E-Commerce Online Assignnment and Exam Set 2

QN1. The primary focus of most B2C applications is generating ____.

a. Revenue

b. Product

c. Service

d. Web Site

Answer

Answer: a. Revenue

QN2. Which is most significant for web based advertisers?

a. Impressions

b. Page Views

c. Click Thoughts

d. Hits

Answer

Answer: c. Click Thoughts

QN3. Digital products are particularly appealing for a company’s bottom line because of

a. The freedom from the law of diminishing returns

b. The integration of the value chain.

c. The increase in brand recognition.

d. The changes they bring to the industry.

Answer

Answer: a. The freedom from the law of diminishing returns

QN4. The differences between B2B and B2C exchanges include

a) Size of customer set

b) Transaction volume

c) Form of payment

d) Level of customization on products/services

A. a and b

B. a, b, and c

C. b and c

D. All of the above

Answer

Answer: D. All of the above

QN5. What is the most significant part of e-commerce:

a. B2B

b. B2E

c. B2C

d. C2C

Answer

Answer: a. B2B

QN6. Security-and-risk services include

a. Firewalls & policies for remote access

b. Encryption and use of passwords

c. Disaster planning and recovery

d. All of the above

e. a & b only

Answer

Answer: d. All of the above

QN7. Business Plans are important when trying to find capital to start up your new business. Important elements of a business plan include:

a. Sales And Marketing

b. Human resources handbook

c. Business description

d. a and c

Answer

Answer: d. a and c

QN8. Based on the study, in the supply side initiatives, which of the following clusters was the only one found to be critical enterprise-wide?

a. IT management

b. Communications

c. Data management

d. IT-architecture-and-standards

Answer

Answer: d. IT-architecture-and-standards

QN9. E-commerce increases competition by: erasing geographical boundaries, empowering customers and suppliers, commoditizing new products, etc. How do companies usually solve this problem?

a. By competing on price

b. By selling only through traditional channels.

c. By lowering costs

d. By creating attractive websites

Answer

Answer: c. By lowering costs

QN10. On which form of e-commerce does Dell Computer Corporation rely in conducting its business?

a. B2E

b. B2C

c. B2B

d. All of the above

e. None of the above

Answer

Answer: d. All of the above

QN11. What is the ‘last mile’ in the last mile problem? The link between your…

a. Computer and telephone

b. Home and telephone provider’s local office

c. Office and server

d. Home and internet service provider

Answer

Answer: b. Home and telephone provider’s local office

QN12. Which of the following is a function of a proxy server?

a. Maintaining a log of transactions

b. Caching pages to reduce page load times

c. Performing virus checks

d. Forwarding transactions from a user to the appropriate server

e. All of the above

Answer

Answer: e. All of the above

QN13. An example of the supply chain of commerce is :

a. A company turns blocks of wood into pencils.

b. A department supplies processed data to another department within a company.

c. A consumer purchases canned vegetables at the store.

d. None of the above

Answer

Answer: c. A consumer purchases canned vegetables at the store.

QN14. Just after your customers have accepted your revolutionary new e-commerce idea, which of the following is not expected to immediately happen?

a. Competitor catch-up moves

b. Commoditization

c. First-mover expansion

d. None of the above

Answer

Answer: b. Commoditization (A and C are expected to happen once customer acceptance has been reached)

QN15. Which of the following statements about E-Commerce and E-Business is true?

a. E-Commerce involves buying and selling over the internet while E-Business does not.

b. E-Commerce is B2C (business to consumer) while E-Business is B2B (business to business).

c. E-Business is a broader term that encompasses E-Commerce (buying and selling) as well as doing other forms of business over the internet.

d. None of the above.

Answer

Answer: c. E-Business is a broader term that encompasses E-Commerce (buying and selling) as well as doing other forms of business over the internet.

QN16. Where do CGI (Common Gateway Interface) application programs or scripts run?

a. On the client through a web browser

b. On the client through temporary stored files

c. On the web server

d. Where the user installs them

e. None of the above

Answer

Answer: c. On the web server

QN17. In which model the application logic is partitioned among the clients and multiple specialized servers?

1. Two tier

2. Three tier

3. N tier

Options:

a. 1

b. 2

c. 2 & 3

d. 3

Answer

Answer: c. 2 & 3

QN18. What of the following are the 3 types of web information system logic?

a. Presentation, business, information/data

b. Presentation, information/data, active server pages

c. Business, information/data, client/server

d. None

Answer

Answer: a. Presentation, business, information/data

QN19. Software, music, digitized images, electronic games, and pornography can be revenue sources for the B2C e-commerce

a. Selling services

b. Doing customization

c. Selling digital products

d. Selling physical products

Answer

Answer: c. Selling digital products

QN20. What e-commerce category is the largest in terms of revenue?

a. Business to Business (B2B)

b. Intra-Business (B2E)

c. Business to Consumer (B2C)

d. Consumer to Consumer (C2C)

Answer

Answer: a. Business to Business (B2B)

QN21. An application layer protocol, such as FTP or HTTP, is transparent to the end user.

a) Always

b) Never

c) Sometimes

d) None Of Above

Answer

Answer: a) Always

QN22. B2B & B2C IT initiatives can use the same E-Commerce platforms

a) Always

b) Never

c) Sometimes

d) None Of Above

Answer

Answer: b) Never

QN23. B2B involves small, focused customer set with large transaction volume per customer, periodic consolidated payments and significant customizations of products and services

a) Always

b) Never

c) Sometimes

d) None Of Above

Answer

Answer: a) Always

QN24. Two computers can communicate using different communication protocols.

a) Always

b) Never

c) Sometimes

d) None Of Above

Answer

Answer: b) Never

QN25. Which is/are types of e – commerce?

a. B2B

b. B2C

c. C2C

d. All the above

Answer

Answer: d. All the above

QN26. Which of the following items is used to protect your computer from unwanted intruders?

a. A cookie.

b. A browser.

c. A firewall.

d. A server.

Answer

Answer: c. A firewall.

QN27. For selling physical products on the Internet, what is the key to profitability?

a. Hook

b. Cost Control

c. Brand Recognition

d. Customization

Answer

Answer: b. Cost Control

QN28. Which of the following B2C companies is the best example of achieving its financial success through controlling its cost?

a. Yahoo

b. Amazon

c. E-Bay

d. Google

e. None of the above

Answer

Answer: c. E-Bay

QN29. AsianAvenue.com, BlackVoices.com, iVillage.com, SeniorNet.org are all examples of what?

a. Intermediary Services websites

b. Physical Communities

c. B2C websites

d. Virtual Communities

Answer

Answer: d. Virtual Communities

QN30. Which of the following is the least attractive product to sell online?

a. Downloadable music

b. Software

c. a PDA

d. Electronic stock trading

Answer

Answer: c. a PDA

QN31. In the e-mail address jgreen03@gsm.uci.edu what is the top-level domain

a. gsm

b. uci

c. edu

Answer

Answer: c. edu

QN32. What do you think cookies do

a. They are threat to privacy

b. The help the user not to repeat some input info

c. They personalize user’s webpage

d. B and c

e. All of the above

Answer

Answer: e. All of the above

QN33. Much of Amazon.com’s initial success can be attributed to which of the following:

a. Low prices

b. Brand recognition

c. Fast web connections

d. Customer service

Answer

Answer: b. Brand recognition

QN34. It is particularly difficult to maintain the competition advantage based on ________.

a. Quality

b. Efficiency

c. Price

d. Internal Cost Reduction

e. Brand

Answer

Answer: c. Price

QN35. What type of application has the potential to change a market or even create a new market?

a. Software application

b. Intelligent application

c. Killer application

d. Business application

Answer

Answer: b. Intelligent application

QN36. Why did the e-commerce boom, as evidenced by soaring stock prices of Internet businesses such as Pets.com and e Toys, went bust in 2000?

a. Websites started by techies who lack business knowledge

b. Lack of good business model

c. Investors’ and entrepreneurs’ greed and ignorance

d. All of the above

Answer

Answer: d. All of the above

QN37. Why can’t new connection infrastructure like DSL, Cable Modem, and fiber optics solve the last mile problem?

a. Availability

b. Cost

c. Distance

d. All of the Above

Answer

Answer: d. All of the Above

QN38. These are all the uses of plug-ins except?

I. Air fresheners

II. Speed up data transmission

III. Enhance browser capability

IV. To view different file types

a) I and II

b) III and IV

c) I

d) I and IV

Answer

Answer: a) I and II

QN39. A system with universally accepted standards for storing, retrieving, formatting, and displaying information in a networked environment best defines:

a) A web site.

b) A web location.

c) The World Wide Web.

d) An intranet.

Answer

Answer: c) The World Wide Web.

QN40. What’s the real potential of e-commerce?

a) Making a profit

b) Generating Revenue

c) Improving efficiency

d) Buying and selling on the internet and WWW

Answer

Answer: c) Improving efficiency