eBusiness Technology Building Blocks - Quiz

Each question is worth one point. Select the best answer or answers for each question.

1.	Which of the following statements are true? Please select all the correct answers.
	A.	Carrier services, connectivity hardware, network operating systems, application software, and network management systems are all examples of foundation technologies.
	B.	CORBA, DCOM, and RMI are distributed-object technologies that allow objects to communicate with each other or allow applications to access objects.
	C.	The architect must ensure that the server is configured with enough RAM to be fully scalable.
	D.	In B2C applications, it is generally easier to predict what hardware a client is likely to use to connect to the application than it is with B2B applications.
	E.	It is possible and desirable to have a Web site that can adapt its presentation of content dynamically based on the client device used.

2.	You are the architect for a new e-business application. The company has an existing COBOL system running on proprietary mainframe hardware. The IT department includes staff with strong COBOL programming and mainframe support skills, but no skills with newer e-business technologies. The budget is limited, the solution must be implemented within three months, and the new system must interface with the existing system. Which options would you most likely pursue? Please select all the correct answers.
	A.	Use the internal team to develop and support the entire application in-house.
	B.	Consider using CORBA or a comparable integration layer to wrap the existing application and allow the new e-business application to communicate with it.
	C.	Use an Application Service Provider or managed service provider to help implement the solution.
	D.	Use DCOM to enable the new e-business application to communicate with the existing system.
	E.	Use a combination of the internal team and an Application Service Provider or managed service provider to develop and implement the solution.

3.	A company that manufactures and sells a small range of wooden toys has a head office in San Francisco with a mainframe computer and 200 PCs connected on a network. The company has an ISDN connection to its ISP. A second company has a retail office in Durban, South Africa, with 20 computers, a small server, and a leased-line connection to its ISP. The companies use PPTP to connect the two offices and exchange stock transfer information. The above is an example of: Please select all the correct answers.
	A.	A B2C business model.
	B.	A virtual private network.
	C.	A wide area network.
	D.	An intranet.
	E.	A vortal.