All of the following are challenges to online retail except ______.
A. Consumer concerns about the security of transactions
B. Consumer concerns about the privacy of personal information given to Web sites
C. Delays in delivery of goods when compared to store shopping
D. Inability to change prices nearly instantly
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What floods a Web site with so many requests for service that it slows down or crashes?
A. Computer virus
B. Worm
C. Denial‐of‐service attack
D. None of the above
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Which of the following is an industry strategic factor that relates to whether new entrants face a disadvantage when attempting to enter an industry?
A. barriers to entry
B. power of suppliers
C. power of consumers
D. industry value chain
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What harnesses far‐flung computers together by way of the Internet or a virtual private network to share CPU power, databases, and database storage?
A. Computer virus
B. Worm
C. Denial‐of‐service attack
D. None of the above
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Products are made to prior to orders received based on estimated demand under a _________.
A. supply-push model
B. demand-push model
C. supply-pull model
D. demand-pull model
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What consists of the identification of risks or threats, the implementation of security measures, and the monitoring of those measures for effectiveness?
A. Risk management
B. Risk assessment
C. Security
D. None of the above
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The major impact of Internet real estate sites is in ______.
A. completing property transactions online
B. influencing offline decisions
C. reducing commissions
D. e-mail marketing to consumers
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What is the process of evaluating IT assets, their importance to the organization, and their susceptibility to threats, to measure the risk exposure of these assets?
A. Risk management
B. Risk assessment
C. Security
D. None of the above
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Which of the following is the largest online travel service?
A. Travelocity
B. Orbitz
C. Priceline
D. Expedia
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What is the process of making a copy of the information stored on a computer?
A. Backup
B. Anti‐virus
C. Firewall
D. Biometrics
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Which of the following is not one of the top three online career service providers?
A. CareerBuilder
B. Monster
C. HotJobs
D. USAJobs
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What software detects and removes or quarantines computer viruses?
A. Backup
B. Anti‐virus
C. Firewall
D. Biometrics
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The largest segment in the recruitment business is________.
A. General job recruitment
B. Executive search
C. Specialized job placement services
D. Managerial recruitment
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What is hardware and/or software that protects computers from intruders?
A. Backup
B. Anti‐virus
C. Firewall
D. Biometrics
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The majority of job seekers rely on which of the following?
A. Word-of-mouth leads
B. Employment agencies
C. Internet and newspapers equally
D. Internet only
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What is the use of physical characteristics — such as your fingerprint, the blood vessels in the retina of your eye, the sound of your voice, or perhaps even your breath — to provide identification?
A. Backup
B. Anti‐virus
C. Firewall
D. Biometrics
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The most popular type of media in terms of total hours of consumption per year is _____.
A. television
B. radio
C. Internet
D. newspaper
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All of the following are considered biometrics, except:
A. Fingerprint
B. Retina
C. Password
D. Voice
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Which of the following describes paid content's relation to free user-generated content?
A. Free content jeopardizes paid content
B. Paid content jeopardizes free content
C. Free content and paid content can both work in tandem cooperatively
D. Paid content is viable now but will not be in the future
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What scrambles the contents of a file so you can't read it without having the right decryption key?
A. Encryption
B. Intrusion‐detection software
C. Security‐auditing software
D. All of the above
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