Exam 10: Wireless, Mobile Computing, and Mobile Commerce

The development of mobile commerce is driven by all of the following factors except _________________.

Wireless is a term used to describe telecommunications in which electromagnetic waves carry the signal between communicating devices.

Which of the following is the most appropriate wireless networking standard for creating personal area networks?

In _____, a person or a device intentionally or unintentionally interferes with your wireless network transmissions.

Michaela runs a dog-walking business. She has three employees, and she prides herself in maintaining a high level of customer service. She gets about half of her business from last-minute requests. When she receives such a request, she needs to know where her employees are so that she can identify the nearest one who might be able to do the walk. Significantly, she needs this information before she can confirm the walk with the client. Which of the following technologies will help her obtain this information?

The generic term for technologies that use radio waves to automatically identify individual items is __________.

Frank and his wife, Paula, run a country store in a high-foot-traffic area in a resort town. The store has a special area where husbands can sit while their wives are shopping. The Men's Corner already has a large-screen TV for sports viewing, but Frank and Paula are considering adding Wi-Fi. Which of the following statements is false?

Mobile wallets enable users to make purchases with a single click from a mobile device.

War driving is the act of locating wireless networks while driving around a certain area.

Radio transmissions are highly secure.

_____, with the shortest range of any wireless network, is designed to be used with contactless credit cards.

The major problem with RFID has been _______.

A voice portal is a standard Web site that accepts voice commands.

The terms wireless and mobile mean different things.

Today, most wireless local area networks use the _____ standard, which can transmit up to 54 Mbps and has a range of about 300 feet.

Frank and his wife, Paula, run a country store in a high-foot-traffic area in a resort town. Which of the following would not be a beneficial use of mobile technology for their store?

Which of the following is the most appropriate wireless technology for real-time location of caregivers and mobile equipment in healthcare environments?

The two major characteristics that differentiate mobile computing from other forms of computing are ______ and ________.

Frank and his wife, Paula, run a country store with a special room where husbands can sit while their wives are shopping. The Men's Corner already has a large-screen TV for sports viewing, and they recently added Wi-Fi. Paula says she's heard about people driving around trying to access data as it's being transmitted on wireless networks. You tell her this is called ___________.

Frank and his wife, Paula, run a country store with a special room where husbands can sit while their wives are shopping. The Men's Corner already has a large-screen TV for sports viewing, and they recently added Wi-Fi. In order to provide Wi-Fi to this area, Frank and Paula had to install ___________.