Jeff Bezos believed ROI of online selling of books to be high because ________ and _________ and ________

Select one or more:

a. of the abundance of open land

b. lower employment costs

c. it enabled larger selection of books

d. because of the abundance of university students

e. it offered higher sales per square foot

f. it offered higher sales per operating employee

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Bookstores were meant to serve as gathering places for people.

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The focus of both Barnes & Noble and Borders in 1995 was on

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c. aggressive expansion.

d. slow expansion.
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The venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer invested $6 million dollars in Amazon to help it get started

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Barnes & Noble decided on approximately _____ titles to offer for sales.

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c. 30 thousand

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In 1995 Barnes & Noble and Borders captured about one-third of the U.S. market for books.

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Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, was a summa cum laude graduate of Yale in 1976

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Bezos moved to Seattle, Washington because _________ and ______

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a. no state taxes on retail purchases

b. of federal funding of his new project

c. it was near IBM

d. take advantage of the software talent

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Barnes & Noble pioneered the concept of the bookstore as a superstore.

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In _____ Riggio purchased Barnes & Noble

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b. 1981

c. 1995

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Riggio bought B Dalton from Barnes & Noble.

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In 1999, Bertelsmann, a German mass media corporation, owned 36 percent of Barnes & Noble's.

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Amazon spent vast sums of money on research and development (R&D).

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Amazon sought an injunction against Barnes & Noble for stealing its

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In 1974 Riggio opened a Barnes & Noble annex in Manhattan where he aggressively marketed

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a. high-priced books that publishers pushed.

b. low-priced books that had been returned to publishers.

c. music.

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Barnes & Noble was not able to seamlessly integrate brick-and-mortar operations with the Internet.

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Barnes & Noble tried to beat Amazon’s delivery times by building new warehouses in

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In 1999 Amazon obtained _______ for its technology

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Jeff Bezos understood the opportunities in books to be high because ____________ and because ______________

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a. the industry was well formed

b. the industry was very fragmented

c. he lived in Chicago where bookstores were favored

d. he loved to read

e. Internet selling offered many advantages over conventional book stores

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in 1971 Barnes & Noble’s main competitor was ____

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c. NYU Bookstores

d. Walden
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Dell had not seen much improvement in its financial performance over the five-year period starting in _____

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“phablets,” are hybrid devices between the size of large phones and small tablets with limited functionality

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In 2015, ______ made up nearly eighty eight percent of global PC, mobile phone, and tablet shipments.

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In 2012 Apple revenue was $108.3 million

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First Quarter 2014 Market Share for _____________ was ____

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Although Acer had a young and highly educated product design team, its product design capabilities were no match for IBM’s.

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In the 1990s, the market for PCs had _____ by at least 15 percent per year

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In 2010 Acer had 6700 employees

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In _____ the global PC market contracted by only twopoint nine percent

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First Quarter 2015 Market Share for _____________ was ____

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c. 17.3

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Dell had prepared the company for reduced reliance on PCs, making an acquisition of EMC in

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In _____ sales of ________ was __________

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a. 1994

b. 1996

c. Gateway

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e. $2.7 billion

f. Dell
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First Quarter 2015 Market Share for _____________ was _____

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c. 12.6

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Dell sold its computers through resellers

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Among the many reasons for the decline in the PC industry was the inability of technological innovation to spur new demand.

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First Quarter 2015 Market Share for _____________ was ____

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c. 17.3

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In 2007 _______ was acquired by Acer

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Dell and Acer planned for their future moved from commoditized products that had razor-thin margins and sold mostly based on
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Worldwide PC shipments declined by _____ percent in the first quarter of 2015

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in 2006, AMD’s gross margins exceeded those of Intel

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_____ developed this architecture based on a reduced instruction set computing design

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The first companies to receive a license from Intel were __________ and __________

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a. Sony, Samsung

b. National Semiconductor, Zilog

c. xerox, MU

d. NEC, Fujitsu, AMD

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In 2011, Intel announced plans to build a new microprocessor manufacturing facility in Scottsdale Arizona

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Intel's Pentium was designed for the

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a. high-end server/workstation market

b. the low end of the market

c. the market’s middle

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"Moore’s Law” indicated microprocessor speed would ____ 18 months

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a. decline after

b. triple every

c. double every

d. reach its limit

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In terms of computer architecture RISC is an acronym for

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c. reduced itemized set computing

d. reduced instruction set computing

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Intel was ______ integrated

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Hector Ruiz, AMD’s CEO from 2002–2008, stated, “Calling something a platform almost always guarantee quality"

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Grove saw ____ as a threat to Intel.

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c. AMD

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Sanders sued AMD for monopolistic practices in 1987

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After fixing the problems with the Pentium and its subsequent reissued Pentium became the processor of choice

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Compared to mobile markets, the server, laptop, and desktop markets responsible for most of Intel’s and AMD’s revenue

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The Centrino allowed laptops to receive wired signals

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In the 3rd quarter of 2015

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a. Intel had a gross margin of .563

b. AMD had a operating margin of .30

c. AMD had a gross margin of .64

d. Microsoft had zero revenue growth (%)

e. Intel had a gross margin of .64

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In the 3rd quarter of 2015

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a. Intel had a revenue of 55.89 billion

b. AMD had a operating margin of .30

c. AMD had a gross margin of .64

d. Microsoft had .00 revenue growth (%)

e. Intel had a gross margin of .66

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Intel did not have a product for the 32-to-64-bit server market that directly competed with the Hammer until the end of 2006

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Intel and AMD anticipate the growth of the mobile marketplace and were prepared for the mobile revolution.

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in 2011 _____ came up with the idea to introduce the simpler ARM architecture server chip.

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AMD had negative revenue growth and a net annual loss of more than ____ billion in the second quarter of 2015

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c. .05

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Hydraulic fracturing risks include depleting water

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Hydraulic fracturing risks include contaminating ground and surface water

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Fracking involves the ______drilling to extract oil and natural gas from the rock.

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Governments have been reluctant to try to control the booms and busts that exist in fossil fuel energy markets

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According to the author of the textbook, offshore oil production presents _____ challenges.

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c. human resources

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By conventional thinking, low oil prices should mean less consumption

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Buildings are responsible for ______of carbon emissions.

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b. eleven percent

c. fifty four percent

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Greenhouse gases bear the most responsibility for global climate change

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Hydraulic fracturing risks include

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a. degrading air quality

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c. making gas less combustible

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The U.S. DOE’s 2010 projection by the year 2035, the U.S. economy and society ______ largely dependent on fossil fuels.

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b. will no longer remain

c. will remain
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Costs of oil production remain steady for years is one of the benefit of tar sands.

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Using offshore recovery in deep waters the platforms must keep their positions steady even in severe weather

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Tar sands oil production methods yield ____ amounts of harmful carbon emissions

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According to the author of the textbook: utilization of fuels produces common air pollutants that cause

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a. higher interest rates

b. lower interest rates

c. smog and endanger human health

d. emf interference
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George W. Bush, in his term in office, backed policies that were meant to stimulate energy efficiency and renewable-energy
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Tar sands oil production can be produced by strip-mining and extracting petroleum from the mined earth

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All offshore production until the 1990s was in deep water

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The exploitation of unconventional oil sources, like tar sands found extensively in

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b. South America

c. China

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Offshore production was the main source of growth in the world’s oil supply between

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b. 1950 and 2000

c. 1960 and 1970

d. 1940 and 2000

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Global sales of electric vehicles and hybrids have

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b. remained relatively constant

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Hedge funds require a minimum investment of several million dollars.

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A so-called New Gilded Age from 1980–2007

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a. Stagflation from 1973–1980 when all groups lost ground, with real wages for industrial workers declining by 13 percent, and the
income of the richest 1 percent dropping by 14 percent

b. Stagflation from 1973–1980 when all groups lost ground, with real wages for industrial workers declining by 3 percent, and the
income of the richest 10 percent dropping by 4 percent

c. Stagflation from 1973–1980 when all groups lost ground, with real wages for industrial workers declining by 13 percent, and the
income of the richest 10 percent dropping by 4 percent

d. Stagflation from 1973–1980 when all groups lost ground, with real wages for industrial workers declining by 3 percent, and the
income of the richest 1 percent dropping by 4 percent
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According to the World Bank, to be a high-income country, the per capita gross national income of a country in 2009 U.S. dollars
must be greater than $12,276

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Since 1970s, real wages for most U.S. workers have hardly gone up, but those for the top 1 percent of earners have increased
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Hedge funds must be registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

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More than half of the world’s total population lived in high- and middle-income countries in 2010. These countries also saw higher
percentages of their schoolchildren enrolled in secondary education, had higher life expectancy at birth, and experienced lower
infant mortality.

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Many hedge funds continue to rely on a combination of

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b. quantitative methods

c. judgment, experience, and quantitative methods

d. experience and quantitative methods

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Penetration in the population exceeded _______

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b. 65 percent

c. 95 percent

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The World Resources Institute introduced point-of-use water treatment for human consumption

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According to the World Bank, the following countries fall into the category of upper-middle-income country.

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a. Spain

b. China

c. Bangladesh

d. Russia

e. Brazil

f. Kenya
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The Medallion Fund, a part of Rentech, which primarily focuses on commodities and futures trading, was closed to outside
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Stock traders create rules to predict future price movements

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New Deal policies

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a. encouraged bank deregulation

b. regulated banks

c. imposed high tax rates on income derived from capital ownership.

d. lowered tax rate on income derived from capital ownership

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More than 70 percent of the world’s population lives in countries with

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b. rising levels of inequality

c. equal opportunities

d. lower levels of inequality

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The powder-based packet to purify water failed for a number of reasons including

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a. rust

b. expense

c. sales personnel who marketed the water were not natives of the villages or urban neighborhoods where the water was needed
impurities

d. contamination
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The lack of clean, drinkable water damages the health and productivity of more than a billion people globally

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New Gilded Age from 1980–2007 when incomes for the richest 1 percent soared by 197 percent,

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a. whereas medical expenses for other groups fell.

b. whereas incomes for other groups fell.

c. whereas medical expenses for other groups rose

d. whereas incomes for other groups rose.

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Hedge funds do not charge management fees

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According to the World Bank, very low-income countries include

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Most hedge funds charge management fees of 1 percent and take at least 10 percent of the gains they make.

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More than 70 percent of the world’s population lives in countries with

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c. equal opportunities
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Hedge fund technologies, when they work, benefit people at the ________________

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The Postwar Boom from 1947–1973 when real wages for industrial workers grew by 67 percent, whereas real income of the richest
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In the past, large oil companies typically gave up on a field after 10–20 years

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The world can reduce its dependence on fossil fuels

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Intel managed to take the performance, but not the price lead, away from AMD

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Intel CEO Otellini claimed that the company’s revenue and earnings growth were poised to quadruple in 2013

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Intel's Pentium was designed for the

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First Quarter 2015 Market Share for _____________ was _____

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Worldwide PC shipments declined by _____ percent in the first quarter of 2015

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In 1974 Riggio opened a Barnes & Noble annex in Manhattan where he aggressively marketed

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b. low-priced books that had been returned to publishers.

c. music.

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1998, online book selling had captured ____________ of the ______

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Barnes & Noble pioneered the concept of the bookstore as a superstore.

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e. it offered higher sales per square foot

f. it offered higher sales per operating employee

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Amazon took a number of aggressive steps to counter the BarnesAndNoble.com IPO by

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Amazon sought an injunction against Barnes & Noble for stealing its

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in 1971 Barnes & Noble’s main competitor was ____

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Bookstores were meant to serve as gathering places for people.

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Riggio learned from his____ to be _________ than his opponents.

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The World Resources Institute introduced point-of-use water treatment for human consumption

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Hedge funds, by law, are required to advertise their services.

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Unfortunately, as computing power has developed advanced techniques have not.

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A country has to be rich for it to have a ____ Gini index.

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While the state-run telecom monopoly ceased to exist in 1999, three companies vigorously competed to provide telecom services.
The upshot was that the number of mobile phone subscribers grew from 2.6 million in 2000

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b. to more than 20 million in 2008.

c. to more than 10 million in 2008.

d. to just under 10 million in 2008.

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Hedge funds first attracted large notice in the

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To be a very low-income country, the per capita gross national income of a country in 2009 U.S. dollars has to be $1,005 or less.
Countries like ______, ______. and _______ fall into this category.

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a. Asia

b. Guatemala

c. Bangladesh

d. Cambodia

e. Kenya

f. India

Which is NOT a reason someone might risk violating a copyright?

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A. It is hard to prove the copyright in court.

B. I am just one person.

C. The risk of being caught is very low.

D. Everyone else is doing it.

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DRM-free music can legally be moved from system to system.

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Works without copyright protection are considered to be in the ________.

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________ allows only limited use of media that has been legally purchased.

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Google ________ is an online store that can be used for self-publishing books.

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Intangible personal property has no value.

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When does copyright protection begin?

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Patents last for a period of 30 years from the date the patent is filed.

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After fixing the problems with the Pentium and its subsequent reissued Pentium became the processor of choice

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Intel and AMD anticipate the growth of the mobile marketplace and were prepared for the mobile revolution.

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in 2006, AMD’s gross margins exceeded those of Intel

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The Centrino allowed laptops to receive wired signals

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"Moore’s Law” indicated microprocessor speed would ____ 18 months

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Products Intel marketed to mobile markets were highly profitable

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DRAMs are the most common type of semiconductor chip used to control _____ computer operations

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In 1981, IBM selected _____ microprocessor for its PCs

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To differentiate itself from _____ AMD put its focus on platform specialization.

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b. Intel,

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Among the many reasons for the decline in the PC industry was the inability of technological innovation to spur new demand.

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Virtual integration allowed a small company to defeat a much larger rival like IBM

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_____ Operating Margin (percent) was _____ percent in _____

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According to the author the decline of the PC industry was spurred by _____ of mobile computing,

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Although smartphones and tablets cannot accomplish what desktops or laptop products do, especially in business settings, in a
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The venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer invested $6 million dollars in Amazon to help it get started

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Jeff Bezos understood the opportunities in books to be high because ____________ and because ______________

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a. the industry was well formed

b. the industry was very fragmented

c. he lived in Chicago where bookstores were favored

d. he loved to read

e. Internet selling offered many advantages over conventional book stores

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1998, online book selling had captured ____________ of the ______

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c. of the child book market

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Amazon had ____ million registered Internet customers compared to Barnes & Noble.com’s ____ million
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a. 50

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c. 8.4

d. 1.5

e. 1.7

f. 7

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Barnes & Noble decided on approximately _____ titles to offer for sales.

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Bookstores were meant to serve as gathering places for people.

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To transfer data packets between two or more networks, a ________ is used.

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A. hub

B. router

C. switch

D. modem

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A small Java-based program is called a ________.

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D. Java class

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Renewable energy is derived from plant material, the sun, wind, and waterfalls

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b. coal

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d. wind

e. nuclear

f. oil
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What is a system of access control that allows only limited use of material that has been legally purchased?

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A. DRM

B. MDR

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D. DDM

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A computer ________ is two or more computers connected using software and hardware so that they can communicate with each
other.

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B. node

C. switch

D. network

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SQL uses ________ to extract records from a database by using English-like expressions that have variables and operations.

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A. relational algebra

B. foreign keys

C. Boolean algebra

D. primary keys

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Division by zero is a ________ error that is caught when the program executes.

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B. runtime

C. compiler

D. logical

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Object-oriented ________ are defined by the information (data) and the actions (methods) associated with them.

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Social ________ is any technique that uses social skills to generate human interaction that entices individuals to reveal sensitive
information.

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B. theft

C. pharming

D. pretexting

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Special symbols called tags are used in which of the following languages?

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In a database, the term ________ is synonymous with a category of information.

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B. field

C. row

D. table

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The focus of both Barnes & Noble and Borders in 1995 was on

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b. ROI.

c. aggressive expansion.

d. slow expansion.

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A ________ relationship indicates that for each record in a table, there is only a single corresponding record in a related table.

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B. many-to-one

C. one-to-many

D. one-to-one

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DRAMs are the most common type of semiconductor chip used to control _____ computer operations

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a. heat dissipation

b. short term

c. static term

d. long term

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How long do current U.S. laws grant copyright protection?

Select one:

A. 99 years

B. The life of the author (creator) plus 50 years.

C. The life of the author (creator) plus 70 years.

D. 101 years

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According to the author the main products of ____ and ____ were desktop and laptop PCs

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 a. Sun

b. Dell

c. Acers

d. IBM

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Which of the following is NOT a virus category?

Select one:

A. Pharming

B. Logic bomb

C. Macro

D. Worm

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The program specification is a clear statement of the goals and objectives of the project.

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True

False

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An integrated development environment (IDE) is a ________.

Select one:

A. tool that converts one programming language into a different programming language

B. program that helps interpret code

C. program that translates code into binary 1s and 0s and ignores comments

D. collection of tools that helps programmers write and test their programs

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Amazon sought an injunction against Barnes & Noble for stealing its

Select one:

a. express lane technology

b. slogan.

c. one-click technology.

d. warehouse ideas.

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A popular programming language which is known for having a large number of free libraries is ________.

Select one:
 A. Fortran

B. COBOL

C. Python

D. Assembly

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Wireless network devices use ________ to communicate with each other.

Select one:

A. radio waves

B. fiber optics

C. satellites

D. DSL

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You would use a ________ in a database to temporarily display records of residents for the city of Boston.

Select one:

A. field constraint

B. filter

C. validation rule

D. sieve

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Although smartphones and tablets cannot accomplish what desktops or laptop products do, especially in business settings, in a
more mobile world, their role became less important.

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True

False

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A packet analyzer is a program that can enable a hacker to do all of the following EXCEPT ________.

Select one:

A. launch a denial of service (DoS) attack on your computer

B. steal your logons and passwords for various accounts

C. assume your identity

D. use your debit card information to purchase items illegally

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A ________ check would be used in a field to restrict the fines for speeding violations so that they fall between $50 and $250.

Select one:

A. consistency

B. range
 C. completeness

D. numeric

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Inheritance means that the data and methods of an existing class can be extended and customized to fit a new class.

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True

False

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Which is NOT one of the four key pieces of personal information you should protect from identity thieves?

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A. Social Security number

B. Date of birth

C. Street address

D. Anniversary

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Which of the following is NOT a type of cable used in wired networks?

Select one:

A. Coaxial

B. Unshielded twisted-pair

C. Unshielded coaxial

D. Fiber-optic

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Some of the responsibilities of ________ are installing new hardware and software on the network and monitoring performance.

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A. network administrators

B. IT managers

C. programmer analysts

D. computer technicians

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Which of the following provides a visual representation of the patterns of an algorithm?

Select one:

A. Gantt chart

B. Flow analysis

C. Pseudocode

D. Flowchart

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Creating and distributing ________ is one of the most widespread types of cybercrimes.

Select one:

A. computer viruses

B. spam

C. zombies

D. cookies

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Data ________ means that the data contained in a database is accurate and reliable.

Select one:

A. redundancy

B. efficiency

C. consistency

D. integrity

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Most databases can import electronic data from other software applications.

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 True

False

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A ________ is a collection of related data that can be stored, sorted, organized, and queried.

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A. spreadsheet

B. memo

C. macro

D. database

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When malicious code is planted on your computer and alters your browser's ability to find web addresses, it is known as ________.

Select one:

A. pharming

B. phishing

C. polymorphing

D. pretexting

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According to the author of the textbook, the promise of energy change lies in the domains of

Select one or more:

a. solar

b. water

c. wind

d. coal

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After fixing the problems with the Pentium and its subsequent reissued Pentium became the processor of choice

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True

False

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A ________ is any device connected to a network such as a computer, printer, or game console.

Select one:

A. NOS

B. NIC
 C. packet

D. node

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Which is NOT a key factor a programmer uses in selecting the language for a project?

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A. Type of target application

B. Number of inputs required

C. Speed required

D. Space available

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The supplies of fossil fuels are infinite

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False

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Data mining analyzes and investigates large amounts of data with the intention of discovering significant patterns or trends.

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True

False

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The network architecture that spans the largest physical distance is called a ________.

Select one:

A. LAN

B. WAN

C. MAN

D. PAN

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A virus signature is a portion of virus code that is unique to a particular computer virus.

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True

False

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Intangible personal property has no value.

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True

False

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Facts cannot be copyrighted.

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True

False

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To protect a movie, what category of intellectual property would be used?

Select one:

A. Trademark

B. Copyright

C. Patent

D. Service Mark

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What is a product of a person's mind and is usually considered an expression of human creativity?

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A. Copyright

B. Copyleft

C. Trademark

D. Intellectual property

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Bottom-up design is a systematic approach in which a problem is broken into a series of high-level tasks.

Select one:

True

False