E-Business

1. The dimension of e-commerce that enables commerce across national boundaries is called ______________.

  1. interactivity
  2. global reach
  3. richness
  4. ubiquity
Correct answer: (B)
global reach

2. The primary source of financing during the early years of e-commerce was ______________.

  1. bank loans
  2. large retail firms
  3. venture capital funds
  4. initial public offerings
Correct answer: (C)
venture capital funds

3. The source of revenue in a subscription revenue model is ______________.

  1. Fees from advertisers in exchange for advertisements
  2. Fees for business referrals
  3. Fees from subscribers in exchange for access to content or services
  4. Fees for enabling or execution a transaction
Correct answer: (C)
Fees from subscribers in exchange for access to content or services

4. Industry structure is defined as ______________.

  1. the nature of the players in an industry and their relative bargaining power
  2. a set of plans for achieving long term returns on the capital invested in a business firm
  3. set of planned activities designed to result in a profit in a marketplace
  4. how a company's product or service fulfills the needs of customers
Correct answer: (A)
the nature of the players in an industry and their relative bargaining power

5. A situation where there are no differences among products or services, and the only basis of choosing products is price is known as ______________.

  1. a value web
  2. value chain
  3. profit
  4. commoditization
Correct answer: (D)
commoditization

6. The component of TCP/IP that provides the Internet's addressing scheme and is responsible for the actual delivery of packets is ______________.

  1. TCP
  2. IP
  3. the Network Layer
  4. the Application Layer
Correct answer: (B)
IP

7. Which of the following is not a limitation of the current Internet?

  1. insufficient capacity throughout the backbone
  2. network architecture limitations
  3. insufficient reach
  4. best-efforts QOS
Correct answer: (C)
insufficient reach

8. Internet users account for about ______________ of the world's population.

  1. 7%
  2. 17%
  3. 27%
  4. 47%
Correct answer: (B)
17%

9. The largest component of a Web site budget is ______________.

  1. system maintenance
  2. system development
  3. content design and development
  4. telecommunications
Correct answer: (A)
system maintenance

10. The set of standards for communication between a browser and a program running on a server that allows for interaction between the user and the server is known as ______________.

  1. Active Server Pages (ASP)
  2. Java Server Pages (JSP)
  3. Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
  4. VBScript
Correct answer: (C)
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
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