Exam 8: The Web-Enabled Enterprise

To ____________________ is to make a digital audio recording,usually of voice,and post the file on the Web so that people can download it and listen to it.

What is the importance of blogs to commercial organizations?

The ability of Web sites to serve as prompt exchanges of information has supported another popular business model,the ____________________ or name-your-own-price auction.

____ enables business partners to set standards for data formats in Web pages.

The purpose of a(n)____________________ is to create the impression that the client maintains its own server.

A(n)____________________ limits site access to the employees of particular organizations,usually business partners.

Cookies are always temporary; they are installed only for one session,and are removed when the user leaves the site.

Online retailing,called ____________________,continues to grow throughout the world for several reasons: greater availability of faster communication lines to households,growing confidence in online purchases,and the increasing ability to find the item one searches and rich information about it.

Similar to auctions among companies,some Web sites serve as auction hubs for individuals.

A secure version of the HTTP protocol for confidential transactions is ____.

____ software notifies bloggers when their posts have been mentioned elsewhere on the Web,so they and their readers can extend the discussion beyond the original blog.

Explain the purpose of a virtual private server.

Companies that sell online maintain large warehouses and pay for picking,packing,and shipping,three activities known as ____.

On the Web,____ includes identifying the sites your audience frequently visits.

While ____ might sound benign,many privacy advocates claim that it violates privacy rights.

A(n)____________________ is any product that is sold for about the same price by a multitude of vendors in a highly competitive market,usually with a thin margin of profit.

In addition to including Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)information,some companies have used ____ software that can answer open-ended questions.

A(n)____________________ is a small file that a Web site places on a visitor's hard disk so that the Web site can remember something about the surfer later.

Although ____________________ trading on the Internet is much larger in volume,online business-to-consumer (B2C)trading is more visible to the general public.

Technical support involves the quality of the equipment that the hosting company provides,security measures it maintains,the sophistication of server and load management,and the technical skills of its personnel.