Which of the following governmental actions will increase the threat of new entrants in a market?
A) The Federal Reserve reduces the interest rates on credit for small businesses.
B) The Department of Commerce offers a patent to an existing player.
C) The Government squeezes money from the market through open-market operations.
D) The Federal Reserve increases the cash reserve ratio to tackle inflation.
Q. 2A ________ is a computing device that prevents unauthorized network access.
A) firewall
B) payload
C) cookie
D) hot site
Q. 3Which of the following is an example of the security requirements included in an RDD?
A) screen attractiveness
B) response time
C) encryption
D) user navigation
Q. 4The move of retail banking to use ATMs after Citibank unveiled its first ATMs illustrates the use of information systems to achieve which business objective?
A) improved efficiency
B) customer and supplier intimacy
C) survival
D) competitive advantage
E) improved decision making
Q. 5In an ERP suite that includes modules specialized for higher education, which of the following would be used to track donations, pledges, and gifts, and manage contacts and donor relationships?
A) enrollment management
B) institutional advancement
C) e-learning
D) human resources
Q. 6Which of the following is a reason why CAPTCHA may no longer be widespread?
A) technological developments leading to expert systems mimicking the reasoning of human experts
B) technology that makes images fuzzy and fonts irregular so that bots and humans have equal difficulty deciphering them
C) technology that can discriminate between the mouse movements and keystrokes of bots and humans
D) the taking over of artificial intelligence by intelligent agents
Q. 7________ analysis maps and measures the strength of relationships represented as nodes in clusters and uncovers those who play pivotal roles as bridges to other groups, both inside and outside an organization.
A) Market basket
B) Social network
C) Goal-seeking
D) What-if network
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