BIS 255 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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What is development and use of a small, inexpensive working model of an
information system, to help clients specify requirements, called?
Prototyping
What E-Commerce model do many newspapers and entertainment providers use,
to have users purchase content through regular, recurring payments? Example:
Wall Street Journal, ConsumerReports.org
Subscription Model
What E-Commerce model is used by many "free" web sites to support
themselves, such as freecreditreport.com, yahoo.com, and google.com?
Advertising Model
What organization accepts no advertising whatsoever, and is totally subscription
supported, in order to maintain impartiality when testing products?
consumerreports.org
What Internet protocol is widely used to encrypt data end-to-end between a web
browser and the server, to protect confidential information such as Social
Security numbers, account numbers, and credit card numbers in forms and web
pages?
https:// (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure)
If I need to calculate the monthly payment on a loan, and the annual interest rate
is 6%, what interest rate do I specify in the PMT() function?
0.06/12
Referring to the Excel snip below, what would be placed in cell D3 to lookup the
State Tax rate based on Bob Broke's salary?
=VLOOKUP(B3,$F$4:$H$9,3,TRUE)
In the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) http://www.dow.com, what is the domain
name (including the top-level domain)?
dow.com
At which layer of the OSI model does the most common web protocol, the Hyper
Text Transfer Protocol (http), operate?
Application
What is a key activity undertaken in the Planning phase of an information
systems project?
Feasibility studies
What are the files called that keep information about a person's use of a web
browser, including language preferences, optional content selections, and what
was viewed on a shopping web site, so that web sites can personalize the
browsing experience, and display targeted ads?
Cookies
LATEST UPDATE
What is development and use of a small, inexpensive working model of an
information system, to help clients specify requirements, called?
Prototyping
What E-Commerce model do many newspapers and entertainment providers use,
to have users purchase content through regular, recurring payments? Example:
Wall Street Journal, ConsumerReports.org
Subscription Model
What E-Commerce model is used by many "free" web sites to support
themselves, such as freecreditreport.com, yahoo.com, and google.com?
Advertising Model
What organization accepts no advertising whatsoever, and is totally subscription
supported, in order to maintain impartiality when testing products?
consumerreports.org
What Internet protocol is widely used to encrypt data end-to-end between a web
browser and the server, to protect confidential information such as Social
Security numbers, account numbers, and credit card numbers in forms and web
pages?
https:// (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure)
If I need to calculate the monthly payment on a loan, and the annual interest rate
is 6%, what interest rate do I specify in the PMT() function?
0.06/12
Referring to the Excel snip below, what would be placed in cell D3 to lookup the
State Tax rate based on Bob Broke's salary?
=VLOOKUP(B3,$F$4:$H$9,3,TRUE)
In the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) http://www.dow.com, what is the domain
name (including the top-level domain)?
dow.com
At which layer of the OSI model does the most common web protocol, the Hyper
Text Transfer Protocol (http), operate?
Application
What is a key activity undertaken in the Planning phase of an information
systems project?
Feasibility studies
What are the files called that keep information about a person's use of a web
browser, including language preferences, optional content selections, and what
was viewed on a shopping web site, so that web sites can personalize the
browsing experience, and display targeted ads?
Cookies
