ANSWER GUARANTEE A+ 2025/2026
Bill Inmon - Father of the data warehouse
_________ are the costs that customers incur when they change suppliers
- switching costs
which of the following best describes support activities - it refers to
processes including administration and management, human resources,
procurement, and technology assistance
how can a company avoid the trap of competing only on price - by
differentiating the products or services that it offers
the _____ code defines how keyboard characters are encoded into digital
strings of ones and zeros - ASCII
_________ is a technology places on tags that consist of small chips
equipped with a microprocessor, a tiny antenna to receive and transmit
data, and sometimes a battery that stores information on the tagged
objects history - RFID
which of the following is true of a byte - it holds eight zeros and ones and
represents a single character
which of the following is an accurate description of "Moore's Law" - the
number of transistors fitting on a chip doubles about every two years
which of the following has raised questions regarding the ethical
implications of a companies collecting and analyzing enormous amounts of
customer data - use of target advertising
software that is freely distributed, along with the code of underlying the
program, so that people can access the code to improve it is know as
_______ - open source software
which of the following transmission media is most commonly used in
ordinary telephones - twisted pair wires
,a network which connects computers, printers, scanners, and other devices
in a single building or home is called a ________ - local area network
_______ is a cost-cutting approach to servers in which multiple operating
systems run concurrently on a single physical PC server - virtualization
structured information can be defined as data_______ - that can be
organized into hierarchies
what is the main drawback of using unstructured information - it makes
retrieving information very difficult
how is metadata related to information - it helps clarify the nature of the
information
a foreign key is ________ - a primary key which appears as an attribute in
a different table
which of the following is a function of normalization - minimizing duplication
of information
SQL links tables together by ______ - using primary keys and foreign keys
which of the following technologies is better equipped than relational
databases to handle big data? - Hadoop
________ involves the automatic tagging of unusual events in financial
transactions and is used to spot mistakes and fraudulent activites -
exception reporting
an electronic bridge between partner companies in a supply chain that is
used to transmit real-time information about orders, inventories invoices,
and other data is called ________ - electronic data interchange
what is cloud computing replacing - corporate data centers
expensive personal computer hardware
expensive software upgrades
(all of the above)
, an integrated application suite to support a whole establishment that
includes modules to manage financials, human resources, supply chain,
customer relationships, and other business processes is called
__________ - enterprise resource planning
the "big bang" approach for implementing ERP involves _____ - going live
with all the core modules in the engineered quite a the same time
the first step in the successful management of the next-generation supply
chain is __________ - planning
which of the following is an example of a consumer to consumer e-
marketplace - a person posts information about furniture he wishes to sell
on eBay and sells it to another individual who views that eBay page
the unique global address for a web page or other resource on the Internet
is called the _______ - uniform resource locator
which of the following is a transmission protocol which specifies that the
resource is a web page containing code the web browser can interpret and
display - hypertext transfer protocol
what is the difference between asynchronous and synchronous
communication - asynchronous is communication that does not occur at the
same time. synchronous communication occurs at the same time
the _______ feature introduced by instant messages shows whether a
person is logged in and available to answer a question, pick up the phone,
or stop by for a brief meeting - presence awareness
remote participants are almost life-size and images are vividly clear -
telepresence
according to Tom Jerzak, "Care over distance" describes - telemedicine
according to Tom Jerzak, Telework is becoming _______ for business -
ubiquitous
which of the following is a function of unified communications - integrating
multiple applications and communications channels into a single interface