Assignment title: Information


Choose the right answer. 1- To do the right thing refers to 2- Uses 2 different keys for security 3- A set of activities (selling, buying) that transform resource into output 4- Activities in business 5- Issued by a trusted third party in order to verify security 6- Flow of material, information, money, etc, from raw materials suppliers 7- The customer dictates the orders a. Effective b. Efficient c. Valuable d. Reliable e. None above a. Symmetric cryptography b. Digital cryptography c. Private key cryptography d. Public key cryptography e. All above f. None above (Product, service…) to generate profit BY THE USE OF ict. a. Business b. Commerce c. E-business d. E-commerce e. All above f. None above a. Trading b. Advertising & Marketing c. Financing d. Human resource e. Manufactory f. All above g. None above a. Digital certificate b. Electronic certificate c. Internet certificate d. E-business certificate e. None above though factories to customers. a. CRM b. SCM c. CVM d. CSM e. All above f. None above a. Push supply chain system b. Pull supply chain system c. Customer supply chain system d. Put supply chain system e. All above f. None above 8- The conversion of information into an unreadable form a. Encryption b. Decryption c. Cryptography d. All above e. None above 9- Communications must be protected from undetectable alteration by third parties, in transmission on the internet. a. Authentication b. Confidentiality c. None repudiation d. Data Integrity e. All above f. None above 10- Enables prices of unique or individual items to be determined dynamically a. Catalog b. Auction c. Hyper auction d. Content e. All above f. None above 11- Hacking is called in E-business a. Unauthorized dropping b. Unauthorized action c. Unauthorized disclosure d. Unauthorized alteration e. None above 12- Creates revenue by providing digital content, such as digital news, photos, or video, over the Web a. Online Marketplace b. Online service provider c. Syndicator d. Virtual community e. Portal f. None above 13- Online market place is a. B2B b. B2C c. C2C d. B2B, B2C e. C2C, B2C f. None above 14- The technology becomes main stream a. Readiness b. Intensification stage c. Impact stage d. Planning e. All above f. None above 15- To become global and maintain consistency in the levels of services offered a. Technical strategy b. Business strategy c. Management strategy d. E-business strategy e. None above II- Answer by True or False and correct . 1- Private industrial network, also referred to as exchanges, assemble thousand of sellers and buyers in a single digital market place on the internet. 2- Effective means to do the thing right. 3- Interconnection, the NMM must enable the transaction between sellers 4- The encryption is the transformation of scrambled code into data 5- Auction provides one-stop- e-shopping. 6- At the intensification stage, the technology becomes mainstream. 7- Customer Feedback: determines the investment success or failure. 8- Paradigm shift is to increase business efficiency by integrating rules & 9- Business strategies refer to read and be able to adjust business and IT and buyers to be carried out automatically. 10- Receiving complains, tracking, after sales services are included in Supply 11- You have to make people really understand, emotionally and regulations, direct approval on transaction. strategies rapidly, depending on unpredictable competitors and market pressures. chain system. psychologically, that e-business is different from anything that came before is step number 1 to get started in e-business. III- Specify for each business its e-commerce category (it may belong to more than one category) : a- Mubs.edu.lb is a website introducing the university: ___________ b- Milacron web site for selling wheels to more than 100000 small c- Yala.com allows people to sell their products online: ________ d- E-meeting web site allows business men to meet through the Internet: machining businesses: __________ _______ V- Specify the Internet Business Model for each example: e- PEE cellular web site sells cellular phones to more than 1500 wholesalers and 3000 customers: _____________ f- Exotica sells flowers to more than 10000 customers:_________ g- Musica.com allows people to sell their music to other people:______ a- Amazon.com sells products directly to consumers: _________________ b- Yahoo is a search engine: _____________ c- Kbb.com generates revenue from advertising: _________________________ d- ShopNow.com provides information about products or services from multiple providers or markets: ________________________ e- Exotica.com sells flowers online: ________________ f- Google.com is a searching engine: _______________ g- ETRADE completes transactions between sellers & buyers: _________________ h- Insweb.com provides product, pricing, and availability information to individuals and businesses: _____________________________ i- Etrade.com processes on-line sales transactions, ________________________ j- Geocities.com provides on-line meeting place where people with similar interests can communicate ___________________________ k- Whatsuplebanon.com generates revenues from directing buyers to sellers ________________________________ l- CNN.com provides digital news _____________________________ m- Salesforce.com provides online service for individuals and businesses ______________________________ n- Tripod.com provides online meeting place _____________________ VI- Discuss the following questions: 1- Present a report introducing the importance of doing E-business including all possible opportunities offered and all possible threats to overcome . 2- How can you convince people to do E-commerce without being afraid to lose their privacy? (Buy and sell online using e-payments). 3-Choose a country (Lebanon – Canada – china-Kuwait) and study the consumers attitudes towards online shopping. 4. What security risk does ecommerce involve ? 5. How can you take credit cards payments across the net? 6. Assess how the characteristics of the digital media and the Internet together with strategic decisions taken by its management team have supported eBays continued growth. 7. How has an e-business changed conditions of employment for its employees (Include items such as hours of work, commuting, interpersonal relationships, equipment requirements, home offices etc) 8. What impact has e-Business had on the Lebanese economy in the last 10 years. List at least 5 things that have changed as a result of e- Business and outline the impact (whether good or bad) on the Lebanese economy.