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The quality of ubiquity, as it relates to e-commerce, is illustrated by:

Which of the following is not one of the current trends in technology that raise ethical considerations, as discussed in class?

In RFID technology, there are two types of RFID commonly used. When the data can be re-written or modified on the RFID tag, it is considered a(n) ____________ RFID system

The popularity and efficacy of search engines like Google have created a source of:

With per click advertising the advertiser only has to pay the host site when:

Advertisers can actually purchase search words from Google by using:

It has been said "information wants to be free" because of factors such as its global distribution/dissemination, ease of creation, and rate of growth. These are factors that indicate ______________.

As a firm expands, it generally incurs greater managerial costs in monitoring employees. These costs are considered _____________.

In its broadest sense, information overload adds to our mental stress because of 2 possible reasons. The first is having too much information to make a quality decision, what is the second possible condition?

Managing intellectual property, prototyping, product testing, reverse engineering, etc. Are all ways that a ___________________ department would use an information system.

Converting raw data into a more meaningful form is called:

You are in charge of information security at a major consulting firm, and you are asked to integrate new software into the system that stores all of the information for the company. In order to make the decision of which software to use, you first read customer reviews and determine the trends of the two major companies that make the software you need. You discover that they work similarly except that one is slightly cheaper, but has a security issue that hasn't been fixed yet. You know that your boss is looking to spend the least amount possible, but you also know that the risk of having the company's private information stores hacked would yield serious consequences. To make the final decision, you must use your judgement to evaluate whether the cost or security risk is more important. In using your judgement, you are moving from _____________ in the knowledge hierarchy.

Ben's Ice Cream parlour uses an information system to generate internal summaries of seasonal data of customer purchases from last year to this summer, in order to determine how much staff to hire for the upcoming summer. Such a system would fall under which category of information systems?

A database consists of:

Which of the following is an international standard language for processing a database?

The ________ is a network of networks.

PIPEDA stands for:

A classic ethical dilemma is the hypothetical case of a man stealing from a grocery store in order to feed his starving family. If you used the Utilitarian Principle to evaluate this situation, you might argue that stealing the food is:

Hackers that break into computers to test for software vulnerability and help fix it are considered to be wearing the ____________ hat, according to traditional hacker ethic:

Which of the following is not a protection strategy for information security?

Information systems can help firms reduce costs in which of the following ways?

What kind of strategic business objective(s) would be driving the investment in a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system?

The old filing cabinet, just like a database system used to store customer files in an car sales office would be considered which component of the business process?

A system that generates information summaries to support managerial level decision making is known as a: