True and False
1. Analysis from IT consultancies such as Gartner Group (e.g. "Hype Cycles" and "Magic Quadrants") should be accepted as 100% true and not questioned.
2. An IT competitive advantage is typically short-lived.
3. The primary purpose of computer cookies is to report a user's activities to marketers.
4. A relational database table is analogous to an Excel spreadsheet, comprised of rows and columns.
5. Pure digital goods have an initial high cost to develop.
6. "Coopetition" is a feature of business ecosystems.
7. The higher up the corporate hierarchy information travels, the coarser it gets.
8. Hadoop is a tool used to analyze smaller, more manageable, quantities of data.
9. One of the advantages of the Cloud for corporations is its ability to rapidly scale up or down, depending on the need.
10. Before an organization determines whether to implement new IT systems, it is imperative to understand what the business drivers are first.
11. An example of SaaS is salesforce.com.
12. "Metadata" refersto portions of the Deep Web accessible only via a special browser.
13. One of the objectives of Knowledge Management is to convert explicit knowledge into tacit knowledge.
14. Blogs and Tweets are examples of structured data.
15. SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS are all database variants.
16. A website that wants to link to an external webpage will often employ an API.
17. New capabilities such as Apple Pay will help promote industry standards.
18. Virtualization typically substitutes software for hardware.
19. Most companies know where their systems are vulnerable and plan for zero day attacks.
20. LANs connect WANs together.