Exam 8: E-Commerce

The most popular auction/marketplace is ____________________, which provides a public platform for global trading where practically anyone can buy, sell, or trade practically anything.

Maxwell is in charge of making technology purchases for his company. He is compiling a list of all the software requests he has received and assigning them categories for budgeting purposes. -The Sales department has asked that new shopping cart software be purchased for their online retail store. This type of software falls into the ____ category.

Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -New window that opens above the current one to display an advertisement

There are four methods at present for delivering m-commerce services to cell phones and other portable devices, that do NOT include: ____.

-Referring to the accompanying figure, if the credit card checks out, the transaction is ____.

A(n) ____________________ is an information system used to support and record transactions such as paying for products or paying an employee.

An example of the "selecting a vendor" stage of the buying process is visiting the manufacturer's Web site to gather information or arrange an exchange for a purchase you already made.

____ cards are credit cards or ID cards with embedded microchips that can store and process data.

-The accompanying figure illustrates a large ____.

Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -Type of electronic business card that is attached to Internet transaction data to verify the sender of the data

E-commerce software is designed specifically to support e-commerce activities. It includes all of the following EXCEPT: ____.

____ processing is useful in situations where transactions take place away from the computer system, or when processing would slow down the collection of transaction data.

M-commerce, or ____ commerce, is a form of e-commerce that takes place over wireless mobile devices such as handheld computers and cell phones.

In ____________________ processing, transactions are collected over time and processed together in batches.

To conclude the transaction, documents may be produced or displayed. For example, after making an online purchase, ____.

Spam over ____ texting is raising concerns in the United Kingdom, where texting has been in use longer than in the United States.

Ring tones, ____, games, and news alerts provide additional revenues for a cell phone service provider as well as the companies providing the service or product.

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is a communication standard used by developers to create ____ applications.

The goal of business continuity planning is to protect data and keep key systems operational until order is resumed. _________________________

Digital certificates combined with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and a more recent version of SSL called ____________________ technologies allow for encrypted communications to occur between Web browser and Web server.