Exam 8: The Web-Enabled Enterprise

The most basic metric that can be measured at a site is the number of ____.

Companies whose R&D staffs cannot find a solution to a biological or chemical problem can post the challenge at ____ and offer a cash reward for a practical solution.

In ____,the hosting company owns the server and the server management software.

In general,the volume of e-commerce between businesses is about ten times as great as that of business-to-consumer e-commerce.

While blogging is publishing text and other visual material,____ is publishing sound and video.

Most hosting companies offer the use of a combination of software popularly called LAMP,which is an acronym: Linux for operating system,____,MySQL for DBMS,and PHP or Python or Perl for developing dynamic Web pages.

____ includes cookies and other,more sophisticated applications that are installed on your computer unbeknownst to you and transmit information about you while you are online.

If you have ever surfed the Web,your computer probably contains ____.

Domain names always start with www.

____ determines the look and location of text,pictures,animations,and other elements on a Web page.

By using cookies and recording shoppers' movements,____ software can create electronic consumer profiles for each shopper and buyer.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)is a common way of transmitting whole files from one computer to another.

Especially worrisome are third-party cookies,which collect your browsing and shopping habits across many Web sites.

In ____________________,the client's Web site is stored on the host's same physical server along with the sites of other clients.

Really Simple Syndication (or in a newer version,Rich Site Summary)(RSS)is a family of HTML file formats.

____ might be thought of as "real-time e-mail," because,unlike e-mail,it is synchronous.

Discuss FTP.

Wireless technologies enable what some people call mobile commerce,or ____________________.

Instant messaging (IM)offers users real-time online interactivity.

An extranet might be viewed as connecting ____ of business partners.