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IT For Managers 101 Practice Test: Mobile Computing and Commerce
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IT For Managers 101 Practice Test: Mobile Computing and Commerce
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1. The location provided by GPS is expressed in terms of __________.
2. Many financial service handhelds send SMS texts using __________, which work like telephone numbers, except that they are 5 or 6 characters long and easier to remember.
3. Which of the following is not a characteristic of Wi-Fi?
4. Poor program management, poor contract estimate and hardware and software delays contributed to the mobile app failure of __________.
5. __________ is user-specific advertising that is location-sensitive and used to inform potential buyers about shops, malls, entertainment, and restaurants close to where they are based on the __________ in their cell phones.
6. Engineers can find the location of any receiving station to within 50 feet by __________, using the distance from a GPS to three satellites to make the computation.
7. Why did Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, and Siemens establish the Mobile Games Interoperability Forum (MGIF) that defined a range of technical standards?
8. The __________ continues to be a leader in making digital music, movies and podcasts available to consumers for a fee.
9. Data acquired by a GPS is inserted into a digital map, which is known as a __________, to identify a specific place or address.
10. The underlying technologies needed for location-based commerce and services are __________ and __________.
11. Duplicating or __________ the Electronic Serial Number (ESM) of a cell phone and using it in second phone allows the perpetrator to have calls and other transactions fraudulently billed to the original phone.
12. Characteristics of voice portals include each of the following except:
13. Traditional POS technology involves a computerized cash register connected to a server via __________.
14. Characteristics of NextBus include all of the following except:
15. What is a disadvantage of traditional POS technology?
16. Sales teams at Adidas America use Blackberry’s Enterprise Solution and PDAs to check inventory levels from anywhere in real time, which improves sales and service. This is an example of how __________ can improve operational performance.
17. Which is not one of the three dominant PC operating systems (OSs)?
18. __________ extends the reach of CRM—both inside and outside the company—and to both employees and business partners on a 24/7 basis, to any place where recipients are located.
19. Benefits of mobile POS stations include each of the following except:
20. The __________ is expected to emerge as the predominant market for mobile banking services done via cell phones or other mobile device.
21. An advantage of an __________, which is a piece of software, is that it that stores an online shopper’s credit card numbers and other personal information so that the shopper does not have to reenter that information for every online purchase.
22. A global positioning system (GPS) is a wireless system that uses __________ to determine where the GPS device is located anywhere on the earth.
23. Which of the following is not one of the threats to mobile banking?
24. Primary forces that are driving the growth of the mobile market are __________ and __________.
25. Why are leading organizations developing marketing and sales strategies built on connecting with their customers via mobile devices?