Competitive Strategy
According to Michael Porter, when a firm performs the same tasks better than rivals, it is demonstrating
What is operational effectiveness?
Electronic waste increases with rising living standards worldwide. True or False?
True
HTML is primarily used to
Create web pages
What does LLM stand for?
Large Language Model
According to Moore’s Law, chip performance per dollar doubles about every
18 Months
The problem that arises when rivals quickly imitate a pioneer’s efforts at a lower cost
What is the fast follower problem?
Which of the following is NOT a motive for Green IT: reducing hazardous materials, maximizing energy efficiency, promoting biodegradability, or significantly increasing initial costs?
What is significantly increasing initial costs?
Your employer provides Office 365 as a subscription. This is an example of
SaaS: Software as a Service
Within AI, “expert systems” are defined by
Reliance on programmed rules to mimic expertise.
The concept of replacing computing with Internet-delivered services is called
Cloud computing
Which of the following is not a competitive asset an early mover might create: network effects, switching costs, scale, or technology effects?
What are technology effects?
Which of these is a barrier to implementing Green IT? Reduced emissions, improved corporate culture, increased customer satisfaction, or cultural pushback?
What is cultural pushback?
Programming hooks that allow services to talk to each other are called
APIs
Designing effective inputs to improve AI responses is called
Prompt Engineering
Which cloud service model delivers hardware, OS, and hosting tools for developers?
What is Platform as a Service – PaaS?
A firm’s information systems can influence merger or partnership opportunities. True or False?
True
What term means the practice of creating and using environmentally sustainable computing resources and minimizing negative IT operational impacts on the environment?
Green IT
Environmental informatics
Sustainable digital infrastructure
Low-carbon IT
Green informatics
Green IT
These large-scale systems integrate functions like finance, HR, and supply chain into a single database, helping firms avoid redundancy and improve efficiency.
What are ERP systems (Enterprise Resource Planning systems)?
The term “corpus” in AI training refers to
The vast dataset used to train models
Firms adopting OSS may face risk if they aren’t aware of
What are licensing implications?
A common reason why many technology development projects fail, caused by requirements continuously changing or expanding.
What is scope creep
Virtualization saves energy primarily by reducing the number of what?
What are physical servers?
The Internet directory service that translates host names into IP addresses is called
DNS
Which of the following is NOT a reason firms adopt OSS: cost savings, reliability, security, or proprietary control?
What is proprietary control?
Which Excel function counts cells even if they contain formulas that return empty strings?
What is COUNTBLANK?