Deck 13: Electronic Commerce and Information Security

Question 1

The Data Encryption Standard is certified as an international standard by the International Standards Organization.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Using multiple tables in a single database increases the amount of redundant information that must be stored.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Building massive integrated government databases raises fewer technical questions than legal, political, social, and ethical ones.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

One of the difficulties with an asymmetric encryption algorithm is how to securely transmit the secret key so that both the sender and receiver know what it is.

Question 5

LastName and FirstName can serve as primary keys.

Question 6

The TCP/IP connection between the browser and Web server is usually broken once a Web page has been sent back to the browser.

Question 7

One of the problems with the RSA algorithm is the computational overload for encryption/decryption.

Question 8

The first security technology used was a firewall.

Question 9

Middleware packages do such things as translate between incompatible data representations, file formats, and network protocols to allow otherwise incompatible systems to exchange information.

Question 10

The number one attraction that draws customers to online shopping is probably convenience.

Question 11

Database management systems usually require the use of specialized query languages to enable the user or another application program to query the database in order to retrieve information.

Question 12

Customers should always know where they are on your Web site.

Question 13

The most basic unit of data is a field.

Question 14

Symmetric encryption algorithms are also known as public key encryption algorithms.

Question 15

Performance issues do not affect the user's satisfaction with a database management system.

Question 16

Your Web pages should be designed knowing that they will be displayed on many different machines with different operating systems and browsers.

Question 17

A single byte is often used to represent a string of characters.

Question 18

One of the goals as an online vendor is to keep customers at your site.

Question 19

The operating system uses the log-on password as an authentication device.

Question 20

Without cookies, there would be no association between the customer visiting one page and the same customer visiting another page.

Question 21

The RSA algorithm is based on the results from a field of mathematics known as ____ theory.

A) geometric
B) calculus
C) number
D) encryption

Question 22

Web site ____ refers to how information will be classified and organized so customers can easily find what they want.

A) taxonomy
B) URL
C) SSL
D) middleware

Question 23

A(n) ____ manages the files in a database.

A) DBMS
B) tuple
C) entity
D) attribute

Question 24

Cookies are highly dangerous because they can execute on the client machine.

Question 25

A ____ is a graphical ad, often with animation, placed in a prominent position on a Web page.

A) portal
B) domain name
C) cookie
D) banner ad

Question 26

You want your ____ to relate so closely to your business name that potential customers can easily guess it even if they do not have it written down in front of them.

A) search engine
B) domain name
C) portal
D) SSL

Question 27

A good ____ will incorporate the services of a sophisticated file manager to organize the disk files in an optimal way in order to minimize access time to the records.

A) e-business
B) ASP
C) open source software
D) DBMS

Question 28

A(n) ____ contains personal information about the user, such as name, address, time of visit, and what was looked at and bought.

A) banner ad
B) SSL
C) URL
D) cookie

Question 29

A ____ is an entry point Web page with links to other pages on some topic.

A) portal
B) domain name
C) cookie
D) banner ad

Question 30

A ____ is an integer greater than 1 that can only be written as the product of itself and 1.

A) prime number
B) factor
C) divisor
D) dividend

Question 31

____ allow the physical data to reside at separate and independent locations that are electronically networked together.

A) E-businesses
B) Distributed databases
C) ASPs
D) URLs

Question 32

Which encryption standard was adopted by the U.S. government in 2001 to compensate for increasing computing power?

A) AES
B) DES
C) triple DES
D) public key encryption

Question 33

The term ____ refers to software that allows separate, existing programs to communicate and work together seamlessly.

A) URL
B) taxonomy
C) middleware
D) e-business

Question 34

The first major decision in the e-commerce arena is to choose between in-house development and outsourcing.

Question 35

A database management system is exactly the same thing as a file manager.

Question 36

A(n) ____ is an attribute or combination of attributes that uniquely identifies a tuple.

A) record
B) primary key
C) query language
D) entity

Question 37

____ is a nonprofit corporation that took over the task of domain name management from the U.S. government in 1998.

A) ICNN
B) ICAN
C) ICANN
D) CANN

Question 38

One way to let potential customers learn your URL is to pay for a sponsored link so that a search on appropriate keywords will bring up links to your Web site.

Question 39

Using an ASP allows you great control over hardware and software decisions.

Question 40

A ____ is a small text file that the Web server sends to the user's browser and that gets stored on the user's hard drive.

A) banner ad
B) cookie
C) portal
D) domain name

Question 41

In a ____ model, your company sells products or materials to other companies rather than to the general public.

A) B2C
B) B2B
C) e-commerce
D) G2B

Question 42

A(n) ____ can design and manage your Web site on an ongoing basis.

A) search engine
B) open source software
C) Internet corporation
D) ASP

Question 43

The phrase "don't let the bad guys get the stuff" represents the ____ technique of information security.

A) authentication
B) encryption
C) firewall
D) password verification

Question 44

In the ____ database model, the conceptual model of a file is a two-dimensional table.

A) table
B) relational
C) object-oriented
D) distributed

Question 45

The Caesar cipher is a ____ cipher, where a single letter of plaintext generates a single letter of ciphertext.

A) single
B) replacement
C) substitution
D) block

Question 46

A(n) ____ requires the use of a secret key known to both the sender and receiver.

A) symmetric encryption algorithm
B) asymmetric encryption algorithm
C) public key encryption algorithm
D) secret key encryption algorithm

Question 47

The ____ strategy addresses the issues of backing up critical data, and dealing with server failures.

A) quality assurance
B) employee training
C) database management
D) disaster recovery

Question 48

Which of the following companies is a well-known certificate authority?

A) Veritas
B) Verisign
C) Encryptor
D) Securefast

Question 49

In a ____ a group of plaintext letters gets encoded into ciphertext, but not by substituting one at a time for each character.

A) stream cipher
B) Caesar cipher
C) shift cipher
D) block cipher

Question 50

____ is the practice of impersonating a legitimate site for the purposes of stealing money or stealing identity by collecting confidential information.

A) Spoofing
B) Internet theft
C) Money laundering
D) Embezzlement