Practice Questions
Chapter 5: Electronic Commerce
XLM/E: Network Basics
1. What type of commerce is enabled by technology?
A)
Path-to-profitability
*B)
E-commerce
C)
EBuy
D)
Internet
2. What type of commerce occurs when a business sells its products over the Internet to other
businesses?
*A)
B2B
B)
B2C
C)
C2B
D)
Enterprise commerce
3. What is term used when the government employs technology to deal with citizens,
businesses, and other government agencies?
A)
G2BC
B)
web
C)
consumer
*D)
E-government
4. What term refers to an organization's ability to tailor its products and services to its
customers?
A)
Specialization
B)
Target commerce or T-commerce
*C)
Mass customization
D)
Adaption
5. What term refers to the small web page that opens automatically with an ad when you visit
some web sites?
A)
Marketing page
B)
I-ad
C)
Affiliate ad
*D)
Pop-up ad
6. When two companies are linked together by computers and they send business transactions
through these computers, they are probably using _____.
A)
Digital wallets
*B)
Electronic data interchange
C)
B2C
D)
Smart cards
7. What type of technology scrambles the contents of files sent via the Internet?
*A)
Encryption
B)
Secured data interchange
C)
Cryptogram
D)
Regulated code
8. What type of Web technology creates a secure and private connection between two
computers?
*A)
Secure socket layers
B)
Encryption
C)
Internet-locked connections
D)
Sheltered web sites
9. What term refers to your ability to connect to the internet and your company from a wireless
device?
A)
Net services
B)
Push technology
C)
Pull technology
*D)
Mobile computing
10. What age group was born after the digital revolution?
*A)
Digital natives
B)
Digital immigrants
C)
Digital boomers
D)
Web kids
11. If you wanted to avoid the failure of the dot-com businesses from the late 1990s, what does
the author recommend you do?
A)
Build a company that is Internet and brick-and-mortar based.
B)
Develop IT systems capable of processing millions of transactions quickly.
*C)
Develop a path-to-profitability (P2P) plan.
D)
Disperse risk amongst a group of investors rather than just yourself.
12. Which type of e-commerce refers to the electronic commerce activities performed within a
nation's government or between governments?
A)
i-GG
*B)
e-GG
C)
G2
D)
G2G
13. C2C marketplaces that are supported by advertising are said to be _____.
A)
B2C
B)
ad-supported
C)
market-oriented
*D)
push technology
14. Which of the following types of products purchased on the internet are typically high priced
items because they are purchased infrequently and often require some sort of customized
order?
A)
B2B
B)
Innovation
*C)
Specialty
D)
Computer
15. What is the term used to describe an ad that appears after you close your current browser
window?
A)
AdWare
B)
C)
*D)
e-Marketing ad
Online or banner ad
Pop-under ad
16. What is the percentage of potential customers who visit your site who actually buy
something?
A)
Hit rate
*B)
Conversion rate
C)
Click-through
D)
Viral speed
17. What is a credit-card like device that contains an embedded chip on which digital
information can be stored and updated?
*A)
Smart card
B)
E-credit card
C)
e-Information
D)
Intelligent spending card (ISC)
18. What scrambles the contents of a file so that you can't read it without having the right key to
unscramble the file?
A)
Coder
B)
Scrambler
*C)
Encryption
D)
Fusion
19. Which type of technology allows you to wirelessly connect to and use your school's
information technology?
A)
Networking applications
B)
Operations management tools
*C)
Mobile computing
D)
Laptop applications
20. If you were surfing the Web and actively searching for information for your next research
paper, what type of technology would you be using?
A)
M-commerce
B)
Internet search and detect
C)
Exploratory
*D)
Pull
21. What term is used to describe two or more computers that are linked to each other?
A)
Star connection
B)
Computer system
*C)
Computer network
D)
Net
22. What interface card do you need to connect to a network?
A)
ISP card
B)
Wireless card
C)
Router
*D)
NIC
23. What is the most common interface card used to connect one computer to a network?
A)
Cat 5
B)
Router
*C)
Ethernet card
D)
DSL card
24. What type of network device allows you to share your connection to the Internet with other
computers in your home?
A)
Ethernet card
B)
NIC
*C)
Router
D)
Cat 5
25. What is another name for a shared network?
A)
WAP
B)
Switch
C)
Broadband router
*D)
Hub
26. What type of network is commonly used in a college lab environment?
A)
WAN
B)
MAN
*C)
LAN
D)
CAN
27. What type of network is commonly used in an international organization?
*A)
WAN
B)
MAN
C)
LAN
D)
CAN
28. What is the term used to describe the amount of space you have to transmit to and from the
Internet?
A)
Internet speed
B)
Network speed
C)
Router
*D)
Bandwidth
29. Which of the following high-speed circuits is the fastest?
A)
T1
B)
T2
C)
T3
*D)
DS3
30. What type of communication media is infrared?
*A)
Wireless
B)
Wired
C)
Detached
D)
VoIP
31. If you needed to connect your dorm computer to the campus network, what device would
you need?
*A)
Ethernet card
B)
RJ jack
C)
WAP
D)
Router
32. What Windows option do you need to activate so that you can share files on your home
network?
A)
VPN
*B)
File-sharing
C)
FTP
D)
Internet options
33. What does a switch enable a network to do?
A)
Listen to each other's transmissions
B)
Repeat messages to other computers so that the messages are not lost or dropped
*C)
Allow computers to have different conversation at the same time.
D)
Create direct links between separate networks or subnets
34. Which type of network covers a metropolitan area?
A)
LAN
*B)
MAN
C)
WAN
D)
VPN
35. Which of the following communications medium is not classified as a broadband
connection?
*A)
Dial-up
B)
DSL
C)
Cable modem
D)
Dedicated line
36. Which type of Internet connection is limited to the distance between you and your phone
company; generally about 3 miles?
A)
Dial-up
*B)
DSL
C)
Cable
D)
Satellite
37. What communications device receives a radio signal, strengthens it, and then sends it on?
A)
WiFi
B)
Wireless fidelity
*C)
Repeater
D)
Microwave
38. What software and/or hardware device protects a computer or a network from intruders?
A)
Router
*B)
Firewall
C)
Switch
D)
Hub
39. Which of the following replicates and spreads itself?
A)
Encryption
*B)
Worm
C)
VoIP
D)
Spyware
40. What type of model describes an environment when a server's only duty is to help with data
management; the computer receiving the information does everything else?
A)
Client model
B)
Server-to-peer model
C)
Hierarchical model
*D)
Distributed data model