E-Business 1. The dimension of e-commerce that enables commerce across national boundaries is called ______________.
interactivity global reach richness ubiquity View answer Correct answer: (B) global reach
2. The primary source of financing during the early years of e-commerce was ______________.
bank loans large retail firms venture capital funds initial public offerings View answer Correct answer: (C) venture capital funds
3. The source of revenue in a subscription revenue model is ______________.
Fees from advertisers in exchange for advertisements Fees for business referrals Fees from subscribers in exchange for access to content or services Fees for enabling or execution a transaction View answer Correct answer: (C) Fees from subscribers in exchange for access to content or services
4. Industry structure is defined as ______________.
the nature of the players in an industry and their relative bargaining power a set of plans for achieving long term returns on the capital invested in a business firm set of planned activities designed to result in a profit in a marketplace how a company's product or service fulfills the needs of customers View answer 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 ______________.
a value web value chain profit commoditization View answer 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 ______________.
TCP IP the Network Layer the Application Layer View answer Correct answer: (B) IP
7. Which of the following is not a limitation of the current Internet?
insufficient capacity throughout the backbone network architecture limitations insufficient reach best-efforts QOS View answer Correct answer: (C) insufficient reach
8. Internet users account for about ______________ of the world's population.
7% 17% 27% 47% View answer Correct answer: (B) 17%
9. The largest component of a Web site budget is ______________.
system maintenance system development content design and development telecommunications View answer 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 ______________.
Active Server Pages (ASP) Java Server Pages (JSP) Common Gateway Interface (CGI) VBScript View answer Correct answer: (C) Common Gateway Interface (CGI)