Chapter 6 Wireless, Mobile Computing, And Verified Test Bank

Chapter 6

Wireless, Mobile Computing, and Mobile Commerce

Question Type: True/False

1) Korean Tacos is an example of viral marketing.

Difficulty: Easy

2) Wireless computing does not really affect productivity.

Difficulty: Easy

3) Wireless is a term used to describe telecommunications in which electromagnetic waves carry the signal between communicating devices.

Difficulty: Easy

4) Wireless technologies are not changing the ways that organizations are doing business, but they are enabling organizations to do business faster.

Difficulty: Easy

5) Short message service allows users to send short text messages on digital cell phones.

Difficulty: Easy

6) Microwave transmissions are affected by environmental conditions such as storms.

Difficulty: Easy

7) The higher the orbit of a satellite, the larger its footprint.

Difficulty: Easy

8) The global positioning system is supported by GEO satellites.

Difficulty: Easy

9) Radio transmissions are highly secure.

Difficulty: Easy

10) Bluetooth is a LAN.

Difficulty: Easy

11) Bluetooth is a wireless standard that enables temporary, short-range connection between mobile devices.

Difficulty: Easy

12) Ultra-wideband is useful in zero visibility environments.

Difficulty: Medium

13) A hotspot is a small geographical perimeter within which a wireless access point provides service to a number of users.

Difficulty: Easy

14) Wi-Fi hotspots are two-dimensional.

Difficulty: Easy

15) Wi-Fi provides excellent security.

Difficulty: Easy

16) Near-field Communications facilitates contactless payments.

Difficulty: Medium

17) Mobile means the technology can travel with the user.

Learning Objective: Discuss the five major m-commerce applications, and provide a specific example of how each application can benefit a business.

Section Reference: Mobile Computing and Mobile Commerce

Difficulty: Easy

18) Personalization means that a mobile device can provide real-time communication, independent of the user’s location.

Difficulty: Easy

19) A voice portal is a standard Web site that accepts voice commands.

Difficulty: Easy

20) Mobile wallets enable users to make purchases with a single click from a mobile device.

Difficulty: Easy

21) A mobile device doesn’t have to be wireless.

Difficulty: Easy

22) Location-based services in shopping malls do nothing to help combat online shopping.

Difficulty: Easy

23) OnStar, Sync, and Blue are examples of mobile wallets.

Difficulty: Easy

24) Telemetry is the science that measures physical remoteness by means of wireless transmissions from a remote source to a receiving station.

Difficulty: Easy

25) In a mesh network, the motes transmit their data to a central computer.

Difficulty: Easy

26) Mesh networks are reliable, efficient, and fault tolerant.

Difficulty: Easy

27) Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are networks of interconnected, battery-powered, wireless sensors that are placed into the physical environment.

Difficulty: Easy

28) Pervasive computing and virtual reality are just different names for the same thing.

Difficulty: Easy

29) RFIDs are networks of interconnected, battery-powered, wireless sensors that are placed into the physical environment.

Difficulty: Easy

30) Two systems being developed to replace bar codes are QR codes and RFID systems.

Difficulty: Medium

31) War driving is the act of location WLANs while driving around a city or elsewhere.

Difficulty: Easy

32) Rogue access points can be set up by employees.

Difficulty: Easy

33) Wireless systems can be difficult to secure.

Difficulty: Easy

34) Brigham Young University-Hawaii’s Avenda system works to secure both wireless and wired networks.

Difficulty: Medium

35) War driving is the act of locating wireless networks while driving around a certain area.

Difficulty: Easy

Question Type: Multiple Choice

36) Individuals are finding it convenient and productive to use wireless devices for which of the following reasons?

a) To make use of time that was formerly wasted

b) To become more efficient

c) Work locations are more flexible

d) To be able to allocate working time around personal and professional obligations

e) All of these

Difficulty: Medium

37) Of the following, which is the major problem with smart phones?

a) They are too slow.

b) They are too expensive.

c) They can be used to compromise security.

d) Their screens are too small.

e) Their browsers are not fully functional.

Difficulty: Medium

38) The capabilities of smart phones include all of the following except _________.

a) a calculator

b) e-mail

c) a global positioning system

d) corporate transaction processing

e) a full-function Internet browser

Difficulty: Easy

39) ________ systems are widely used for high-volume, long-distance, point-to-point communication.

a) GPS

b) Microwave

c) Satellite

d) Wireless

Difficulty: Easy

40) Unfortunately, many managers consider smart phones as only _____, rather than as _____ that can transmit wirelessly.

a) Phones, digital cameras

b) Phones, pagers

c) Digital cameras, phones

d) Digital cameras, pagers

e) Cheap, expensive devices

Difficulty: Medium

41) Microwave transmission systems are used for _____ volume, _____ distance, _____ communications.

a) Low, long, broadcast

b) Low, short, line-of-sight

c) High, long, broadcast

d) High, short, broadcast

e) High, long, line-of-sight

Difficulty: Medium

42) Internet over satellite uses ____________ satellites.

a) GEO

b) LEO

c) MEO

d) NEO

Difficulty: Easy

43) Which type of satellite has the largest footprint?

a) Low-earth-orbit

b) Medium-earth-orbit

c) Geostationary

d) Polar orbit

e) Equatorial orbit

Difficulty: Easy

44) The area of the earth reached by a satellite’s transmission is referred to as its _____.

a) Hotspot

b) Coverage

c) Footprint

d) Zone

e) Wireless area

Difficulty: Easy

45) The greatest problem with GEO satellites is which of the following?

a) Propagation delay

b) Expense

c) Orbital life

d) Size of the footprint

e) Relative speed with respect to a point on the earth’s surface

Difficulty: Easy

46) Line-of-sight is a characteristic of ___________ systems.

a) GPS

b) microwave

c) satellite

d) wireless

Difficulty: Medium

47) _____ is a satellite-based tracking system that enables users to determine a person’s position.

a) Bluetooth

b) Wireless application protocol

c) Short message service

d) Wi-Fi

e) Global positioning system

Difficulty: Easy

48) Which of the following is not an advantage of radio?

a) No metallic wires are needed.

b) Radio waves propagate easily through office walls.

c) Radio devices are inexpensive.

d) Radio waves do not create electrical interference problems.

e) Radio devices are easy to install.

Difficulty: Medium

49) GPS is a wireless system that uses ________ satellites.

a) GEO

b) LEO

c) MEO

d) NEO

Difficulty: Easy

50) The main problem with radio transmission is which of the following?

a) Radio waves cannot travel through walls.

b) When you travel too far from the source, the signal fades.

c) Devices are difficult to install.

d) Radio waves are slow.

e) Devices are expensive to install.

Difficulty: Medium

51) Pick the answer that puts the satellites in order from smallest number to largest number to cover the earth.

a) GEO, MEO, LEO

b) LEO, MEO, GEO

c) GEO, LEO, MEO

d) LEO, GEO, MEO

Difficulty: Easy

52) The most common wireless technology for TV and DVD remote control devices is _______.

a) Bluetooth

b) Ultra-wideband

c) Near-field communications

d) WiMAX

e) Infrared

Difficulty: Easy

53) ______________ satellites maintain a relatively fixed position.

a) GEO

b) LEO

c) MEO

d) NEO

Difficulty: Easy

54) Pick the answer that puts the satellites in order from closest to the earth’s surface to farthest from the earth’s surface.

a) GEO, MEO, LEO

b) LEO, MEO, GEO

c) GEO, LEO, MEO

d) LEO, GEO, MEO

Difficulty: Easy

55) _____ is a wireless standard that enables temporary, short-range connection between mobile devices.

a) Bluetooth

b) Wireless application protocol

c) Short message service

d) Wi-Fi

e) Global positioning system

Difficulty: Easy

56) Which of the following is the most appropriate wireless networking standard for creating personal area networks?

a) Wi-Fi

b) Cellular radio

c) Microwave

d) Bluetooth

e) WiMAX

Difficulty: Easy

57) Which of the following is the most appropriate wireless technology for real-time location of caregivers and mobile equipment in healthcare environments?

a) Wi-Fi

b) Microwave

c) Ultra-wideband

d) Infrared

e) Bluetooth

Difficulty: Medium

58) _________ wireless networks are the familiar Wireless LANs.

a) Short-range

b) Medium-range

c) Long-range

d) Wide-area

Difficulty: Medium

59) _____, with the shortest range of any wireless network, is designed to be used with contactless credit cards.

a) Near-field communications

b) Bluetooth

c) Ultra-wideband

d) Wi-Fi

e) Infrared

Difficulty: Easy

60) Which of the following statements about Wi-Fi is not correct?

a) Wi-Fi provides simple Internet access.

b) Laptop PC scans contain chips that can send and receive Wi-Fi signals.

c) Many companies offer free Wi-Fi access in their stores.

d) Wi-Fi requires encryption for secure transmissions.

e) Wi-Fi is expensive to set up.

Difficulty: Medium

61) Bluetooth is an example of a _________ wireless network.

a) Short-range

b) Medium-range

c) Long-range

d) Near-range

Difficulty: Easy

62) Which of the following is not inhibiting faster Wi-Fi expansion?

a) Users cannot roam from hotspot to hotspot if the hotspots use different Wi-Fi network services.

b) A lack of security.

c) The growth of WiMAX

d) Unless the service is free, users have to log on to separate accounts for each hotspot.

e) Wi-Fi services may not survive in the face of free hotspot access.

Difficulty: Hard

63) A small geographical perimeter within which a wireless access point provides service to a number of users is called a ________.

a) Transceiver

b) Hotspot

c) Local reception node

d) Wireless network

e) GPS location

Difficulty: Easy

64) Cellular radio is an example of a ____________ wireless network.

a) Short-range

b) Medium-range

c) Long-range

d) Wide-area

Difficulty: Easy

65) Today, most wireless local area networks use the _____ standard, which can transmit up to 54 Mbps and has a range of about 300 feet.

a) 802.11a

b) 802.11b

c) 802.11c

d) 802.11g

e) WiMAX

Difficulty: Easy

66) The following is NOT an advantage of WiMAX over wireline.

a) Cost

b) Aesthetics

c) Rural access

d) All of the above are advantages of WiMAX

Difficulty: Easy

67) _____ networks use multiple Wi-Fi access points to create a wide area network.

a) Mesh

b) Pervasive

c) Global

d) Fixed

e) Ubiquitous

Difficulty: Easy

68) _____ communicate(s) via radio waves using radio antennas placed within adjacent geographic areas.

a) Bluetooth

b) Cell phones

c) A satellite

d) Ultra-wideband

e) Near-field communications

Difficulty: Easy

69) The _____ standard can transmit up to 75 Mbps and has a range of 31 miles.

a) Wi-Fi

b) 802.11b

c) 802.11c

d) 802.11g

e) WiMAX

Difficulty: Easy

70) ___________ is a small, portable, wireless device that provides users with a permanent Wi-Fi hotspot wherever they go.

a) MiFi

b) Wi-Fi Direct

c) Wireless mesh network

d) Wireless NIC

Difficulty: Easy

71) The two major characteristics that differentiate mobile computing from other forms of computing are ______ and ________.

a) Mobility, broad reach

b) Mobility, lack of expense

c) Security, broad reach

d) Security, mobility

e) Broad reach, localization

Difficulty: Medium

72) Which of the following is NOT a driver of m-commerce?

a) Bandwidth improvement

b) Cell phone culture

c) Higher prices of smart phones

d) Widespread availability

Difficulty: Easy

73) With regard to mobile computing, _____ means that it is easy and fast to access the Web and other mobile devices.

a) Ubiquity

b) Convenience

c) Instant connectivity

d) B and C

e) A, B, and C

Difficulty: Medium

74) _________________ is a technology that allows cardholders to make purchases with a single click from their mobile devices.

a) Cyberbanking

b) Micropayments

c) Mobile banking

d) Mobile wallets

Difficulty: Easy

75) With regard to mobile computing, _____ means that knowing where a user is physically located is a key to offering relevant products and services.

a) Ubiquity

b) Convenience

c) Instant connectivity

d) Personalization

e) Localization of products and services

Difficulty: Easy

76) The development of mobile commerce is driven by all of the following factors except:

a) The widespread availability of mobile devices.

b) The cell phone culture.

c) Increasing prices.

d) Bandwidth improvement.

e) It eliminates the need for a PC.

Difficulty: Medium

77) Which of the following is not a mobile application in financial services?

a) Transaction processing systems

b) Mobile banking

c) Wireless electronic payment systems

d) Micropayments

e) Wireless wallets

Difficulty: Medium

78) ___________ portal aggregates and provides content and services for mobile users.

a) Mobile

b) Service

c) Technology

d) Voice

Difficulty: Easy

79) Parking meters that you can pay via your mobile telephone are an example of _________.

a) Mobile banking

b) Wireless electronic payment

c) Wireless wallets

d) Brokerage service

e) Money transfer

Difficulty: Easy

80) If you buy a hot dog at a concession stand using your contactless credit card, you are using a ________.

a) Wireless money transfer

b) Wireless wallet

c) Wireless bill payment

d) Micropayment

e) Wireless electronic payment system

Difficulty: Medium

81) Putting ads on top of taxicabs in New York City that change as the cabs travel around the city is an example of ________.

a) Viral marketing

b) Permission advertising

c) Geographical advertising

d) Location-based advertising

e) Direct marketing

Difficulty: Medium

82) Which of the following is NOT a benefit of location-based services at shopping malls?

a) Create product groups

b) Guaranteed lower prices

c) Receive live updates on sales

d) Advertise 2-hour sales to attract people to high-end product purchases

Difficulty: Medium

83) _____ refer(s) to the wireless communication of location-based information and control messages to and from vehicles and other mobile assets.

a) Location-based services

b) Telematics

c) Pervasive services

d) RFID

e) Wi-Fi

Difficulty: Easy

84) Sense networks track users via all of the following technologies except _______.

a) GPS

b) Traffic cameras

c) Cell towers

d) Wi-Fi networks

e) None of these

Difficulty: Medium

85) _____ is the science that measures physical remoteness by means of wireless transmission from a remote source to a receiving station.

a) Telemetry

b) Wireless access point

c) Near-field communications

d) Microwave

e) Wireless positioning

Difficulty: Easy

86) Which of the following is NOT a disadvantage to OnStar, Sync, and Blue Link?

a) It is expensive

b) You lose a sense of privacy

c) It can be a distraction

d) It can be controlled by other motorists

Difficulty: Medium

87) The generic term for technologies that use radio waves to automatically identify individual items is __________.

a) Telemetry

b) Bar codes

c) Shipping labels

d) Radio-frequency identification

e) Wireless access points

Difficulty: Easy

88) ______________ technology allows manufacturers to attach tags with antennas and computer chips.

a) DSL

b) RFID

c) Satellite

d) Smart card

Difficulty: Easy

89) Which of the following is not a limitation of barcodes?

a) They require line-of-sight to the scanning device.

b) They are printed on paper.

c) They identify the manufacturer, product, and item.

d) They are difficult to use in a manufacturing plant.

e) They are useless in determining expiration date.

Difficulty: Medium

90) __________ RFID tags are more expensive but can be read over greater distances.

a) Active

b) Distance

c) Passive

d) Reactive

Difficulty: Easy

91) The major problem with RFID has been _______.

a) Expense

b) Bandwidth

c) Location

d) RFID readers

e) RFID tags

Difficulty: Easy

92) What would be the best use of RFID in a business?

a) Transaction processing

b) Supply chain management

c) Personnel tracking

d) Enabling communications with customers

e) Decreasing network costs

Difficulty: Medium

93) Which of the following is NOT true of QR codes?

a) QR codes store much more information than barcodes.

b) Data is stored horizontally and vertically on QR codes.

c) QR codes are less resistant to damage than barcodes.

d) QR codes can be read from any direction or angle.

Difficulty: Easy

94) _____ networks collect data from many points over an extended space.

a) Bluetooth

b) Ultra-wideband

c) Wireless sensor

d) WiMAX

e) Wi-Fi

Difficulty: Easy

95) Which of the following can be used for reading utility meters without a person having to get out of a truck?

a) RuBee

b) ZigBee

c) Wi-Fi

d) Near-field communications

e) RFID

Difficulty: Easy

96) Pervasive computing can be described as ___________.

a) everywhere computing

b) ubiquitous computing

c) embedded computing

d) all of the above

Difficulty: Easy

97) The act of locating wireless local area networks while moving around a city is called ____.

a) Eavesdropping

b) War driving

c) RF jamming

d) Cybersquatting

e) Installing rogue access devices

Difficulty: Easy

98) A(n) _____ allows unauthorized entry into a wireless network.

a) Lack of encryption

b) Disgruntled employee

c) Open node

d) Illegal server

e) Rogue access point

Difficulty: Easy

99) _________ is an unauthorized access point to a wireless network.

a) Illegal access point

b) RF access point

c) Rogue access point

d) War drive access point

Difficulty: Easy

100) _____ refers to efforts by unauthorized users to access data traveling over wireless networks.

a) RF jamming

b) War driving

c) Eavesdropping

d) Telemetry

e) Installing rogue access devices

Difficulty: Easy

101) In _____, a person or a device intentionally or unintentionally interferes with your wireless network transmissions.

a) RF jamming

b) War driving

c) Eavesdropping

d) Telemetry

e) Installing rogue access devices

Difficulty: Easy

102) _____ refers to efforts by unauthorized users to try to access data traveling over wireless networks.

a) Eavesdropping

b) RF jamming

c) Tapping

d) War driving

Difficulty: Easy

103) Although rogue access devices can be installed innocently, they can also be installed by an attacker trying to gain unauthorized access to a wireless network. In such cases, these devices are called an _____.

a) Unencrypted node

b) Evil twin

c) Open node

d) Illegal server

e) Unauthorized rogue access point

Difficulty: Easy

104) _____ is when a person or a device intentionally or unintentionally interferes with your wireless network transmissions.

a) Eavesdropping

b) RF jamming

c) Tapping

d) War driving

Difficulty: Easy

105) Prior to implementing the Avenda system, Brigham Young University-Hawaii, used ____________ to identify and report violators of the Honor Code.

a) authentication

b) authorization

c) least privilege

d) had no way of identifying and reporting violators

Difficulty: Easy

106) The Battle for the Mobile Wallet: Which of the following statements concerning mobile wallets is true?

a) Traditional credit card issuers have not shown a serious interest in this technology.

b) Individual companies cannot utilize this technology due to its prohibitive price.

c) Google has launched a program to manufacture its own smart phone chips.

d) Unlike traditional wallets, smart phones can be password protected.

e) Consumer advocates endorse mobile systems because they will lead to lower prices.

Difficulty: Medium

107) Tacos, Trucks, and Tweets?: Kogi BBQ uses Twitter to inform customers:

a) What’s on the menu.

b) A truck’s location.

c) Where street parties are being held.

d) How to pay for their tacos.

e) Kogi BBQ uses Twitter for all of these reasons.

Difficulty: Easy

108) WiMAX Helps the People of Northern Thailand: Which of the following was not an outcome of deploying WiMAX to the villages in Thailand?

a) E-books were made accessible.

b) Village schools collaborated with one another.

c) The Internet became available as a research tool.

d) Many villagers used computers for the first time.

e) MFL University could hold classes in outlying villages.

Difficulty: Medium

109) Location-Based Services at Shopping Malls: Which of the following statements is false?

a) The mall industry expects these services will prevent malls from losing shoppers to online retailers.

b) A current mall app helps shoppers remember where they parked.

c) Some current mall apps offer reward points.

d) A mall app can be a loyalty program.

e) A mall app can offer coupons based on shoppers location within the mall.

Difficulty: Medium

110) Your Car Becomes a Smartphone: General Motors’ OnStar is an example of ____________ technology.

a) Location-based

b) Workflow

c) Telemetry

d) Mobile portal

e) None of these

Difficulty: Medium

111) Protecting an Open Wireless Network at Brigham Young University – Hawaii: Which of the following statements is false?

a) BYU-Hawaii had a closed wireless campus network.

b) BYU-Hawaii could not track who was using the network.

c) BYU-Hawaii did not use Cisco Clean Access because it did not provide a virtual private network capability.

d) BYU-Hawaii uses Avenda to provide virtual private networking for off-campus users.

e) BYU-Hawaii uses Avenda to evaluate network performance.

Difficulty: Easy

112) The implementation of the mobile wallet has NOT been hindered by _____________.

a) a battle between US corporations

b) cost

c) retailer installation

d) social/cultural issues

Difficulty: Easy

113) Which of the following is critical to a successful operation of Korean Taco?

a) Communication

b) Cost

c) Culture

d) Taste

Difficulty: Easy

114) Michaela runs a dog-walking business. She has three employees, and she prides herself in maintaining a high level of customer service. She gets about half of her business from last-minute requests. When she receives such a request, she needs to know where her employees are so that she can identify the nearest one who might be able to do the walk. Significantly, she needs this information before she can confirm the walk with the client. Which of the following technologies will help her obtain this information?

a) Radio transmission

b) Internet over Satellite

c) LEO constellation

d) GPS

e) Microwave

Difficulty: Medium

115) Frank and his wife, Paula, run a country store with a special room where husbands can sit while their wives are shopping. The Men’s Corner already has a large-screen TV for sports viewing, but Frank and Paula are considering adding Wi-Fi. Which of the following statements is false?

a) Their store would need to have broadband access.

b) Their store will need a wireless access point.

c) They could charge the customers for the service.

d) Wi-Fi is based on radio waves, so they will need a clear line-of-sight into the room.

e) They should consider using Wi-Fi Direct.

Difficulty: Medium

116) Frank and his wife, Paula, run a country store in a high-foot-traffic area. Which of the following would not be a beneficial use of mobile technology for their store?

a) Telemetry

b) Location-based

c) Wireless payments

d) Mobile app loyalty program

e) All of these could be used beneficial.

Difficulty: Medium

117) Frank and his wife, Paula, run a country store in a high-foot-traffic area. They are trying to understand what the traffic in the store is by using technology. They are considering setting up a wireless sensor network. Which of the following statements is false?

a) Motes can be locations throughout the store.

b) Once they have created the network, they cannot add additional sensors.

c) The data are moved from sensor to sensor to reach a central computer.

d) The sensors can tell the direction in which a person is moving.

e) The network will need a base station.

Difficulty: Medium

118) Frank and his wife, Paula, run a country store with a special room where husbands can sit while their wives are shopping. The Men’s Corner already has a large-screen TV for sports viewing, and they recently added Wi-Fi. Which of the following is not a security issue?

a) A rogue access point

b) War driving

c) Motes

d) Eavesdropping

e) Radio-frequency jamming

Difficulty: Medium

Question Type: Essay

119) Discuss the differences between the traditional working environment and the wireless working environment.

Learning Objective 1: Provide a real-world application of wireless, mobile computing, and mobile commerce.

Section Reference: Opening Case: The Battle for the Mobile Wallet

Difficulty: Medium

120) Describe the convergence of functions in today’s smart phones.

Learning Objective 1: Describe the four main types of wireless transmission media, and identify at least one advantage and one disadvantage of each type.

Section Reference: 6.1 Wireless Technologies

Difficulty: Medium

121) Differentiate among the three types of satellites.

Learning Objective 1: Describe the four main types of wireless transmission media, and identify at least one advantage and one disadvantage of each type.

Section Reference: 6.1 Wireless Technologies

Difficulty: Medium

122) Define Bluetooth, and give examples of its uses.

Learning Objective 1: Describe the four main types of wireless transmission media, and identify at least one advantage and one disadvantage of each type.

Section Reference: 6.1 Wireless Technologies

Difficulty: Medium

123) Describe the 802.11 family of standards.

Learning Objective 1: Discuss the basic purposes of short-range, medium-range, and long-range networks, and explain how businesses can use at least one technology employed by each type of network.

Section Reference: 6.2 Wireless Computer Networks and Internet Access

Difficulty: Medium

124) Explain location-based commerce, and provide examples.

Learning Objective 1: Discuss the five major m-commerce applications, and provide a specific example of how each application can benefit a business.

Section Reference: 6.3 Mobile Computing and Mobile Commerce: Mobile Commerce Applications

Difficulty: Medium

125) What are micropayments and mobile wallets? Provide examples of their uses.

Learning Objective 1: Discuss the five major m-commerce applications, and provide a specific example of how each application can benefit a business.

Section Reference: 6.3 Mobile Computing and Mobile Commerce: Mobile Commerce Applications

Difficulty: Medium

126) What are mobile portals and voice portals? Provide examples of their uses.

Learning Objective 1: Discuss the five major m-commerce applications, and provide a specific example of how each application can benefit a business.

Section Reference: 6.3 Mobile Computing and Mobile Commerce: Mobile Commerce Applications

Difficulty: Medium

127) What is telemetry, and how is it used.

Learning Objective 1: Discuss the five major m-commerce applications, and provide a specific example of how each application can benefit a business.

Section Reference: 6.3 Mobile Computing and Mobile Commerce: Mobile Commerce Applications

Difficulty: Medium

128) How do wireless sensor networks work, and what are they used for?

Learning Objective 1: Define pervasive computing, describe two technologies that underlie this technology, and provide at least one example of how a business can utilize each one.

Section Reference: 6.4 Pervasive Computing

Difficulty: Medium

129) What are the problems with Wi-Fi?

Learning Objective 1: Discuss the basic purposes of short-range, medium-range, and long-range networks, and explain how businesses can use at least one technology employed by each type of network.

Section Reference: 6.2 Wireless Computer Networks and Internet Access

Difficulty: Medium

130) What are the two characteristics of mobile computing, and what are the five value-added attributes of mobile computing?

Learning Objective 1: Discuss the five major m-commerce applications, and provide a specific example of how each application can benefit a business.

Section Reference: 6.3 Mobile Computing and Mobile Commerce

Difficulty: Medium

131) Explain the factors that are driving the development of mobile commerce.

Learning Objective 1: Discuss the five major m-commerce applications, and provide a specific example of how each application can benefit a business.

Section Reference: 6.3 Mobile Computing and Mobile Commerce

Difficulty: Hard

132) Describe pervasive computing and the two technologies that provide its infrastructure.

Learning Objective 1: Define pervasive computing, describe two technologies that underlie this technology, and provide at least one example of how a business can utilize each one.

Section Reference: 6.4 Pervasive Computing

Difficulty: Medium

133) Identify and discuss the four major threats to wireless networks.

Learning Objective 1: Identify the four major threats to wireless networks, and explain, with examples, how each one can damage a business.

Section Reference: 6.5 Wireless Security

Difficulty: Medium

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