Exam 8: E-Commerce

An example of the "using product support" stage of the buying process is receiving a package with your order three days after purchasing it online.

A(n) ____________________ system supports the purchase of goods and raw materials from suppliers for the manufacturing of products.

____________________ is an online auction Web site that introduced the masses to the power and benefits of e-commerce.

From the seller's perspective, the process of producing and selling goods is sometimes referred to as ____________________.

A benefit of the e-cash system is that it protects privacy by hiding your account information from vendors; the ____ is the only one that knows this information.

Google Checkout is the best-known e-cash provider.

An emerging technology is ____computers embedded in automobile dashboards.

Banks provide consumer accounts to e-tailers for safe and secure credit card transactions over the Web. _________________________

____ is a smart phone that helped to create a new mobile business culture.

B2C e-commerce is sometimes called ____.

____ is leading the way to next-generation location-aware products and services.

E-commerce makes up only 2.3 percent of ____ sales.

In the 1970s and 1980s, businesses extended their computer-based information systems beyond their corporate walls to connect with other companies' systems using ____.

Businesses that choose to outsource to a Web hosting company are typically guaranteed operation 24 hours a day, every day. Such hosting companies typically use load ____ among servers so that if one goes down, the others pick up the slack.

Electronic ____ transfer has become popular for paying bills and receiving paychecks.

The buying stage of "____" could consist of running a Web search on GPS phones, and learning about the phone's capabilities.

____ refers to systems that support electronically executed business transactions.

The ____ stage of the transaction processing cycle is when you would request a correction if data editing reveals invalid data.

B2B e-commerce is used to acquire raw materials for the manufacturing of products. _________________________

Near Field Communications (NFC), RFID, infrared, and Bluetooth wireless networking technology enable all of these types of communication, EXCEPT: ____.