Question 1

Taxonomy is the set of ideas about how all information in a given context should be organized.

Accepted Answer

Information architecture is the set of ideas about how all information in a given context should be organized.

Question 2

Managing consumer trust is not a challenge for ebusiness participants because the Internet has numerous security technologies in place to completely protect consumers and their online transactions.

Accepted Answer

Managing consumer trust is a challenge facing ebusinesses.

Question 3

Future managers and workers need to understand the benefits MIS and ebusiness can offer a company if it wants to take advantage of sustaining technologies.

Accepted Answer

Future managers and workers need to understand the benefits MIS and ebusiness can offer a company if it wants to take advantage of disrupting technologies.

Question 4

RSS allows a website to constantly feed information and news to consumers instead of having the consumer search for it.

Accepted Answer

In addition to facilitating syndication, RSS allows a website's frequent readers to track updates on the site.

Question 5

The Internet uses such strong security technologies that ensuring consumer protection is not a challenge for ebusinesses.

Accepted Answer

Ensuring consumer protection is an ebusiness challenge.

Question 6

A wiki is a Hawaiian word for quick and is a type of a collaborative web page that allows users to add, remove, and change content.

Accepted Answer

This is part of the definition of a wiki.It allows users to add, remove, and change content, which can be easily organized and reorganized as required.

Question 7

Intermediaries occur when a customer sells directly to another customer online, cutting out the intermediary.

Accepted Answer

Disintermediation occurs when a business sells direct to the customer online and cuts out the intermediary.

Question 8

The three Business 2.0 communication and collaboration tools a business can use to harness the power of people include blogs, wikis, and mashups.

Accepted Answer

Blogs, wikis, and mashups are the three primary Business 2.0 communication and collaboration tools.

Question 9

A click-and-mortor business operates on the Internet only without a physical store.

Accepted Answer

This is the definition of pure-play (virtual) business operates on the Internet only without a physical store.

Question 10

Social networks are websites that rely on user participation and user-contributed content, such as Facebook, YouTube, and Digg.

Accepted Answer

This is the definition of social media.

Question 11

The Internet marketplace is free of most forms of traditional sales tax.

Accepted Answer

The Internet marketplace is mostly free of traditional forms of sales tax.

Question 12

A few examples of ebusiness advantages can include opening new markets, reducing costs, and expanding global reach.

Accepted Answer

Ebusiness advantages include (1) expanding global reach, (2) opening new markets, (3) reducing costs, (4) improving operations, and (5) improving effectiveness.

Question 13

Interactivity measures advertising effectiveness by counting visitor interactions with the target ad, including time spent viewing the ad, number of pages viewed, and number of repeat visits to the advertisement.

Accepted Answer

This is the definition of interactivity.

Question 14

Social tagging is similar to taxonomy except that crowdsourcing determines the tags or keyword-based classification system.

Accepted Answer

Folksonomy is similar to taxonomy except that crowdsourcing determines the tags or keyword-based classification system.

Question 15

Source code is software made available free for any third party to review and modify.

Accepted Answer

This is the definition of open source.

Question 16

Web 2.0 is the next generation of Internet that uses a more mature, distinctive communications platform characterized by new qualities such as collaboration, sharing, and free.

Accepted Answer

This is the definition of Web 2.0 or Business 2.0

Question 17

The most common form of collective intelligence found outside the organization is crowdsourcing, or the wisdom of the crowd.

Accepted Answer

This is the definition of crowdsourcing.

Question 18

Many businesses are using instant messaging as a way to answer and resolve questions or problems quickly.

Accepted Answer

Instant messaging is a way to answer and resolve questions or problems quickly.

Question 19

A webinar is a form of web conferencing that blends videoconferencing with document sharing and allows the user to deliver a presentation over the web to a group of geographically dispersed participants.

Accepted Answer

A webinar is a form of web conferencing that blends videoconferencing with document sharing and allows the user to deliver a presentation over the web to a group of geographically dispersed participants.

Question 20

The majority of eBay's customers are using a business-to-business (B2B.ebusiness model.

Accepted Answer

The majority of eBay's customers are using a consumer-to-consumer (C2C.ebusiness model.

Quiz 3: Ebusiness: Electronic Business Value

Taxonomy is the set of ideas about how all information in a given context should be organized.

Managing consumer trust is not a challenge for ebusiness participants because the Internet has numerous security technologies in place to completely protect consumers and their online transactions.

Future managers and workers need to understand the benefits MIS and ebusiness can offer a company if it wants to take advantage of sustaining technologies.

RSS allows a website to constantly feed information and news to consumers instead of having the consumer search for it.

The Internet uses such strong security technologies that ensuring consumer protection is not a challenge for ebusinesses.

A wiki is a Hawaiian word for quick and is a type of a collaborative web page that allows users to add, remove, and change content.

Intermediaries occur when a customer sells directly to another customer online, cutting out the intermediary.

The three Business 2.0 communication and collaboration tools a business can use to harness the power of people include blogs, wikis, and mashups.

A click-and-mortor business operates on the Internet only without a physical store.

Social networks are websites that rely on user participation and user-contributed content, such as Facebook, YouTube, and Digg.

The Internet marketplace is free of most forms of traditional sales tax.

A few examples of ebusiness advantages can include opening new markets, reducing costs, and expanding global reach.

Interactivity measures advertising effectiveness by counting visitor interactions with the target ad, including time spent viewing the ad, number of pages viewed, and number of repeat visits to the advertisement.

Social tagging is similar to taxonomy except that crowdsourcing determines the tags or keyword-based classification system.

Source code is software made available free for any third party to review and modify.

Web 2.0 is the next generation of Internet that uses a more mature, distinctive communications platform characterized by new qualities such as collaboration, sharing, and free.

The most common form of collective intelligence found outside the organization is crowdsourcing, or the wisdom of the crowd.

Many businesses are using instant messaging as a way to answer and resolve questions or problems quickly.

A webinar is a form of web conferencing that blends videoconferencing with document sharing and allows the user to deliver a presentation over the web to a group of geographically dispersed participants.

The majority of eBay's customers are using a business-to-business (B2B.ebusiness model.