Question

A) copyright law
B) trade secret law
C) patent law
D) trademark law

Answer 1

C

Answer 2

C

Answer 3

C

Answer 4

TRUE

Answer 5

HANA (High Performance Analytic Appliance)

Answer 6

There are two types of ISP service: narrowband and broadband. Narrowband service is the traditional telephone modem connection now operating at 56.6 Kbps (although the actual throughput hovers around 30 Kbps due to line noise that causes extensive resending of packets). This used to be the most common form of connection worldwide but has been replaced by broadband connections in most of the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Broadband service is based on DSL, cable modem, telephone (T1 and T3 lines), and satellite technologies. Broadband – in the context of Internet service – refers to any communication technology that permits clients to play streaming audio and video files at acceptable speeds – generally anything above .5 Mbps.

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) service is a telephone technology for delivering high-speed access to the Internet through ordinary telephone lines found in a home or business. Cable Internet refers to a cable television technology that piggybacks digital access to the Internet using the same analog or digital video cable providing television signals to a home. T1 and T3 are international telephone standards for digital communication. These are leased, dedicated, guaranteed lines suitable for corporations, government agencies, and businesses such as ISPs requiring high-speed guaranteed service levels. Additionally, some satellite companies offer high-speed broadband Internet access primarily to homes and offices located in rural areas where DSL or cable Internet access is not available. Access speeds and monthly costs are comparable to DSL and cable.

Answer 7

B

Answer 8

TRUE

Answer 9

C

Answer 10

T

Answer 11

B

Answer 12

A

Answer 13

A

Answer 14

C

Answer 15

TRUE

Answer 16

There have been several recent trends and changes in technology which have prompted changed roles for data administrators and database administrators. Since there are many proprietary and open-source databases available, all of this must be managed concurrently in many organizations. Also, database size has increased rapidly over the years. In addition, many databases now embed business as triggers within the database. Finally, there has been an explosion of e-business applications that are accessible from outside the organization, leaving databases more vulnerable to outside attacks.

Answer 17

Answer: FALSE

Answer 18

TRUE

Answer 19

lossless

Answer 20

In general, download speeds are faster for traditional home users. Traditional users consume more information than they use. ISPs have tried to optimize download speeds for users. Businesses may have equally fast upload/download speeds.

Answer 21

TRUE

Answer 22

Designing a mobile web presence is somewhat different from designing a website that will be accessed via a traditional desktop computer. For instance, mobile hardware is smaller, and there are more resource constraints on data storage and processing power. The mobile platform is also constrained by slower connection speeds than provided by traditional desktop computers. As a result, file sizes should be kept smaller, and the number of files sent to the user reduced. Mobile displays are much smaller and require simplification, and some screens are not as easily visible in sunlight. Touch screen technology also introduces new interaction routines that are different from the traditional mouse and keyboard. The mobile platform is not as easy to use as a data entry tool, and therefore choice boxes and lists should be used more frequently so that the user can easily scroll and touch-select options, rather than type them in. You will also want to determine whether to create a mobile-friendly version of your e-commerce site or implement responsive web design or adaptive web design, or create an entirely new mobile app. You can choose to build a mobile web app, a native app, or a hybrid app. Building a mobile web app that uses the mobile device's browser requires more effort and cost than developing a mobile website, suffers from the same limitations as any browser-based application, but does offer some advantages such as better graphics, more interactivity, and faster local calculations. Building a native app, which is programmed for specific mobile operating systems, requires much more programming; however, it will allow you much greater creative rein in making a unique customer experience. You can also choose to create a hybrid, cross-platform mobile app with various low-cost or open source app development toolkits.

Answer 23

D

Answer 24

TRUE

Answer 25

TRUE

Answer 26

Answer: A) civil

Answer 27

Database designers use diagrams called entity-relationship (E-R) diagrams. In these diagrams, all of the entities of one type are represented by a single rectangle. Little lines, which are referred to as crow's feet, are shorthand for the multiple lines between these entities. 1:N, one-to-many relationships, and N:M, many-to-many relationships, represent the relationship between entities. The crow's-foot notation shows the maximum number of entities that can be involved in a relationship. They are called the relationship's maximum cardinality, and constraints on minimum requirements are called minimum cardinalities.

Answer 28

The effectiveness of online advertising is difficult to measure. In 2004, a joint task force of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) created a set of media measurement guidelines that all online advertisers can use to produce comparable ad view numbers. Although the task force guidelines have helped to establish measures of ad views, it is difficult to assess the effectiveness of online advertising because site visitors change their Web surfing behaviors and habits as they gain experience using the Web.

Answer 29

TRUE

Answer 30

The Capability Maturity Model was developed by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University in response to the concerns of U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), specifically the United States Air Force, about the capabilities of software contractors. CMM is essentially a rating and auditing framework of standards. In this framework, an organization fits one of the five "maturity levels" and each level has a "focus":
Initial (or ad hoc). Focus: Individual Effort. At this level, the organization lacks a stable environment for developing products. The successes and failures depend on the capabilities of the people, not processes.
Repeatable. Focus: Project Management. At this level, processes are repeatable and the organization has adopted basic project management principles and practices to control costs and manage schedules.
Defined. Focus: Engineering Process. Processes are "defined" as standard procedures, tools, techniques, and so on. Through training programs, the standards are established across the organization to ensure that managers and staff alike have the required knowledge and training to fulfill the standards.
Managed. Focus: Product and Process Quality. By establishing precise measurement criteria, management has effective control of the development process, can improve the processes, and can tailor them to fit new technologies or specific projects.
Optimizing. Focus: Continuous Process Improvement. The organization as a whole is focused on continually improving the processes through both incremental and radical improvements.

Answer 31

Answer: A

Answer 32

Real-time data warehousing, also known as active data warehousing (ADW), is the process of loading and providing data via the data warehouse as they become available.

Answer 33

TRUE

Answer 34

A

Answer 35

C

Answer 36

Tangible costs are those that are easy to measure and quantify and that relate directly to a specific investment. The costs involved in purchasing hardware, software, consulting, and support services usually are tangible, as are labor costs. These costs can be measured through accounting information. Tangible benefits are direct benefits such as increased profitability, improved productivity, and greater market share, and can be measured with relative ease. Intangible costs are indirect costs that may include the learning curve of the firm's customer service employees to incorporate an EC system to respond to customer inquiries. Another intangible cost may involve having to adapt other business processes or information systems, such as processing items returned by customers or building and operating an inventory tracking system. In many cases, EC projects generate intangible benefits, such as faster time-to-market, increased employee and customer satisfaction, easier distribution, greater organizational agility, and improved control. These are very desirable benefits, but it is difficult to place an accurate monetary value on them.

Answer 37

A distributed database can be organized in five unique ways:
1.Totally centralized at one location and accessed from many different locations
2. Partially or totally replicated across distributed sites with each copy updated with snapshots
3. Partially or totally replicated across distributed sites with near-real-time synchronization of updates
4. Partitioned into segments at multiple locations, but considered to be one logical database
5. Partitioned into nonintegrated segments spanning multiple computers

Answer 38

FALSE

Answer 39

D

Answer 40

TRUE

Answer 41

C

Answer 42

TRUE

Answer 43

TRUE

Answer 44

A
Explanation: A) The crow's feet notation is placed connecting to the entity on the many side of the relationship.
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