP
D) ASP
Answer: D Level: Easy Page: 167
Response: This is the definition of ASP.
12. What is a Web site that offers a broad array of resources and services?
A) Portal
B) EIP
C) Linkage
D) Open architecture
Answer: A Level: Easy Page: 167
Response: This is the definition of portal.
13. What is an Internet site owned and operated by an organization to support its operations?
A) Portal
B) EIP
C) Linkage
D) Open architecture
Answer: B Level: Easy Page: 169
Response: This is the definition of EIP.
14. What is the interconnection of different systems, information, and transactions to support a user
action?
A) Portal
B) EIP
C) Linkage
D) Open architecture
Answer: C Level: Easy Page: 169
Response: This is the definition of Linkage.
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15. What is a broad, general term that describes non-proprietary IT hardware and software made
available by the standards and procedures by which their products work, making it easier to integrate
them?
A) Portal
B) EIP
C) Linkage
D) Open architecture
Answer: D Level: Easy Page: 170
Response: This is the definition of open architecture.
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