What does the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act stipulate?
A) protecting privacy rights of European students outside the continent
B) establishing privacy rights over educational records
C) prohibiting educational institutes from sending misleading or deceptive commercial emails to prospective students
D) permitting transfer of private data to third parties to contribute toward educational processes
Q. 2Running a Java program on a computer requires
A) a Java Virtual Machine to be installed on that computer.
B) a Java Virtual Machine to be installed on the server hosting the Java applet.
C) a miniature program to be downloaded to the user's computer.
D) no specialized software, as Java is platform-independent.
E) the Mozilla Firefox browser and no other browsers.
Q. 3Switching costs increase when customers are strongly linked to products and platforms.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 4What are some of the common themes that affect the online behavior of Internet users?
What will be an ideal response?
Q. 5Web site tracking software can log the path a customer took through the Web site, the time spent on the site, and what geographic area, in general, the customer is from, all of which can help in customer analysis.
It can also log the customer's operating system and which browser the customer is using. How could these last two data items be of interest to a company? Give examples.
Q. 6Which of the following is an accurate description of the Privacy Act of 1974?
A) It prohibits businesses from sending misleading or deceptive commercial emails but denies recipients any legal recourse on their own.
B) It stipulates how financial institutions are required to protect the privacy of consumers' personal financial information and notify them of their privacy policies annually.
C) It establishes requirements that govern how personally identifiable information on individuals is collected, used, and disseminated by federal agencies.
D) It requires organizations to notify state residents if sensitive data are released.
Q. 7Supply chain inefficiencies can waste as much as 25 percent of a company's operating costs.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 8A structured decision is repetitive and routine, for which known procedures provide solutions.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false