Information Systems in E-Commerce
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Course Introduction
This course explores the fundamental role of information systems in the context of electronic commerce (e-commerce). Students will examine the technologies, applications, and management strategies that support online business transactions, digital marketing, and electronic payments. Key topics include e-commerce business models, web and mobile platforms, data analytics for customer relationship management, cybersecurity, privacy, and legal considerations. By analyzing case studies and hands-on projects, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of how information systems drive innovation and competitive advantage in the rapidly evolving e-commerce landscape.
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Electronic Commerce 12th Edition by Gary Schneider
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Electronic Commerce
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Q1) The group of logical, related, and sequential activities and transactions in which businesses engage are often collectively referred to as _____.
A) business services
B) business processes
C) business logistics
D) business communications
Answer: B
Q2) The term _____ refers to the theft of intellectual property from the Web.
Answer: digital piracy
Q3) Banks use _____, which are electronic transmissions of account exchange information over private communications' networks.
A) wire transfers
B) machine translations
C) data analytics
D) big data
Answer: A
Q4) A product's _____ is the collection of attributes that affect how easily that product can be packaged and delivered.
Answer: shipping profile
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Chapter 2: Technology Infrastructure: the Internet and the
World Wide Web
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Q1) An intranet extends beyond the organization that created it.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) _____ determine how a sending device indicates that it has finished sending a message and how the receiving device indicates that it has received the message.
A) Routers
B) Semantics
C) Protocols
D) Switches
Answer: C
Q3) An HTML document is similar to a word-processing document in that it specifies how a particular text element will appear.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The set of rules for delivering Web page files over the Internet is in a protocol called the _____.
Answer: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
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Chapter 3: Selling on the Web
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Q1) To prevent illegal copying, some online music sellers required buyers to download and install ________ software that limited the number of copies that could be made of each audio file.
Answer: Digital rights management DRM
Q2) Personal contact and mass media approaches are often called _____.
A) communication modes
B) market strategies
C) marketing segments
D) media destination modes
Answer: A
Q3) The personal contact approach to identifying and reaching customers is sometimes called _____.
Answer: prospecting
Q4) In the fee-for-service model, the fee is based on the number or size of transactions the service providers process.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Marketing on the Web
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Q1) The _____ is a not-for-profit organization that promotes the use of Internet advertising and encourages effective Internet advertising.
Q2) Mass media offers the highest level of trust.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Some Web pages have banner ads that continue to load and reload as long as the page is open in the visitor's Web browser.Each time the banner ad loads is a(n) _____.
A) view
B) count
C) impression
D) click
Q4) Web site designers can specify additional key words in the pages that are hidden from the view of Web site visitors but are visible to spiders.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The total amount of money that a site spends, on average, to induce one visitor to make a purchase, sign up for a subscription, or register is called the _____.
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Chapter 5: Business-To-Business Activities: Improving Efficiency
and Reducing Costs
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Q1) _____ are the names of the formats for specific business data interchanges.
Q2) _____ are small chips that use radio transmissions to track inventory.
Q3) Using Internet technologies to integrate the design, development, construction, testing and refinement of products is called: ___________
A) smart sourcing
B) direct connection
C) collaborative commerce
D) knowledge management
Q4) The classic objective of _____ is to provide the right goods in the right quantities in the right place at the right time.
A) procurement
B) logistics
C) marketing
D) production
Q5) AS3 transmissions used for EDI transactions are insecure.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Differentiate between direct and indirect materials.
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Q7) The use of other organizations to perform specific activities is called _____.
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Chapter 6: Social Networking, Mobile Commerce, and Online Auctions
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Q1) A growing number of large organizations have built internal Web sites that provide opportunities for online social networking among their employees.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A(n) _____ allows individuals to create and publish a profile, create a list of other users with whom they share a connection (or connections), control that list, and monitor similar lists made by other users.
A) bulletin board system
B) Usenet
C) social networking site
D) RSS feed
Q3) The most common third-party operating systems today are Apple iOS and BlackBerry 10.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The lock-in effect makes the task of creating alternative successful general consumer Web sites much easier.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The Environment of Electronic Commerce: Legal,
Ethical, and Tax
Issues
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Q1) Physical boundaries are a convenient and effective way to announce the ending of one legal or cultural system and the beginning of another.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A(n) _____ can be formed by two or more parties that act as if a contract exists, even if no contract has been written and signed.
A) voidable contract
B) implied contract
C) subordinate contract
D) virtual contract
Q3) Every kind of agreement or exchange between parties, no matter how simple, is a type of _____.
Q4) A(n) _____ is a distinctive mark, device, motto, or implement that a company affixes to the goods it produces for identification purposes.
Q5) Businesses that operate on the Web must comply with the same laws and regulations that govern the operations of all businesses.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Web Server Hardware and Software
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Q1) A drawback of decentralized architecture is that if one of the few servers becomes inoperable, a large portion of the site's capacity is lost.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Linux is a closed-source operating system software.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Visitor information captured by Web servers are placed into a Web _____ for data analysis.
Q4) In dynamic page-generation technologies, server-side scripts and HTML-tagged text are used independently to create the dynamic Web page.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Software applications that generate information are located in the first tier of n-tier architectures.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Explain the difference between a dynamic Web page and a static Web page.
Q7) _____ is the amount of time a server requires to process one HTTP request.
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Chapter 9: Electronic Commerce Software
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Q1) IBM WebSphere software components include catalog management tools for both B2B and B2C operations.
A)True B)False
Q2) In the context of Web Services Specifications, the _____ works as a sort of address book to identify the locations of Web services and their associated Web Services Description Language descriptions.
Q3) _____ is an open-source database product developed and maintained by a community of programmers on the Web.
Q4) The best hosting services provide Web server hardware and software combinations that are _____, which means they can be adapted to meet changing requirements when their clients grow.
Q5) A(n) _____ is a computer that takes the request messages received by the Web server and runs application programs that perform some kind of action based on the contents of the request messages.
Q6) Web stores never use the same department names as their physical counterparts. A)True B)False
Q7) What is the difference between shared hosting and dedicated hosting?
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Chapter 10: Electronic Commerce Security
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Q1) A(n) _____ is a software that attaches itself to another program and can cause damage when the host program is activated.
A) applet
B) browser plug-in
C) virus
D) message digest
Q2) Signed code or messages serve the same function as a photo on a driver's license or passport.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the context of categorizing cookies in terms of their time duration, _____ are cookies which exist until the Web client ends the connection.
A) first-party cookies
B) persistent cookies
C) third-party cookies
D) session cookies
Q4) A ___________ virus can enter a computer system in several different ways.
Q5) _____ encryption encodes messages by using two mathematically related numeric keys.
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Chapter 11: Payment Systems for Electronic Commerce
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Q1) When a bank buys accounts from another bank, it performs a series of procedures called _____, which include checking the new customers' credit histories and banking records.
Q2) Credit cards provide assurances for both the consumer and the merchant.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In phishing, _____ use the collected information.
Q4) With a(n) _____, credit theft is much more difficult because the key to unlock the encrypted information is a PIN.
A) float
B) store charge cards
C) cryptocurrency
D) fintech
Q5) _____ is spending a particular piece of digital cash twice by submitting the same electronic currency to two different vendors.
A) Double spending
B) Blind signing
C) Money laundering
D) Spear phishing
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Chapter 12: Managing Electronic Commerce Implementations
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Q1) Most electronic commerce sites require a _____ function to support activities such as transaction processing, order entry, inquiry management, or shipment logistics.
A) graphics design
B) database administration
C) content management
D) content creation
Q2) A(n) _____ is defined as a company that handles incoming customer telephone calls and e-mails for other companies.
A) auditing firm
B) call center
C) recruiter
D) incubator
Q3) A successful business plan for an electronic commerce initiative should include activities that identify the initiative's specific objectives and link those objectives to business strategies.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the most important factors to evaluate when selecting a hosting service?
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