Ecom Midterm 2018
Ecom Midterm 2018
Ecom Midterm 2018
I. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Read each question carefully before answering.Encircle the letter of your choice.
Erasures and any form of alteration means wrong.(2 points each)
1. E-commerce is often seen as simply buying and selling using the internet but do the following perspectives
also apply to e-commerce?
a. A communications perspective
b. A service perspective
c. An online perspective
d. A business process perspective
e. All of the above
3. When you look at e-commerce and e-business, which is the most realistic relationship between these two
concepts?
4. Social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter have become increasingly popular for sell-side
e-commerce and would normally be considered to be in which category?
5. Digital marketing (also known as e-marketing or Internet marketing) is closely related to e-commerce. It
is a term increasingly used by specialist e-marketing agencies to:
a. Measure website hits
b. Recruit specialist staff
c. Promote their websites
d. None of the above
6. Social media marketing has emerged as an important category of digital marketing. Which of the following
best describes this?
a. Monitoring and facilitating customer-customer interaction and participation throughout the web to
encourage engagement with a company and its brands
b. Creating and managing long-term arrangements to promote online services on third party websites
c. Using online ads such as banners to achieve brand awareness and encourage clickthrough
d. None of the above
7. E-government is becoming more accepted as an important feature within government in many countries.
What does it provide?
a. Facilities for dissemination of information and online services at local and national levels
b. The ability to gather taxes more efficiently
c. The facility to securely communicate between governments and government departments
d. All of the above
8. While there are obvious e-business advantages and opportunities, there are also risks and barriers. These
include:
11. Which of the following is not one of the benefits of e-commerce to sellers?
a. E-commerce offers greater flexibility in meeting customer needs.
b. E-commerce is a powerful tool for customer relationship building
c. E-commerce can help to reduce costs
d. E-commerce increases the net cost per contact
14. ______________ are networks that connect people within a company to each other and to the company
network.
17. Delivering what customers want with hassle-free service and superior value is called
a. Service Excellence
b. Operational Excellence
c. Continuous Excellence
d. All of the above
18. Customers being able to buy products and services on the Internet is a result of:
a. e-business. b. e-marketing c. e-purchasing d. e-commerce
a. The use of electronic communications to support the full range of business processes.
b. An organization using electronic media to sell direct to its customers.
c. An organization using electronic media to purchase from to its suppliers.
d. Any electronically mediated communication between an organization and its stakeholders.
24. Which products are people most likely to be more uncomfortable buying on the Internet?
a. books b. furniture
c. movies d. all of the above
25. _____________ is a methodology of modern business, which addresses the need of business
organizations, vendors and customers to reduce cost and improve the quality of goods and services while
increasing the speed of delivery.
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"No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and
despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money." -Jesus of Nazareth