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| 1 |  |  For most companies today, electronic commerce encompasses the entire online process of developing, marketing, selling, delivering, servicing, and paying for products and services transacted on internetworked, global marketplaces of customers, with the support of a worldwide network of business partners. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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| 2 |  |  Companies involved in electronic commerce as buyers rely on Internet-based technologies and e-commerce applications and services to accomplish marketing, discovery, transaction, processing, and product and customer service processes. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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| 3 |  |  Electronic personal advertising of products and services to buy or sell by consumers at electronic newspaper sites, consumer e-commerce portals or personal websites is a form of business-to-consumer e-commerce. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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| 4 |  |  Your text outlines nine key components of the e-commerce process architecture that are the foundation of the e-commerce initiatives of many companies today. One of these components is customer profiling which deals with gathering data on customers and their website behavior and choices, and building electronic profiles of their characteristics and preferences. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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| 5 |  |  One of the competitive necessities for the web retailer is real-time personalization. Real-time personalization works as a customer browses online and keeps track of customer behavior while online. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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| 6 |  |  Electronic debit transfer systems are a major form of electronic commerce systems in banking and retailing industries that use a variety of information technologies to capture and process money and credit transfers between banks and businesses and their customers. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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| 7 |  |  A major advantage of the Internet, intranets, and extranets is they enable companies to create new channels for interactive communications within a company, with customers, and the suppliers, business partners, and others in the external environment. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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| 8 |  |  Sniffer software is used to detect unauthorized individuals who are trying to get your personal information as it is being transmitted over the Web. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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| 9 |  |  One of the factors leading to successful retailing on the Web involves giving online customers with similar interests a feeling of belonging to a unique group of like-minded individuals, which helps build customer loyalty and value. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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| 10 |  |  eBay is an example of a many-to-some e-commerce marketplace. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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