Deck 2: Our Connected World

Question 1

Disruptive technology is a new way of doing things that initially does not meet the needs of existing customers;whereas,sustaining technology produces an improved product that customers are eager to buy.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Passwords are one of the primary corporate security measures.Fortunately most people have passwords that are not easy to guess.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

An intranet is a restricted network that relies on internet technologies to provide an internet-like environment within the company for information sharing,communications,collaboration,web publishing,and the support of business processes.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Sustaining technology produces an improved product that customers are eager to buy.

Question 5

'Wiki' is a Hawaiian word for quick and is a type of a collaborative webpage that allows users to add,remove and change content.

Question 6

One of the main benefits of networks is sharing resources which allow companies to be agile,efficient and responsible at the same time.

Question 7

The main challenges facing a digitally connected world include security,legal implications of copyright and intellectual property,and social,ethical,and political issues.

Question 8

McKinsey did not report that Cloud technology is a disruptive technology.

Question 9

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

Question 10

VPNs are often used to connect to a corporate server.VPN stands for a valued partner network.

Question 11

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

Question 12

The three Business 2.0 communication and collaboration tools a business can use to harness the power of people include blogs,wikis and real simple syndication (RSS).

Question 13

Some of the social challenges with networking occur with newsgroups or blogs where like-minded people can exchange messages.Problems can arise when sensitive social issues become the topic of discussion such as politics or religion.

Question 14

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

Question 15

The sharing of content over networks,such as the Internet,is a risk for breaches of privacy,copyright and intellectual property laws.Fortunately,laws governing such content are uniform across the globe.

Question 16

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

Question 17

Disruptive technology is a new way of doing things that initially does not meet the needs of existing customers.

Question 18

Digital Darwinism implies that organisations that can adapt to the new demands placed on them for surviving in the information age are doomed to extinction.

Question 19

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

Question 20

Established companies should take advantage of disruptive technologies without hindering existing relationships with customers,partners and stakeholders.

Question 21

Web 3.0 refers to static text-based information websites.

Question 22

Network operators believe that they are like _____________ and they cannot be expected to police what users say.

A)servants
B)transporters
C)the post office
D)pipelines

Question 23

The following constitute examples of disruptive technologies:

A)Apple's iPad.
B)Charles Schwab's online brokerage.
C)Hewlett-Packard's ink-jet printers.
D)All the answers are correct

Question 24

Why would a company use an intranet?

A)Intranets are used for support of business processes
B)Intranets are used for communications and collaboration
C)Intranets are used for web publishing
D)All the answers are correct

Question 25

Erik is the president and owner of Watch Out,a local website development company that helps clients create and build unique websites.Many of his daily tasks are heavily technical in nature and require a high level of computer programming and internet knowledge.Which of the below would Erik primarily use when performing his daily tasks?

A)Source code
B)Brick-and-mortar
C)Information reach
D)Explicit knowledge

Question 26

What is software whose source code is available free for any third party to review and modify?

A)Free source
B)Open source
C)Code source
D)Network source

Question 27

What is the worldwide gap giving advantage to those with access to technology?

A)Digital subscriber
B)Digital divide
C)Digital Darwinism
D)Digital era

Question 28

An extranet is not available for use by a ______________.

A)Customer
B)Supplier
C)Partner
D)Competitor

Question 29

Sony started as a tiny company that built portable,battery-powered transistor radio.The sound quality was poor,but customers were willing to overlook that for convenience and portability.With the experience and revenue stream from these portable radios,Sony improved its technology to produce cheap,low-end transistor amplifiers that were suitable for home use,and invested those revenues in improving the technology further,which produced still better radios.This is an example of:

A)Sustaining technologies.
B)Disruptive technologies.
C)Web 3.0.
D)Digital Darwinism.

Question 30

What is a major challenge of operating a network in a connected world?

A)Personal issues
B)Society demands
C)Security issues
D)Telecommuting demands

Question 31

Polaroid,founded in 1937,produced the first instant camera in the late 1940s.The Polaroid camera,whose pictures developed themselves,was one of the most exciting technological advances the photography industry had ever seen.The company eventually went public,becoming one of Wall Street's most prominent enterprises,with its stock trading above US$60 a share in 1997.In 2002,the stock dropped to 8 cents and the company declared bankruptcy.This is an example of:

A)Digital Darwinism.
B)Increased richness.
C)Business 2.0.
D)None of these.

Question 32

Which benefits of a connected world makes all applications,equipment (such as a high-volume printer),and data available to anyone on the network,without regard to the physical location of the resource or the user?

A)Sharing resources
B)Providing opportunities
C)Reducing travel
D)All the answers are correct

Question 33

Granting access to corporate networks in an organisation relies on ___________ the user?

A)scoring
B)Electronically welcoming
C)parsing
D)identifying

Question 34

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

Question 35

e-Business was characterised by few companies or users posting content for the masses.What characterises Web 2.0?

A)A select few posting content for high-level executives only
B)The masses posting content for a select few
C)The masses posting content for the masses
D)A select few posting specific content for the masses

Question 36

Which of the below is not a characteristic of Web 2.0?

A)Encourages user participation
B)Technical skills are required
C)Eliminates entry barriers to publishing on the Web
D)Provides an exciting and vibrant virtual environment

Question 37

What is a disadvantage of networking or performing business in a connected world?

A)Reduces travel and expenses
B)Provides opportunities
C)Shares resources
D)Increased risk of privacy breaches

Question 38

What is the digital divide?

A)A worldwide gap giving advantage to those with access to technology
B)A data interruption in the internet connection
C)A deficiency in school-aged children with computer knowledge
D)A divide between the economies of third world countries

Question 39

What is the system that consists of non-proprietary hardware and software based on publicly known standards that allows third parties to create add-on products to plug into or interoperate with the system?

A)Management system
B)Reputation system
C)Knowledge system
D)Open system

Question 40

Which of the following statements is true:

A)Sustaining technologies tend to provide customers with better, faster and cheaper products in established markets.
B)Sustaining technologies are new ways of doing things that initially do not meet the needs and expectations of existing customers.
C)Sustaining technologies are developed when organisations cannot adapt to new demands placed upon them for surviving in the information age.
D)All the answers are correct

Question 41

Which of the below represents an example of why an employer would use social media?

A)To find potential job candidates via LinkedIn
B)To review potential job candidates by viewing their Facebook page
C)To attract new job candidates via YouTube
D)All the answers are correct.

Question 42

eBay buyers voluntarily comment to other users and sellers on the quality of service,promptness of shipping,and their general satisfaction with the product.This is one of the most popular examples of user-generated content and is called ___________.

A)Reputation system
B)Knowledge system
C)Explicit system
D)User-generated sales cycle

Question 43

What is the difference between asynchronous and synchronous communication?

A)Asynchronous is real-time communication; synchronous is one-way technology
B)Asynchronous is communication that does not occur at the same time; synchronous communication occurs at the same time
C)Asynchronous communication includes instant messaging; synchronous communication includes email
D)Asynchronous communication is fast and instant; synchronous communication is collected at a single point in time

Question 44

Which statement below is inaccurate?

A)Web 2.0 is a simple static website without any interaction with its users
B)Web 2.0 brings people closer together with information using machines
C)Web 3.0 brings machines closer together using information
D)Web 3.0 is a rich 'intelligent' understanding and relationships among concept and topics

Question 45

Which of the following best describes Web 3.0?

A)User-generated online business
B)Based on the 'intelligent' web where applications use natural language processing
C)Collaboration and social media
D)All the answers are correct

Question 46

Which of the below is not a characteristic of Web 2.0?

A)Knowledge management
B)Collaboration system
C)Web browser
D)Explicit knowledge

Question 47

What is the difference between a wiki and a blog?

A)A wiki is free and a blog has a subscription fee
B)A wiki user can alter the original content of an article, where a blog user can only add information as a comment
C)A wiki is original content, where a blog is used sources
D)All the answers are correct

Question 48

What is the type of knowledge that is contained in people's heads?

A)Explicit knowledge
B)Virtual knowledge
C)Tacit knowledge
D)Pure knowledge

Question 49

Lisa loves her job as an executive recruiter for a large hospital located in Melbourne.Part of Lisa's job requires her to gather industry information,collaborate with partners,compare competitors and tap into the knowledge of prospective employees,partners and customers.Which of the below would Lisa use to perform her job?

A)Interactivity metrics
B)Source code
C)Network effect
D)Collective intelligence

Question 50

Which system supports the capturing,organisation,and dissemination of knowledge throughout an organisation?

A)Cybermediation system
B)Knowledge management system
C)Source code system
D)Social media system

Question 51

What is the most common form of collective intelligence found inside the organisation?

A)Crowdsourcing
B)Tacit management
C)Knowledge management
D)Tagging

Question 52

What is web content that is created and updated by many users for many users?

A)Cybermediation-contributed content
B)User-generated content
C)Executive-generated content
D)Customer-contributed content

Question 53

What is an online journal that allows users to post their own opinions,comments,graphics and video?

A)Web masters
B)Folksonomy
C)Disintermediation
D)A blog or web log

Question 54

Many websites,blogs and podcasts use _______ to constantly feed news to consumers instead of having the consumer search for the news.

A)Mashup
B)Source code
C)RSS
D)SNA

Question 55

What is one simplification that has occurred with Web 2.0?

A)Helping online users create anonymity
B)Limiting the sharing capabilities of devices
C)Improving access to information
D)Communicating via email

Question 56

Social tagging describes the collaborative activity of marking shared online content with keywords or tags as a way to _____________.

A)organise it for future navigation
B)organise it for future filtering
C)organise it for future search
D)All the answers are correct.

Question 57

What are the two categories that include intellectual and knowledge-based assets?

A)Explicit knowledge; tacit knowledge
B)Efficient knowledge; tacit knowledge
C)Intelligent knowledge; explicit knowledge
D)Open knowledge; closed knowledge

Question 58

What are the two basic functions that social networking sites provide?

A)The ability to create and publish your own software
B)The ability to create and maintain a profile that is your online identity and create connections between other people within the network
C)The ability to capture and create URLs and RSSs
D)The ability to create URLs and edit RSS software

Question 59

What is the type of knowledge that consists of anything that can be documented,archived and codified,often with the help of IT?

A)Tacit knowledge
B)Explicit knowledge
C)Pure knowledge
D)Virtual knowledge

Question 60

Using the collective power of a community to identify and classify content significantly _________ content categorisation costs.

A)eliminates
B)raises
C)lowers
D)balances

Question 61

Open ID refers to the provision of an online ___________ that can be easily carried to a variety of devices (mobile phones,PCs),allowing for easy authentication across different websites.

Question 62

Explain how Web 2.0 is helping communities network and collaborate.

Question 63

Web 3.0 is based on ____________ web applications using natural language processing,machine-based learning and reasoning and intelligent applications.

Question 64

_____________ offer many advantages for business including sharing resources,providing opportunities and reducing travel.

Question 65

Identify the challenges of a connected world.

Question 66

One benefit of a connected world,resource ___________ makes all applications,equipment (such as a high-volume printer) and data available to anyone on the network,without regard to the physical location of the resource or the user.

Question 67

An ___________ is an extension of an intranet that is available only to authorised outsiders,such as customers,partners and suppliers.

Question 68

Web 3.0 offers a way for people to describe information such that computers can start to ___________ the relationships among concepts and topics.

Question 69

Identify the benefits of a connected world.

Question 70

Describe the three Business 2.0 tools for collaborating.

Question 71

Providing network access to those who want or need it helps to level the playing field and removes the digital ____________,a worldwide gap giving advantage to those with access to technology.

Question 72

Web 3.0 brings machines closer together using information.These new relationships unite people,machines and information so a ___________ can be smarter,quicker,more agile and more successful.

Question 73

Which statement below is incorrect?

A)The semantic web captures, organises and disseminates knowledge (i.e. know-how) throughout an organisation
B)The semantic web describes the relationships between things
C)The semantic web describes the properties of things
D)The semantic web is not about links between webpages

Question 74

Which of the following is not a topic or feature that is included in Web 3.0?

A)A worldwide database
B)Intelligent applications
C)Social networking
D)Integration of legacy devices