Type:
Test Bank
Resource:
Foundations of Net-Enhanced Organizations
Edition:
1st Edition
Author(s):
Detmar Straub
Straub, Foundations of Net-enhanced Organizations, Wiley, 2003, Chapter 1 Test Bank 1. Which of the following is NOT an environmental driver of e-commerce? a. Digitization of media b. Intelligent products and services (pg. 8) c. Inexpensive communications d. Widespread diffusion of computers 2. Which of the following is NOT an organizational driver of e-commerce? a. Increasing pressure on costs and margins b. Rapidly shrinking cycle times c. Intelligent products and services d. Demand for customized products and services e. Widespread diffusion of computers (pg. 8) 3. _______ is generally thought of as the information, art or evaluations that are the valueadded component of media exchanges. a. Data b. Information c. Satisficing d. Content (pg. 8) e. Convergence 4. The movement away from media content embedded in physical forms to ____ makes a huge difference in our future capability for technological innovation. a. Digits (pg. 8) b. Virtual files c. Holograms d. Data e. Information
5. ________ is a process of capturing content in bits rather than in physical form. a. Deregulation b. Globalization c. Digitization (pg. 7) d. Commoditization e. Convergence 6. The medium of choice is completely dependent on _______. a. Government regulation b. Equipment available (pg. 9) c. Open standards d. Network capabilities e. All of the above 7. Which of the following is NOT a barrier to worldwide affordable telecommunications? a. Costs of telecommunications services
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Straub, Foundations of Net-enhanced Organizations, Wiley, 2003, Chapter 1 Test Bank b. c. d. e.
Government run monopolies Costs of replacement infrastructure Deregulation of the telecommunications industry (pg. 10) Inefficiently run governments
8. _______ means that businesses operate freely and with minimal restraints across national borders. a. Deregulation b. Globalization (pg.12) c. Digitization d. Commoditization e. Convergence 9. Without a __________, no communications technical advance can succeed. a. Critical mass of users (pg. 12) b. Structured environment c. Efficiently run government d. Open standards e. Closed networks 10. ___________ is the standardization of products and services such that differences between them are not perceived as differentiating characteristics by customers. a. Deregulation b. Globalization c. Digitization d. Commoditization (pg. 12) e. Convergence 11. New models of e-commerce include a. Empowerment of workers b. Informating of key business activities c. Delayering d. Partnering e. All of the above (pg. 13) 12. __________ is the increased exchange of information among workers within and across work groups. a. Partnering b. Informating c. Tele-work d. Empowerment (pg. 13) e. Delayering 13. _________ is reshaping information for managerial decision-making from automated processes. a. Partnering
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Straub, Foundations of Net-enhanced Organizations, Wiley, 2003, Chapter 1 Test Bank b. c. d. e.
Informating (pg. 13) Tele-work Empowerment Delayering
14. _________ is removing organizational levels which increase span of control and lead naturally to outsourcing. a. Partnering b. Informating c. Tele-work d. Empowerment e. Delayering (pg. 13) 15. Strategic alliances are also known as ________. a. Partnering (pg. 14) b. Informating c. Tele-work d. Empowerment e. Delayering 16. Performing work in locations remote from a central office is known as a. Partnering b. Informating c. Tele-work (pg. 14) d. Empowerment e. Delayering 17. Decreasing cycle times requires a. Increasing costs b. Tight integration between tasks in the critical path (pg. 14) c. Decreasing supply and demand d. Increasing organizational layers e. Empowerment 18. ___________ will increase the capabilities of e-commerce and extend its penetration into our daily lives. a. Regulation b. Patterning c. Reorganization d. Intelligent products and services (pg. 15) e. Bail-outs 19. _____ were first conceived in the late 1940s as the simple exchange of information between a sender and a receiver computer. a. Servers b. Routers
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Straub, Foundations of Net-enhanced Organizations, Wiley, 2003, Chapter 1 Test Bank c. Work stations d. Hard drives e. Networks (pg. 17) 20. A network that can continue to operate even when sections of the network fail are known as __________ networks. a. Wired b. Analog c. Robust (pg. 18) d. Digital e. Organizational 21. Systems that give the firm overall competitive advantage and are based on an open network hand-shaking protocol are a. Era I systems b. Era II systems c. Era III systems d. Era IV systems (pg. 19) e. None of the above 22. Systems that are primarily mainframe TPS and MIS systems are a. Era I systems (pg. 19) b. Era II systems c. Era III systems d. Era IV systems e. None of the above 23. Systems that include customer ordering systems and proprietary network connections are _____. a. Era I systems b. Era II systems c. Era III systems (pg. 19) d. Era IV systems e. None of the above 24. Systems that include DSS and ES systems using primarily minicomputers are _______. a. Era I systems b. Era II systems (pg. 19) c. Era III systems d. Era IV systems e. None of the above 25. The _________ of TCP/IP is what makes it so attractive as a network exchange language. a. Boundaries b. Documentation c. Universality (pg. 19)
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