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Reasons for Adopting e-business Mode - Quiz

Each question is worth one point. Select the best answer for each question.
1. An enterprise has approached you with a proposal to develop an e-business solution. You have identified that the company wants the e-business solution to increase its sales volume. Which two of the following questions should you investigate first to recommend a suitable business model?
Please select all the correct answers.
  A. What are the company's competitors doing in this area?
  B. Is there an alternative way of doing this business?
  C. Can the company cope with increased sales and customers?
  D. Does the company want to sell online or primarily advertise online?
  E. Is there an existing, clearly defined customer base?

2. You are working as the e-business architect for a small company that sells customized or off-the-shelf software to other businesses. While researching the market, you find another company already offering this service on the Internet. What should you do?
Please select the best answer.
  A. Stop your work and advise the enterprise that it is too late to enter the market.
  B. Dismiss the site as unimportant, keep the information to yourself, and continue browsing.
  C. Use the site as a customer and evaluate how well it works.
  D. Assume that because this company entered the market first, its site must be superior, and copy it as the model for your own design.
  E. Immediately contact the company to see whether it will sell you its design.

3. You are working as the e-business architect for a small company that sells children's toys to consumers. You meet with the executive responsible for shipping, and he tells you that his department is already operating beyond capacity. What should you do?
Please select the best answer.
  A. Tell the executive that he has a problem and must solve it before the new Web site launches.
  B. Reduce the variety of toys that will be offered on the Web site.
  C. Seek an alternative shipping facility to bypass the capacity problem.
  D. Take the problem out of the executive's hands and redesign his department.
  E. Work with the executive to understand the problem and help identify a suitable solution.

4. Which of the following statements is true?
Please select the best answer.
  A. The most important thing about establishing a B2B e-business solution is to launch before competitors do.
  B. A company must choose between the B2B model and the B2C model.
  C. External business pressures can make B2B adoption more urgent than B2C adoption in some organizations.
  D. E-business solutions will only work if there is an existing successful traditional business.

5. An enterprise has asked you to serve as the architect for its e-business development. The executives have listed several reasons for implementing e-business, but in your professional opinion, none of the reasons is valid. Which two of the following should you do?
Please select all the correct answers.
  A. Ignore the problem and proceed with the project.
  B. Raise your concerns with the executives and help them understand the advantages and disadvantages of e-business.
  C. Raise the concern with the executives and tell them they need to address it on their own.
  D. Perform your own analysis and advise the executives on stronger, more defensible business reasons.
  E. Decline the contract because, in your view, it is likely to fail.